"The Big Battle Brewing Over LNG Exports"
"The Biden admin has presided over a vast buildout of liquefied natural gas infrastructure that threatens its climate goals. Here’s what could happen next."
Source: Canary Media, 01/25/2024
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"Brazilian Meat Giant With Mega Emissions Races To Attract US Investors"
"An unusual collection of Senate leaders, British lords, environmentalists and a secretive lobbying group is urging the Biden administration to block a Brazilian meat processing giant linked to Amazon deforestation from offering shares to U.S. investors."
Source: E&E News, 01/25/2024Biden Vetoes GOP Repeal Of Waiver Of ‘Buy America’ Rule For EV Chargers
"President Biden is vetoing a Republican-led effort to remove his waiver of “Buy America” requirements for iron and steel that get incorporated into federally funded electric vehicle (EV) chargers."
Source: The Hill, 01/25/2024"EPA To Unveil Scientific Integrity Plan Soon. Will It Work?"
"EPA is drawing closer to cementing President Joe Biden’s plans for protecting science across the federal government, but the agency’s proposed safeguards for its own researchers are already coming under scrutiny."
Source: E&E News, 01/24/2024"Migratory Bird Rule Likely Shelved Until After November Election"
"A new rule imposing penalties for migratory bird killings associated with energy development, construction, and poaching is unlikely to be proposed by the Interior Department before the end of the current presidential term, legal experts say."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 01/24/2024"UN Expert Condemns UK Crackdown On Environmental Protest"
"A severe crackdown on environmental protest in Britain with “draconian” new laws, excessive restrictions on courtroom evidence and the use of civil injunctions is having a chilling impact on fundamental freedoms, the United Nations special rapporteur has said."
Source: Guardian, 01/24/2024Oil Lobby Launches Eight-Figure Ad Blitz Amid Record Fossil Fuel Extraction
"The American oil lobby has launched an eight-figure media campaign this week promoting the idea that fossil fuels are “vital” to global energy security, alarming climate experts."
Source: Guardian, 01/24/2024"NRC Nominee’s Demise Stokes Fears About Nuclear Oversight"
"The White House’s decision not to renominate a former Nuclear Regulatory Commission member has some worried that the agency may be ill prepared to live up to its high safety standards."
Source: E&E News, 01/24/2024Nikki Haley Says Climate Change is Real. Is She Proposing Anything to Stop It?
"The former U.N. Ambassador touts her role in pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord and pledges to roll back clean energy incentives."
Source: Inside Climate News, 01/23/2024New EPA Soot Rule Could Save Lives. Industry Says It Could Cost Jobs.
"The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to significantly strengthen limits on fine particle matter, one of the nation’s most widespread deadly air pollutants, even as industry groups warn that the standard could erase manufacturing jobs across the country."
Source: Washington Post, 01/22/2024"As Big 2024 Elections Loom, What's At Stake For Climate Action?"
"With millions voting this year from the US to India and the EU, more extreme weather could bump climate change up the agenda".
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 01/19/2024"Interior Department Adds Six States To Western Solar-Development Plan"
"The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on Wednesday announced an update to its 2012 plan for solar power development in the western U.S., adding five states to the original six."
Source: The Hill, 01/19/2024Calif. Water-Saving Plan Slammed As Costly, Complicated And Unrealistic
"In a scathing review, advisors to the state Legislature have found that California's proposed regulations for urban water conservation would be costly, overly complicated and difficult to implement."
Source: LA Times, 01/19/2024"Supreme Court Appears Ready To Erode Chevron Doctrine"
"The Supreme Court appears to be seeking a way to diminish the Chevron doctrine — without completely overruling the 40-year-old legal theory that helps federal agencies defend their rules on public health, food safety and climate change."
Source: E&E News, 01/18/2024‘Control The Narrative’: Alabama Utility Wields Influence By Financing News
"A Floodlight investigation found Alabama Power runs a news service and its foundation bought a Black newspaper. Neither reports on high electric bills or utility-related pollution".
Source: Guardian, 01/18/2024
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