"White House Unveils $1.7B To Convert Factories For EV Production"
"Almost a dozen U.S. auto factories will collectively receive $1.7 billion from the Biden administration to retool themselves to make electric vehicles."
Source: E&E News, 07/15/2024
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The Most Expensive Farm Bill Ever Is Stalled, Blocking Climate Funds
"Lawmakers approved spending bills for agriculture this week, but bickered over environmental regulations and the lack of progress on the bill."
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/15/2024"Trump Return Could See Climate Progress ‘Unraveled,’ Sally Jewell Says"
"Sally Jewell, who served as US Interior secretary from 2013 to 2017, said the climate stakes of the election in November “could not be higher” and that she’s “really afraid for the future of our planet” should former President Donald Trump return to the White House."
Source: Bloomberg, 07/12/2024"The GOP Has Found A New Reason To Pawn Off America’s Public Lands"
"The new Republican Party platform, adopted this week in advance of the next week’s nominating convention in Milwaukee, mentions federal lands only once — and rather than a vague call to protect them, it proposes pawning some of them off to address housing affordability."
Source: HuffPost, 07/12/2024"These Biden Rules Could Be Trashed By Trump"
"Some priority regs — including climate standards for existing gas-fired power plants, curbs on lead and copper in drinking water, and heat protections for workers — could be doomed."
Source: E&E News, 07/11/2024Azerbaijan Plans Climate Fund After Pushback On Fossil-Fuel Levy: Source
"Azerbaijan, host of this year's U.N. COP29 climate summit, has scrapped plans to propose a levy on fossil-fuel producers to raise climate-change funding, and instead aims to launch a new fund at the summit for green investments in poorer countries, a senior COP29 source said."
Source: Reuters, 07/11/2024"Committee Adds More Riders To House Interior-EPA Bill"
"The legislation includes cuts to EPA and the Interior Department."
Source: E&E News, 07/11/2024"Record Heat Engulfs Both U.S. Coasts"
"A record-breaking heat wave across the Western U.S. that’s been checking all the key boxes — intensity, duration, and geographic spread — may just be the opening scene of the worst kind of summer blockbuster, one that’s spreading nationwide."
Source: Yale Climate Connections, 07/10/2024"Biden Signs Bill Bolstering Nuclear Power"
"President Biden signed a bipartisan bill Tuesday aimed at bolstering the nation’s nuclear power in what supporters describe as a historic win for the sector. The nuclear package is expected to speed up the timeline for licensing new nuclear reactors and cut fees that companies have to pay to do so."
Source: The Hill, 07/10/2024"Trump’s Environmental Agenda: Embrace Big Oil, Ignore the Climate Crisis"
"Project 2025’s plan to gut climate policy and boost fossil fuels could set back global efforts for decades."
Source: Fast Company, 07/09/2024"How To Create A ‘World Without Waste’? Here Are The Plastic Industry’s Ideas."
"A deep dive into the petrochemical industry's proposals for the global plastics treaty."
Source: Grist, 07/09/2024"Advocates Decry Attempt To Halt New Silica Rule Meant To Protect Miners"
"A single line included in the proposed annual appropriations bill for the U.S. Department of Labor and other agencies could — if adopted by congress later this year — halt the implementation of a newly finalized rule limiting the amount of silica dust miners are exposed to while working underground."
Source: West Virginia Watch, 07/08/2024"Fight Over Seabed Agency Leadership Turns Nasty"
"Allegations of possible payments to help secure votes. Claims of abuse of agency funds by top diplomats. A possible job offer to entice a candidate to withdraw from a race. These are not the shenanigans of a corrupt election in an unstable country. Rather, they are efforts in the seemingly genteel parlors of a United Nations-affiliated agency, meant to sway decisions related to the start of seabed mining of the metals used in electric vehicles."
Source: NYTimes, 07/08/2024Outrage After Biden NPS Reinstates ‘Barbaric’ Trump-Era Hunting Rules
"The Biden administration has reinstated controversial Trump-era rules allowing what critics say are “barbaric” hunting practices that target bears and wolves, including pups or cubs, on federal land in Alaska.
Source: Guardian, 07/08/2024"Biden Proposes New Rule To Protect 36 Million Workers From Extreme Heat"
"President Joe Biden on Tuesday proposed a new rule to address excessive heat in the workplace, warning — as tens of millions of people in the U.S. are under heat advisories — that high temperatures are the country’s leading weather-related killer."
Source: AP, 07/03/2024
