"House Slated To Take Up Major Energy Package Next Week"
"Next week, the House is expected to take up a major energy package that Republicans in the chamber are putting forward as the party’s top priority."
Source: The Hill, 03/27/2023
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"Paraquat, the Deadliest Chemical in US Agriculture, Goes on Trial"
"Amid lawsuits filed by thousands of farmers linking the herbicide to Parkinson’s disease, the EPA is reconsidering its analysis of paraquat’s risks."
Source: Civil Eats, 03/27/2023Group Says Texas Fails To Hold Polluters Accountable For Unexpected Emissions
"A new report found that companies in Texas have had 21,000 unexpected pollution releases that emitted 400,000 tons of air pollution over six years, but only 1% of them prompted action by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality."
Source: Texas Tribune, 03/27/2023"In Brazil's Amazon, Carbon Credit Project Halted Over Land Dispute"
"A corporate conservation project in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has sold carbon credits from publicly owned land without state authorization, a Context investigation has found, highlighting concerns about the credibility of offsets from areas with disputed land ownership."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 03/27/2023Worry And Suspicion Reign As Once-Dry Tulare Lake Drowns Calif. Farmland
"Thousands of acres of cropland have been inundated in this heavily farmed swath of the San Joaquin Valley. And the water just keeps rising."
Source: LA Times, 03/27/2023"How China, the US and Others Watered Down a Key UN Climate Document"
"A behind-the-scenes account of the political horse-trading, published by Earth Negotiations Bulletin, shows how national interests were reflected in the influential document."
Source: Bloomberg, 03/24/2023"Amendments Could Scramble House GOP Energy Bill"
"House Republicans were hoping to iron out last-minute wrinkles in their massive energy package during their Florida retreat this week, but demands for amendments are complicating leadership’s plans."
Source: E&E News, 03/24/2023"Marines, Toxic Water and Lawyers: A Fight Over Billions in Fees"
"A small South Carolina law firm angling to be the lead litigator in the Camp Lejeune toxic water cases spent $1.9 million lobbying US lawmakers in the last two years, as Congress approved a multibillion-dollar payout to sickened veterans that dropped a provision to limit the fees their lawyers could charge."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 03/24/2023"Army Corps Further Delays Decision On Great Lakes Oil Tunnel"
"A federal review of plans for a Great Lakes oil pipeline tunnel will take more than a year longer than originally planned, officials said Thursday, likely delaying completion of the project — if approved — until 2030 or later."
Source: AP, 03/24/2023DOE To Require More Efficient Window Air Conditioners, Air Cleaners
"The Biden administration is finalizing more stringent efficiency requirements for both window air conditioners and portable air cleaners on Thursday, the first set of efficiency standards that are new and not just a reversal of a Trump-era rollback."
Source: The Hill, 03/24/2023"House Fails To Override Biden’s First Veto"
"The Republican-led House on Thursday failed to override President Biden’s first veto, falling short of the two-thirds majority needed to revive the resolution targeting an administration rule related to ESG investing, which takes environmental and social factors into account."
Source: The Hill, 03/24/2023"Oil Spills And Near Misses: More Ghost Tankers Ship Sanctioned Fuel"
"An oil tanker runs aground off eastern China, leaking fuel into the water. Another is caught in a collision near Cuba. A third is seized in Spain for drifting out of control. These vessels were part of a "shadow" fleet of tankers carrying oil last year from countries hit by Western sanctions, according to a Reuters analysis of ship tracking and accident data and interviews with more than a dozen industry specialists."
Source: Reuters, 03/24/2023"Radioactive Water Leaks At Minn. Nuclear Plant For 2nd Time"
"Water containing a radioactive material has leaked for a second time from a nuclear plant near Minneapolis and the plant will be shut down, but there is no danger to the public, the plant’s owner said Thursday."
Source: AP, 03/24/2023"Scientists Say Mine Plan Claiming No Swamp Harm Has Errors"
"Scientists for the federal government say documents that Georgia state regulators relied upon to conclude a proposed mine won’t harm the nearby Okefenokee Swamp and its vast wildlife refuge contain technical errors and “critical shortcomings” that render them unreliable."
Source: AP, 03/24/2023"The Surfer, The Scientist And The Big-Wave Beach At A Breaking Point"
"A big-wave surfer at Mavericks is essentially an ocean sensor. Grant Washburn can tell you the approximate depth of the seafloor beneath him, the size of a 40-foot wave and the wind speed blowing foam off the peak, all based on the crescendo in his nervous system."
Source: Washington Post, 03/24/2023
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