"Biden Vetoes Bipartisan Resolution Resuming Solar Tariffs"
"President Biden on Tuesday vetoed a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution that would have undone his two-year moratorium on solar tariffs."
Source: The Hill, 05/17/2023
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"Biden Administration Approves Key Permit for West Virginia Gas Pipeline"
"The Biden administration has granted a crucial permit for the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a project championed by Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, despite opposition from climate experts and environmental groups."
Source: NYTimes, 05/17/2023
Enviro, Oil Companies Battle Ohio Over Dumping of Fracking Wastewater
"Ten years ago, Tim Kettler asked local officials to stop spreading liquid waste from fracking on the road near his home in Warsaw, Ohio, because he was worried that the fluid would contaminate a pond where he gets his drinking water."
Source: Inside Climate News, 05/16/2023
Transportation ‘Revolution’? How The Infrastructure Law Fuels Freeways
"The Biden administration is supporting a nearly $10 billion highway expansion in Houston that ignited a yearlong debate about its climate effects and the demolition of almost 1,000 homes."
Source: E&E News, 05/16/2023
Maker Of Graphite For Batteries Plans $800 Million Factory in SW Georgia
"A company that’s trying to become a major American-based supplier of graphite for electric batteries announced Monday it will invest $800 million to build a factory in southwest Georgia, hiring 400 workers."
Source: AP, 05/16/2023
"Exxon Targets Standing in Largest-Ever Citizen Lawsuit Penalty"
"Exxon Mobil Corp. and environmental groups will square off once again in circuit court on Tuesday in a 13-year-old lawsuit over pollution from the energy giant’s Baytown, Texas, refinery."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 05/16/2023
"Wind Is Main Source of UK Electricity for First Time"
"Wind turbines have generated more electricity than gas for the first time in the UK.
In the first three months of this year a third of the country's electricity came from wind farms, research from Imperial College London has shown.
National Grid has also confirmed that April saw a record period of solar energy generation.
By 2035 the UK aims for all of its electricity to have net zero emissions."
Source: BBC News, 05/16/2023
"Getting A Silent Killer Out Of The Kitchen"
"In Sierra Leone, 99 percent of the population still uses polluting cooking methods."
Source: Washington Post, 05/15/2023
Biden Pledged To Stop Funding Fossil Fuels Overseas. ExIm Bank Does Anyway
"In 2021, the Biden administration told federal agencies to stop funding many new fossil fuel projects abroad..... But now, leaders of America's Export-Import Bank have decided to lend nearly $100 million for the expansion of an oil refinery in Indonesia."
Source: NPR, 05/15/2023
Flush With Federal Money, a Deep South Factory Votes to Unionize
"Workers at a rural Georgia factory that builds electric school buses under generous federal subsidies voted to unionize on Friday, handing organized labor and Democrats a surprise victory in their hopes to turn huge new infusions of money from Washington into a union beachhead in the Deep South."
Source: NYTimes, 05/15/2023
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