"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
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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
Kerry Challenges Oil Industry To Prove Its Promised Tech Rescues
"Oil and gas producers talk up technological breakthroughs they say will soon allow the world to drill and burn fossil fuels without worsening global warming. U.S. climate envoy John Kerry says the time is here for the industry to prove it can make the technology happen — at scale, affordably and quickly — to stave off climate disaster."
Source: AP, 05/15/2023
"As Exxon Bows Out, Industry Takes Step Toward Sustainable Algae Biofuels"
"In February, ExxonMobil gave up its decade-long attempt to cultivate algae as a profitable and scalable feedstock for biofuel — a liquid alternative energy source needed to power aviation, ocean-going ships, and long-distance trucking, while also combating climate change."
Source: Mongabay, 05/12/2023
"Biden Moves To Mandate Greener Building Codes In One-Sixth Of New Houses"
"The Biden administration plans to require new homes to be constructed to the nation’s greenest, most energy-efficient building codes to qualify for the federal loans that finance more than one-sixth of new houses sold in the United States."
Source: HuffPost, 05/12/2023
EPA Proposes First Limits on Climate Pollution From Existing Power Plants
"The Biden administration on Thursday announced the first regulations to limit greenhouse pollution from existing power plants, capping an unparalleled string of climate policies that, taken together, could substantially reduce the nation’s contribution to global warming."
Source: NYTimes, 05/12/2023
"Climate Maths 'Doesn't Add Up' Without Carbon Capture: COP28 Chief"
"The Emirati oil chief leading this year's UN climate talks said Wednesday the world must get "serious" about new emission-capturing technology, rather than focussing only on replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy."
Source: Phys.org, 05/11/2023
"Air Pollution Monitoring Bill Blocked By Louisiana Senate Committee"
"The latest effort to create a public warning system for spikes in air pollution was snuffed out by a Senate committee."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 05/11/2023
"In a Climate Trade-Off, Biden Backs Manchin’s Fossil Fuel Plan"
"The White House on Wednesday endorsed a plan by Senator Joe Manchin III to speed the approval of some fossil fuel projects in order to also hasten the construction of new transmission lines critical for meeting President Biden’s climate goals."
Source: NYTimes, 05/11/2023
