"Senate Sends Package Bolstering Nuclear Power Sector To Biden’s Desk"
"The Senate on Tuesday passed a package aimed at bolstering the nation’s nuclear power sector, sending it to President Biden’s desk."
Source: The Hill, 06/20/2024
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"A Key Court Ruling Could Weaken U.S. Environmental Protections"
"The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on whether to overturn the Chevron doctrine, a landmark precedent that has stood for 40 years. Scrapping the doctrine could have major impacts on regulation in such areas as pollution, climate change, and endangered species."
Source: YaleE360, 06/20/2024Rep. Castor Urges OSHA To Speed Federal Heat Protections For Outdoor Workers
"Two months after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation preventing local governments from requiring heat protections for outdoors workers, Tampa Bay-area Democratic U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor is calling on the Biden administration to finalize federal workplace protections against heat-related injury and illness."
Source: States Newsroom, 06/18/2024"EU Countries Approve Landmark Nature Law After Delays"
"European Union countries approved a flagship policy to restore damaged nature on Monday, after months of delay, making it the first green law to pass since European Parliament elections this month."
Source: Reuters, 06/18/2024"This Coal-Heavy Rural Co-Op Utility Is Buying Its First Solar Plants"
"Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, one of the largest rural cooperative utilities in the U.S., is bringing the energy transition home to its massive western service territory. It’s acquiring its first large-scale solar power plants as it prepares to shift away from its current dependence on coal power."
Source: Canary Media, 06/18/2024"Trump Once Promised to Revive Coal. Now, He Rarely Mentions It."
"The first time Donald J. Trump ran for president, he slapped on a miner’s helmet and told coal workers they would be “winning, winning, winning” when he entered the White House. Now, as Mr. Trump campaigns for another chance at the presidency, he rarely mentions America’s coal miners and has stopped making grand promises about their future."
Source: NYTimes, 06/18/2024"The Annual Sugarcane Burning in Florida Involves Stark Injustices"
"Black communities are disproportionately impacted by Big Sugar's agricultural practices".
Source: Sierra, 06/18/2024Trump Rallies GOPers Against Biden Energy Policies, But Sidesteps IRA
"Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump delivered a campaign-style energy address during a day of meetings with congressional Republicans on Thursday, hitting on trademark themes like “drill baby drill” and pledging to reverse Biden administration policies he said hamper fossil fuel development and favor electric vehicles."
Source: Politico, 06/17/2024"Trump-Era EPA Meddled in PFAS Science, Agency Watchdog Finds"
"In the final days of the Trump administration, a political appointee at the EPA ordered a last-minute review of the hazards of a “forever chemical,” triggering delay, confusion, and significant changes to a nearly final work product, the agency’s inspector general found in a Friday report."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 06/17/202442 California Dams Need Repairs. But Newsom, Legislators Battle Over Funding
"Several dozen dams throughout California could store up to 107 billion more gallons of water if they underwent repairs to fix safety problems. But facing a staggering state deficit, Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed cutting funding for a dam repair grant program in half this year, while state legislators want the $50 million restored."
Source: CalMatters, 06/17/2024"Azerbaijan Accused Of Media Crackdown Before Hosting Cop29"
"State reportedly arrested at least 25 journalists and activists in last year as it prepares for September climate summit".
Source: Guardian, 06/14/2024"How Biden Beat The Clock On Big Environmental Regs"
"President Joe Biden’s regulators recently finalized a flood of major energy and environmental rules in hopes that they’ll stick even if Donald Trump returns to the White House."
Source: E&E News, 06/14/2024"California Heat Protections At Risk From Push To Exclude Prisons"
"A proposal to exclude prisons from California's long-awaited rules to protect indoor workers from extreme heat threatens to delay implementation until well into the summer or kill off the safeguards altogether, labour rights advocates say."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 06/14/2024Makah Tribe Wins U.S. Waiver To Resume Hunting Pacific Gray Whales
"After a decades-long struggle, a Native American tribe won the right to resume its hunting traditions off Washington state's coast when federal regulators granted a waiver on Thursday allowing the Makah people to hunt up to 25 gray whales over a decade."
Source: Reuters, 06/14/2024"Climate Change Funding Talks Stuck Ahead Of COP29 Summit"
"With just five months to go before this year's U.N. climate summit, countries cannot agree on the size of a global funding bill to help the developing world fight climate change - let alone how to split it."
Source: Reuters, 06/14/2024
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