"Senate Confirms Nominees To Energy Panel"
"The Senate has confirmed three nominees to a bipartisan energy regulatory board."
Source: The Hill, 06/14/2024
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"EPA To Disband Red Hill Oversight Group Amid Navy Complaints"
"HONOLULU — A community-led group formed to provide public oversight of the Navy’s Red Hill fuel facility will be shut down after the committee refused to cede control of the meetings to the military."
Source: Honolulu Civil Beat, 06/14/2024Biofuel Refineries Are Releasing Toxic Air Pollutants in US Farm Communities
"The ethanol industry has billed itself as a green alternative to oil and gas, but new research finds biofuel refineries are releasing toxic chemicals in farm communities across the nation."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/13/2024"Trump’s Energy Guy Talked a Green Game but Now Sells Big Oil Priorities"
"Doug Burgum, the Republican governor of North Dakota, has emerged as a key adviser on energy issues in Donald J. Trump’s campaign to retake the White House, acting as a liaison between Mr. Trump and the oil billionaires whom the former president has encouraged to fund his presidential bid."
Source: NYTimes, 06/13/2024"How Biden Is Conserving Land And Water As Trump Looms"
"A week after his presidential inauguration, Joe Biden cited the climate and biodiversity crises as reasons to set a sweeping new goal – to conserve at least 30% of America’s vast lands and waters by the end of the decade. Three years on, new protections have spurred meaningful progress towards meeting the target by 2030."
Source: Guardian, 06/12/2024Trump Vows ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Despite Rally Goers Wilting In Extreme Heat
"Dozens of Donald Trump’s supporters have been requiring medical help at his rallies in the scorching US south-west but it seems lost on him that his plans to reverse climate policies and “drill, baby, drill” for fossil fuels will only worsen extreme weather, campaigners say."
Source: Guardian, 06/12/2024Water, Chemical Industries Challenge Biden’s PFAS Drinking Water Rule
"Lobby groups representing water utilities, as well as the chemical and manufacturing industries, have filed court challenges to a Biden administration rule that seeks to limit the presence of toxic chemicals in drinking water."
Source: The Hill, 06/11/2024"Environmental Group to Study Effects of Artificially Cooling Earth"
"The Environmental Defense Fund, entering controversial territory, will spend millions of dollars examining the impact of reflecting sunlight into space as global warming worsens."
Source: NYTimes, 06/11/2024"US Raises Truck, SUV Fuel Economy Rules, Much Less Than First Proposed"
"President Joe Biden's administration Friday finalized tighter vehicle fuel economy rules through 2031 that are significantly less stringent than first proposed, a win for the Detroit Three automakers who lobbied heavily for revised rules."
Source: Reuters, 06/10/2024"Europe’s Swing to the Right Threatens Global Climate Policy"
"Many populist, nationalist and far-right parties have attacked environmental, climate and clean energy policies during the campaigns for this week’s EU parliamentary election."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/10/2024Far-Right Allies Pressure Supreme Court To Shield Fossil Fuel Firms
"Far-right fossil fuel allies have launched a stunning and unprecedented campaign pressuring the supreme court to shield fossil fuel companies from litigation that could cost them billions of dollars."
Source: Guardian, 06/10/2024"U.N. Chief Calls For Global Fossil Fuel Ad Ban"
"In a major speech that didn’t mince words, the United Nations Secretary-General on Wednesday called fossil fuel companies the “godfathers of climate chaos,” and urged all countries to ban fossil fuel advertising."
Source: HEATED, 06/10/2024"In Mega-Hot Arizona, Climate Is Not on the Ballot. But It Might as Well Be"
"When it comes to climate and the 2024 elections, Arizona just might represent the perfect storm of dramatic consequences: It’s one of the states most severely impacted by climate change, a strong majority of voters share climate concerns, climate issues dominate political debate in the state, it’s a battleground state that could help decide the presidential race, and its Legislature is so narrowly divided that it could easily flip from Republican to Democratic control."
Source: Capital & Main, 06/10/2024Calif. Oil Town Chose Oil-Tied Firm to Review Impacts of a Drilling Permit
"Signal Hill Petroleum spent millions to overturn California’s landmark law protecting neighborhoods from oil drilling. Now it wants to drill dozens of new wells in a city established a century ago to avoid taxes on oil development."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/07/2024Mich. Bottled Water Company Is Still Extracting Millions of Gallons Free
"Gov. Gretchen Whitmer had pledged to crack down on bottled water companies taking water at the same time Flint, Michigan, faced a water crisis. Six years later and in her second term, little has changed."
Source: ProPublica, 06/07/2024
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