EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"How Oil Companies Could Tap The Climate Law To Pump More Crude" [9]

"President Joe Biden’s landmark climate law could help the fossil fuel industry pump more oil out of existing wells."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [17], 09/09/2024
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"Biden Administration Backs Plastic as Coal Replacement to Make Steel" [18]

"Jane Williams read the announcement with dismay. A Pennsylvania company was getting tens of millions of dollars in federal loan guarantees to turn plastic waste into a fuel for steelmaking, claiming the climate would benefit."

Air [19]
Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [21]
Waste [22]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Inside Climate News [23], 09/09/2024
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"The MAGA Plan To Stop Forest Fires: Remove The Forest" [24]

"Project 2025 plans to increase commercial logging to fight wildfires. Ecologists and fire experts say this will make fires worse."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [25]
Environmental Politics [13]
Forests [26]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [27]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: HEATED [28], 09/09/2024
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"What Would It Take to Bring Renewable, Reliable Power to Puerto Rico?" [29]

"The island is struggling to build a more stable electrical grid. What’s taking so long?"

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [25]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Justice [30]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [31]
People & Population [32]
Public [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [33]
Source: Sierra [34], 09/09/2024
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Colleges With Fossil Fuel Funding Can Become 'Vehicle Of Climate Obstruction' [35]

"For decades, oil and gas companies have donated tens to hundreds of millions of dollars to colleges and universities, sat on governing boards, sponsored scholarships and built pro-fossil fuel programming and curriculum — resulting in real or apparent conflicts of interest for universities and their researchers."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [36]
Journalism & Media [37]
Policy [38]
Pollution [21]
Science [39]
Technology [40]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [41]
Source: Floodlight [42], 09/06/2024
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"Opinion: How The Quiet War Against Press Freedom Could Come To America" [43]

"Some foreign leaders have ruthlessly curtailed journalism. U.S. politicians could draw from their playbook."

Environmental Politics [13]
Government [44]
Journalism & Media [37]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [41]
Source: Washington Post [45], 09/06/2024
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"Biden Administration Approves Natural Gas Exports After Pause Is Halted" [46]

"The Biden administration on Tuesday granted a gas export terminal the authority to ship fuel abroad after a court blocked its efforts to delay such permissions."

Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [41]
Mexico [47]
Source: The Hill [48], 09/05/2024
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"Biden’s Top Climate Negotiator to Visit China This Week" [49]

"John Podesta, President Biden’s top climate diplomat, is traveling to Beijing on Tuesday where he is expected to press Chinese leaders to make more ambitious plans to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving climate change."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Asia [50]
Source: NYTimes [51], 09/04/2024
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Congress Members Want U.S. To Do More To Stop Record Tijuana Pollution [52]

"San Diego Congress members are calling on the U.S. State Department to press Mexico to address unprecedented levels of sewage pollution spilling over from Tijuana, causing unbearable rotten-egg odors for residents in the region."

Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [31]
Pollution [21]
Water & Oceans [53]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
California [54]
Mexico [47]
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune [55], 09/04/2024
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"Dark Money Group Aiding Cornel West Has Ties To Utility Operative" [56]

"A lawyer tied to secret funding of spoiler candidates in Florida is more evidence West’s biggest backers are people who want Trump to win".

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Floodlight [57], 09/04/2024
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Florida State Parks Whistleblower Fired After Exposing Ron DeSantis’ Plans [58]

"Florida’s department of environmental protection has fired a whistleblower who exposed and sank governor Ron DeSantis’s secretive plan to pave over environmentally sensitive state parks and build lucrative hotels, golf courses and pickleball courts."

Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [37]
Natural Resources [27]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [33]
Source: Guardian [59], 09/04/2024
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"Business Group Sues Texas Officials Over Law That Shields Oil Industry" [60]

"A liberal business group sued Texas officials this week in a major challenge to a 2021 law that bars state entities from doing business with investment firms that the state comptroller says are boycotting energy companies."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [61]
Source: NYTimes [62], 09/04/2024
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"Countries Still Far Apart On COP29 Finance Goal" [63]

"With less than three months until this year's COP29 UN climate negotiations, countries remain far from agreement on the summit's biggest task: to agree a new funding target to help developing countries cope with climate change."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [15]
International [41]
Source: Reuters [64], 09/03/2024
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"The Rural Americans Too Poor for Federal Flood Protections" [65]

"On the day he would become homeless, Wesley Bryant was awoken by his wife, Alexis. “Get up,” she told him. “There’s a flood outside.”"

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [25]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [30]
Environmental Politics [13]
People & Population [32]
Water & Oceans [53]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Daily Yonder/Climate Central [66], 09/03/2024
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Navajo Nation Strengthens Law On Transportation Of Uranium Across Its Land [67]

"The Navajo Nation has approved emergency legislation meant to strengthen a tribal law that regulates the transportation of radioactive material across the largest Native American reservation in the U.S."

Chemicals [68]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [30]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [27]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [69]
Pollution [21]
Waste [22]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [61]
Source: AP [70], 09/03/2024
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