EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"Electricity From Coal Is Pricey. Should Consumers Have to Pay?" [9]

"Environmental groups are making a new economic argument against coal, the heaviest polluting fossil fuel. Some regulators are listening."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Pollution [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NYTimes [17], 06/04/2024
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"A Climate Scientist Is Voted President of an Oil Country. Now What?" [18]

"Mexico is the world’s 11th-largest oil producer. It has been gripped by a deadly heat wave. Now, it’s elected as its president a woman with a rare pedigree: a left-of-center climate scientist with a doctorate in energy engineering named Claudia Sheinbaum."

Environmental Politics [13]
Public [15]
Mexico [19]
Source: NYTimes [20], 06/04/2024
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"Congress Weighs Delaying Farm Bill Over SNAP and Climate Disputes" [21]

"A battle that ties food aid for needy families with crop subsidies for American farmers may stall efforts to renew a sweeping agricultural policy law, forcing Congress to consider delaying action on the $1.5 trillion proposal until after this fall’s elections."

Agriculture [22]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [13]
Food [23]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Natural Resources [25]
People & Population [26]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Washington Post [27], 06/04/2024
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"Regan To Square Off With House Oversight Republicans" [28]

"EPA Administrator Michael Regan this week will face off with House Republicans troubled by his agency’s regulations designed to tackle climate change."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Politics [13]
Pollution [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [30], 06/04/2024
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"Trump Suggests To Oil Donors He Will Fast-Track Their Merger Deals" [31]

"Former president Donald Trump suggested to oil executive donors this month that he could ease the Federal Trade Commission’s scrutiny of their industry’s mergers and acquisitions if he returns to the White House, according to five people familiar with the matter."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Pollution [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Washington Post [32], 06/03/2024
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"Mexico Elects Climate Scientist As First Female President" [33]

^{"Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected Mexico’s first ever female president in a historic result. Dr Sheinbaum, 61, a climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, is a member of the leftist Morena party and the handpicked successor to populist Andres Manuel López Obrador."}

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [13]
Science [34]
Public [15]
Mexico [19]
Source: Telegraph [35], 06/03/2024
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"Ads Claiming LNG Exports Reduce Emissions Are Misleading, Says Regulator" [36]

"Canada’s advertising regulator has determined that ads claiming liquified natural gas (LNG) will lower emissions are inaccurate, misleading, and distort scientific data."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [37]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Public [15]
Canada [38]
Source: DeSmog [39], 06/03/2024
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Dems Urge Justice Department To Prosecute Alleged Oil Industry Price-Fixing [40]

"Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and 22 other Democratic senators are calling on the Department of Justice to “use every tool” at its disposal to prevent and prosecute alleged collusion and price-fixing in the oil industry."

Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: AP [41], 05/31/2024
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Calif. Backs Big Utilities, Trims Incentives For Community Solar Projects [42]

"California’s utilities regulator today adopted new rules for community solar projects, despite warnings from clean energy advocates that the move will actually undercut efforts to expand solar power options for low-income customers."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Justice [43]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Public [15]
California [44]
Source: CalMatters [45], 05/31/2024
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"EPA Union Deal to Shield Science From Politics as Election Looms" [46]

"The EPA’s biggest union said on Wednesday it had ratified a new contract with the agency, winning scientific integrity protections for the first time."

Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [47]
Journalism & Media [37]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Science [34]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [48], 05/30/2024
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"The Other Border Dispute Is Over an 80-Year-Old Water Treaty" [49]

"With another hot summer looming, Mexico is behind on its water deliveries to the United States, leading to water cutbacks in South Texas. A little-known federal agency has hit a roadblock in its efforts to get Mexico to comply."

Agriculture [22]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [50]
Disasters [51]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [52]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Natural Resources [25]
Water & Oceans [53]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [54]
Mexico [19]
Source: Inside Climate News [55], 05/30/2024
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"How Oil Companies Manipulate Journalists" [56]

"Subpoenaed emails reveal the ways fossil-fuel corporations try to influence the media—and why they often succeed."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [37]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Drilled [57], 05/30/2024
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"Trump Reboot Would Threaten Pipeline Methane Rule" [58]

"The Biden administration has pushed back its timeline for finishing a rule cracking down on pipeline leaks until next year, leaving it more vulnerable if former President Donald Trump returns to the White House."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Pollution [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [59], 05/30/2024
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"From Protest To Power: Greta's Eco-Warriors Run For EU Office" [60]

"Inspired by school-strike leader Greta Thunberg, 20-something eco-warriors - with campaigns launched from Paris to Prague - are swapping banners for ballots in their war on climate change."

Activism [61]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [62]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Public [15]
International [63]
Europe [64]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [65], 05/30/2024
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"More Than Dirt" [66]

"Mayor Eric Adams scrapped New York City’s compost project. Here’s what will be lost."

Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Natural Resources [25]
Waste [67]
Public [15]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [68]
Source: Civil Eats [69], 05/30/2024
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