EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"Business Group Sues Texas Officials Over Law That Shields Oil Industry" [9]

"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 [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [16]
Source: NYTimes [17], 09/04/2024
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"Countries Still Far Apart On COP29 Finance Goal" [18]

"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 [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
International [19]
Source: Reuters [20], 09/03/2024
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"The Rural Americans Too Poor for Federal Flood Protections" [21]

"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 [22]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [24]
Environmental Politics [12]
People & Population [25]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Daily Yonder/Climate Central [27], 09/03/2024
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Navajo Nation Strengthens Law On Transportation Of Uranium Across Its Land [28]

"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 [29]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [24]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [30]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [31]
Pollution [32]
Waste [33]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [16]
Source: AP [34], 09/03/2024
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Kennedy Says Trump Will ‘Make Americans Healthy.’ The Record Disagrees. [35]

"As president, Donald J. Trump slashed protections for clean air and water and weakened school nutrition standards."

Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [24]
Environmental Politics [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NYTimes [36], 08/30/2024
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"Climate-Friendly Meat? Regulators Tighten Scrutiny of Label Buzzwords." [37]

"The new guidelines from the Agriculture Department encourage third-party assessments of environment-related claims, which have come under fire."

Agriculture [38]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [39]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [40]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NYTimes [41], 08/30/2024
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Industry Scientists Back EPA Finding That Pesticide Is Not a Cancer Risk [42]

"The consultants, who worked for Dow, the pesticide’s manufacturer, help corporate interests defend their products against environmental and health regulations."

Agriculture [38]
Chemicals [29]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [32]
Science [43]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Inside Climate News [44], 08/29/2024
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EPA Watchdog Says Air Chief Had ‘Disqualifying Financial Interest’ [45]

"An internal watchdog criticized the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) top air official for participating in the development of a rule that regulates an industry in which he reportedly had financial holdings."

Chemicals [29]
Economy & Business [11]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [46]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [32]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: The Hill [47], 08/29/2024
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"They’re Knocking On Doors For Harris. But They Still Won’t Endorse Her." [48]

"The Sunrise Movement plans to contact 1.5 million Americans about voting for Kamala Harris. But it is waiting to decide about endorsing her until her climate plans are clearer."

Activism [49]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Washington Post [50], 08/29/2024
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After Protests, DeSantis Says Plan To Develop State Parks Is On Hold [51]

"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that a controversial proposal by his administration to develop golf courses, pickleball courts and hotels at state parks is “going back to the drawing board.”"

Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [30]
Public [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [52]
Source: AP [53], 08/29/2024
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"Nonprofit Law Center Asks EPA to Take Over Water Permitting in N.C." [54]

"The unprecedented move highlights regulatory tensions between Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, and an environmental rule-making commission controlled by appointees of Republican state legislative leaders."

Activism [49]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [32]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [52]
Source: Inside Climate News [55], 08/29/2024
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Chemical Industry Scientists Plan To Derail PFAS Rule On Drinking Water [56]

"Scientists with financial ties to industry and histories of producing controversial research to derail chemical regulations are mobilizing to attack strict new federal drinking water limits for toxic PFAS, or “forever chemicals”, documents reviewed by the Guardian reveal."

Chemicals [29]
Consumer [39]
Economy & Business [11]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [32]
Science [43]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: HuffPost [57], 08/28/2024
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"As Seen on TV: Big Oil’s Dystopian View of California’s Climate Agenda" [58]

"A $5 million prime-time ad campaign is aimed at climate policies the industry claims make life miserable for Californians."

Chemicals [29]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [59]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [24]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [40]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [32]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
California [60]
Source: Capital & Main [61], 08/28/2024
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Newsom Axes Funding To Enforce California Oil Well Protection Law [62]

"Gavin Newsom’s late session proposal to extend deadlines — by more than four years in one case — for oil companies to comply with a new law fizzled and died late this week."

Air [63]
Energy & Fuel [59]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [24]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [32]
Public [14]
California [60]
Source: CalMatters [64], 08/28/2024
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"The Big Lie In The Montana Senate Race" [65]

"Montana GOP Senate hopeful Tim Sheehy has spent the last several months defending himself against accusations that he poses a threat to America’s federal public lands — a mess that the multimillionaire businessman and former Navy SEAL created when, shortly after launching his campaign, he explicitly called for federal lands to be “turned over to state agencies, or even counties.”

Environmental Politics [12]
Forests [66]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [30]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [67]
Source: HuffPost [68], 08/28/2024
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