EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"Pipeline Opponents Receive Cease And Desist Letters From Summit" [9]

"Several opponents of the proposed Summit Carbon Solutions carbon sequestration pipeline have received letters on behalf of the company threatening lawsuits over perceived defamation, an environmental group representative said."

Environmental Politics [10]
Journalism & Media [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Iowa Capital Dispatch [15], 12/16/2024
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"Trump’s CDC Pick Wouldn’t Let Go Of False Theory Vaccines Cause Autism" [16]

"Dave Weldon’s long record of promoting the disproven link between vaccines and autism raises concerns among some public health experts about his ability to run the CDC."

Environmental Health [17]
Environmental Politics [10]
Health [18]
Science [19]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Washington Post [20], 12/16/2024
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"Members Of Congress Question Oz’s Credentials For CMS Post" [21]

"On Tuesday, top Democrats, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts), Dick Durbin (Illinois) and Ben Cardin (Maryland), sent Mehmet Oz a letter asking whether he was qualified for the job Trump has said he’ll nominate him for — running two of the federal government’s largest health-care programs as director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services."

Environmental Health [17]
Environmental Politics [10]
Health [18]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Washington Post [22], 12/16/2024
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"Industrial And Business Groups Send Trump A Deregulatory Wish List" [23]

"More than a hundred industrial trade groups and chambers of commerce are urging President-elect Donald Trump to weaken or eliminate numerous Biden administration regulations on energy, air pollution, recycling, worker heat protections, consumer safeguards and corporate financing, claiming that the rules are “strangling” the nation’s economy."

Chemicals [24]
Climate Change [25]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Health [17]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [28]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: LA Times [29], 12/16/2024
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"‘Bioweapons’ And Cover-Ups: The Untruths Behind RFK Jr.’s Disease Claims" [30]

"Kennedy has spread misinformation about the deadliest and most debilitating diseases of the modern era."

Consumer [31]
Environmental Health [17]
Environmental Politics [10]
Environmental Studies [32]
Government [33]
Journalism & Media [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Science [19]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: E&E News [34], 12/13/2024
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"How Trump Could Bring Fish Farms To The Gulf Of Mexico" [35]

"Floating cages with fish by the thousands may be popping in the Gulf of Mexico under a controversial plan that was backed by President-elect Donald Trump’s administration four years ago and is likely to gain traction again after Trump begins his second term next month."

Environmental Politics [10]
Fish & Fisheries [36]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [37]
Pollution [28]
Water & Oceans [38]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Grist [39], 12/13/2024
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"Social Media Is a Growing Vehicle for Climate Misinformation" [40]

"A new report, published on Friday by international nonprofit Global Witness, found that climate misinformation and disinformation spread unchecked on TikTok during COP29, mostly in user comments on videos. The users they identified denied man-made global warming and rebuked efforts to combat it, claiming that climate change is a “lie” or “hoax.”"

Climate Change [25]
Environmental Politics [10]
Journalism & Media [11]
Science [19]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
International [41]
Source: Inside Climate News [42], 12/12/2024
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Trump Names Price For Avoiding All Environment Regulations: $1 Billion [43]

"President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he planned to expedite federal regulatory approvals, including all environmental permits, for any company or individual proposing to invest $1 billion or more in a construction project."

Economy & Business [44]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Health [17]
Environmental Politics [10]
Environmental Studies [32]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [28]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: HuffPost [45], 12/11/2024
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"Biden Moves Ahead With Drilling In Wildlife Refuge But Minimizes Acreage" [46]

"The Bureau of Land Management is required to auction off opportunities to drill in the Alaska wildlife refuge by the end of this year under 2017’s Tax Cuts and Job Act."

Biodiversity [47]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [37]
Wildlife [48]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Alaska and Hawaii [49]
Source: The Hill [50], 12/10/2024
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"Lee Zeldin Didn’t Ask To Head EPA. Here’s Why Trump Picked Him." [51]

"When he served as a Republican congressman from New York, Lee Zeldin delighted environmentalists by championing efforts to protect critical wildlife habitat from potential development efforts, including a golf course proposed by Donald Trump." "Now, as Trump’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, Zeldin is pledging to deliver on the president-elect’s promise to eliminate several environmental regulations that the fossil fuel industry views as burdensome, according to half a dozen Senate Republicans who met with Zeldin this week."

Environmental Health [17]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [28]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Washington Post [52], 12/09/2024
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Just One Mutation Can Make H5N1 Bird Flu A Threat To Humans: Researchers [53]

"California researchers say the world may be just one genetic tweak away from human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 bird flu virus — a worrisome mutation that could open the door to widespread human infections and possibly even a pandemic, according to some experts."

Agriculture [54]
Consumer [31]
Environmental Health [17]
Environmental Politics [10]
Food [55]
Health [18]
Science [19]
Wildlife [48]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
California [56]
Source: LA Times [57], 12/06/2024
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"Unrest in Carbon Country" [58]

"One night in 2021, a farmer Steve Kenkel has known since childhood gave him a call. The farmer had news: there was going to be a CO2 pipeline coming through his property in Shelby County, Iowa."

Agriculture [54]
Climate Change [25]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Politics [10]
Infrastructure [59]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [60]
Source: Drilled [61], 12/06/2024
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"Trump Energy Pick Misinterprets Studies To Support Claims, Scientists Say" [62]

"Chris Wright cites data to back his claim there is no climate crisis. Authors of the papers he cites say he is misinterpreting their work."

Climate Change [25]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Politics [10]
Journalism & Media [11]
Science [19]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Washington Post [63], 12/05/2024
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"Trump Picks Musk Ally Jared Isaacman To Head NASA" [64]

"President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday tapped Jared Isaacman to lead NASA, selecting a billionaire private astronaut and close associate of Elon Musk to oversee an agency closely linked to the SpaceX founder’s business."

Climate Change [25]
Economy & Business [44]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Science [19]
Technology [65]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Reuters [66], 12/05/2024
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"What Trump’s Cabinet Picks Say About Climate Change" [67]

"President-elect Donald J. Trump’s cabinet choices run the gamut from people who acknowledge the threat of climate change to those who deny the scientific consensus that emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are dangerously heating the planet."

Climate Change [25]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Politics [10]
Science [19]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: NYTimes [68], 12/04/2024
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