EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"A Test for Harris: How to Talk About the Green New Deal" [9]

"In the Senate, Kamala Harris backed an expansive climate plan. Young activists want her to embrace it again, but so do Republicans."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: NYTimes [15], 07/30/2024
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Oil Companies Know Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution, Documents Show [16]

"This spring, Democrats wrapped up a nearly three-year investigation into the fossil fuel industry’s role in climate disinformation, and asked the Department of Justice to pick up where they left off. In House and Senate Democrats’ final report and hearing, investigators concluded that major oil companies had not only misled the public on climate change for decades, but also were continuing to misinform them about the industry’s preferred climate “solutions”— particularly biofuels and carbon capture."

Chemicals [17]
Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [18]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Politics [11]
Journalism & Media [20]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Drilled [21], 07/30/2024
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Campaign Funds And Charity Donations Help Big Oil Wield Power In Sacramento [22]

"In the weeks before California lawmakers left Sacramento for their summer recess, more than a dozen environmental bills died amid heavy industry opposition in a Legislature overwhelmingly controlled by Democrats."

Economy & Business [18]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
California [23]
Source: LA Times [24], 07/30/2024
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"Everything You Need to Know About Project 2025's Plan for the EPA" [25]

"The details of Project 2025 plans on climate, and for the EPA."

Chemicals [17]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [28]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Drilled [29], 07/29/2024
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"Project 2025 Plan Calls For Demolition Of NOAA and National Weather Service" [30]

"Among its many sweeping calls for change in American government, a conservative platform document known as Project 2025 urges the demolition of some of the nation’s most dependable resources for tracking weather, combating climate change and protecting the public from environmental hazards."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [31]
Environmental Politics [11]
Fish & Fisheries [32]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [33]
Science [34]
Water & Oceans [35]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: LA Times [36], 07/29/2024
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"The Plastic Industry’s $30 Million Lie" [37]

"If you’ve tuned into any major TV network in the last few months, you may have seen an ad promising a brand new way to end plastic pollution: advanced recycling."

Chemicals [17]
Consumer [38]
Economy & Business [18]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Politics [11]
Journalism & Media [20]
Pollution [28]
Water & Oceans [35]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: HEATED [39], 07/29/2024
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"Second Trump Term Could Boost Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’, Experts Warn" [40]

"A second Donald Trump presidency would represent a serious threat to dealing with the toxic impact of PFAS “forever chemicals”, as well as other toxins, and could be a danger to the health of millions of Americans, experts and environmental campaigners warn."

Chemicals [17]
Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [28]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Guardian [41], 07/29/2024
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"A Company Wanted To Store Carbon Under US Forests; It May Get Its Wish" [42]

"The U.S. Forest Service said ‘no’ when CapturePoint asked to put carbon capture projects under national forests. The agency is now reconsidering."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Forests [43]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [33]
Technology [44]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Floodlight [45], 07/29/2024
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Wind Farms’ Benefits To Communities Face Opposition And Misinformation [46]

"After NextEra proposed a wind farm in Greeley County, Nebraska two years ago, Robert Bernt, a dairy farm owner in the area, helped to mobilize community members against the idea."

Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [47]
Infrastructure [48]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [49]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: AP [50], 07/29/2024
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"Harris Offered A ‘Blueprint’ For Environmental Justice. Can She Grow It?" [51]

"The vice president could double down on President Joe Biden’s focus on communities burdened by pollution if she is elected president."

Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: E&E News [52], 07/26/2024
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Recycled Bottle Tops And Tables From Shuttlecocks - Greenest Olympics?" [53]

"The organising committee of Paris 2024 has vowed to make it the greenest Games in Olympic history, with half the carbon footprint of London 2012 and Rio 2016."

Environmental Politics [11]
Journalism & Media [20]
Public [13]
International [54]
Source: BBC Sport [55], 07/26/2024
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"Red States Ask Supreme Court To Halt Biden Climate Rule For Power Plants" [56]

"Republican-led states on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to block the Biden administration’s effort to cut planet-warming emissions from the power sector."

Air [57]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [28]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: The Hill [58], 07/26/2024
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"Meet Kamala Harris’ Go-To Guy On Climate" [59]

"Vice President Kamala Harris’ longtime climate adviser is a 37-year-old Colorado native who has a Ph.D. in marine science, a penchant for electric buses and a miniature poodle named Newton who’s a member of the KHive."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
People & Population [49]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: E&E News [60], 07/25/2024
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"PFAS Widely Added To US Pesticides Despite EPA Denial, Study Finds" [61]

"Toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” are widely added to pesticides, and are increasingly used in the products in recent years, new research finds, a practice that creates a health threat by spreading the dangerous compounds directly into the US’s food and water supply."

Agriculture [62]
Chemicals [17]
Consumer [38]
Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [28]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Guardian [63], 07/25/2024
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"What Project 2025 Would Do To Climate Policy In The US" [64]

"As delegates arrived at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee earlier this week to officially nominate former president Donald Trump as their 2024 candidate, a right-wing policy think tank held an all-day event nearby. The Heritage Foundation, a key sponsor of the convention and a group that has been influencing Republican presidential policy since the 1980s, gathered its supporters to tout Project 2025, a 900-plus-page policy blueprint that seeks to fundamentally restructure the federal government."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Grist [65], 07/25/2024
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