EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"FBI Sent Several Informants To Standing Rock Protests, Court Documents Show" [9]

"Up to 10 informants managed by the FBI were embedded in anti-pipeline resistance camps near the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation at the height of mass protests against the Dakota Access pipeline in 2016."

Activism [10]
Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Infrastructure [17]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Pollution [19]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [23]
Source: Grist [24], 03/19/2024
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"5th Circuit Denies Biden Request To Review Nuclear Waste Ruling" [25]

"An appeals court with a famously conservative bent narrowly rejected the Biden administration’s request to reconsider its August ruling that stripped the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of authority to license private nuclear waste storage facilities not located at a reactor site."

Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [26]
Waste [27]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [28]
Source: E&E News [29], 03/19/2024
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"Trump’s Violent Language Toward EVs" [30]

"The former president has deployed increasingly aggressive talk about electric vehicles and their effect on the American economy."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [16]
Journalism & Media [31]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Military [32]
People & Population [33]
Pollution [19]
Transportation [34]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: NYTimes [35], 03/19/2024
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"An Oregon Bill to Cut Millions in Timber Taxes Is Dead, Despite Backing" [36]

"The legislation aimed to reformulate how Oregon funds the rising costs of fighting wildfires. It sparked debate within the Democratic-controlled Legislature about who should pay: taxpayers or big timber owners, who won steep tax cuts in the 1990s."

Disasters [37]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Politics [16]
Forests [38]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Natural Resources [39]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Northwest (OR WA) [40]
Source: ProPublica [41], 03/19/2024
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"You Can Start Applying For The American Climate Corps Next Month" [42]

"The long-awaited jobs board for the American Climate Corps, promised early in the Biden administration, will open next month, according to details shared exclusively with Grist."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [37]
Environmental Politics [16]
Forests [38]
Infrastructure [17]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Natural Resources [39]
People & Population [33]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Grist [43], 03/19/2024
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The U.S. Needs Wildland Firefighters More Than Ever, but Is Losing Them [44]

"Black Butte is an inactive volcano that rises from the high desert in eastern Oregon. In May 2022, a turboprop plane approached its pine-blanketed slopes, carrying about 10 men wearing bulky Kevlar outfits. They were smokejumpers with the United States Forest Service, the agency that directs the majority of the nation’s efforts to manage wildfires."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [37]
Environmental Politics [16]
Forests [38]
Government [45]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Natural Resources [39]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: ProPublica [46], 03/19/2024
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Zombies of the Tax Code: Why Fossil Fuels Subsidies Seem Impossible to Kill [47]

"For the fourth year in a row, President Biden is trying to eliminate federal tax breaks for coal, oil and gas companies. But fossil fuel subsidies have proven difficult to stop."

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Pollution [19]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: NYTimes [48], 03/18/2024
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"Federal Court Halts SEC Climate Reporting Rule" [49]

"Federal judges have temporarily halted a landmark new climate reporting rule, sidelining efforts by Wall Street’s top regulator to uncover the risks U.S. corporations and their investors face from rising global temperatures."

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Politics [16]
Journalism & Media [31]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: E&E News [50], 03/18/2024
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"Pebble Sues EPA To Revive Southwest Alaska Copper And Gold Mine Prospect" [51]

"The company behind the giant Pebble copper and gold mine project in Southwest Alaska filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday to overturn its decision last year to halt the mine."

Environmental Politics [16]
Environmental Studies [52]
Fish & Fisheries [53]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Natural Resources [39]
Pollution [19]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Alaska and Hawaii [54]
Source: Anchorage Daily News [55], 03/18/2024
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"Your Tax Dollars May Be Funding The Expansion Of The Plastics Industry" [56]

"Plastic manufacturers have received $9 billion in subsidies for new or bigger facilities since 2012."

Chemicals [57]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Pollution [19]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Grist [58], 03/18/2024
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DOE Conditionally Approves $2.26 Billion Loan For Huge Nevada Lithium Mine [59]

"President Joe Biden’s administration has conditionally agreed to loan more than $2 billion to the company building a controversial lithium mine in Nevada with the largest known U.S. deposit of the metal critical to making batteries for electric vehicles key to his renewable energy agenda."

Biodiversity [60]
Chemicals [57]
Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Natural Resources [39]
Wildlife [61]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [62]
Source: AP [63], 03/18/2024
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Clean Electricity? These Are The Overlooked Elected Officials Who Decide. [64]

"On a Tuesday morning in January, college student Aurora Gray stepped up to the podium in a windowless room in Atlanta, around the corner from the state capitol building. In front of her sat a five-member panel of elected officials that oversees how and where nearly every Georgia resident gets their power."

Climate Change [11]
Consumer [65]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [66], 03/18/2024
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"BLM Releases Long-Awaited Sage Grouse Protections" [67]

"The Biden administration released its proposal Thursday to protect the greater sage grouse across the West, incorporating tough restrictions on oil and gas drilling and other land uses near the bird’s habitat."

Agriculture [68]
Biodiversity [60]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Natural Resources [39]
Wildlife [61]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: E&E News [69], 03/15/2024
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Gulf Petrochemical Buildout Draws Tax Breaks Despite Pollution Violations [70]

"A booming petrochemical buildout on the Gulf Coast has drawn billions of dollars in public subsidies from state tax abatement programs despite regular violations of pollution permits, according to a new report released Thursday."

Chemicals [57]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Infrastructure [17]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Pollution [19]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Inside Climate News [71], 03/15/2024
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"Sick Because of Roundup? These Bills Could Make Suing Impossible." [72]

"High-profile lawsuits have accused pesticides of causing cancer and Parkinson’s. But three states are now considering bills that would prevent these lawsuits."

Agriculture [68]
Chemicals [57]
Consumer [65]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Pollution [19]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: New Republic [73], 03/15/2024
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