EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"Nine More States Sue SEC Over Climate Disclosure Rule" [9]

"Nine states this week sued the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over a rule that requires publicly traded companies to disclose some climate-related information to potential investors."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The Hill [19], 03/14/2024
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"Miss. Senate Votes To Change Control Of Jackson’s Troubled Water System" [20]

"For the second year in a row, the Mississippi Senate has passed a bill that would transfer control of the state capital city’s troubled water system to a regional board."

Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [23]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [24]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [26]
Source: AP [27], 03/14/2024
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Climate-Science Deniers Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition [28]

"Last July, a small group of rabble-rousers boarded a trio of powerboats, banners and bullhorns in hand. They were headed for the massive floating construction site of an offshore wind farm 35 miles from the eastern tip of Long Island, New York."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [29]
Science [30]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Sierra [31], 03/13/2024
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Maryland Lawmakers Balk at Ending Subsidies for Trash Incineration [32]

"Within a year of moving to Cherry Hill, a majority Black neighborhood on Baltimore’s southern tip, Shanae Thomas noticed her asthma—a health problem she was born with—had gradually worsened."

Air [33]
Chemicals [34]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Waste [35]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [36]
Source: Inside Climate News [37], 03/13/2024
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"Across the Nation, Lawmakers Aim to Ban Lab-Grown Meat" [38]

"Restricting the sale of protein cultured from animal cells, developed as a way to raise meat without the climate impacts of livestock, has become a trendy right-wing legislative focus in states from Arizona to Florida."

Agriculture [39]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [40]
Environmental Politics [14]
Food [41]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Inside Climate News [42], 03/13/2024
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"EPA Rule Tees Up Legal Battle Over Federal Climate Authority" [43]

"EPA’s rule to limit methane emissions from the oil and gas sector may be the latest battleground over whether the agency is exceeding its authority to regulate planet-warming emissions."

Chemicals [34]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [44], 03/13/2024
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"How Trump Could Exit The Paris Climate Deal — And Thwart Reentry" [45]

"Allies of former President Donald Trump have a plan to leave the Paris climate agreement and make it much harder for a future Democratic president to rejoin it."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [46], 03/13/2024
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"EU Parliament Passes Weakened Pollution Limits For Livestock Farms" [47]

"The EU Parliament on Tuesday gave its final approval to new rules to cut pollution from livestock farms, but only after agreeing with EU countries to make the law far weaker than initially planned."

Agriculture [39]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
Europe [48]
Source: Reuters [49], 03/13/2024
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"Biden Seeks $1.8B Budget Boost For EPA" [50]

"The president’s fiscal 2025 blueprint would increase the agency’s funding over its current level but is not as ambitious as previous plans."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [51], 03/12/2024
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"Florida Passes ‘Cruel’ Bill Curbing Water And Shade Protections For Workers" [52]

"The Florida legislature passed a bill on Friday that prevents any city, county, or municipality in the state from adopting legislation aimed at protecting outdoor workers from extreme heat, prompting many to call out lawmakers for being “cruel” to the “most vulnerable workers”."

Agriculture [39]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [24]
Public [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [26]
Source: Guardian [53], 03/12/2024
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"Canada, U.S. Launch Intl. Inquiry Into Southeast B.C. Mine Pollution" [54]

"Nearly 12 years after Ktunaxa Nation first urged the Canadian and U.S. governments to task an international body with investigating the mine pollution coursing through its territory, the two countries have agreed to a step the nation says is key to addressing contamination from B.C.’s Elk Valley coal mines."

Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [55]
Natural Resources [56]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Northwest (OR WA) [57]
Canada [58]
Source: The Narwhal [59], 03/12/2024
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"Texas Sues Biden Administration Over Finalized Methane Rule" [60]

"The state of Texas on Friday sued the Biden administration over an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule restricting methane emissions finalized earlier Friday morning."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [61]
Source: The Hill [62], 03/12/2024
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"Walmart Heirs Bet Big on Journalism" [63]

"A wash of Walton family funding to news media is creating echo chambers in environmental journalism, and beyond. Are editorial firewalls up to the task?"

Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [29]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Civil Eats [64], 03/11/2024
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How the Meat Industry Infiltrated Universities to Obstruct Climate Policy [65]

"New research sheds light on the scope of the livestock industry’s influence over prominent agricultural research centers at two public universities. In a paper recently published in the journal Climatic Change, researchers detail how the meat industry funds credentialed academics to “obstruct unfavorable policies,” especially those targeting the industry’s largely unregulated methane emissions."

Agriculture [39]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [29]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Civil Eats [66], 03/11/2024
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"Oil Industry Has Sought To Block State Backing For Green Tech Since 1960s" [67]

"The oil industry has fought against government support for clean technologies for more than half a century, the Guardian can reveal, even as vast subsidies have propped up its polluting business model."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Europe [48]
Source: Guardian [68], 03/11/2024
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