EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

Nikki Haley Says Climate Change is Real. Is She Proposing Anything to Stop It? [9]

"The former U.N. Ambassador touts her role in pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord and pledges to roll back clean energy incentives."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Inside Climate News [14], 01/23/2024
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New EPA Soot Rule Could Save Lives. Industry Says It Could Cost Jobs. [15]

"The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to significantly strengthen limits on fine particle matter, one of the nation’s most widespread deadly air pollutants, even as industry groups warn that the standard could erase manufacturing jobs across the country."

Air [16]
Economy & Business [17]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [20]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [22]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Washington Post [23], 01/22/2024
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"As Big 2024 Elections Loom, What's At Stake For Climate Action?" [24]

"With millions voting this year from the US to India and the EU, more extreme weather could bump climate change up the agenda".

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
International [25]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [26], 01/19/2024
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"Interior Department Adds Six States To Western Solar-Development Plan" [27]

"The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on Wednesday announced an update to its 2012 plan for solar power development in the western U.S., adding five states to the original six."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: The Hill [28], 01/19/2024
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Calif. Water-Saving Plan Slammed As Costly, Complicated And Unrealistic [29]

"In a scathing review, advisors to the state Legislature have found that California's proposed regulations for urban water conservation would be costly, overly complicated and difficult to implement."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [30]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [31]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Water & Oceans [32]
Public [12]
California [33]
Source: LA Times [34], 01/19/2024
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"Supreme Court Appears Ready To Erode Chevron Doctrine" [35]

"The Supreme Court appears to be seeking a way to diminish the Chevron doctrine — without completely overruling the 40-year-old legal theory that helps federal agencies defend their rules on public health, food safety and climate change."

Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: E&E News [36], 01/18/2024
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‘Control The Narrative’: Alabama Utility Wields Influence By Financing News [37]

"A Floodlight investigation found Alabama Power runs a news service and its foundation bought a Black newspaper. Neither reports on high electric bills or utility-related pollution".

Chemicals [38]
Consumer [30]
Economy & Business [17]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [20]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [31]
Journalism & Media [39]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [40]
Source: Guardian [41], 01/18/2024
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"EU Bans ‘Misleading’ Environmental Claims That Rely On Offsetting" [42]

"Terms such as “climate neutral” or “climate positive” that rely on offsetting will be banned from the EU by 2026 as part of a crackdown on misleading environmental claims."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Journalism & Media [39]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Public [12]
Europe [43]
Source: Guardian [44], 01/18/2024
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Scientist Mann’s Defamation Case Over Online Attacks Finally Comes To Trial [45]

"A lawsuit first instituted over 10 years ago, brought by an esteemed climate scientist over alleged defamation by a rightwing blogger and an analyst, goes to trial this week." "The case comes amid concerns that online abuse of climate scientists has increased in recent years while misinformation about the climate crisis is also on the rise."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Journalism & Media [39]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Science [46]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Guardian [47], 01/18/2024
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"Markets And Forests: 7 Takeaways From Our Series On The Forest Carbon Trade" [48]

"Mongabay recently published a five-part series on the carbon trade and its use as a tool to address climate change. The exchange of carbon credits, typically used to offset emissions, bore unprecedented criticism in 2023."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [17]
Environmental Politics [11]
Forests [49]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Natural Resources [50]
Public [12]
International [25]
Source: Mongabay [51], 01/18/2024
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"A Potentially Huge Supreme Court Case Has a Hidden Conservative Backer" [52]

"The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on Wednesday that, on paper, are about a group of commercial fishermen who oppose a government fee that they consider unreasonable. But the lawyers who have helped to propel their case to the nation’s highest court have a far more powerful backer: the petrochemicals billionaire Charles Koch."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Environmental Justice [20]
Environmental Politics [11]
Fish & Fisheries [53]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NYTimes [54], 01/17/2024
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API Plans Election-Year Blitz in the Face of Climate Policy Pressure [55]

"The American Petroleum Institute, at its annual “State of American Energy” event, launched a multimillion-dollar advertising blitz to make the case for expanded U.S. fossil fuel exploration, production and exports."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Environmental Politics [11]
Journalism & Media [39]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [22]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Inside Climate News [56], 01/17/2024
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First US Uranium Mines in Eight Years Begin Operations Near Grand Canyon [57]

"The push for more nuclear energy and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has spiked uranium prices, leading mines for the element to begin operating again in the U.S. despite long-term environmental and health impacts."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Environmental Justice [20]
Environmental Politics [11]
Natural Resources [50]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [58]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [59]
Source: Inside Climate News [60], 01/17/2024
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"Azerbaijan Appoints No Women To 28-Member Cop29 Climate Committee" [61]

"The organising committee for the Cop29 global climate change summit in Azerbaijan in December comprises 28 men and no women, the president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has announced."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Justice [20]
Environmental Politics [11]
People & Population [62]
Public [12]
International [25]
Source: Guardian [63], 01/16/2024
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"Scoop: John Kerry To Leave Biden Administration, Help Campaign" [64]

"John Kerry, the U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, will leave the administration later this winter, and plans to help President Biden's campaign, Axios has learned."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
People & Population [62]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
International [25]
Source: Axios [65], 01/16/2024
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