EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"F.T.C. Clears Chevron’s Purchase of Hess With Board Condition" [9]

"The Federal Trade Commission said on Monday that it would let the oil giant Chevron acquire Hess but that the chief executive of Hess would not be allowed to join Chevron’s board because of how he communicated with leaders of OPEC."

Economy & Business [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NYTimes [16], 10/02/2024
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In Fight Over US Steel, Climate and Public Health Take Backseat to Politics [17]

"When President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris appeared together at a rally for union members in Pittsburgh earlier this month, Harris opened her speech with a nod to the industrial legacy of a city in a key swing state for the presidential election."

Climate Change [18]
Economy & Business [10]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [20]
Pollution [21]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [22]
Source: Inside Climate News [23], 10/02/2024
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"Former Top Interior Official Violated Ethics Rules, Watchdog Says" [24]

"Tommy Beaudreau, who served as the Interior Department’s No. 2 official before stepping down last year, violated federal ethics rules by failing to monitor his investments in oil companies and recuse himself from a related matter, the agency’s internal watchdog said in a report released Tuesday."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [25]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Washington Post [26], 10/02/2024
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Biden Says He Could Ask Congress to Pass Aid for ‘Catastrophic’ Helene Damage [27]

"The president, who plans to travel to North Carolina this week, said he might need to call Congress in for a special session after it did not include additional disaster relief in its spending bill."

Climate Change [18]
Disasters [28]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [25]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [29]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [31]
Source: NYTimes [32], 10/01/2024
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"Trump, Harris Venture Into The Politics Of Hurricane Helene" [33]

"The Harris campaign accused Trump of a lack of empathy, and the Trump campaign said Harris should visit the areas affected."

"VALDOSTA, Ga. — The two candidates for president ventured carefully into the politics of Hurricane Helene on Monday, with Vice President Kamala Harris canceling West Coast campaign stops to attend a storm briefing in Washington and former president Donald Trump delivering remarks from a Georgia city battered by the storm.
Climate Change [18]
Disasters [28]
Environmental Politics [12]
People & Population [29]
Science [34]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [31]
Source: Washington Post [35], 10/01/2024
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"Around the World, Diplomats Gird for a Trump Assault on Climate Action" [36]

"Climate negotiators from Europe, Latin America and some island nations are bracing for the potential return to the world stage of Donald J. Trump, who withdrew the United States from the fight against global warming during his first term."

Climate Change [18]
Environmental Politics [12]
Science [34]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [37]
Source: NYTimes [38], 10/01/2024
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"Leonard Leo-Linked Group Attacking Efforts To Educate Judges On Climate" [39]

"A rightwing organization is attacking efforts to educate judges about the climate crisis. The group appears to be connected to Leonard Leo, the architect of the rightwing takeover of the American judiciary who helped select Trump’s supreme court nominees, the Guardian has learned."

Climate Change [18]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Science [34]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Guardian [40], 09/30/2024
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"If Trump Wins The Election, This Is What's At Stake" [41]

"Imagine, for a moment, oil and gas infrastructure carving up Alaska’s far northern tundra, a refuge for migrating caribou and polar bears. Copper-nickel mines on the doorstep of one of the largest wilderness areas east of the Rockies, a nearly 1.1m-acre (450,000-hectare) expanse of pristine lakes and forests full of loons, wolves and moose. Or uranium and coal exploration in once-protected landscapes, including areas bordering the Grand Canyon."

Climate Change [18]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [12]
Natural Resources [42]
People & Population [29]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Guardian [43], 09/30/2024
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Harris Backs Minerals Stockpile, Permitting Reform, Climate Tax Credits [44]

"Laying out her economic agenda this week, Vice President Harris backed increasing domestic minerals production and creating a minerals stockpile."

Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Natural Resources [42]
Policy [45]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: The Hill [46], 09/27/2024
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US Company Uses Government Funds To Suppress Global Pesticide Opposition [47]

"In 2017, two United Nations experts called for a treaty to strictly regulate dangerous pesticides, which they said were a “global human rights concern”, citing scientific research showing pesticides can cause cancers, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s, and other health problems. Publicly, the industry’s lead trade association dubbed the recommendations “unfounded and sensational assertions”. In private, industry advocates have gone further."

Agriculture [48]
Chemicals [49]
Economy & Business [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [50]
Science [34]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [37]
Source: The New Lede [51], 09/27/2024
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"How The Fossil Fuel Industry Helps Spread Anti-Protest Laws Across The US" [52]

"Fossil fuel lobbyists coordinated with lawmakers behind the scenes and across state lines to push and shape laws that are escalating a crackdown on peaceful protests against oil and gas expansion, a new Guardian investigation reveals."

Climate Change [18]
Economy & Business [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [50]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [42]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Guardian [53], 09/27/2024
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White Supremacist Gets 18 Years For Plot To ‘Lay Waste’ To Baltimore Grid [54]

"A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a white supremacist to 18 years in prison for conspiring to attack Baltimore’s power grid in hopes of provoking a race war."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Military [55]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [22]
Source: The Hill [56], 09/27/2024
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"Lawmakers Scramble To Reach Last-Minute Deal To Save Farm Bill" [57]

"House Agriculture Committee Chair Glenn “G.T.” Thompson (R-Pa.) is meeting with congressional leaders on agricultural policy Thursday to try to secure a last-minute deal on passing the farm bill."

Agriculture [48]
Climate Change [18]
Consumer [58]
Environmental Politics [12]
Food [59]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [42]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: The Hill [60], 09/27/2024
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"Biden Boasts of Climate Wins and Warns of Reversals Under Trump" [61]

"President Biden on Tuesday celebrated his record overseeing historic action to fight climate change and warned that the Republican trying to succeed him, Donald J. Trump, would unwind those accomplishments and condemn “future generations to a more dangerous world.”

Climate Change [18]
Environmental Politics [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [37]
Source: NYTimes [62], 09/26/2024
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Azerbaijan Offers To Fund Climate-Vulnerable Islands' Delegates At COP29 [63]

"The government of Azerbaijan, host of this year's COP29 U.N. climate summit, has offered to cover the costs for negotiators from climate-vulnerable small islands to attend the event, a senior COP29 official told Reuters."

Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Public [14]
International [37]
Source: Reuters [64], 09/26/2024
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