EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"Pebble Sues EPA To Revive Southwest Alaska Copper And Gold Mine Prospect" [9]

"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 [10]
Environmental Studies [11]
Fish & Fisheries [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Alaska and Hawaii [19]
Source: Anchorage Daily News [20], 03/18/2024
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"Your Tax Dollars May Be Funding The Expansion Of The Plastics Industry" [21]

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

Chemicals [22]
Economy & Business [23]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Justice [26]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Grist [27], 03/18/2024
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DOE Conditionally Approves $2.26 Billion Loan For Huge Nevada Lithium Mine [28]

"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 [29]
Chemicals [22]
Climate Change [30]
Economy & Business [23]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Justice [26]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Wildlife [31]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [32]
Source: AP [33], 03/18/2024
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Clean Electricity? These Are The Overlooked Elected Officials Who Decide. [34]

"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 [30]
Consumer [35]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [36], 03/18/2024
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"BLM Releases Long-Awaited Sage Grouse Protections" [37]

"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 [38]
Biodiversity [29]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Wildlife [31]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [39], 03/15/2024
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Gulf Petrochemical Buildout Draws Tax Breaks Despite Pollution Violations [40]

"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 [22]
Economy & Business [23]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Justice [26]
Environmental Politics [10]
Infrastructure [41]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Inside Climate News [42], 03/15/2024
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"Sick Because of Roundup? These Bills Could Make Suing Impossible." [43]

"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 [38]
Chemicals [22]
Consumer [35]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: New Republic [44], 03/15/2024
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"Nine More States Sue SEC Over Climate Disclosure Rule" [45]

"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 [30]
Disasters [46]
Economy & Business [23]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The Hill [47], 03/14/2024
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"Miss. Senate Votes To Change Control Of Jackson’s Troubled Water System" [48]

"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 [25]
Environmental Justice [26]
Environmental Politics [10]
Infrastructure [41]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [49]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [50]
Source: AP [51], 03/14/2024
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Climate-Science Deniers Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition [52]

"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 [30]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Politics [10]
Journalism & Media [53]
Science [54]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Sierra [55], 03/13/2024
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Maryland Lawmakers Balk at Ending Subsidies for Trash Incineration [56]

"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 [57]
Chemicals [22]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Justice [26]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [15]
Waste [58]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [59]
Source: Inside Climate News [60], 03/13/2024
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"Across the Nation, Lawmakers Aim to Ban Lab-Grown Meat" [61]

"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 [38]
Climate Change [30]
Consumer [35]
Environmental Politics [10]
Food [62]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Inside Climate News [63], 03/13/2024
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"EPA Rule Tees Up Legal Battle Over Federal Climate Authority" [64]

"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 [22]
Climate Change [30]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [65], 03/13/2024
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"How Trump Could Exit The Paris Climate Deal — And Thwart Reentry" [66]

"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 [30]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [67], 03/13/2024
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"EU Parliament Passes Weakened Pollution Limits For Livestock Farms" [68]

"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 [38]
Climate Change [30]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [15]
Public [17]
Europe [69]
Source: Reuters [70], 03/13/2024
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