EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

Oak Flat: "Biden Admin Hits Pause On Ariz. Copper Mine" [9]

"The Biden administration has paused finalizing an environmental impact statement for a controversial copper mine in Arizona in order to meet with opposing tribes and review the Forest Service’s consultation."

Environmental Justice [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Environmental Studies [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [18]
Source: E&E News [19], 05/23/2023
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"Chemours’ PFAS Challenge Affects Semiconductors, State Cleanups" [20]

"The outcome of a Chemours Co. lawsuit challenging a PFAS health advisory the EPA set for drinking water could affect cleanups, public health, and regulatory processes, attorneys said in recent interviews. The lawsuit focuses on a particular PFAS used to make a type of chemical, perfluoroalkoxy alkanes (PFA), important to the semiconductor industry."

Chemicals [21]
Economy & Business [22]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [24]
Technology [25]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [26], 05/23/2023
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Russia Targets Greenpeace In Crackdown On Dissent" [27]

"The Russian branch of the environmental group Greenpeace on Friday announced it would close after the authorities declared Greenpeace International to be an undesirable organization."

Activism [28]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [16]
International [29]
Source: AP [30], 05/22/2023
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Senate Dems Enter Permitting Fray With Bill Aimed at Climate, Electricity [31]

"A group of Senate Democrats on Thursday unveiled their opening position in an ongoing debate over whether and how to try to overhaul the country’s process for approving energy and other infrastructure projects. The new proposal spearheaded by Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) focuses on renewable energy, community involvement and building out the nation’s power lines."

Climate Change [32]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: The Hill [34], 05/19/2023
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"Manchin Blocks DOE Nominee Over Gas Stoves" [35]

"Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chair Joe Manchin scrapped a planned vote on a prominent Department of Energy nominee Wednesday morning. The West Virginia Democrat pulled Jeff Marootian, nominee to lead the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, from a markup agenda because of the agency’s proposed rules on gas stoves."

Climate Change [32]
Consumer [36]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [11]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [37], 05/18/2023
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"Biden Administration Approves Key Permit for West Virginia Gas Pipeline" [38]

"The Biden administration has granted a crucial permit for the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a project championed by Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, despite opposition from climate experts and environmental groups."

Climate Change [32]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Politics [11]
Forests [39]
Infrastructure [40]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Transportation [41]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [42]
Source: NYTimes [43], 05/17/2023
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"Plastic Pollution Could Be Slashed By 80% By 2040, UN Says" [44]

"Global plastic pollution could be slashed by 80% by 2040, according to a report from the UN Environment Programme (Unep). The changes needed are major, but are also practical and affordable, the agency said."

Chemicals [21]
Consumer [36]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Pollution [24]
Waste [45]
Water & Oceans [46]
Public [16]
International [29]
Source: Guardian [47], 05/17/2023
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"Biden Vetoes Bipartisan Resolution Resuming Solar Tariffs" [48]

"President Biden on Tuesday vetoed a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution that would have undone his two-year moratorium on solar tariffs."

Climate Change [32]
Economy & Business [22]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: The Hill [49], 05/17/2023
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"Cop28 Host UAE’s Approach Is ‘Dangerous’, Says UN’S Ex-Climate Chief" [50]

"The United Arab Emirates’ approach to the Cop28 climate summit it will preside over in November is “very dangerous” and a “direct threat to the survival of vulnerable nations”, according to the UN’s former climate chief."

Climate Change [32]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Politics [11]
Public [16]
International [29]
Source: Guardian [51], 05/17/2023
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"Burning Man Becomes Latest Adversary in Geothermal Feud" [52]

"Festival organizers are trying to block plans to build a clean energy plant in the Nevada desert, highlighting the struggle to combat climate change and the cost of clean power."

"One of the darkest towns in America lies roughly 100 miles north of Reno, where the lights are few and rarely lit until one week each summer when pyrotechnics and LEDs set the sky and mountains aglow.
Climate Change [32]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [53]
Source: NYTimes [54], 05/17/2023
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"Biden Nominates National Cancer Institute Director To Lead NIH" [55]

"President Biden on Monday nominated cancer surgeon Monica M. Bertagnolli to be head of the National Institutes of Health, seeking to fill the leadership role atop the $46 billion health agency that has sat empty for more than a year."

Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [56]
Science [57]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Washington Post [58], 05/16/2023
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Ads Claiming Products Are Carbon Neutral By Using Offsetting Face UK Ban [59]

"Adverts that claim products are carbon neutral using offsets are to be banned by the UK’s advertising watchdog unless companies can prove they really work, the Guardian can reveal, as Gucci becomes the latest company to struggle with a high-profile environmental commitment based on offsetting."

Climate Change [32]
Consumer [36]
Environmental Politics [11]
Journalism & Media [60]
Public [16]
Europe [61]
Source: Guardian [62], 05/16/2023
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Transportation ‘Revolution’? How The Infrastructure Law Fuels Freeways [63]

"The Biden administration is supporting a nearly $10 billion highway expansion in Houston that ignited a yearlong debate about its climate effects and the demolition of almost 1,000 homes."

Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Justice [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [40]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Transportation [41]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [18]
Source: E&E News [64], 05/16/2023
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Kerry Challenges Oil Industry To Prove Its Promised Tech Rescues [65]

"Oil and gas producers talk up technological breakthroughs they say will soon allow the world to drill and burn fossil fuels without worsening global warming. U.S. climate envoy John Kerry says the time is here for the industry to prove it can make the technology happen — at scale, affordably and quickly — to stave off climate disaster."

Climate Change [32]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Politics [11]
Pollution [24]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: AP [66], 05/15/2023
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Flush With Federal Money, a Deep South Factory Votes to Unionize [67]

"Workers at a rural Georgia factory that builds electric school buses under generous federal subsidies voted to unionize on Friday, handing organized labor and Democrats a surprise victory in their hopes to turn huge new infusions of money from Washington into a union beachhead in the Deep South."

Climate Change [32]
Economy & Business [22]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Justice [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Transportation [41]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [68]
Source: NYTimes [69], 05/15/2023
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