EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

Corporate Climate Watchdog Document Deems Carbon Offsets Largely Ineffective [9]

"Staff at an influential corporate climate action group whose board announced a plan to allow companies to offset greenhouse gas emissions from their supply chain with carbon credits has now found such offsets are largely ineffective, a confidential preliminary draft reviewed by Reuters shows."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [14]
Forests [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [17]
Public [18]
International [19]
Source: Reuters [20], 05/09/2024
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USDA Rubber-Stamped Tyson’s “Climate Friendly” Beef; No One Has Seen the Data [21]

"As millions of taxpayer dollars flow to livestock companies claiming to raise “low carbon” beef, watchdog groups scrutinize the government’s oversight."

Agriculture [22]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [23]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [14]
Journalism & Media [24]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: Inside Climate News [26], 05/09/2024
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TVA Ignores Warnings In Moving Forward With New Natural Gas Plant [27]

"The nation’s largest public utility is moving ahead with a plan for a new natural gas plant in Tennessee despite warnings that its environmental review of the project doesn’t comply with federal law."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [28]
Pollution [29]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [25]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [30]
Source: AP [31], 05/09/2024
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"Nuclear Waste At Center Of Testy Nevada Senate Race" [32]

"Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sam Brown is under fire from Democrats for 2022 remarks in which he expressed support for plans to store federal nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain."

Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [17]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [33]
Waste [34]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [25]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [35]
Source: The Hill [36], 05/08/2024
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"Kentucky Republicans Split Over Renewed Law to Prop Up Costly Coal Plants" [37]

"Last month, one of the nation’s top Republican donors became a flashpoint in a debate over the outsized power coal has in the state of Kentucky."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [38]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [25]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [30]
Source: Sierra [39], 05/07/2024
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"The World’s Garment Workers Are On The Front Lines Of Climate Impacts" [40]

"Fast fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Its global workforce is paying the price."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [23]
Economy & Business [11]
Environmental Health [38]
Environmental Justice [41]
Environmental Politics [13]
People & Population [42]
Public [18]
International [19]
Asia [43]
Source: Grist [44], 05/07/2024
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U.S. Oil and Gas Production Is Booming. So Are Donations to GOP Allies [45]

"August Pfluger, an Air Force veteran and member of the U.S. House representing a small district in West Texas, isn’t exactly a household name on the national political scene, with little press coverage in the last two months outside a recent Fox News appearance. But he is the country’s top recipient of campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry".

Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [25]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [46]
Source: Capital & Main [47], 05/07/2024
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Epoch Times Promotes Climate Science Denial Ads to Millions Across Europe [48]

"The pro-Trump Epoch Times has run hundreds of anti-climate social media adverts in Europe since the beginning of 2024 that have been seen millions of times, DeSmog can reveal."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [38]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [24]
Science [49]
Public [18]
International [19]
Source: DeSmog [50], 05/06/2024
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New California Bill Could Allow Developers To Cut Down More Joshua Trees [51]

"Environmentalists warn that a California Democrat’s bill “drives a bulldozer” through the state’s new law that protects imperiled Joshua trees from commercial development. But the lawmaker says his impoverished desert region desperately needs the economic boost."

Biodiversity [52]
Economy & Business [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [17]
Planning & Growth [53]
Public [18]
California [54]
Source: CalMatters [55], 05/03/2024
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"Big Oil Hearing: Dems Make Their Case Against The Industry" [56]

"A Senate Budget Committee hearing Wednesday gave Democrats the chance to highlight new findings in an ongoing congressional investigation seeking to prove that major oil companies waged a decadeslong climate disinformation campaign."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [24]
Science [49]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: E&E News [57], 05/02/2024
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"Biden To Expand California Monuments At White House Event" [58]

"President Joe Biden will add a combined 120,000 acres Thursday to a pair of national monuments in California at a White House ceremony, the administration announced."

Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [25]
California [54]
Source: E&E News [59], 05/02/2024
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EQT Says Fracked Gas Is a Climate Solution; Scientists Call Greenwashing [60]

"The Pittsburgh corporation says its natural gas is saving the world, countering Russian aggression and solving the climate crisis. Numerous experts say that’s not true."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [24]
Pollution [29]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [25]
International [19]
Source: PublicSource [61], 05/02/2024
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"Florida Says No to Federal Funding Aimed at Greenhouse Gas Emissions" [62]

"Florida gave up $3 million in federal grant funding and as much as $500 million more by declining to participate in a Biden administration program aimed at helping states address the human-caused emissions warming the global climate."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [13]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [25]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [30]
Source: Inside Climate News [63], 05/02/2024
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"Plastic Pollution Talks Make Modest Progress But Sidestep Production Curbs" [64]

"Negotiations on a future global treaty to tackle soaring plastic pollution ran overtime into Tuesday morning amid tense debates over whether the world should seek to limit the amount of plastic being made. As the week-long talks in the Canadian capital of Ottawa ended before dawn, countries agreed to continue their work in ad hoc meetings before the final summit starting Nov. 25 in Busan, South Korea."

Chemicals [65]
Consumer [23]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [17]
Pollution [29]
Water & Oceans [66]
Public [18]
International [19]
Source: Reuters [67], 05/01/2024
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Big Oil Privately Acknowledged Efforts To Downplay Climate Crisis: Docs [68]

"Internal documents revealed by committee show companies lobbied against climate laws they publicly claimed to support."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [24]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: Guardian [69], 05/01/2024
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