EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"Manchin Blocks DOE Nominee Over Gas Stoves" [9]

"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 [10]
Consumer [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [17], 05/18/2023
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"Biden Administration Approves Key Permit for West Virginia Gas Pipeline" [18]

"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 [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Forests [19]
Infrastructure [20]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Natural Resources [22]
Transportation [23]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [24]
Source: NYTimes [25], 05/17/2023
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"Plastic Pollution Could Be Slashed By 80% By 2040, UN Says" [26]

"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 [27]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Natural Resources [22]
Pollution [28]
Waste [29]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [15]
International [31]
Source: Guardian [32], 05/17/2023
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"Biden Vetoes Bipartisan Resolution Resuming Solar Tariffs" [33]

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

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [34]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: The Hill [35], 05/17/2023
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"Cop28 Host UAE’s Approach Is ‘Dangerous’, Says UN’S Ex-Climate Chief" [36]

"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 [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Public [15]
International [31]
Source: Guardian [37], 05/17/2023
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"Burning Man Becomes Latest Adversary in Geothermal Feud" [38]

"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 [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Natural Resources [22]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [39]
Source: NYTimes [40], 05/17/2023
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"Biden Nominates National Cancer Institute Director To Lead NIH" [41]

"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 [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [42]
Science [43]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Washington Post [44], 05/16/2023
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Ads Claiming Products Are Carbon Neutral By Using Offsetting Face UK Ban [45]

"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 [10]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [46]
Public [15]
Europe [47]
Source: Guardian [48], 05/16/2023
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Transportation ‘Revolution’? How The Infrastructure Law Fuels Freeways [49]

"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 [12]
Environmental Justice [50]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [20]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Transportation [23]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [51]
Source: E&E News [52], 05/16/2023
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Kerry Challenges Oil Industry To Prove Its Promised Tech Rescues [53]

"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 [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Pollution [28]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: AP [54], 05/15/2023
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Flush With Federal Money, a Deep South Factory Votes to Unionize [55]

"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 [10]
Economy & Business [34]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Justice [50]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Transportation [23]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [56]
Source: NYTimes [57], 05/15/2023
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Climate Deniers Target Scientists For Vicious Abuse On Musk’s Twitter [58]

"Some of the UK’s top scientists are struggling to deal with what they describe as a huge rise in abuse from climate crisis deniers on Twitter since the social media platform was taken over by Elon Musk last year."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [46]
Science [43]
Public [15]
International [31]
Europe [47]
Source: Guardian [59], 05/15/2023
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EPA Proposes Power Plant Emissions Rule To Confront Climate Change [60]

"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing on Thursday a draft rule aimed at curbing planet-warming emissions from fossil-fired power plants that is expected to be a key piece of the Biden administration’s climate policy."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: The Hill [61], 05/11/2023
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"In a Climate Trade-Off, Biden Backs Manchin’s Fossil Fuel Plan" [62]

"The White House on Wednesday endorsed a plan by Senator Joe Manchin III to speed the approval of some fossil fuel projects in order to also hasten the construction of new transmission lines critical for meeting President Biden’s climate goals."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [20]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NYTimes [63], 05/11/2023
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"Air Pollution Monitoring Bill Blocked By Louisiana Senate Committee" [64]

"The latest effort to create a public warning system for spikes in air pollution was snuffed out by a Senate committee."

Air [65]
Chemicals [27]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [50]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [28]
Public [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [56]
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [66], 05/11/2023
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