EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"Shell Greenwashing Challenge Highlights Risk of ESG Claims" [9]

"Greenwashing challenges in courts and at the SEC continue to pour in from advocates and investors targeting what they claim are false representations of corporate commitments to environmentalism and climate-friendly practices."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [13]
Public [14]
International [15]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [16], 02/17/2023
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EPA To Restore Pesticide Protections For Farmworkers Rolled Back Under Trump [17]

"The Biden administration is proposing to restore regulations aiming to protect farmworkers from pesticides that had been rolled back under the Trump administration."

Agriculture [18]
Chemicals [19]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [21]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: The Hill [24], 02/17/2023
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"Upset Ohio Town Residents Seek Answers Over Train Derailment" [25]

"Residents of the Ohio village upended by a freight train derailment packed a school gym to seek answers about whether they were safe from toxic chemicals that spilled or were burned off."

Chemicals [19]
Disasters [26]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [12]
Pollution [27]
Transportation [28]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [29]
Source: AP [30], 02/16/2023
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"World Bank President, Dogged by Climate Questions, Will Step Down Early" [31]

"David Malpass, under fire for months by critics who accused him of climate denialism, said he would resign in June, a year before his term ends."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Science [32]
Public [14]
International [15]
Source: NYTimes [33], 02/16/2023
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Will SEC Scale Back ESG Requirements For Publicly Traded Corporations? [34]

"America’s top Wall Street regulator might scale back a proposal that would require public companies operating in the United States to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and any financial risks they face from global warming."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [35]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: Inside Climate News [36], 02/16/2023
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"Poor Nations Seek To Go Green With Debt Swaps" [37]

"With many developing nations facing a triple whammy of rising debt loads, climate change and nature loss, conservationists say the answer could lie with a financial instrument enabling them to tackle all three at once: "debt-for-environment swaps".

Biodiversity [38]
Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [35]
Environmental Politics [12]
Natural Resources [39]
Public [14]
International [15]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [40], 02/16/2023
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"Feinstein Will Leave A Vast Environmental Legacy" [41]

"Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein shaped California’s environment like no one else."

Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: E&E News [42], 02/16/2023
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"Exxon Gives Up on Much-Hyped Algae Biofuels" [43]

"It’s the end of an algal era: Exxon is backing out of a biofuel effort that the company has for years centered as part of its work in clean energy."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [35]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Natural Resources [39]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: Earther [44], 02/14/2023
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"Report: Companies’ Climate Targets Not What They Claim To Be" [45]

"Climate commitments by companies aren’t always as green as they seem. A new report concludes major brands are exaggerating how ambitious their efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions are — in effect misleading consumers, investors and governments."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [35]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
International [15]
Source: AP [46], 02/13/2023
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"Biden and Lula Project Unity On Democratic Values And Climate Change" [47]

"U.S. President Joe Biden met on Friday with Brazilian leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a reboot of relations between the hemisphere's two largest democracies after the end of Donald Trump ally Jair Bolsonaro's stormy rule."

Biodiversity [38]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Forests [48]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
South America [49]
Source: Reuters [50], 02/13/2023
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"DeSantis, Aiming at a Favorite Foil, Wants to Roll Back Press Freedom" [51]

"The Florida governor and possible presidential candidate is the latest in a string of Republicans to target the Supreme Court decision that has long protected journalists accused of defamation."

Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [13]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: NYTimes [52], 02/13/2023
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Million-Strong Army Of Environmental Super Voters Recruits In 2 Red States [53]

"The Environmental Voter Project is expanding to Louisiana and Nebraska ahead of key state elections."

Activism [54]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [21]
Environmental Politics [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: HuffPost [55], 02/09/2023
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How US Climate Funding Could Make Water Pollution Worse [56]

"The Inflation Reduction Act was hailed for its climate funding – but some are concerned several provisions will worsen a growing environmental disaster".

Agriculture [18]
Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [35]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Pollution [27]
Water & Oceans [57]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: Guardian [58], 02/09/2023
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"America, Meet Biden’s Climate Bill" [59]

"President Joe Biden began a two-year tour to sell the climate bill Tuesday night. His first stop was the Capitol."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: E&E News [60], 02/08/2023
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Offshore Wind In The Gulf Take A Back Seat To Oil Drilling Under New Law [61]

"President Joe Biden’s administration is tapping the brakes on offshore wind energy development in the Gulf of Mexico to make way for a new fast-tracked effort to open more federal waters to oil and gas drilling."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Water & Oceans [57]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [23]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [62]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [63]
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [64], 02/08/2023
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