EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

Older Americans Blockade Banks to Protest Fossil Fuel Financing [9]

"Climate activists are taking to the streets Tuesday in one of the biggest coordinated demonstrations over global warming since millions of the world’s youth walked out of their classrooms in 2019 to urge their governments to do more to tackle the climate crisis. Except this time, it’s not young people leading the charge but Baby Boomers."

Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Inside Climate News [14], 03/22/2023
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"Brazil Evicts Miners From Yanomami Territory, Prepares For More Removals" [15]

"Brazil has ousted almost all illegal gold miners from the Yanomami territory, its largest indigenous reservation, and will remove miners from six more reserves this year, the head of the federal police's new environmental crimes division said Tuesday."

Chemicals [16]
Environmental Justice [17]
Environmental Politics [11]
Forests [18]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [20]
People & Population [21]
Public [12]
South America [22]
Source: Reuters [23], 03/22/2023
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"Judge Halts Biden Administration Waters Rule in Texas, Idaho" [24]

"A federal court judge in Texas issued a preliminary injunction against the Biden administration’s waters of the US, or WOTUS, rule late Sunday. The injunction applies only to Texas and Idaho. The 2023 WOTUS rule takes effect Monday in the rest of the country and determines which waters and wetlands receive federal protection under the Clean Water Act."

Agriculture [25]
Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Politics [11]
Fish & Fisheries [27]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [20]
Pollution [28]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [30], 03/21/2023
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"Biden Issues First Veto, Rejecting Bill To Reverse ESG Rule" [31]

"President Biden on Monday issued his first veto since taking office, rejecting a bill that would have reversed a Labor Department rule on environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing."

Climate Change [32]
Economy & Business [33]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Pollution [28]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: The Hill [34], 03/21/2023
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"A Black Community In Arizona Battles Power Expansion Plans Again" [35]

"A handful of weary residents gathered at the windowless Randolph church to mull over the latest effort by an electric utility to expand its power station – a polluting gas-fired plant next door to the community that the state regulator has blocked on environmental and health grounds."

Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Justice [17]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Public [12]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [36]
Source: Guardian [37], 03/21/2023
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"States Cannot Block Hazardous Waste From Ohio Derailment, EPA Says" [38]

"U.S. states cannot block shipments of hazardous waste from a Feb. 3 Ohio train derailment to licensed disposal sites, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said Friday."

Chemicals [16]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Waste [39]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Reuters [40], 03/20/2023
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WHO Accuses China of Hiding Data That May Link Covid’s Origins to Animals [41]

"The World Health Organization rebuked Chinese officials on Friday for withholding research that may link Covid’s origin to wild animals, asking why the data had not been made available three years ago and why it is now missing."

Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Politics [11]
Science [42]
Wildlife [43]
Public [12]
International [44]
Source: NYTimes [45], 03/20/2023
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"Biden Plans to Name Nevada’s Spirit Mountain Area a National Monument" [46]

"President Biden plans next week to designate nearly a half-million acres of the Spirit Mountain area in southern Nevada as a national monument, according to two people familiar with the matter, protecting some of the most biologically diverse and culturally significant lands in the Mojave Desert."

Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Justice [17]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [20]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [47]
Source: NYTimes [48], 03/17/2023
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"Public Health vs. Economic Growth: Toxic Chemical Rules Pose Test for Biden" [49]

"The Biden administration is preparing to impose some of the first new rules in a generation to restrict or ban an array of toxic chemicals that are widely used in manufacturing, presenting the White House with tough choices between its economic agenda and public health."

Chemicals [16]
Economy & Business [33]
Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NYTimes [50], 03/17/2023
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"Texas Officials Target Climate Science In Textbooks" [51]

"The Texas State Board of Education altered its internal guidance to schools last month to emphasize the “positive” aspects of fossil fuels in science textbooks."

Climate Change [32]
Environmental Politics [11]
Journalism & Media [52]
Science [42]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [36]
Source: E&E News [53], 03/16/2023
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"Senate Hope For Permit Deal Alive After DOA House Energy Bill" [54]

"Senate Democrats are still holding out hope for a deal on permitting reform, but a House Republican energy bill is not going to do the trick."

Climate Change [32]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Justice [17]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [55]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: E&E News [56], 03/16/2023
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"Inside The Movement To Remake America’s City Streets" [57]

"The automobile has been a fixture of urban life for more than a century. Then came the coronavirus pandemic. Congested streets turned into pedestrian safe havens. Now many want to make those changes permanent — but it won’t happen without a fight."

Climate Change [32]
Consumer [58]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [55]
Planning & Growth [59]
Transportation [60]
Public [12]
International [44]
Source: Washington Post [61], 03/16/2023
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"Audubon Keeps Name Tied To Enslaver, Roils Staff" [62]

"The National Audubon Society announced Wednesday that it’s keeping its name, following a lengthy internal debate and pressure from staff to sever ties to its namesake, bird artist and enslaver John James Audubon."

Activism [63]
Environmental Justice [17]
Environmental Politics [11]
Natural Resources [20]
Wildlife [43]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: E&E News [64], 03/16/2023
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"Haaland Reverses Trump-Era Izembek Road Decision" [65]

"Interior Secretary Deb Haaland late Tuesday revoked a Trump-era land swap that would have paved the way for a road to be built through Alaska’s Izembek National Wildlife Refuge."

Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [55]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [20]
People & Population [21]
Transportation [60]
Wildlife [43]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Alaska and Hawaii [66]
Source: E&E News [67], 03/15/2023
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"Biden’s Green Allies Promise Lawsuit Over Alaska Oil Project" [68]

"The approval Monday of ConocoPhillips’ massive Willow project in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve is teeing up a new high-profile legal brawl that will likely align the Biden administration and Republican lawmakers against environmentalists who have largely backed the president’s climate agenda."

Activism [63]
Biodiversity [69]
Climate Change [32]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [20]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Alaska and Hawaii [66]
Source: E&E News [70], 03/15/2023
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