EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

Giant Baytown Refinery Complex Wants To Expand Amid Community Backlash [9]

"Exxon’s Baytown complex in the Houston-area has the third largest oil refinery in the U.S. and is requesting permit renewal for its olefins plant despite repeated violations to the Clean Air Act."

Air [10]
Chemicals [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Public [18]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [19]
Source: EHN [20], 02/15/2024
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"Anxiety Builds As Deadline For Biden Rules Nears" [21]

"The administration is facing a deadline this spring to finalize rules to ensure that they’re shielded from procedural rollbacks in the event that Republicans take hold of Congress and the White House next year."

Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: E&E News [23], 02/15/2024
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"The Plastics Industry Would Like A Word With Your Kids" [24]

"Wearing a lab coat, Eve Vitale asked a chemistry class at Warren Mott High School if anyone had heard anything bad about plastics. Hands shot up. It doesn’t degrade, said one student. It hurts the environment, said another. But “that’s not really the plastic’s fault,” said Vitale, chief executive of the Society of Plastics Engineers Foundation, a group of industry professionals. “That’s the fault of humanity.”"

Chemicals [11]
Consumer [25]
Economy & Business [26]
Environmental Politics [15]
Journalism & Media [27]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Washington Post [28], 02/15/2024
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"The Unlikely Coalition Behind Biden’s Liquefied Natural Gas Pivot" [29]

"Climate activists led the charge against LNG exports, but they’re not the only ones celebrating Biden’s pause."

Economy & Business [26]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Grist [30], 02/13/2024
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"Supreme Court Watchlist: Agency Power, Air Rules, Water Rights" [31]

"The Supreme Court is halfway through another term that will have transformative consequences for environmental law."

Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [15]
Government [32]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: E&E News [33], 02/13/2024
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"Certified Natural Gas Is ‘Dangerous Greenwashing Scheme’, US Senators Say" [34]

"Certified natural gas – or methane gas that is purportedly produced in a low-emissions manner – is a “dangerous greenwashing scheme”, a group of progressive senators wrote in a letter to federal regulators on Monday."

Climate Change [35]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [15]
Journalism & Media [27]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Guardian [36], 02/13/2024
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Climate Scientist Mann Wins $1 Million Verdict Against Right-Wing Bloggers [37]

"Michael Mann, a prominent climate scientist, won his long-standing legal battle against two right-wing bloggers who claimed that he manipulated data in his research and compared him to convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky, a major victory for the outspoken researcher."

Climate Change [35]
Environmental Politics [15]
Journalism & Media [27]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Science [38]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Washington Post [39], 02/09/2024
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"Misplaced Trust" [40]

"Stolen Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system. Climate change is its legacy."

Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [41]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Grist [42], 02/08/2024
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13 Blue States Say EPA Should Strengthen Proposal To Remove Lead Pipes [43]

"Attorneys general from 13 Democrat-led states and Washington, D.C., are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to strengthen a proposal that seeks to limit Americans’ exposure to lead service lines."

Chemicals [11]
Consumer [25]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [44]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Water & Oceans [45]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: The Hill [46], 02/08/2024
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"EU Lays Out Plan To Cut Greenhouse Emissions By 90% By 2040" [47]

"The EU aims to slash its net greenhouse gas pollution by 90% by 2040 as part of its push to become the world’s first climate-neutral continent, the European Commission has announced before elections in June."

Agriculture [48]
Climate Change [35]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Public [18]
Europe [49]
Source: Guardian [50], 02/08/2024
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The Industry ‘Scandal’ That Might Upend How America Builds Houses [51]

"Fossil fuel companies are trying to strip a series of climate-friendly measures out of the latest round of model building codes used to regulate construction virtually everywhere in the United States."

Climate Change [35]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [44]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Planning & Growth [52]
Pollution [17]
Technology [53]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: HuffPost [54], 02/07/2024
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"‘In A Word, Horrific’: Trump’s Extreme Anti-Environment Blueprint" [55]

"The United States’s first major climate legislation dismantled, a crackdown on government scientists, a frenzy of oil and gas drilling, the Paris climate deal not only dead but buried. A blueprint is emerging for a second Donald Trump term that is even more extreme for the environment than his first, according to interviews with multiple Trump allies and advisers."

Climate Change [35]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Government [32]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Guardian [56], 02/07/2024
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"Green Amendments Gain Traction in More States Ahead of Elections" [57]

"A new wave of state legislators are pursuing the constitutional right to a safe environment, which attorneys say could strengthen climate lawsuits and policy if interpreted correctly. But the effectiveness of those amendments hinges on their legal language and other details."

Climate Change [35]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [58], 02/07/2024
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"The Changing Focus of Climate Denial: From Science to Scientists" [59]

"The scientist Michael Mann is challenging attacks on his work in a defamation suit that’s taken 12 years to come to trial."

Climate Change [35]
Environmental Politics [15]
Journalism & Media [27]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Science [38]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: NYTimes [60], 02/07/2024
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"Biden Confronts Unfinished Business With Ohio Train Wreck" [61]

"Stalled efforts to reform the nation’s rail safety and chemical oversight as well as lingering toxic exposure concerns will loom over President Joe Biden’s upcoming visit to the Ohio town devastated by last year’s train wreck."

Chemicals [11]
Disasters [62]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [44]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Transportation [63]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [22]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [64]
Source: E&E News [65], 02/06/2024
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