EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

Feds Send Help After Ohio Derailment, but Residents’ Frustrations Persist [9]

"A visit to East Palestine from the head of the E.P.A. and a White House pledge to lend more support were met with skepticism in the community."

Air [10]
Chemicals [11]
Consumer [12]
Disasters [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [17]
Transportation [18]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: NYTimes [22], 02/17/2023
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"Two Dozen Republican-Led States Sue EPA Over Water Protection Rule" [23]

"A group of 24 Republican-led states is suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to try to knock down a rule governing which waters get federal protections."

Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Fish & Fisheries [24]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Natural Resources [26]
Pollution [17]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: The Hill [27], 02/17/2023
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Analysis: "The 2023 Farm Bill Should Be A Climate Bill, Democrats Say" [28]

"Don’t look now, but the divided Congress could pass a major climate change bill."

Agriculture [29]
Climate Change [30]
Consumer [12]
Environmental Politics [15]
Food [31]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Natural Resources [26]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Washington Post [32], 02/17/2023
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"Shell Greenwashing Challenge Highlights Risk of ESG Claims" [33]

"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 [30]
Energy & Fuel [34]
Environmental Politics [15]
Journalism & Media [35]
Public [20]
International [36]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [37], 02/17/2023
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EPA To Restore Pesticide Protections For Farmworkers Rolled Back Under Trump [38]

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

Agriculture [29]
Chemicals [11]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [39]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: The Hill [40], 02/17/2023
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"Upset Ohio Town Residents Seek Answers Over Train Derailment" [41]

"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 [11]
Disasters [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Pollution [17]
Transportation [18]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [42]
Source: AP [43], 02/16/2023
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"World Bank President, Dogged by Climate Questions, Will Step Down Early" [44]

"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 [30]
Environmental Politics [15]
Science [45]
Public [20]
International [36]
Source: NYTimes [46], 02/16/2023
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Will SEC Scale Back ESG Requirements For Publicly Traded Corporations? [47]

"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 [30]
Economy & Business [48]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Inside Climate News [49], 02/16/2023
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"Poor Nations Seek To Go Green With Debt Swaps" [50]

"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 [51]
Climate Change [30]
Economy & Business [48]
Environmental Politics [15]
Natural Resources [26]
Public [20]
International [36]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [52], 02/16/2023
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"Feinstein Will Leave A Vast Environmental Legacy" [53]

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

Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: E&E News [54], 02/16/2023
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"Exxon Gives Up on Much-Hyped Algae Biofuels" [55]

"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 [30]
Economy & Business [48]
Energy & Fuel [34]
Environmental Politics [15]
Natural Resources [26]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Earther [56], 02/14/2023
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"Report: Companies’ Climate Targets Not What They Claim To Be" [57]

"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 [30]
Economy & Business [48]
Energy & Fuel [34]
Environmental Politics [15]
Journalism & Media [35]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
International [36]
Source: AP [58], 02/13/2023
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"Biden and Lula Project Unity On Democratic Values And Climate Change" [59]

"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 [51]
Climate Change [30]
Environmental Politics [15]
Forests [60]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
South America [61]
Source: Reuters [62], 02/13/2023
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"DeSantis, Aiming at a Favorite Foil, Wants to Roll Back Press Freedom" [63]

"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 [15]
Journalism & Media [35]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: NYTimes [64], 02/13/2023
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Million-Strong Army Of Environmental Super Voters Recruits In 2 Red States [65]

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

Activism [66]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [39]
Environmental Politics [15]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: HuffPost [67], 02/09/2023
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