EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"Cryptocurrency Plan Fails For Manchin-Connected Coal Plant" [9]

"The power plant that buys coal from Sen. Joe Manchin’s family business won’t have a second life powering cryptocurrency mining."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [16], 01/10/2022
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"Biden To Tour Damage From Colorado's Most Destructive Wildfire" [17]

"U.S. President Joe Biden was due to visit Colorado on Friday to view the devastation left by a rare, winter wildfire that ravaged two Denver-area towns last week, displacing thousands of residents."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [18]
Environmental Politics [12]
People & Population [19]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [20]
Source: Reuters [21], 01/07/2022
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"Virginia Democrats Aim to Block Trump’s EPA Chief From State Agency" [22]

"A rare confirmation battle is brewing around the nomination of Andrew Wheeler, who ran the Environmental Protection Agency under President Donald J. Trump, to take a similar role in an incoming Republican state administration in Virginia."

Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [24]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [25]
Public [14]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [26]
Source: NYTimes [27], 01/07/2022
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"Va. Governor-Elect Taps Trump EPA Chief For Key Post" [28]

"Andrew Wheeler, who served as head of EPA during the Trump administration, is returning to government service. Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) announced today he chose Wheeler as his secretary of natural resources. Wheeler will be the state’s top environmental official and oversee five agencies focusing on the environment, natural resources and recreation."

Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [29]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [25]
Public [14]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [26]
Source: E&E News [30], 01/06/2022
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"EPA's Failure To Disclose Chemical Health Risk Draws Ire" [31]

"EPA is failing in its obligation to share critical information about the hazards of more than 1,200 chemicals on the market, according to a watchdog group."

Chemicals [32]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [33]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [34], 01/06/2022
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"Panel Probes Trump Aide Over NPS Permit For Jan. 6 Rally" [35]

"As Congress marks the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, congressional investigators are probing whether a Trump White House aide pressured Interior Department and National Park Service officials over permitting for then-President Trump’s rally on the Ellipse."

Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [25]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [36], 01/06/2022
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Biden ‘Over-Promised and Under-Delivered’ on Climate. 2022 Trouble Looms [37]

"As the new year opens, President Biden faces an increasingly narrow path to fulfill his ambitious goal of slashing the greenhouse gases generated by the United States that are helping to warm the planet to dangerous levels."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NYTimes [38], 01/05/2022
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"Six Hot Topics For Climate Change And Nature Policy In 2022" [39]

"From phasing out fossil fuel subsidies to tackling the surging costs of loss and damage caused by climate change impacts, 2022 is likely to see growing pressure for more ambitious action to fight global warming on the ground."

Environmental Politics [12]
Public [14]
International [40]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [41], 01/05/2022
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"Germany Calls Nuclear Power ‘Dangerous,’ Rejects EU Plan" [42]

"The German government said Monday that it considers nuclear energy dangerous and objects to European Union proposals that would let the technology remain part of the bloc’s plans for a climate-friendly future."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [43]
Public [14]
Europe [44]
Source: AP [45], 01/04/2022
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"Chile Writes Its Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On" [46]

"Rarely does a country get a chance to lay out its ideals as a nation and write a new constitution for itself. Almost never does the climate and ecological crisis play a central role. That is, until now, in Chile, where a national reinvention is underway. After months of protests over social and environmental grievances, 155 Chileans have been elected to write a new constitution amid what they have declared a “climate and ecological emergency.”"

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Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [25]
Public [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [47]
South America [48]
Source: NYTimes [49], 01/04/2022
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"China Fires Up Giant Coal Power Plant In Face Of Calls For Cuts" [50]

"China, under fire for approving new coal power stations as other countries try to curb greenhouse gases, has completed the first 1,000-megawatt unit of the Shanghaimiao plant, the biggest of its kind under construction in the country."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Public [14]
Asia [51]
Source: Reuters [52], 01/03/2022
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"This Tree Has Stood Here For 500 Years. Will It Be Sold For $17,500?" [53]

"The Sitka spruce soaring more than 180 feet skyward has stood on this spot on Prince of Wales Island for centuries. While fierce winds have contorted the towering trunks of its neighbors, the spruce’s trunk is ramrod straight. Standing apart from the rest of the canopy, it ascends to the height of a 17-story building."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Forests [54]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [25]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Alaska and Hawaii [55]
Source: Washington Post [56], 01/03/2022
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