EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"Water Utilities Brace for Imminent EPA Proposal on PFAS in Water" [9]

"Drinking water systems are preparing for the possibility that the EPA will try to codify its 2022 health advisories suggesting no amount of PFAS substances are safe, water attorneys say."

Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Technology [16]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [20], 02/20/2023
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"Two Evangelical Leaders on ‘Radical Faith’" [21]

"With a focus on issues normally considered progressive, the Revs. Jim Wallis and Kyle Meyaard-Schaap hope to expand the evangelical political imagination."

Climate Change [22]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [23]
Environmental Politics [12]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [24]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: NYTimes [25], 02/20/2023
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Feds Send Help After Ohio Derailment, but Residents’ Frustrations Persist [26]

"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 [27]
Chemicals [10]
Consumer [28]
Disasters [29]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
People & Population [30]
Pollution [15]
Transportation [31]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: NYTimes [32], 02/17/2023
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"Two Dozen Republican-Led States Sue EPA Over Water Protection Rule" [33]

"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 [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Fish & Fisheries [34]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [35]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: The Hill [36], 02/17/2023
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Analysis: "The 2023 Farm Bill Should Be A Climate Bill, Democrats Say" [37]

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

Agriculture [38]
Climate Change [22]
Consumer [28]
Environmental Politics [12]
Food [39]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [35]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Washington Post [40], 02/17/2023
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"Shell Greenwashing Challenge Highlights Risk of ESG Claims" [41]

"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 [22]
Energy & Fuel [42]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [43]
Public [18]
International [44]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [45], 02/17/2023
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EPA To Restore Pesticide Protections For Farmworkers Rolled Back Under Trump [46]

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

Agriculture [38]
Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [23]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: The Hill [47], 02/17/2023
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"Upset Ohio Town Residents Seek Answers Over Train Derailment" [48]

"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 [10]
Disasters [29]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Pollution [15]
Transportation [31]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [49]
Source: AP [50], 02/16/2023
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"World Bank President, Dogged by Climate Questions, Will Step Down Early" [51]

"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 [22]
Environmental Politics [12]
Science [52]
Public [18]
International [44]
Source: NYTimes [53], 02/16/2023
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Will SEC Scale Back ESG Requirements For Publicly Traded Corporations? [54]

"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 [22]
Economy & Business [55]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Inside Climate News [56], 02/16/2023
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"Poor Nations Seek To Go Green With Debt Swaps" [57]

"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 [58]
Climate Change [22]
Economy & Business [55]
Environmental Politics [12]
Natural Resources [35]
Public [18]
International [44]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [59], 02/16/2023
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"Feinstein Will Leave A Vast Environmental Legacy" [60]

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

Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [61], 02/16/2023
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"Exxon Gives Up on Much-Hyped Algae Biofuels" [62]

"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 [22]
Economy & Business [55]
Energy & Fuel [42]
Environmental Politics [12]
Natural Resources [35]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Earther [63], 02/14/2023
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"Report: Companies’ Climate Targets Not What They Claim To Be" [64]

"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 [22]
Economy & Business [55]
Energy & Fuel [42]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [43]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [44]
Source: AP [65], 02/13/2023
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"Biden and Lula Project Unity On Democratic Values And Climate Change" [66]

"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 [58]
Climate Change [22]
Environmental Politics [12]
Forests [67]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
South America [68]
Source: Reuters [69], 02/13/2023
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