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Decades After US Butterfly Species Vanished, A Close Relative May Fill Gap [9]

"More than 80 years ago, a beautiful butterfly called Xerces Blue that once fluttered among San Francisco’s coastal dunes went extinct as stately homes, museums and parks ate up its habitat, marking the first butterfly species in the United States to disappear due to human development."

Biodiversity [10]
Wildlife [11]
Public [12]
California [13]
Source: AP [14], 04/16/2024
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"Biden Boosts Cost To Drill On Public Lands" [15]

"Oil companies will have to lay down significantly more money to drill on public lands following a sweeping final rule published by the Biden administration Friday that also increases federal royalty rates and aims to shrink the future footprint of the nation’s oil program."

Climate Change [16]
Economy & Business [17]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Infrastructure [19]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [21]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: E&E News [23], 04/15/2024
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"‘Climate-Controlled’ Sausage? Courts Crack Down on ‘Greenwashing’" [24]

"From airlines to pork sellers, corporate brands face legal and regulatory challenges for misleading the public with lofty climate claims."

Climate Change [16]
Consumer [25]
Economy & Business [17]
Environmental Politics [26]
Environmental Studies [27]
Food [28]
Journalism & Media [29]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [22]
International [30]
Source: NYTimes [31], 04/15/2024
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"Biden Administration Finalizes Lightbulb Efficiency Rules" [32]

"The Biden administration on Friday finalized lightbulb efficiency rules first proposed in late 2022."

Climate Change [16]
Consumer [25]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: The Hill [33], 04/15/2024
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"Utilities Brace for Costs of Compliance With New PFAS Water Rule" [34]

"Water utilities will face costly challenges meeting the EPA’s new limits on PFAS in drinking water, making litigation nearly inevitable, lawyers and analysts say."

Chemicals [35]
Consumer [25]
Environmental Health [36]
Environmental Politics [26]
Infrastructure [19]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [37]
Technology [38]
Water & Oceans [39]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [40], 04/15/2024
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"Biden Plans Sweeping Effort To Block Arctic Oil Drilling" [41]

"The U.S. set aside 23 million acres of Alaska’s North Slope to serve as an emergency oil supply a century ago. Now, President Joe Biden is moving to block oil and gas development across roughly half of it."

Climate Change [16]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [21]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [22]
Alaska and Hawaii [42]
Source: Bloomberg [43], 04/15/2024
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Greens Protest As DOT Approves Huge Oil Export Terminal Off Texas Coast [44]

"In a move that environmentalists called a betrayal, the Biden administration has approved the construction of a deepwater oil export terminal off the Texas coast that would be the largest of its kind in the United States."

Climate Change [16]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Environmental Politics [26]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [21]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [22]
Alaska and Hawaii [42]
Source: AP [45], 04/15/2024
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"Biden Is Stalling On A Rule That Would Save Americans Nearly $1.5 Billion" [46]

"With just over six months before the election, at least one major Biden proposal appears to be stalled: an update to the federal housing rules that agency experts estimate would save homeowners nearly three times more money on energy bills than it would add to construction costs, spread out over a 30-year mortgage."

Climate Change [16]
Consumer [25]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Environmental Politics [26]
Infrastructure [19]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Planning & Growth [47]
Technology [38]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: HuffPost [48], 04/15/2024
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US Bets On Climate-Friendly Farming; Experts Doubt It Is Friendly Enough [49]

"President Joe Biden's administration is offering farmers money for adopting practices that store carbon in the soil to fight climate change, but Reuters interviews with soil science experts and a review of U.S. Department of Agriculture research indicate doubt that the approach will be effective."

Agriculture [50]
Climate Change [16]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [21]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Reuters [51], 04/15/2024
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"The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What”" [52]

"The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway."

Climate Change [16]
Disasters [53]
People & Population [54]
Planning & Growth [47]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: ProPublica [55], 04/15/2024
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Making Cement Damages The Climate. One Solution Is Opening In California [56]

"It’s a major contributor to climate change — the way buildings and roads are made with concrete. It’s also a problem that’s growing as more of the world develops. So the race has been on to find solutions for a material that’s responsible for roughly 8% of global carbon dioxide emissions."

Climate Change [16]
Infrastructure [19]
Pollution [37]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [22]
International [30]
Source: AP [57], 04/15/2024
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"World’s Coal Power Capacity Rises Despite Climate Warnings" [58]

"The world’s coal power capacity grew for the first time since 2019 last year, despite warnings that coal plants need to close at a rate of at least 6% each year to avoid a climate emergency."

Climate Change [16]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Pollution [37]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [22]
International [30]
Source: Guardian [59], 04/12/2024
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"Global Stockpile of Cholera Vaccine Is Gone as Outbreaks Spread" [60]

"Doses of cholera vaccine are being given to patients as fast as they are produced and the global stockpile has run completely dry, as deadly outbreaks of the disease continue to spread."

Climate Change [16]
Disasters [53]
Environmental Health [36]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [22]
International [30]
Source: NYTimes [61], 04/12/2024
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"Trump Allies Target NOAA Climate Research" [62]

"Allies of former President Donald Trump don’t just want to muzzle federal climate science if he wins a second term — they also want to upend the agencies that fuel such research."

Climate Change [16]
Environmental Politics [26]
Pollution [37]
Science [63]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: E&E News [64], 04/12/2024
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"Big Oil Is Quietly Paying State Legal Officials To Kill Climate Litigation" [65]

"Honolulu's climate lawsuit is an existential threat to Big Oil. So they’re buying Republican attorneys general to defend them in court."

Climate Change [16]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Environmental Politics [26]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [37]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: HEATED [66], 04/12/2024
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