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"Minnesota Court Orders Review Of Water Permit For Polymet Mine" [9]

"The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday ordered state regulators to reconsider a wastewater permit that was granted to PolyMet Mining Corp (POM.TO) to build an open-pit copper mine, though judges rejected six other challenges to the permit from environmentalists."

Laws & Regulations [10]
Natural Resources [11]
Pollution [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [15]
Source: Reuters [16], 01/25/2022
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"How Biden Could Close Coal Plants Without CO2 Regulations" [17]

"EPA is preparing to Supreme Court-proof President Biden’s ambitions for a carbon-free power grid by looking beyond direct greenhouse gas regulation and relying on the knock-on effect of stricter air, waste and water rules."

Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Health [20]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: E&E News [22], 01/25/2022
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"Trump EPA Chief's Bid For Top Virginia Environmental Post Likely Doomed" [23]

"Democratic state senators in Virginia are signaling that they have the votes to block Andrew Wheeler, Donald Trump’s controversial second head of the Environmental Protection Agency and a former coal lobbyist, from becoming the state’s top environmental official."

Environmental Politics [24]
Public [14]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [25]
Source: HuffPost [26], 01/25/2022
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California Rooftop Solar War Heats Up As Regulators Pull Reform Proposal [27]

"Ballot initiatives to protect the current system, which state regulators say steals from the poor to benefit the rich, are filed for 2022 election".

Consumer [28]
Economy & Business [29]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Public [14]
California [30]
Source: San Jose Mercury News [31], 01/25/2022
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"Can They Go Home Again?" [32]

"The Marshall Fire destroyed the Colorado subdivision of Sagamore. Homeowners weigh how to build back -- and whether they will feel safe."

Climate Change [18]
Consumer [28]
Disasters [33]
People & Population [34]
Planning & Growth [35]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Washington Post [36], 01/25/2022
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"Why California’s ‘Great Bacon Crisis’ Has Yet To Arrive" [37]

"The pork industry claimed new animal welfare rules would bring chaos to the supply chain. Proponents say they need to get with the program".

Agriculture [38]
Consumer [28]
Food [39]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Public [14]
California [30]
Source: Guardian [40], 01/25/2022
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Bloated Costs Take Over Georgia Nuclear Plant; Fight Looms Over Who Pays [41]

"Vogtle’s two new nuclear reactors are six years late and at least $16 billion over their original budget. The plant will have no direct carbon footprint, but critics say there are much cheaper ways to reduce emissions."

Climate Change [18]
Economy & Business [29]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [42]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Inside Climate News [43], 01/24/2022
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"Shell CCS Plant Emits More Greenhouse Gases Than It's Captured" [44]

"A new report provides some damning new math on one of the oil giant's much-hyped CCS projects."

"Oil companies love to tell the world about the super cool technologies that have that will allow us to keep burning fossil fuels without cooking the climate. But those technologies are largely bullshit.
Climate Change [18]
Economy & Business [29]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Politics [24]
Environmental Studies [45]
Journalism & Media [46]
Public [14]
Canada [47]
Source: Earther [48], 01/24/2022
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"US, Colorado Reach Proposed Settlement In 2015 Mine Spill" [49]

"Colorado, the U.S. government and a gold mining company have agreed to resolve a longstanding dispute over who’s responsible for continuing cleanup at a Superfund site that was established after a massive 2015 spill of hazardous mine waste that fouled rivers with a sickly yellow sheen in three states and the Navajo Nation."

Environmental Justice [50]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: AP [51], 01/24/2022
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"NYC, Others Join White House Building Efficiency Partnership" [52]

"The White House unveiled a partnership on Friday with 33 state and local governments to make the nation’s buildings more efficient."

Climate Change [18]
Infrastructure [53]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Planning & Growth [35]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [54], 01/24/2022
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"In Parched Beijing, Claims Of A ‘Green’ Olympics May Not Hold Water" [55]

"Barren hillsides broken up by thin strips of white snow are a familiar sight for regular visitors to ski resorts near Beijing. The 2022 Winter Olympics host, which is under 150 miles from the rapidly expanding Gobi Desert, is famous for cold and dry winters."

Climate Change [18]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [24]
Journalism & Media [46]
Natural Resources [11]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
International [56]
Asia [57]
Source: Washington Post [58], 01/24/2022
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"House Panel Broadens Probe Into Climate Disinformation By Big Oil" [59]

"The House Committee on Oversight and Reform has broadened its investigation into the role of fossil fuel companies in misleading the public about climate change, asking members of the boards of directors of ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron and Shell Oil to testify before Congress next month about their firms’ commitments to curbing global warming."

Climate Change [18]
Economy & Business [29]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Politics [24]
Journalism & Media [46]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Washington Post [60], 01/24/2022
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"Exxon Pledges To Cut Emissions — But Not From Its Oil" [61]

"Exxon Mobil's new net-zero pledge stacks up poorly, even by oil company standards."

Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Journalism & Media [46]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Grist [62], 01/24/2022
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'Starting From Zero’: Restoring Finland’s River Ecosystems [63]

"Rewilding teams are facing a huge task to encourage the return of wildlife after decades of damage by the forestry industry".

Air [64]
Fish & Fisheries [65]
Forests [66]
Natural Resources [11]
Waste [67]
Public [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [68]
Europe [69]
Source: Guardian [70], 01/24/2022
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Old-Fashioned, Inefficient Light Bulbs Live On at U.S. Dollar Stores [71]

"A Trump administration weakening of climate rules has kept incandescent bulbs on store shelves, and research shows they’re concentrated in shops serving poorer areas."

"For years, Deborah Turnerbought her light bulbs at one of the many dollar stores that serve her neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio.
Climate Change [18]
Consumer [28]
Economy & Business [29]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Justice [50]
Technology [72]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: NYTimes [73], 01/24/2022
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