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Coal Provinces ‘Co-Ordinated’ Fight Against Federal Water Pollution Rules [1]

"Internal government documents show Alberta, B.C., Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia worked in opposition to proposed regulations to crack down on contaminated wastewater from coal mines".

Source: The Narwhal [2], 12/03/2021

"EPA Outlines $7.4B For Water Infrastructure Headed To States" [3]

"States, Native American tribes and U.S. territories will receive $7.4 billion in 2022 to improve water quality and access, the first installment from the infrastructure bill that President Joe Biden signed into law last month, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday."

Source: AP [4], 12/03/2021

"Retiring DeFazio Leaves Climate, Infrastructure Legacies" [5]

"While Oregon Democratic Rep. Peter DeFazio stunned many in Washington with his retirement announcement yesterday, he’ll leave behind a career of more than three decades fighting for big infrastructure and climate change spending."

Source: E&E News [6], 12/02/2021

"Climate Change Makes It Harder for Iowa to Provide Clean Drinking Water" [7]

"Janis Elliott started testing the private well water that comes out of the faucets in her home for nitrates after she attended an environmental meeting more than five years ago. Elliott lives in the small unincorporated town of Avon, Iowa not too far south of Des Moines."

Source: NPR [8], 12/02/2021

"EPA Union Announces Agreements With Agency Expanding Work From Home" [9]

"A union representing 7,500 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees said that it has reached new agreements with the agency on working from home, closing out what they described as a major point in ongoing negotiations.

Union members with AFGE Council 238 told The Hill on Thursday night that employees could request to telework up to eight days in a 10-day pay period, while before they could ask for two days of telework per week, essentially doubling how much time they could potentially work from home.

Source: The Hill [10], 12/02/2021

"The PR Firms Doing Big Oil’s Dirty Work" [11]

"Oil companies haven’t acted alone in deceiving the public and stopping climate action. They’ve had a major assist from some of the world’s most profitable public relations companies, a relationship that has gone largely unexamined until now."

Source: Earther [12], 12/02/2021

Kerry Says China, India, Russia Must Do More To Tackle Warming [13]

"U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said on Wednesday that big greenhouse gas emitting countries like China, India, Russia and others must move faster to help the world avert the worst impacts of global warming."

Source: Reuters [14], 12/02/2021

Don't Blame Climate Change For Madagascar's Food Crisis: Scientists [15]

"Widespread poverty, lack of irrigation, deforestation and COVID-19 restrictions are having a bigger effect than global warming, scientists say".

Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [16], 12/02/2021

Fossil Fuel Firms To Make Billions From Tax Break in Dems’ Budget Bill [17]

"The legislation would increase tax breaks for carbon capture and carbon removal by 70 percent, potentially yielding payouts large enough to wipe out some companies’ income tax bills."

Source: Inside Climate News [18], 12/02/2021

"The Arctic Could Get More Rain And Less Snow Sooner Than Projected" [19]

"The planet’s warming is transforming the sprawling and fragile Arctic, moving it toward a future that can be summed up in four words: more rain, less snow. But now researchers say that unprecedented shift — and the profound impacts that are likely to accompany it — could come decades sooner than previously thought."

Source: Washington Post [20], 12/02/2021

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