"White House climate adviser Gina McCarthy is laying out a case for Congress to pass a clean electricity standard in a budget reconciliation package, re-upping the push for climate legislation as Democratic leadership deals with competing infrastructure priorities on Capitol Hill."
"President Joe Biden on Wednesday said climate change is driving an increased threat from wildfires as he announced new federal response plans during a meeting with governors from western states facing a record-breaking heat wave."
"On the tape, made in a Greenpeace sting, he described working with “shadow groups” to fight climate science, and detailed efforts to weaken President Biden’s proposals to burn less oil."
"How Pesticide Companies Corrupted the EPA and Poisoned America"
"A small B.C. village that endured the hottest temperatures ever recorded in Canada for days on end this week was engulfed in flames Wednesday night and residents were forced to flee, many without their belongings."
Meet SEJ member James Bruggers! Jim covers the Southeast for Inside Climate News, where he sometimes collaborates or co-publishes with ICN partners that are part of its National Environmental Reporting Network. His beats range from coal to plastics to politics across the region. Jim has been based in Kentucky since December 1999 and previously reported in California, Washington, Alaska, and Montana.
The Adirondack Explorer, a 22-year-old nonprofit newsmagazine covering New York's 6-million-acre Adirondack Park, is looking for a first-rate editor-in-chief to oversee coverage of challenges and opportunities facing this globally important region. This is a chance to cover global issues on a local landscape that ranks as the East’s greatest expanse of wildlands, covering a mix of public lands, designated wilderness areas, private timber holdings and revered lakes.
"The first thing Norbert Winzen wants me to know about the machine is that it never stops moving. 'It runs constantly,' he says. 'Every day, every night, Sundays, even on Christmas.'"
"Veteran forester Randy Moore has been named chief of the U.S. Forest Service, the first African American to lead the agency in its 116-year history."
"The bipartisan infrastructure agreement reached last week will get rid of all of the country's lead pipes and service lines, according to a new White House memo, but it's not clear how long it will take."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/white-house-escalates-push-clean-electricity-standard
[2] https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063736203
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/biden-says-climate-change-driving-wildfires-and-historic-heat-wave
[4] https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/30/politics/wildfire-response-western-governors-biden-meeting/index.html
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/video-exxon-lobbyist-describes-efforts-undercut-climate-action
[6] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/30/climate/exxon-greenpeace-lobbyist-video.html
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/department-yes
[8] https://theintercept.com/2021/06/30/epa-pesticides-exposure-opp/
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/lytton-bc-evacuated-mayor-says-whole-town-fire
[10] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-wildfires-june-30-2021-1.6085919
[11] https://www.sej.org/sejspotlight-james-bruggers-reporter-inside-climate-news
[12] https://www.sej.org/job-opening-editor-adirondack-explorer
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/coal-mining-monster-threatening-swallow-small-town-germany
[14] https://www.npr.org/2021/06/28/1010956116/a-coal-mining-monster-is-threatening-to-swallow-a-small-town-in-germany
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/first-african-american-named-lead-us-forest-service
[16] https://apnews.com/article/forests-environment-and-nature-government-and-politics-cc4a96a6937eaeb3a4aeff167172dd9a
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/wh-says-bipartisan-deal-will-get-rid-all-countrys-lead-pipes
[18] https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/560581-white-house-says-bipartisan-deal-will-get-rid-of-all-of-the?rl=1
[19] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1335
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1332
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1333
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1334
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1337
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1338
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1339
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1340
[28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4954