"A federal court in Washington, D.C., on Friday sided with environmentalists and struck down provisions relaxing requirements for areas that are not in compliance with the Environmental Protection Agency’s air pollution standards."
"Every carmaker is trying to figure out how to make the leap before governments force it and Tesla and other start-ups lure away drivers."
"A new president took office this month determined to fight climate change. Wall Street investors think Tesla is worth more than General Motors, Toyota, Volkswagen and Ford put together. And China, the world’s biggest car market, recently ordered that most new cars be powered by electricity in just 15 years.
President Biden’s national climate advisor Gina McCarthy joined an outspoken U.S. senator and a roundtable of elite journalists last week to preview dramatic changes possibly ahead in U.S. and international climate policy, environmental justice, clean energy and more. Get the upshot from the Society of Environmental Journalists’ 2021 Guide to Energy & Environment event. Plus, watch video of the full program [6].
Journalist and author Tom Pelton will speak via Zoom, 6:00 p.m. ET, about how focusing on nuts and bolts issues like litter, sewage, and septic systems can help bridge the divide between 'red' and 'blue' America over environmental issues. Q&A to follow.
"Researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration believe they have identified a new species of whale in the Gulf of Mexico. The Rice's whale is a filter feeder that can grow to 42 feet. It's also critically endangered. There are believed to be fewer than 100 of them left."
"After the Trump administration announced its plans to relocate the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) headquarters to Colorado, more than 87 percent of Washington-based employees decided to leave the agency, according to new numbers released by the Biden administration."
"The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is shelving a controversial rule meant to prevent banks from rejecting corporate customers based solely on their industry."
"In a victory for environmentalists and Nigerians whose land was polluted by oil leaks, a Dutch appeals court ordered energy giant Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary Friday to compensate two farmers for damage to their land caused by leaks in 2004 and 2005."
"An audit found that the time it takes the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality to issue penalties to polluters has doubled. Some companies that have been known to violate air quality rules were able to keep at it for years, or even decades."
"Devon Hall has lived most of his nearly seven decades in Duplin County, N.C. The land is flat and green there in the southeastern part of the state, about an hour's drive from the coast. It's lovely unless you live downwind of one of the county's many industrial hog farms."
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/court-strikes-down-part-rule-easing-ozone-standard-implementation
[2] https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/536568-court-siding-with-environmentalists-strikes-down-part-of-rule
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/gm-announcement-shakes-us-automakers-transition-electric-cars
[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/business/general-motors-electric-cars.html
[5] https://www.sej.org/publications/sej-news/top-biden-climate-advisor-others-preview-2021-energy-and-enviro-news
[6] https://vimeo.com/503178691
[7] https://www.sej.org/calendar/tom-pelton-blue-collar-environmentalism-and-redblue-divide
[8] https://www.sej.org/headlines/scientists-identify-new-whale-species-gulf-mexico
[9] https://www.npr.org/2021/01/28/961765657/scientists-identify-new-whale-species-in-the-gulf
[10] https://www.sej.org/headlines/blm-exodus-agency-lost-87-percent-staff-trump-hq-relocation
[11] https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/536384-blm-exodus-agency-lost-87-percent-of-staff-in-trump-relocation?rl=1
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/regulator-shelves-rule-meant-force-banks-serve-oil-gun-companies
[13] https://thehill.com/policy/finance/536274-regulator-shelves-rule-meant-to-force-banks-to-serve-oil-gun-companies?rl=1
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/dutch-court-orders-shell-nigeria-compensate-farmers
[15] https://apnews.com/article/business-netherlands-nigeria-the-hague-pollution-df365847d4cf6bf2a1fcd1b94d1cbf2e
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/air-quality-regulators-cancer-alley-have-fallen-dangerously-behind
[17] https://www.nola.com/news/business/article_e5381f4a-5f5e-11eb-a97c-635c83e7c20d.html
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/hope-and-skepticism-biden-promises-address-environmental-racism
[19] https://www.npr.org/2021/01/29/956012329/hope-and-skepticism-as-biden-promises-to-address-environmental-racism
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[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1442
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