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"Biden Exploring Border Adjustment Tax to Fight Climate Change" [1]

"President Joe Biden is exploring the idea of a border adjustment tax that would slap a levy on imports from countries with weaker climate policies, John Kerry, the White House’s special envoy for climate said Friday."

Source: Bloomberg [2], 04/26/2021

"Former Ojibwe Chairman Tapped For Interior's Indian Affairs" [3]

"President Joe Biden nominated former tribal chairman Bryan Newland for assistant secretary for Indian Affairs of the Interior Thursday."

Source: Indian Country Today [4], 04/26/2021

Endangered Humpback Whales Get Extra Habitat Protection Along West Coast [5]

"Endangered populations of humpback whales received extra protection Tuesday when the Biden administration issued a final rule designating critical habitat for the huge marine mammals across more than 116,098 square nautical miles of the Pacific Ocean, including most of the California coast."

Source: San Francisco Chronicle [6], 04/23/2021

After a Century, Dispossessed Black Farmers Fight to Get Back to the Land [7]

"In the decades before the Civil War, one of the South’s largest slave enterprises held sway on the northern outskirts of Durham, North Carolina. At its peak, about 900 enslaved people were compelled to grow tobacco, corn, and other crops on the Stagville Plantation, 30,000 acres of rolling piedmont that had been taken from the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation. Today, the area has a transitional feel: Old farmhouses, open fields, and pine forests cede ground to subdivisions, as one of America’s hottest real estate markets sprawls outward."

Source: Mother Jones [8], 04/23/2021

"Greta to Congress: ‘End Fossil Fuel Subsidies Now’" [9]

"At a hearing on Thursday, 17-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg offered [Biden] some advice on a way to do so: ending all subsidies to the dirty energy sector."

Source: Earther [10], 04/23/2021

"Major Everglades Restoration Project To Break Ground This Year" [11]

"A key project in the restoration of the Everglades moved forward Thursday with the signing of an agreement between Florida and the federal government to construct a huge reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee."

Source: South Fla. Sun-Sentinel [12], 04/23/2021

Citing Nutrients, Enviros Appeal 50-Year License For Conowingo Dam [13]

"Environmental groups have appealed a ruling by a federal commission that last month granted Maryland’s Conowingo Dam a new 50-year license."

Source: Baltimore Sun [14], 04/23/2021

Calif. Wells Will Go Dry This Summer. ‘Alarm Bells Sounding’ In Valley [15]

"Thousands of wells that bring water to San Joaquin Valley homes are at risk of drying up this summer, leaving families without running water for drinking, cleaning and bathing."

Source: Fresno Bee [16], 04/23/2021

There Are Massive Chemical Dumps In The Gulf We Know Almost Nothing About [17]

"Seventy miles off the coast of Louisiana, among a maze of drilling platforms and seafloor pipelines, thousands of 55-gallon drums containing hazardous industrial chemicals litter a vast, dark swath of the ocean floor. They’ve been sitting there for nearly 50 years."

Source: HuffPost [18], 04/23/2021

Biden DOT Proposes Restoring Calif.'s Right To Set Car Pollution Rules [19]

"The Transportation Department announced Thursday it was withdrawing part of a Trump-era rule that blocked states from setting their own tough car pollution standards, setting the stage for a return of broader power to California to fight climate change."

Source: LA Times [20], 04/23/2021

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