"China’s re-appointment of veteran climate negotiator Xie Zhenhua -- a key architect of the Paris Agreement and the country’s plan to end carbon emissions by 2060 -- signaled that Beijing is looking to engage the Biden administration on the issue."
"The Biden administration on Thursday delayed the implementation of a Trump-era rule that gutted protections for hundreds of species of migratory birds."
"With Democratic New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland poised to become the first Native American Interior secretary, tribal governments historically marginalized by the agency expect not only a greater respect for their autonomy, but also a more significant role in the nation's land and water management decisions."
"The Justice Department has withdrawn a series of Trump-era policies that constrain the agency’s environmental enforcement tools."
"A judge says U.S officials downplayed climate change impacts and other environmental costs from the expansion of a massive coal mine near the Montana-Wyoming border, in a case that could test how far the Biden administration is willing to go to unwind its predecessors’ decisions."
February 3, 2021 — SEJ wrote to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Administrator-Designate Michael Regan, calling for the agency to take steps to ensure that journalists are able to effectively convey essential information to the public. The letter says, in part, "We are calling on President Biden and you as Administrator to commit the agency to restoring government openness and transparency, and to respect the vital role that journalists play in our democracy." Read the letter [12].
"From petitioning to save forests to raising cash for disaster victims, a growing army of K-pop fans worldwide has emerged as the latest force in the global fight against climate change."
"The BC NDP has consistently stated it placed protections on 353,000 hectares of old-growth forest, yet a recently unearthed document shows logging will continue in 100,000 hectares of these ostensibly protected areas".
"Tens of thousands of large dams across the globe are reaching the end of their expected lifespans, leading to a dramatic rise in failures and collapses, a new UN study finds. These deteriorating structures pose a serious threat to hundreds of millions of people living downstream."
"The Biden administration said on Wednesday it would restart permitting for the first major U.S. offshore wind farm, reversing a Trump administration decision that canceled the process late last year."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/china-brings-back-climate-envoy-record-deals-us
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-04/china-brings-back-climate-envoy-with-record-of-deals-with-u-s?srnd=green
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/biden-admin-delays-trump-rule-slashing-migratory-bird-protections
[4] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-delay-trump-rule-migratory-bird_n_601c4a7bc5b6179453d70464
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/tribes-expect-voice-land-and-waters-under-haaland
[6] https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063724399
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/justice-department-tosses-trump-era-environmental-directives
[8] https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/justice-department-tosses-trump-era-environmental-directives
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/judge-orders-us-officials-weigh-coal-mine-s-climate-costs
[10] https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-climate-climate-change-environment-2eff22ee0245fdb90fb2873c6820bd34
[11] https://www.sej.org/sej-calls-us-epa-renew-commitment-journalists-inform-public
[12] https://www.sej.org/sites/default/files/sej-letter-to-epa02032021.pdf
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/k-pop-planet-fans-s-korean-stars-take-climate-activism
[14] https://news.trust.org/item/20210202230051-vfh0m/
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/bc-allows-logging-nine-protected-old-growth-areas
[16] https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-forests-logging-nine-protected-areas/
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/water-warning-looming-threat-world-s-aging-dams
[18] https://e360.yale.edu/features/water-warning-the-looming-threat-of-the-worlds-aging-dams
[19] https://www.sej.org/headlines/biden-admin-restart-permitting-major-offshore-wind-project
[20] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-offshore-wind/biden-administration-to-restart-permitting-for-major-u-s-offshore-wind-project-idUSKBN2A32YG
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results
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[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1513
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[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1515
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1518
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1519
[28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1520
[29] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1521
[30] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=5010