The Small Business Administration announced an "environmental roundtable [2]" Feb. 28, as being “open to all interested persons, with the exception of the press." The Society of Environmental Journalists, through its Freedom of Information Task Force, has protested this in a Feb 21 letter (full text [3]).
"The European Union laid out plans on Wednesday for a climate law that would set a target of net zero carbon emissions across the bloc by 2050. But the bill, part of a wider policy package called the Green Deal, was immediately criticized by climate activists, including Greta Thunberg, who denounced it as “empty words.”"
"Lawmakers in at least five U.S. states have proposed bills since mid-February to prevent cities from banning natural gas as an energy source in new buildings, marking an escalation in the national battle over the fuel’s role in fighting climate change."
"Not a drop of rain fell in downtown San Francisco this February. Or in Big Sur State Park. Or in Paso Robles. February in California was so dry that it is raising concerns that the state, which, according to the National Drought Mitigation Center, only fully emerged from drought last March, may be headed for another one."
"A Texas grand jury on Wednesday declined to issue felony indictments against a group of Greenpeace USA activists who closed a key oil export waterway for 18 hours last year by tying themselves to a Houston bridge and dangling over the water."
"Attorneys for 21 youth climate activists are filing an appeal after a judge ruled they cannot sue the federal government for failure to act on climate change."
"Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, visibly shaking and combative during a Senate hearing Wednesday, defended the Interior Department’s plan to re-interpret the Migratory Bird Treaty Act so that oil companies would not be fined for killing birds due to oil spills."
"The Bahamas looks poised to greenlight drilling for oil in waters about 150 miles from South Florida just months after Hurricane Dorian ravaged the island nation and caused a major spill on Grand Bahama island."
"One day after President Trump tweeted his support, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is expected to take steps today to bring to the floor legislation that would permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund and address the national parks maintenance backlog, senators said."
"EPA is scrambling to finalize as many rules as possible by the middle of May to prevent Democrats from undoing them if they take control of the Senate and White House next year, according to experts who follow the agency's rulemakings."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/publications/watchdog-tipsheet/sej-protests-sba-no-journalists-environmental-roundtable
[2] https://advocacy.sba.gov/2020/02/10/sba-office-of-advoacy-environmental-roundtable-february-28-2020/
[3] https://www.sej.org/sites/default/files/SBA%20Letter%20signed%202.pdf
[4] https://www.sej.org/headlines/eu-proposes-climate-law-greta-thunberg-hears-empty-words
[5] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/world/europe/eu-climate-law-greta-thunberg.html
[6] https://www.sej.org/headlines/backed-industry-some-states-propose-blocking-cities-banning-gas
[7] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-climatechange-naturalgas/backed-by-industry-several-u-s-states-propose-blocking-cities-from-banning-natural-gas-idUSKBN20S1G8
[8] https://www.sej.org/headlines/california-had-its-driest-february-record-here-s-how-bad-it-was
[9] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/03/climate/dry-california.html
[10] https://www.sej.org/headlines/texas-grand-jury-rejects-new-anti-protest-law-ship-channel-protesters
[11] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-houstonshipchannel-closure-charges/texas-jury-opposes-felony-charges-for-protesters-who-shut-houston-ship-channel-idUSKBN20R33M
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/kids-climate-suit-apppeal-court-ruling-they-cant-sue-government
[13] https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/485663-youth-activists-appeal-decision-halting-climate-change-lawsuit
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/bernhardt-defends-bird-treaty-rule-amid-verbal-combat-senate
[15] https://bnanews.bna.com/environment-and-energy/bernhardt-defends-bird-treaty-rule-amid-verbal-combat-in-senate
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/months-after-major-oil-spill-bahamas-could-permit-offshore-drilling
[17] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bahamas-offshore-oil-drilling_n_5e6027d7c5b654d204656614
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/public-lands-lwcf-parks-bills-head-senate-floor-after-trump-tweet
[19] https://www.eenews.net/stories/1062516497
[20] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-wary-democratic-victories-agency-rushes-finish-rules
[21] https://www.eenews.net/stories/1062510237
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1693
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1690
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1691
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1692
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1695
[28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1696
[29] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1697
[30] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1698
[31] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4924