"More than 200 countries signed a U.N. resolution in Nairobi on Wednesday to eliminate plastic pollution in the sea, a move some delegates hoped would pave the way to a legally binding treaty."
"Republicans have little room for dissension as they debate a plan to overhaul the nation’s tax system, and the Senate wooed Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski by including a provision that allows oil exploration in a portion of Alaska’s North Slope. That doesn’t sit well with some moderate House Republicans, including Miami Rep. Carlos Curbelo."
"A top Volkswagen official in the United States was sentenced on Wednesday to seven years in prison for his role in the German automaker’s decade-long scheme to cheat on diesel emissions tests."
"Scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency will be free to publicly discuss their work from now on, Scott Pruitt, the agency’s administrator, has assured lawmakers who criticized the E.P.A. for preventing employees from presenting findings about climate change."
The Society of Environmental Journalists has joined other journalism and open-government groups in urging the Federal Communications Commission not to end its established net neutrality rule. When an internet service provider also owns a news outlet, then they can give their own news content an advantage if the net is not neutral. This will tend to push out smaller news media companies and increase concentration in the news industry. (Image by Darmokand)
"A pacifist environmentalist and expert on Icelandic crime thrillers emerged on Thursday as Iceland’s new prime minister, its fourth in two years, after three parties signed a coalition agreement."
"The cost of harmful chemical and heavy metal exposures around the world likely tops 10 percent of the global GDP, according to a new study."
"Former President Barack Obama says cities, states and nonprofit groups have emerged as 'the new face of leadership' on climate change. He briefly spoke Tuesday to a summit of mayors from around the world gathered in Chicago to address concerns about climate change since President Donald Trump rejected the Paris climate accord. The mayors signed a charter that echoes portions of the 2015 Paris agreement."
"The American Petroleum Institute on Tuesday launched a voluntary program to cut emissions of the greenhouse gas methane from oil and gas operations, a move environmentalists said was not strong enough to adequately protect the climate."
“It would pretty much blow up the tax equity market for wind.”
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/more-200-nations-promise-stop-ocean-plastic-waste
[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-environment-un-pollution/more-than-200-nations-promise-to-stop-ocean-plastic-waste-idUSKBN1E02F7
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/house-moderates-oppose-allowing-arctic-oil-drilling-tax-bill
[4] http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article188094939.html
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/volkswagen-official-gets-7-year-term-diesel-emissions-cheating
[6] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/business/oliver-schmidt-volkswagen.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/climate&_r=0
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-chief-pruitt-says-agency-scientists-are-free-discuss-their-work
[8] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/climate/scott-pruitt-epa.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/climate
[9] https://www.sej.org/sej-other-journalism-groups-support-net-neutrality
[10] https://www.sej.org/headlines/environmentalist-iceland%E2%80%99s-new-prime-minister
[11] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/world/europe/iceland-prime-minister-katrin-jakobsdottir.html
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/toxic-exposures-may-cost-world-10-gdp-study
[13] http://www.ehn.org/toxics-cost-10-percent-of-world-gdp-2514804991.html
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/mayors-sign-climate-charter-after-trump-ditches-paris-accord
[15] https://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/obama-chicago-climate-charter-climate-change-462045163.html
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-oil-industry-group-launches-voluntary-program-cut-methane
[17] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-climatechange-drillers/u-s-oil-industry-group-launches-voluntary-program-to-cut-methane-idUSKBN1DZ2RL
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/senate-doubles-down-tax-provisions-would-harm-renewable-energy
[19] https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/in-senate-tax-bill-beat-isnt-sole-provision-harmful-to-renewables?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=gtmsocial
[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2503
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2500
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2501
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2502
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2505
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2506
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2507
[28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=2508
[29] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=5113