"Senate Confirms Nominees To Energy Panel" [1]
"The Senate has confirmed three nominees to a bipartisan energy regulatory board."
Source: The Hill [2], 06/14/2024
"The Senate has confirmed three nominees to a bipartisan energy regulatory board."
"With just five months to go before this year's U.N. climate summit, countries cannot agree on the size of a global funding bill to help the developing world fight climate change - let alone how to split it."
"After a decades-long struggle, a Native American tribe won the right to resume its hunting traditions off Washington state's coast when federal regulators granted a waiver on Thursday allowing the Makah people to hunt up to 25 gray whales over a decade."
"A proposal to exclude prisons from California's long-awaited rules to protect indoor workers from extreme heat threatens to delay implementation until well into the summer or kill off the safeguards altogether, labour rights advocates say."
"President Joe Biden’s regulators recently finalized a flood of major energy and environmental rules in hopes that they’ll stick even if Donald Trump returns to the White House."
"Heavy rainfall that’s caused unrelenting flooding in South Florida since Tuesday will continue for a fourth consecutive day after turning roads into canals and forcing some residents to stand on the roofs of their cars or trudge through waist-deep waters."
"State reportedly arrested at least 25 journalists and activists in last year as it prepares for September climate summit".
Meet SEJ member Bennet Goldstein! Bennet reports on water and agriculture as Wisconsin Watch’s Report for America representative on the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk — a collaborative reporting network across the basin. Before this, he was on the breaking news team at the Omaha World-Herald in Nebraska.
"A group of the world’s last wild horses have returned to their native Kazakhstan after an absence of about 200 years. ... The wild horses, known as Przewalski’s horses, once roamed the vast steppe grasslands of central Asia, where horses are believed to have been first domesticated about 5,500 years ago."
"Five of the world’s biggest banks are “greenwashing” their role in the destruction of the Amazon, according to a report that indicates that their environmental and social guidelines fail to cover more than 70% of the rainforest."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/senate-confirms-nominees-energy-panel
[2] https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4720515-senate-confirms-nominees-to-energy-panel/
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/climate-change-funding-talks-stuck-ahead-cop29-summit
[4] https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/climate-change-funding-talks-stuck-ahead-cop29-summit-2024-06-13/
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/makah-tribe-wins-us-waiver-resume-hunting-pacific-gray-whales
[6] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/native-american-tribe-wins-us-waiver-resume-hunting-pacific-gray-whales-2024-06-13/
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/california-heat-protections-risk-push-exclude-prisons
[8] https://www.context.news/climate-risks/california-heat-protections-at-risk-from-push-to-exclude-prisons
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/how-biden-beat-clock-big-environmental-regs
[10] https://www.eenews.net/articles/how-biden-beat-the-clock-on-big-environmental-regs/
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/storm-battered-florida-braces-fourth-day-floods-after-downpours
[12] https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/14/weather/friday-flooding-rain-storm-south-florida/index.html
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/azerbaijan-accused-media-crackdown-hosting-cop29
[14] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/12/azerbaijan-accused-of-media-crackdown-before-hosting-cop29
[15] https://www.sej.org/sejspotlight-bennet-goldstein-investigative-reporter-wisconsin-watch
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/wild-horses-return-kazakhstan-steppes-after-absence-two-centuries
[17] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/10/przewalskis-horses-only-wild-species-return-central-asian-steppes-kazakhstan
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/world-s-top-banks-greenwashing-their-role-destruction-amazon
[19] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/11/worlds-top-banks-greenwashing-their-role-in-destruction-of-the-amazon
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