"With just over six months before the election, at least one major Biden proposal appears to be stalled: an update to the federal housing rules that agency experts estimate would save homeowners nearly three times more money on energy bills than it would add to construction costs, spread out over a 30-year mortgage."
"In a move that environmentalists called a betrayal, the Biden administration has approved the construction of a deepwater oil export terminal off the Texas coast that would be the largest of its kind in the United States."
"The U.S. set aside 23 million acres of Alaska’s North Slope to serve as an emergency oil supply a century ago. Now, President Joe Biden is moving to block oil and gas development across roughly half of it."
"Water utilities will face costly challenges meeting the EPA’s new limits on PFAS in drinking water, making litigation nearly inevitable, lawyers and analysts say."
"The Biden administration on Friday finalized lightbulb efficiency rules first proposed in late 2022."
"From airlines to pork sellers, corporate brands face legal and regulatory challenges for misleading the public with lofty climate claims."
"Oil companies will have to lay down significantly more money to drill on public lands following a sweeping final rule published by the Biden administration Friday that also increases federal royalty rates and aims to shrink the future footprint of the nation’s oil program."
Join the Yale Center for Environmental Communication for a discussion exploring how climate organizations are currently using storytelling in their work, the impacts of these stories and lessons learned from other movements. Noon-1:00 p.m. ET.
"Screechy, gangly bird gorges on invasive apple snails, helping wetlands and crawfish farms".
"Koch Industries is making a multi-billion-dollar play to purchase a massive fertilizer production facility in the state; some farmers and lawmakers are raising concerns about monopolization and high prices in an effort to halt the sale."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/biden-stalling-rule-would-save-americans-nearly-15-billion
[2] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-climate-rule-homes_n_66194a57e4b000ed88edbd4d
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/greens-protest-dot-approves-huge-oil-export-terminal-texas-coast
[4] https://apnews.com/article/oil-export-terminal-biden-texas-maritime-administration-bead045561d30b422d2b81fa543fb2a5
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/biden-plans-sweeping-effort-block-arctic-oil-drilling
[6] https://www.gazettextra.com/news/nation_world/biden-plans-sweeping-effort-to-block-arctic-oil-drilling/article_73db4a8c-5597-5e0f-9639-bbc09844d587.html
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/utilities-brace-costs-compliance-new-pfas-water-rule
[8] https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/utilities-brace-for-costs-of-compliance-with-new-pfas-water-rule
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/biden-administration-finalizes-lightbulb-efficiency-rules
[10] https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4590989-biden-administration-finalizes-lightbulb-efficiency-rules/
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/climate-controlled-sausage-courts-crack-down-greenwashing
[12] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/climate/climate-greenwashing-denmark-pork.html?ugrp=c&unlocked_article_code=1.kk0.9ga-.DVfGUjubwZRU&smid=url-share
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/biden-boosts-cost-drill-public-lands
[14] https://www.eenews.net/articles/biden-boosts-cost-to-drill-on-public-lands/
[15] https://www.sej.org/calendar/yale-center-environmental-communication-lessons-climate-storytelling
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/new-louisiana-bird-wails-banshee-eats-pest-saving-crops
[17] https://www.nola.com/louisiana_inspired/florida-bird-flocks-to-louisiana-to-eat-slimy-invaders/article_ff28eafa-dd97-11ee-b055-6f2f7b7c2acd.html
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/iowa-fertilizer-plant-purchase-spurs-antitrust-concerns
[19] https://civileats.com/2024/04/08/an-iowa-fertilizer-plant-purchase-spurs-antitrust-concerns/
[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=699
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=696
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=697
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=698
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=701
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=702
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=703
[28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=704
[29] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=5112