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Feds Send Help After Ohio Derailment, but Residents’ Frustrations Persist [1]

"A visit to East Palestine from the head of the E.P.A. and a White House pledge to lend more support were met with skepticism in the community."

Source: NYTimes [2], 02/17/2023

"Governments Spent Record $1 Trillion Last Year Subsidizing Fossil Fuels" [3]

"Even as global governments raise their ambitions to cut fossil fuels in the future, they spent a record $1 trillion last year subsidizing energy sources that are the main driver of climate change."

Source: Bloomberg Green [4], 02/17/2023

#SEJSpotlight: Bobby Magill, Reporter, Bloomberg Law [5]

Meet SEJ member Bobby Magill! Bobby is a journalist covering water, public lands and the Interior Department for Bloomberg Law in Washington, D.C. His work focuses on climate change and legal battles over the Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, water supplies, oil and gas leasing, endangered species and other federal lands issues.

"Feinstein Will Leave A Vast Environmental Legacy" [6]

"Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein shaped California’s environment like no one else."

Source: E&E News [7], 02/16/2023

"Poor Nations Seek To Go Green With Debt Swaps" [8]

"With many developing nations facing a triple whammy of rising debt loads, climate change and nature loss, conservationists say the answer could lie with a financial instrument enabling them to tackle all three at once: "debt-for-environment swaps".

Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [9], 02/16/2023

Will SEC Scale Back ESG Requirements For Publicly Traded Corporations? [10]

"America’s top Wall Street regulator might scale back a proposal that would require public companies operating in the United States to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and any financial risks they face from global warming."

Source: Inside Climate News [11], 02/16/2023

Mono Lake Tribe Asserts Water Rights, Urges Halt of Water Diversions to LA [12]

"Against the backdrop of a severe drought linked with global warming, conservation advocates and Native Americans in California are calling for a temporary emergency stop to all surface water diversions from Mono Lake, contending that continuing to drain the watershed, along with the long-term drought, threaten critical ecosystems, as well as the Kootzaduka’a tribe’s cultural connection with the lake."

Source: Inside Climate News [13], 02/16/2023

"Floating Ice Around Antarctica Just Hit A Record Low" [14]

"The amount of floating sea ice encircling Antarctica reached the lowest level ever recorded, scientists reported Tuesday, a sign that one of the most remote and mysterious facets of the climate system may, at last, be responding to the overall planetary warming trend."

Source: Washington Post [15], 02/16/2023

"Tesla Opens Its EV Charging Network To The Masses" [16]

"Tesla Inc.’s deluxe electric vehicle charging network will start to serve other automakers’ EVs, the Biden administration said Wednesday, in a move that could drastically expand Americans’ options for plugging in."

Source: E&E News [17], 02/16/2023

"World Bank President, Dogged by Climate Questions, Will Step Down Early" [18]

"David Malpass, under fire for months by critics who accused him of climate denialism, said he would resign in June, a year before his term ends."

Source: NYTimes [19], 02/16/2023

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