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"Business Group Sues Texas Officials Over Law That Shields Oil Industry" [1]

"A liberal business group sued Texas officials this week in a major challenge to a 2021 law that bars state entities from doing business with investment firms that the state comptroller says are boycotting energy companies."

Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [8]
Source: NYTimes [9], 09/04/2024
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Navajo Nation Strengthens Law On Transportation Of Uranium Across Its Land [10]

"The Navajo Nation has approved emergency legislation meant to strengthen a tribal law that regulates the transportation of radioactive material across the largest Native American reservation in the U.S."

Chemicals [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Natural Resources [14]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [15]
Pollution [16]
Waste [17]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [8]
Source: AP [18], 09/03/2024
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"Countries Still Far Apart On COP29 Finance Goal" [19]

"With less than three months until this year's COP29 UN climate negotiations, countries remain far from agreement on the summit's biggest task: to agree a new funding target to help developing countries cope with climate change."

Climate Change [2]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
International [20]
Source: Reuters [21], 09/03/2024
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Carbon Credits: How One Company’s Plan To Help The Planet Went Off The Rails [22]

"C-Quest Capital claimed it could improve people’s lives in Africa with cleaner cookstoves. But an investigation by The Post shows it promised more than it could deliver."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [5]
People & Population [24]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
International [20]
Africa [25]
Source: Washington Post [26], 09/03/2024
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What Would Trump 2.0 Mean for the Environment? [27]

If former President Donald Trump recaptures the White House this fall, it would likely bring back a radical deregulatory, climate change-oblivious, fossil fuel-intensive environmental policy. But could the fallout be even greater? The new Issue Backgrounder examines how the Project 2025 agenda of Trump’s allies takes aim, in particular, at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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Chemicals [11]
Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [29]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Natural Resources [14]
Policy [30]
Water & Oceans [31]
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"What You Need To Know About E-Bikes In National Parks" [32]

"After years of legal battles and debate, the National Park Service has decided to treat electric bicycles more like regular bikes than motorized vehicles."

Energy & Fuel [23]
Forests [33]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Natural Resources [14]
Transportation [34]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Washington Post [35], 08/30/2024
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"Climate-Friendly Meat? Regulators Tighten Scrutiny of Label Buzzwords." [36]

"The new guidelines from the Agriculture Department encourage third-party assessments of environment-related claims, which have come under fire."

Agriculture [37]
Climate Change [2]
Consumer [38]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [4]
Journalism & Media [39]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: NYTimes [40], 08/30/2024
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"Seabed Mining Leader Vows To Investigate Predecessor" [41]

"One of Leticia Reis de Carvalho’s top priorities when she steps up in four months to lead an international agency overseeing deep-sea mining for electric vehicle battery metals: investigating her predecessor."

Energy & Fuel [23]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Natural Resources [14]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [6]
International [20]
Source: E&E News [42], 08/30/2024
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EPA Rejects Plastics Industry’s Misleading Math About Recycled Content [43]

"The plastics industry uses a controversial accounting method to inflate the recycled content it advertises in products. A new EPA policy won’t allow it for any products it endorses as a “Safer Choice.”"

Chemicals [11]
Consumer [38]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [16]
Waste [17]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: ProPublica [44], 08/30/2024
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"Haaland Revokes Trump Orders, Protects 28M Alaska Acres" [45]

"Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has revoked a Trump-era decision that would have opened millions of acres of federal land in Alaska to energy development and mining."

Energy & Fuel [23]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Natural Resources [14]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Alaska and Hawaii [46]
Source: E&E News [47], 08/30/2024
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