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Spurt in Hydro Relicensing To Leave U.S. Awash in Environmental Stories [1]

Hundreds of hydropower dams in the United States will see their licenses expiring in the next decade, generating years-long federal relicensing processes. That prospect calls for close local and regional coverage of the complicated balance between renewable energy needs with negative environmental impacts. The latest TipSheet explains the licensing process and the dam backstory, along with a dozen story ideas and reporting resources.

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Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [3]
Climate Change [4]
Consumer [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Fish & Fisheries [9]
Infrastructure [10]
Journalism & Media [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [13]
Policy [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [16]
California [17]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [18]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [19]
Northwest (OR WA) [20]
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Public [21]
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Alabama Coal Mine Keeps Digging Under Community After Fines and Explosion [22]

"Following the death of a grandfather, Crimson Oak Grove Resources has left a community afraid for their homes and lives. An expert warns one resident may need to evacuate her home while she still can."

Climate Change [4]
Disasters [23]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Justice [24]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [13]
Pollution [25]
Public [21]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [26]
Source: Inside Climate News [27], 04/26/2024
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"Foes Wage Attacks As Biden Rolls Out Power Plant Rules" [28]

"The Biden administration hopes its new rules will withstand an onslaught of legal and political opposition."

Air [29]
Climate Change [4]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [25]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [30], 04/26/2024
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"In Coastal British Columbia, the Haida Get Their Land Back" [31]

"By affirming Indigenous land ownership, British Columbia and the Haida Nation are signaling a new era for Indigenous relations."

Activism [3]
Environmental Justice [24]
Environmental Politics [8]
Fish & Fisheries [9]
Government [32]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [13]
People & Population [33]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [34]
Water & Oceans [15]
Wildlife [35]
Public [21]
Canada [36]
Source: Hakai [37], 04/26/2024
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"Standards Set To Eliminate Emissions From New Federal Buildings By 2030" [38]

"The Biden administration has finalized standards for federal buildings that will eliminate onsite fossil fuel usage for new projects by the end of the decade, the Energy Department confirmed Wednesday."

Climate Change [4]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Government [32]
Infrastructure [10]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: The Hill [39], 04/26/2024
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"White House Unveils Plan To Accelerate Power Grid Expansion" [40]

"The Department of Energy created a one-stop shop for federal permitting, helping transmission developers avoid the lengthy patchwork of regulatory approvals that has slowed major projects. The program makes the department the lead agency in permitting and finalizes a yearslong, multiadministration effort to coordinate the work of at least nine agencies with a hand in permitting power lines."

Climate Change [4]
Economy & Business [41]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Politics [8]
Government [32]
Infrastructure [10]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Technology [42]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [43], 04/26/2024
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Oil, Chemical Lobbyists Flood UN Talks On Cutting Plastic Pollution [44]

"Nearly 200 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists plan to join this week's United Nations negotiations on the first global treaty to curb plastic pollution — a 37% jump from the previous gathering in November, an analysis released on Thursday showed."

Chemicals [45]
Economy & Business [41]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Fish & Fisheries [9]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [13]
Pollution [25]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [21]
International [46]
Source: Reuters [47], 04/26/2024
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"The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act Is Still A Bipartisan Unicorn" [48]

"As a competing bill emerges, supporters defend RAWA as the ’gold standard.’"

Biodiversity [49]
Environmental Politics [8]
Fish & Fisheries [9]
Forests [50]
Government [32]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [13]
Wildlife [35]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: High Country News [51], 04/25/2024
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"California To Wrap Up Exxon Plastics Probe 'In Weeks', AG Says" [52]

"California will conclude a two-year investigation into Exxon and the fossil fuel industry's role in causing global plastic pollution by summer and decide if it will file a lawsuit against oil giant, its attorney general told Reuters on Monday."

Climate Change [4]
Consumer [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [25]
Public [21]
California [17]
Source: Reuters [53], 04/25/2024
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EPA Faulted for Wasting Millions, Spread of Superfund Site Contamination [54]

"The Environmental Protection Agency may have wasted or risked millions of dollars by failing to prevent the spread of contamination hazardous to human health at a Superfund site in Pensacola, Florida, an agency watchdog report found."

Chemicals [45]
Disasters [23]
Environmental Health [7]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [25]
Public [21]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [26]
Source: Inside Climate News [55], 04/25/2024
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