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Giant Baytown Refinery Complex Wants To Expand Amid Community Backlash [1]

"Exxon’s Baytown complex in the Houston-area has the third largest oil refinery in the U.S. and is requesting permit renewal for its olefins plant despite repeated violations to the Clean Air Act."

Air [2]
Chemicals [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Justice [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Pollution [9]
Public [10]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [11]
Source: EHN [12], 02/15/2024
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"Farmers, Tribes Reach ‘Historic’ Klamath River Deal" [13]

"The Interior Department on Wednesday announced an armistice in the battle over the Klamath River, unveiling an agreement between farmers reliant on the waterway for irrigation and tribal nations seeking to restore the region’s fisheries."

Agriculture [14]
Environmental Politics [7]
Fish & Fisheries [15]
Infrastructure [16]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Natural Resources [17]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [10]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [19]
Northwest (OR WA) [20]
Source: E&E News [21], 02/15/2024
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"Biden Administration Urges Court to Scrap Youth Climate Trial" [22]

"The Department of Justice wants an appellate court to quash the youth climate lawsuit Juliana v. US, which was greenlit last year for trial in Oregon."

Activism [23]
Climate Change [24]
Laws & Regulations [8]
People & Population [25]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [27], 02/14/2024
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"Arizona Monument Created By Biden Faces Volley Of Lawsuits" [28]

"Opponents of a sprawling national monument surrounding the Grand Canyon National Park on Monday launched a pair of lawsuits challenging the site, opening another front in a Republican effort to roll back presidential authority to protect federal lands."

Environmental Justice [6]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Natural Resources [17]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [26]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [11]
Source: E&E News [29], 02/14/2024
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Canadian Watchdog Gets Complaints About Green Claims By Shell, RBC, Enbridge [30]

"The list of companies whose marketing is being accused of deceiving Canadians about their environmental commitments continues to grow".

Climate Change [24]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Studies [31]
Journalism & Media [32]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Public [10]
Canada [33]
Source: The Narwhal [34], 02/14/2024
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Horseshoe Crabs, Living Fossils Of The Sea, Draw Endangered Species Petition [35]

"Environmental groups on Monday petitioned the U.S. government seeking endangered species protection for the American horseshoe crab, a "living fossil" under threat from commercial harvests for bait and biomedical use as well as from habitat loss and climate change."

Biodiversity [36]
Fish & Fisheries [15]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Natural Resources [17]
Wildlife [37]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Reuters [38], 02/14/2024
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"How Much Carbon Can Farmers Store In Their Soil? Nobody’s Sure." [39]

"Dirt, it turns out, isn’t just worm poop. It’s also a humongous receptacle of carbon, some 2.5 trillion tons of it — three times more than all the carbon in the atmosphere."

Agriculture [14]
Climate Change [24]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Natural Resources [17]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Grist [40], 02/13/2024
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"Certified Natural Gas Is ‘Dangerous Greenwashing Scheme’, US Senators Say" [41]

"Certified natural gas – or methane gas that is purportedly produced in a low-emissions manner – is a “dangerous greenwashing scheme”, a group of progressive senators wrote in a letter to federal regulators on Monday."

Climate Change [24]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [7]
Journalism & Media [32]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Guardian [42], 02/13/2024
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"Supreme Court Watchlist: Agency Power, Air Rules, Water Rights" [43]

"The Supreme Court is halfway through another term that will have transformative consequences for environmental law."

Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [7]
Government [44]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: E&E News [45], 02/13/2024
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"The Unlikely Coalition Behind Biden’s Liquefied Natural Gas Pivot" [46]

"Climate activists led the charge against LNG exports, but they’re not the only ones celebrating Biden’s pause."

Economy & Business [47]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Grist [48], 02/13/2024
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