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"Biden ‘Forever Chemicals’ Ban Targets Cookware, Carpet, Couches" [1]

"The White House’s ban on federal purchasing of PFAS-containing products will focus on cookware, carpets and couches, according to the Office of Management and Budget’s memo implementing President Biden’s sustainability executive order."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Government [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [8], 12/10/2021
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FEMA Restores Climate Goal In Strategic Plan After Trump Dropped It [9]

"The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is once again considering climate change in its strategic planning after a plan released during the Trump administration did not include it."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Studies [12]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: The Hill [13], 12/10/2021
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"Brownfields Sites Poised for Big Funding Amid Equity Concerns" [14]

"Plans to use billions of infrastructure dollars to clean up and redevelop long-neglected brownsfield waste sites may cause unintended harm to low-income neighborhoods, advocates warned a House panel Wednesday."

Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [15]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [16]
Waste [17]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [18], 12/10/2021
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‘Polluter Pays’ Tax Could Jump-Start Languishing Superfund Cleanups [19]

"Toxic Superfund sites vulnerable to flooding, hurricanes and wildfires driven by climate change should be prioritized for cleanup with funds from a tax on polluting industries reinstated in the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan approved by Congress last month, two environmental watchdog organizations urge in a new report."

Chemicals [2]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Justice [15]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [16]
Waste [17]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Inside Climate News [21], 12/10/2021
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"‘It’s Grotesque’: Inside The Hill Methane Fight" [22]

"Progressives set out to write a reconciliation bill that would scrap special tax treatment for fossil fuel companies. Instead, they might hand the oil and gas industry a new subsidy."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [23]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: E&E News [25], 12/10/2021
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"The Millions of Tons of Carbon Emissions That Don’t Officially Exist" [26]

"How a blind spot in the Kyoto Protocol helped create the biomass industry."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Forests [27]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
International [28]
Source: New Yorker [29], 12/09/2021
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Youngkin Pledges To Pull Virginia From Carbon Market By Executive Order [30]

"Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin is pledging to use executive action to pull Virginia out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a carbon market involving 10 other Mid-Atlantic and New England states."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [31]
Source: Virginia Mercury [32], 12/09/2021
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"Conservatives Have a New Bogeyman: Critical Energy Theory" [33]

"Inside ALEC’s new campaign to push anti-climate legislation across the country"

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: New Republic [34], 12/09/2021
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These Chemicals Disrupt Sexual Development of Children; They’re Everywhere [35]

"The EPA said that it would begin monitoring for DINP, a phthalate that causes birth defects and cancer, more than 20 years ago. It still hasn’t."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: The Intercept [36], 12/09/2021
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Biden Orders Federal Vehicles, Buildings to Use Renewable Energy by 2050 [37]

"President Biden on Wednesday set in motion a plan to make the federal government carbon neutral, ordering federal agencies to buy electric vehicles, to power facilities with wind, solar and nuclear energy, and to use sustainable building materials."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Government [4]
Infrastructure [38]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Transportation [39]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: NYTimes [40], 12/09/2021
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