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"Democrats Eye Massive Shift in War on Wildfires: Prevention" [1]

"Democrats are proposing a potentially seismic shift in how the nation battles wildfires by dramatically increasing funding for efforts that aim to prevent blazes, rather than focusing on the tools to put them out."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Forests [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: LA Times [8], 12/07/2021
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"Schumer Steps On The Gas To Move Biden Agenda" [9]

"Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is raising the pressure on his own party to get President Biden’s spending bill on track to pass the chamber by Christmas."

Climate Change [2]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: The Hill [13], 12/07/2021
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"Lawmakers Demand Oil And Gas Firms Divulge Methane Leak Data" [14]

"House Science Committee says information will help the U.S. meet its Global Methane Pledge "

"The House Science Committee has notified the chief executives of 10 major oil companies that they must disclose more data about their emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, in one of America’s biggest oil and gas producing regions.

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Journalism & Media [16]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Washington Post [17], 12/06/2021
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"Democrats Might Be Able To Halt Most New Offshore Oil And Gas Drilling" [18]

"A slew of climate provisions in Democrats' roughly $2 trillion social spending bill face an uncertain future in the Senate. But there's one big exception: limits on offshore oil and gas drilling."

Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Washington Post [19], 12/06/2021
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Honolulu Shuts Down Largest Well Due To Navy Oil Contamination [20]

Honolulu's Board of Water Supply (BWS) shut down the Halawa Shaft, Oahu's largest water source, on Thursday after the Navy said it found "a likely source of the contamination," the Navy said in a virtual town hall meeting."

Chemicals [21]
Consumer [22]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Health [10]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Military [23]
Pollution [24]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [6]
Alaska and Hawaii [26]
Source: CNN [27], 12/06/2021
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"SCOTUS Rejects Lobster Union Plea To Undo Whale Protections" [28]

"The nation’s highest bench today [Friday] rejected lobstering groups’ call to unwind fishing restrictions designed to protect endangered whales off the coast of Maine."

Biodiversity [29]
Fish & Fisheries [30]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Water & Oceans [25]
Wildlife [31]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: E&E News [32], 12/06/2021
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"Trump Rule Meant To Save Coal Is Forcing Plants To Close" [33]

"A wastewater rule the Trump administration pushed through as a Hail Mary for struggling coal plants is now being cited as a reason some of those same units are opting to close."

Economy & Business [34]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Health [10]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [24]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: E&E News [35], 12/03/2021
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‘They Can’t Silence Us’: Female Lawyers Defending Colombia’s Environment [36]

"Legal team faces daily threats as it works to protect displaced families from landowners, ecosystems from mining and indigenous groups from oil companies".

Activism [37]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
South America [38]
Source: Guardian [39], 12/03/2021
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Coal Provinces ‘Co-Ordinated’ Fight Against Federal Water Pollution Rules [40]

"Internal government documents show Alberta, B.C., Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia worked in opposition to proposed regulations to crack down on contaminated wastewater from coal mines".

Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [24]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [6]
Canada [41]
Source: The Narwhal [42], 12/03/2021
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"EPA Outlines $7.4B For Water Infrastructure Headed To States" [43]

"States, Native American tribes and U.S. territories will receive $7.4 billion in 2022 to improve water quality and access, the first installment from the infrastructure bill that President Joe Biden signed into law last month, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday."

Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [44]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [24]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: AP [45], 12/03/2021
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