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"Biden Tax Plan Targets Fossil Fuel Subsidies Worth $35 Billion" [1]

"President Joe Biden’s plan to eliminate subsidies claimed by oil and gas companies and raise levies on corporate polluters would increase government receipts by $35 billion over the coming decade. "

Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Bloomberg [8], 04/08/2021
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"Law Students Denounce Chevron’s Law Firm Over Steven Donziger Case" [9]

"Gibson Dunn’s extreme tactics against environmental attorney Steven Donziger spark a backlash."

Energy & Fuel [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: The Intercept [10], 04/08/2021
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"In Europe, a Backlash Is Growing Over Incinerating Garbage" [11]

"For years, European countries have built “waste-to-energy” incinerators, saying new technology minimized pollution and boosted energy production. But with increasing concern about the plants’ CO2 emissions, the EU is now withdrawing support for these trash-burning facilities."

Air [12]
Climate Change [2]
Environmental Health [13]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [14]
Waste [15]
Public [6]
Europe [16]
Source: YaleE360 [17], 04/08/2021
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Republicans Mobilize For Showdown To Block Biden Infrastructure Plan [18]

"A defining political clash took shape Sunday over Joe Biden's latest effort to reshape the US economy, with Republicans mobilizing against a massive infrastructure plan that could put the President in historic Democratic company."

Climate Change [2]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [19]
Environmental Politics [20]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Transportation [21]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: CNN [23], 04/08/2021
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Groups Petition EPA To Remove Ethane, Methane From Emissions Exempt List [24]

"Hundreds of environmental groups on Tuesday submitted a petition calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take action to curtail ethane and methane emissions responsible for smog."

Air [12]
Chemicals [25]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [20]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [14]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: The Hill [26], 04/07/2021
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A Top US Seller of Carbon Offsets Starts Investigating Its Own Projects [27]

"Following concerns that it is facilitating the sale of meaningless carbon credits to corporate clients, the Nature Conservancy says it’s conducting an internal review of its portfolio of carbon-offset projects. The nonprofit owns or has helped develop more than 20 such projects on forested lands mostly in the U.S., which generate credits that are purchased by such companies as JPMorgan Chase & Co., BlackRock Inc., and Walt Disney Co., which use them to claim large reductions in their own publicly reported emissions."

Climate Change [2]
Forests [28]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Natural Resources [29]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
International [30]
Source: Bloomberg Green [31], 04/07/2021
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Indictment Claims Kansas Man Tampered With Ellsworth County Water System [32]

"WICHITA, Kan. — An indictment made public today claims an Ellsworth County man tampered with a public water system."

Environmental Health [13]
Infrastructure [33]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [6]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [34]
Source: KSNW [35], 04/07/2021
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Gulf Coast Fish Farm Permit Will Get A Second Look Under Biden Admin [36]

"Under direction from the Biden administration, the Environmental Protection Agency is revisiting a permit granted to a proposed industrial fish farm off the coast of Sarasota."

Fish & Fisheries [37]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [6]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [38]
Source: WUSF [39], 04/07/2021
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"EPA Chief Vows Tougher Tailpipe Rules by July, Unwinding Trump’s" [40]

"The Biden administration is on track to propose by the end of July new limits on the emission of greenhouse gases from automobiles that are strong enough to meet “the urgency of the climate crisis,” according to EPA Administrator Michael Regan."

Air [12]
Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [20]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [14]
Transportation [21]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Bloomberg [41], 04/07/2021
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"More U.S. Coal Power Retired Under Trump Than in Obama's Second Term" [42]

"Remember all of Donald Trump’s promises to put coal miners back to work? Turns out, his repeated attacks on the environment to try and bail out dirty fuels were all for naught. More coal-fired power was taken off the grid under Trump’s presidency than under former President Barack Obama’s second term, a new analysis from Global Energy Monitor shows."

Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [20]
Laws & Regulations [5]
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Source: Earther [43], 04/06/2021
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