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"Meet Biden’s Energy and Climate Cabinet Contenders" [1]

"President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s environment and energy team — facing a narrowly divided Congress and a hostile Republican leadership — will need creativity and perseverance if Mr. Biden is to follow through on his ambitious promises to address climate change."

Environmental Politics [2]
Government [3]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: NYTimes [6], 12/04/2020
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"EPA Administrator To Quarantine Following Covid-19 Exposure" [7]

"EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said in a statement Wednesday that he has been exposed to Covid-19 and will quarantine until he's 'gone through the proper testing protocols.'"

Environmental Health [8]
Government [3]
Health [9]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: CNN [10], 12/03/2020
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"Transition: Biden Narrows List For Top Climate Adviser" [11]

"President-elect Joe Biden's short list of candidates to serve as his domestic climate adviser is beginning to narrow, with three names coming up the most, according to multiple sources."

Climate Change [12]
Environmental Politics [2]
Government [3]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: E&E News [14], 12/03/2020
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"U.N. Chief Says U.S. Leadership Key To Fight Climate Emergency" [15]

"United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Wednesday that humanity is waging a suicidal war on nature and that there is no way to address the climate emergency without global leadership from the United States."

Climate Change [12]
Disasters [16]
Environmental Politics [2]
Government [3]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [4]
International [17]
Source: , 12/03/2020
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"Senate Approves Two Energy Regulators, Completing Panel" [18]

"Two nominees to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) were confirmed to the panel by voice votes on Monday."

Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Politics [2]
Government [3]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: The Hill [20], 12/02/2020
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Federal System For Tracking Covid-19 Hospital Beds Gives Poor Data [21]

As the nation's hospitals are being overwhelmed by coronavirus patients, the federal data system for tracking them, poleaxed this summer by the Trump administration, is giving inaccurate and unreliable data to officials trying to manage the crisis.

Disasters [16]
Environmental Health [8]
Environmental Politics [2]
Government [3]
Health [9]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Science [22]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: Science [23], 12/01/2020
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Carmakers Map Out Shifting Road Ahead [24]

Automakers are at the heart of the conflict over climate change policy, thanks to the prevalence of transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions. That may now be changing. And not just because of the incoming Biden administration, but also with shifting investment in the future of electric vehicles. A look at how car companies are piloting that path, from the latest Backgrounder. Electric Hummer, anyone?

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Environmental Politics [2]
Government [3]
Health [9]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Policy [29]
Pollution [30]
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"Appropriators Urged To Shield Career Staff From Trump Order" [33]

"Top House Democrats are calling on congressional appropriators to block funding for President Trump's order that would make it easier to fire career employees like EPA scientists."

Environmental Health [8]
Environmental Politics [2]
Government [3]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Science [22]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: E&E News [34], 11/30/2020
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"E.P.A.’s Final Deregulatory Rush Runs Into Open Staff Resistance" [35]

"President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency was rushing to complete one of its last regulatory priorities, aiming to obstruct the creation of air- and water-pollution controls far into the future, when a senior career scientist moved to hobble it."

Environmental Health [8]
Environmental Politics [2]
Government [3]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: NYTimes [36], 11/30/2020
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"Top California Air, Climate Regulator Hopes To Run Biden EPA" [37]

"Over four decades, Mary Nichols has been the regulator behind some of the nation’s most ambitious climate policies and, in recent years, she’s been their staunchest defender against President Donald Trump’s effort to dismantle them."

Climate Change [12]
Environmental Politics [2]
Government [3]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: AP [38], 11/27/2020
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