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How To Spot 5 Of The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Biggest Disinformation Tactics [1]

"Increasingly sophisticated and better-funded disinformation is making climate coverage trickier both for journalists to produce and for the public to fully understand and trust."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Journalism & Media [5]
Science [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Guardian [9], 04/16/2024
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"Biden Is Stalling On A Rule That Would Save Americans Nearly $1.5 Billion" [10]

"With just over six months before the election, at least one major Biden proposal appears to be stalled: an update to the federal housing rules that agency experts estimate would save homeowners nearly three times more money on energy bills than it would add to construction costs, spread out over a 30-year mortgage."

Climate Change [2]
Consumer [11]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Planning & Growth [14]
Technology [15]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: HuffPost [16], 04/15/2024
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Greens Protest As DOT Approves Huge Oil Export Terminal Off Texas Coast [17]

"In a move that environmentalists called a betrayal, the Biden administration has approved the construction of a deepwater oil export terminal off the Texas coast that would be the largest of its kind in the United States."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [18]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Alaska and Hawaii [19]
Source: AP [20], 04/15/2024
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"Utilities Brace for Costs of Compliance With New PFAS Water Rule" [21]

"Water utilities will face costly challenges meeting the EPA’s new limits on PFAS in drinking water, making litigation nearly inevitable, lawyers and analysts say."

Chemicals [22]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [4]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [24]
Technology [15]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [26], 04/15/2024
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"‘Climate-Controlled’ Sausage? Courts Crack Down on ‘Greenwashing’" [27]

"From airlines to pork sellers, corporate brands face legal and regulatory challenges for misleading the public with lofty climate claims."

Climate Change [2]
Consumer [11]
Economy & Business [28]
Environmental Politics [4]
Environmental Studies [29]
Food [30]
Journalism & Media [5]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
International [31]
Source: NYTimes [32], 04/15/2024
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Group Slams Gas Group’s Use Of Customers’ Money To Thwart Climate Efforts [33]

"A group of advocates and Democratic senators gathered in Washington DC on Tuesday to decry utilities’ practice of spending customers’ money to advance a pro-fossil fuel agenda."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Justice [34]
Environmental Politics [4]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Guardian [35], 04/12/2024
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"Big Oil Is Quietly Paying State Legal Officials To Kill Climate Litigation" [36]

"Honolulu's climate lawsuit is an existential threat to Big Oil. So they’re buying Republican attorneys general to defend them in court."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [24]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: HEATED [37], 04/12/2024
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"Trump Allies Target NOAA Climate Research" [38]

"Allies of former President Donald Trump don’t just want to muzzle federal climate science if he wins a second term — they also want to upend the agencies that fuel such research."

Climate Change [2]
Environmental Politics [4]
Pollution [24]
Science [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: E&E News [39], 04/12/2024
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"Mapping America’s Access To Nature, Neighborhood By Neighborhood" [40]

"Using satellite imagery and data on dozens of factors — including air and noise pollution, park space, open water and tree canopy — NatureQuant has distilled the elements of health-supporting nature into a single variable called NatureScore. Aggregated to the level of Census tracts — roughly the size of a neighborhood — the data provide a high-resolution image of where nature is abundant and where it is lacking across the United States."

Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [34]
Environmental Politics [4]
Natural Resources [18]
People & Population [41]
Planning & Growth [14]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Washington Post [42], 04/11/2024
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Senate Votes To Reject Rule To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions On Highways [43]

"The U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed a resolution that would overturn a federal agency's rule requiring states to measure and set declining targets for greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles using the national highway system."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [24]
Transportation [44]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Reuters [45], 04/11/2024
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