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"DOE Risks Wasting ‘Significant Funds’ on CCS — Audit" [1]

"The Department of Energy is at risk of wasting a significant amount of money on carbon capture and storage demonstration projects without greater oversight, according to a new Government Accountability Office report."

Economy & Business [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: E&E News [8], 12/22/2021
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"60 Minutes: Americans Fighting For Access To Sewage Disposal" [9]

"Lowndes County, Alabama, which sits between Selma and Montgomery, was once called Bloody Lowndes for its central role in the struggle for civil rights. Today people in Lowndes are fighting for another basic right: access to sewage treatment."

Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [4]
Infrastructure [12]
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [6]
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Source: CBS News [16], 12/21/2021
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"One Month after Arrests, Wet’suwet’en Return to Block Pipeline" [17]

"One month after dozens of arrests, supporters of Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs have reoccupied a worksite on the Coastal GasLink pipeline route in the nation’s territory."

Activism [18]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
Canada [19]
Source: The Tyee [20], 12/21/2021
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Revealed: Fla. Power Company Pushing Legislation To Slow Rooftop Solar [21]

"Florida Power & Light delivered bill text to a state lawmaker. Its parent company sent $10,000 to her campaign coffers"

Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Miami Herald/Floodlight [23], 12/21/2021
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Black Communities Become “Sacrifice Zones” for Industrial Air Pollution [24]

"One of the most dangerous chemical plants in America sits in one of West Virginia’s only majority-Black communities. For decades, residents of Institute have raised alarms about air pollution. They say concerns have “fallen on deaf ears.”"

Air [25]
Chemicals [26]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [13]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Mountain State Spotlight [27], 12/21/2021
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"E.P.A. Announces Tightest-Ever Auto Pollution Rules" [28]

"The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced strengthened limits on pollution from automobile tailpipes in a bid to reduce a major source of the carbon dioxide emissions that are heating the planet."

Air [25]
Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [13]
Transportation [29]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: NYTimes [30], 12/21/2021
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After Decades, Some Of Most Toxic U.S. Sites Will Finally Get Cleaned Up [31]

"New funding and the revival of a long-lapsed tax on chemical makers in the bipartisan infrastructure law mean cities like Newark will get money to restore toxic Superfund sites".

Chemicals [26]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [13]
Waste [32]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Washington Post [33], 12/20/2021
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Manchin Rejects Landmark Bill, Putting Biden’s Climate Goals at Risk [34]

"The declaration from Senator Joe Manchin III that he cannot support his party’s $2.2 trillion Build Back Better bill has significantly dimmed the prospects for the climate action that scientists say the United States must take to avert the most catastrophic effects of global warming."

Economy & Business [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [4]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: NYTimes [35], 12/20/2021
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"How Politics Are Determining What Stove You Use" [36]

"New York is the latest Democratic city aiming to fight climate change by ushering out stoves and furnaces that run on gas in favor of electric alternatives. But Republican states and the gas industry are fighting back."

Climate Change [22]
Consumer [37]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [4]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: NYTimes [38], 12/17/2021
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Manchin Rejects Offshore Drilling Ban Amid Broader Standoff Over Bill [39]

"Democratic plans to restrict new oil and gas development off both coasts and in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge have emerged as a new flash point in the Build Back Better bill, highlighting the party’s political schism as it tries to advance the massive spending legislation."

Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Washington Post [40], 12/17/2021
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