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"Energy Transitions: 4 States Weigh Plans To Rescue Coal Plants" [1]

"Four states are weighing plans to stall the retirement of coal-fired power plants, a sign of growing resistance in conservative, energy-producing regions against national efforts to decarbonize the grid and a reaction to the Texas blackouts, analysts say."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: E&E News [8], 04/14/2021
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"'Seismic Shift' At FERC Could Kill Natural Gas Pipelines" [9]

"The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's decision to assess a proposed natural gas pipeline's contribution to climate change could have major implications for gas infrastructure, analysts say, including nearly unheard-of project rejections."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: E&E News [10], 04/14/2021
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Computer Mapping Could Help Biden Find And Fix Polluted Neighborhoods [11]

"Diagnosed with asthma at 8 years old, Karlaine Francisco grew up thinking everyone had it. ...  After California began making environmental data available through an online mapping tool, Francisco and others in her Filipino immigrant community realized their chronically under-invested neighborhood Little Manila suffered high air pollution and groundwater contamination."

Air [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
People & Population [14]
Pollution [15]
Technology [16]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Reuters [17], 04/14/2021
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Coalition of Greens and Industry Calls on EPA to Quickly Phase Out HFCs [18]

"A coalition of U.S. manufacturers and environmental organizations is calling on the federal government to quickly phase out the worst climate super-polluting chemicals currently used in air conditioners, refrigerators and other appliances, as well as in aerosols and foam insulation."

Activism [19]
Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [20]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Inside Climate News [21], 04/14/2021
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"Schumer Pushes Plan to Ax Trump Methane Rule With Lawmaker Tool" [22]

"The Senate will consider, as soon as next week, whether to kill a Trump administration methane-emissions rule, in what would be the first time this Congress that the full upper chamber deliberates using its power to overturn regulations."

Climate Change [2]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [23], 04/14/2021
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"Executives Call for Deep Emission Cuts to Combat Climate Change" [24]

"More than 300 corporate leaders will ask the Biden administration to nearly double the emission reduction targets set by the Obama administration."

Climate Change [2]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: NYTimes [25], 04/14/2021
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Does Climate’s Future Depend on Better Batteries? [26]

The path of our planetary climate may depend largely on our transition away from energy sources that cause global warming. And that, in turn, may rely on one thing: improved batteries. The new Backgrounder explores the future of energy storage — how batteries work, the progress the technology has made and the brutal battery competition ahead between the United States and China.

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Climate Change [2]
Consumer [28]
Economy & Business [20]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Science [29]
Technology [16]
Transportation [30]
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National (U.S.) [7]
International [31]
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Flexibility in the Face of the Unexpected [33]

When a Chicago-based freelancer was just about to hit the road to report a three-part story and TV segment on the potential impacts of two proposed copper mines in the Great Lakes basin, there was a little hitch: The COVID-19 pandemic hit. The new FEJ StoryLog has the story of how Lorraine Boissoneault found the flexibility to complete her grant-supported project.

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Topics on the Beat: 
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Health [35]
Environmental Politics [4]
Journalism & Media [36]
Natural Resources [37]
People & Population [14]
Water & Oceans [38]
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National (U.S.) [7]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [39]
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"‘Tiger King’ Fallout Unites PETA, Feds to Fight Cub Petting" [40]

"Netflix’s “Tiger King” burst into a new world of pandemic streaming and gave viewers exotic animals, personal and professional drama, and a man with a mullet’s attempt to launch a political career in Oklahoma."

Economy & Business [20]
Journalism & Media [36]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Wildlife [41]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [42], 04/13/2021
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"5 Ways Biden Wove Climate Action Into His Budget" [43]

"President Biden's first budget proposal sketches a vision for greening the entire federal government, and it includes areas that have been traditional afterthoughts to climate policy, such as prisons."

Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [20]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [44]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: E&E News [45], 04/13/2021
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