"Never Believe a Bank’s Net-Zero Pledge"
"A new report finds that climate-friendly financial institutions have been funding fossil fuel projects to the tune of $38 billion."
Source: New Republic, 02/17/2022
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"Oil Firms’ Climate Claims Are Greenwashing, Study Concludes"
"Accusations of greenwashing against major oil companies that claim to be in transition to clean energy are well-founded, according to the most comprehensive study to date."
Source: Guardian, 02/17/2022
Zinke Broke Ethics Rules While Leading Trump’s Interior Dept.: Watchdog
"The department’s inspector general found Zinke had repeated contact with developers about a real estate deal and lied about it to an ethics official. The Justice Department declined to bring charges."
Source: Washington Post, 02/17/2022
COAL + ICE Documentary Photography Exhibition
This free exhibition and program series in Washington, DC, is a collaboration of the Asia Society and the Kennedy Center, showcasing the work of over 40 photographers and video artists from around the world to visualize the climate crisis – its causes and consequences – as a large-scale immersive experience.
"Flourishing Plants Show Warming Antarctica Undergoing ‘Major Change’"
"Antarctica’s two native flowering plants are spreading rapidly as temperatures warm, according to the first study to show changes in fragile polar ecosystems have accelerated in the past decade."
Source: Guardian, 02/16/2022
"EPA Drilling Down on Civil Rights Complaints, Top Lawyer Says"
"The EPA is working to stiffen its enforcement of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which broadly forbids discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin, the agency’s top lawyer said Tuesday."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 02/16/2022
"White House Takes Aim at Environmental Racism, but Won’t Mention Race"
"Communities of color bear a disproportionate burden from pollution, research shows. But using race to allocate federal help could result in legal problems."
Source: NYTimes, 02/16/2022
"GOP Boycotts Committee Vote On Federal Reserve Nominees"
"Republicans today blocked the nomination of Sarah Bloom Raskin and several other Federal Reserve nominees, creating confirmation chaos for the pro-climate bank regulator pick in what Democrats labeled a “smear campaign.”"
Source: E&E News, 02/16/2022
"Biden Administration Promises to Buy ‘Clean’ Industrial Materials"
"A new initiative aims to reduce emissions from steel, cement, aluminum and other materials used in the industrial sector, which generates about a third of the nation’s greenhouse gases."
"WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Tuesday will set out a strategy for buying “clean,” lower-emissions steel, cement, aluminum and other industrial materials for federal agencies and projects, part of its effort to reduce carbon emissions from industrial manufacturing.
Source: NYTimes, 02/16/2022
New Faces on FERC Could Help Speed a Clean Energy Transition
"With two Biden appointees, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is more likely to favor Democrats, who want it to respond to the booming demand for renewable energy."
Source: Inside Climate News, 02/16/2022
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