"EPA Eyes New Rule For Gas-Fired Power Plants"
"EPA Administrator Michael Regan confirmed earlier this month that his agency plans to focus on gas-fired power in its updated carbon rule for new power plants."
Source: E&E News, 03/24/2022
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"Bitcoin Miners Want to Recast Themselves as Eco-Friendly"
"Facing intense criticism, the crypto mining industry is trying to change the view that its energy-guzzling computers are harmful to the climate."
Source: NYTimes, 03/24/2022
"U.S. Fuelmakers On Hook For Vehicle Emissions In New SEC Rule"
"U.S. drillers and refiners will likely need to report estimated greenhouse gas emissions from the cars, trucks, planes and ships that use their fuel if a rule proposed by U.S. regulators on Monday passes later this year, according to industry analysts."
Source: Reuters, 03/24/2022
Scott Pruitt Called Two Fossil Billionaires While Weighing Senate Run
"Scott Pruitt, who ran the Environmental Protection Agency under Donald Trump before resigning under a crush of ethics scandals, called two major Republican donors while weighing a run for Senate in Oklahoma in recent weeks, according to two people with knowledge of the matter."
Source: Washington Post, 03/24/2022
"UN Sets 5-Year Goal To Broaden Climate Early Warning Systems"
"The chief of the United Nations announced a project Wednesday to put every person on Earth in range of early weather-warning systems within five years as natural disasters have grown more powerful and frequent due to climate change."
Source: AP, 03/24/2022
"Biden And Europeans To Announce Major Plan To Redirect Gas To Europe"
"Biden, in Brussels on Friday, plans to join European leaders in announcing an effort to ship liquefied natural gas to Europe and impose new sanctions on Russia".
Source: Washington Post, 03/24/2022
"Egypt Erects Sand Barriers As Rising Sea Swallows The Nile Delta"
"COP27 host hopes low-cost sand dikes can help hold back the Mediterranean Sea and protect the homes and incomes of people in the country's breadbasket".
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 03/23/2022
"EPA Warns Of Permitting Hurdle For Troubled Refinery"
"EPA told the new owners of a shuttered U.S. Virgin Islands oil refinery that they may need a new Clean Air Act permit, a hurdle that could significantly slow any plan to reopen the plant."
Source: E&E News, 03/23/2022
"Multiyear Ice Thinner Than Thought As Arctic Sea Ice Reaches Winter Max"
"A study employing new satellite data found that Arctic multiyear sea ice — ice that survives the summer melt — is thinning even faster than previously thought and has lost a third of its volume in just two decades."
Source: Mongabay, 03/23/2022
"Chair of U.N. Biodiversity Talks Expects Agreement On Key Target"
"A chair of the U.N. biodiversity negotiations underway in Switzerland told Reuters on Tuesday he expects agreement on a key target on raising protected areas, adding he saw support from the talks' presidency, China, for the first time."
Source: Reuters, 03/23/2022
