"Air Pollution: EPA Finally Ditches Toxics Rule, Industry Shrugs"
"After years of work, the Trump administration has succeeded in formally unraveling a venerable industrial air toxics policy. Does industry much care?"
Source: E&E News, 11/23/2020
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"Biden Vowed To Ban New Drilling On Public Lands. It Won’t Be Easy."
"One of Joe Biden’s boldest campaign pledges was to ban “new oil and gas permitting on public lands and waters,” part of a sweeping agenda aimed at curbing greenhouse gases that are warming the planet and threatening life on Earth. Transforming that promise into reality, however, will be tough."
Source: Washington Post, 11/23/2020
"At Sea and in Court, the Fight to Save Right Whales Intensifies"
"As numbers of North Atlantic right whales keep declining because of entanglements with fishing gear and fatal ship strikes, conservationists are using acoustic technology and waging an escalating legal battle to push for more aggressive action to protect the world’s rarest cetacean."
Source: YaleE360, 11/20/2020
"Scientists Say Florida Reefs Have Lost Nearly 98% Of Coral"
"The United States’ coral reefs are in fair condition, according to a recent reef condition status report, but vulnerable to decline. Scientists estimate that along the coast of Florida, where degradation is most severe, perhaps as little as 2% of original coral cover remains."
Source: Guardian, 11/20/2020
"NASA Satellite To Measure Global Sea Level Rise"
"A satellite scheduled to launch from California later this month will measure sea level rise and provide other crucial data to scientists who study how global warming is affecting the Earth's oceans."
Source: NPR, 11/20/2020
"Federal Water Rule Expected to Stay Murky Through Biden Term"
"A Biden administration won’t be able to untangle the legal and regulatory “mess” under part of the Clean Water Act that determines which streams, wetlands and other waters get federal protection, legal scholars and litigators say."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 11/20/2020
Lawmakers Condemn Trump's 'Politicizing' Moves On Climate Assessment
"Nearly 90 Democratic lawmakers wrote to the White House to protest a recent shakeup at the agency charged with organizing a key assessment that helps the government consider how to respond to climate change."
Source: The Hill, 11/20/2020
Enviros Aim To Use EPA Guidance Removal Rule As Tool Despite Opposition
"Despite environmental groups’ opposition to an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule that allows the public to ask the agency to eliminate policy guidances, at least one organization has already started to use the rule to its advantage."
Source: The Hill, 11/20/2020
"Biden Vowed To Ban New Drilling On Public Lands. It Won’t Be Easy."
"One of Joe Biden’s boldest campaign pledges was to ban “new oil and gas permitting on public lands and waters,” part of a sweeping agenda aimed at curbing greenhouse gases that are warming the planet and threatening life on Earth. Transforming that promise into reality, however, will be tough."
Source: Washington Post, 11/20/2020
Wall Street Bets Climate-Related Financial Regulation Coming Under Biden
"The White House may not be preparing to transition to a Biden administration, but Wall Street is." "The president-elect has said he would require publicly traded companies to disclose emissions and financial risks associated with global warming."
Source: InsideClimate News, 11/20/2020
