"The Annual Sugarcane Burning in Florida Involves Stark Injustices"
"Black communities are disproportionately impacted by Big Sugar's agricultural practices".
Source: Sierra, 06/18/2024
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Trump Rallies GOPers Against Biden Energy Policies, But Sidesteps IRA
"Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump delivered a campaign-style energy address during a day of meetings with congressional Republicans on Thursday, hitting on trademark themes like “drill baby drill” and pledging to reverse Biden administration policies he said hamper fossil fuel development and favor electric vehicles."
Source: Politico, 06/17/2024"Trump-Era EPA Meddled in PFAS Science, Agency Watchdog Finds"
"In the final days of the Trump administration, a political appointee at the EPA ordered a last-minute review of the hazards of a “forever chemical,” triggering delay, confusion, and significant changes to a nearly final work product, the agency’s inspector general found in a Friday report."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 06/17/202442 California Dams Need Repairs. But Newsom, Legislators Battle Over Funding
"Several dozen dams throughout California could store up to 107 billion more gallons of water if they underwent repairs to fix safety problems. But facing a staggering state deficit, Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed cutting funding for a dam repair grant program in half this year, while state legislators want the $50 million restored."
Source: CalMatters, 06/17/2024"Azerbaijan Accused Of Media Crackdown Before Hosting Cop29"
"State reportedly arrested at least 25 journalists and activists in last year as it prepares for September climate summit".
Source: Guardian, 06/14/2024"How Biden Beat The Clock On Big Environmental Regs"
"President Joe Biden’s regulators recently finalized a flood of major energy and environmental rules in hopes that they’ll stick even if Donald Trump returns to the White House."
Source: E&E News, 06/14/2024"California Heat Protections At Risk From Push To Exclude Prisons"
"A proposal to exclude prisons from California's long-awaited rules to protect indoor workers from extreme heat threatens to delay implementation until well into the summer or kill off the safeguards altogether, labour rights advocates say."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 06/14/2024Makah Tribe Wins U.S. Waiver To Resume Hunting Pacific Gray Whales
"After a decades-long struggle, a Native American tribe won the right to resume its hunting traditions off Washington state's coast when federal regulators granted a waiver on Thursday allowing the Makah people to hunt up to 25 gray whales over a decade."
Source: Reuters, 06/14/2024"Climate Change Funding Talks Stuck Ahead Of COP29 Summit"
"With just five months to go before this year's U.N. climate summit, countries cannot agree on the size of a global funding bill to help the developing world fight climate change - let alone how to split it."
Source: Reuters, 06/14/2024"Senate Confirms Nominees To Energy Panel"
"The Senate has confirmed three nominees to a bipartisan energy regulatory board."
Source: The Hill, 06/14/2024"EPA To Disband Red Hill Oversight Group Amid Navy Complaints"
"HONOLULU — A community-led group formed to provide public oversight of the Navy’s Red Hill fuel facility will be shut down after the committee refused to cede control of the meetings to the military."
Source: Honolulu Civil Beat, 06/14/2024Biofuel Refineries Are Releasing Toxic Air Pollutants in US Farm Communities
"The ethanol industry has billed itself as a green alternative to oil and gas, but new research finds biofuel refineries are releasing toxic chemicals in farm communities across the nation."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/13/2024"Trump’s Energy Guy Talked a Green Game but Now Sells Big Oil Priorities"
"Doug Burgum, the Republican governor of North Dakota, has emerged as a key adviser on energy issues in Donald J. Trump’s campaign to retake the White House, acting as a liaison between Mr. Trump and the oil billionaires whom the former president has encouraged to fund his presidential bid."
Source: NYTimes, 06/13/2024"How Biden Is Conserving Land And Water As Trump Looms"
"A week after his presidential inauguration, Joe Biden cited the climate and biodiversity crises as reasons to set a sweeping new goal – to conserve at least 30% of America’s vast lands and waters by the end of the decade. Three years on, new protections have spurred meaningful progress towards meeting the target by 2030."
Source: Guardian, 06/12/2024Trump Vows ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Despite Rally Goers Wilting In Extreme Heat
"Dozens of Donald Trump’s supporters have been requiring medical help at his rallies in the scorching US south-west but it seems lost on him that his plans to reverse climate policies and “drill, baby, drill” for fossil fuels will only worsen extreme weather, campaigners say."
Source: Guardian, 06/12/2024
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