Big Oil Privately Acknowledged Efforts To Downplay Climate Crisis: Docs
"Internal documents revealed by committee show companies lobbied against climate laws they publicly claimed to support."
Source: Guardian, 05/01/2024
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"U.S. Plan to Protect Oceans Has a Problem, Some Say: Too Much Fishing"
"New details of the Biden administration’s signature conservation effort, made public this month amid a burst of other environmental announcements, have alarmed some scientists who study marine protected areas because the plan would count certain commercial fishing zones as conserved."
Source: NYTimes, 05/01/2024"How Trump 2.0 Could Transform DOE"
"Veterans of the first Trump administration predicted in interviews what their former boss might do with energy policy if he returns to the White House." "More oil and gas permitting. Aggressive deregulation. Federal career staff relegated to the sidelines."
Source: E&E News, 05/01/2024"New EPA Rule Could Accelerate Cleanup of Coal Ash Dumps"
"For nearly a decade, a gap in federal regulation has allowed old coal ash dumps to avoid regulation. A new rule aims to close that loophole."
Source: Inside Climate News, 05/01/2024"US House Votes To Remove Wolves From Endangered List In 48 States"
"The U.S. House voted Tuesday to end federal protection for gray wolves, approving a bill that would remove them from the endangered species list across the lower 48 states."
Source: AP, 05/01/2024Trump Will Dismantle Key US Weather And Science Agency, Climate Experts Fear
"Climate experts fear Donald Trump will follow a blueprint created by his allies to gut the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), disbanding its work on climate science and tailoring its operations to business interests."
Source: Guardian, 04/30/2024"Countries Consider Pact To Reduce Plastic Production By 40% In 15 Years"
"Countries are for the first time considering restrictions on the global production of plastic – to reduce it by 40% in 15 years – in an attempt to protect human health and the environment."
Source: Guardian, 04/30/2024"Meet the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners"
"Seven grassroots environmental activists were awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize on April 29. Known as the “Green Nobel Prize,” the Goldman Prize honors activists from the six continental regions."
Source: Mongabay, 04/30/2024"What Is Mexico Doing About Climate Change?"
"The June general election in Mexico could mark a turning point in ensuring that the country’s climate policies better reflect the desire of its citizens to address the climate crisis, with both leading presidential candidates expressing support for renewable energy."
Source: Yale Climate Connections, 04/30/2024"How Abrupt U-Turns Are Defining U.S. Environmental Regulations"
"The polarization of politics means that rules are imposed, gutted and restored with each election. Experts say that’s bad for the economy."
Source: NYTimes, 04/29/2024"For This Alaska Town, Whaling Is a Way of Life"
"The PBS documentary ‘One with the Whale’ explores the importance of subsistence hunting and gathering in a Yup’ik village—and what happens when mainlanders misunderstand it."
Source: Civil Eats, 04/29/2024Oil, Chemical Lobbyists Flood UN Talks On Cutting Plastic Pollution
"Nearly 200 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists plan to join this week's United Nations negotiations on the first global treaty to curb plastic pollution — a 37% jump from the previous gathering in November, an analysis released on Thursday showed."
Source: Reuters, 04/26/2024"White House Unveils Plan To Accelerate Power Grid Expansion"
"The Department of Energy created a one-stop shop for federal permitting, helping transmission developers avoid the lengthy patchwork of regulatory approvals that has slowed major projects. The program makes the department the lead agency in permitting and finalizes a yearslong, multiadministration effort to coordinate the work of at least nine agencies with a hand in permitting power lines."
Source: E&E News, 04/26/2024"In Coastal British Columbia, the Haida Get Their Land Back"
"By affirming Indigenous land ownership, British Columbia and the Haida Nation are signaling a new era for Indigenous relations."
Source: Hakai, 04/26/2024"Foes Wage Attacks As Biden Rolls Out Power Plant Rules"
"The Biden administration hopes its new rules will withstand an onslaught of legal and political opposition."
Source: E&E News, 04/26/2024
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