"Keystone Rejection Tests Trudeau’s Balancing Act on Climate and Energy"
"While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shares the incoming president’s climate change agenda, the Canadian leader is also a pipeline proponent."
Source: NYTimes, 01/21/2021
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"Biden, in a Burst of Climate Orders, Rejoins the Paris Agreement"
"President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Wednesday recommitted the United States to the Paris climate agreement, the international accord designed to avert catastrophic global warming, and ordered federal agencies to start reviewing and reinstating more than 100 environmental regulations that were weakened or rolled back by former President Donald J. Trump."
Source: NYTimes, 01/21/2021
"Biden To Order Agencies To Revisit Vehicle Tailpipe Emissions Standards"
"President-elect Joe Biden will order U.S. agencies on Wednesday to revisit fuel efficiency standards as well as rules governing emissions from airplanes, and appliance and building energy efficiency standards, the transition team said."
Source: Reuters, 01/20/2021
Biden to Cancel Keystone XL Pipeline in Inauguration Day Executive Order
"President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is expected to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline permit on his first day in office, quickly reversing his predecessor’s approval of a project to move oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico long opposed by environmentalists, according to a person familiar with Mr. Biden’s plans."
Source: NYTimes, 01/20/2021
"Gina McCarthy Outlines Biden's First Climate Actions"
"Joe Biden will spend his first hours as president trying to obliterate much of the Trump administration's deregulatory agenda, restore public land protections and reestablish the United States as a global leader on climate change policy."
Source: E&E News, 01/20/2021
"Court Voids a ‘Tortured’ Trump Climate Rollback"
"A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down the Trump administration’s plan to relax restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, paving the way for President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. to enact new and stronger restrictions on power plants."
Source: NYTimes, 01/20/2021
"Trump Admin Proposes 11th-Hour Plan To Strip Calif. Desert Protections
"The outgoing Trump administration is proposing to strip away protections for millions of acres of California desert, threatening damage to Joshua trees, desert tortoises and landmarks."
Source: Guardian, 01/19/2021
"Analysis: Mississippi Pump Fight Unresolved As Trump Departs"
"Farmers and environmentalists have been arguing for decades over proposals for a massive federal flood-control project in the south Mississippi Delta. The fight is continuing into a new presidential administration."
Source: AP, 01/19/2021
"Montana’s National Bison Range Transferred To Tribes"
"Red Sleep Mountain began its official return to the Flathead Indian Reservation on Friday as Interior Secretary David Bernhardt signed papers transferring the National Bison Range to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes."
Source: AP, 01/19/2021
Senate Majority Offers Biden New Paths On Trump Environmental Rollbacks
"The incoming Senate Democratic majority opens new avenues for the incoming Biden administration to reverse a host of last-minute environmental rollbacks by President Trump."
Source: The Hill, 01/19/2021
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