"Schumer Steps On The Gas To Move Biden Agenda"
"Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is raising the pressure on his own party to get President Biden’s spending bill on track to pass the chamber by Christmas."
Source: The Hill, 12/07/2021
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"Why Some Of Your Favorite Podcasts Are Filled With Oil Company Ads"
"Exxon and other fossil fuel companies are running podcast ads that suggest they are taking aggressive climate action. Climate experts call them greenwashing".
Source: Guardian, 12/06/2021"Democrats Might Be Able To Halt Most New Offshore Oil And Gas Drilling"
"A slew of climate provisions in Democrats' roughly $2 trillion social spending bill face an uncertain future in the Senate. But there's one big exception: limits on offshore oil and gas drilling."
Source: Washington Post, 12/06/2021"EPA Outlines $7.4B For Water Infrastructure Headed To States"
"States, Native American tribes and U.S. territories will receive $7.4 billion in 2022 to improve water quality and access, the first installment from the infrastructure bill that President Joe Biden signed into law last month, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday."
Source: AP, 12/03/2021Coal Provinces ‘Co-Ordinated’ Fight Against Federal Water Pollution Rules
"Internal government documents show Alberta, B.C., Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia worked in opposition to proposed regulations to crack down on contaminated wastewater from coal mines".
Source: The Narwhal, 12/03/2021‘They Can’t Silence Us’: Female Lawyers Defending Colombia’s Environment
"Legal team faces daily threats as it works to protect displaced families from landowners, ecosystems from mining and indigenous groups from oil companies".
Source: Guardian, 12/03/2021"So You Want to Donate to a Climate Group…"
"An analysis by Carbon Switch released on Giving Tuesday shows that donations to environmental groups is concentrated mostly at just a couple of big nonprofits, most of which work in land conservation."
Source: Earther, 12/03/2021Mo. Health Dept Found Mask Mandates Work, But Didn’t Make Findings Public
"Mask mandates saved lives and prevented COVID-19 infections in Missouri’s biggest cities during the worst part of the delta variant wave, an analysis by the state Department of Health and Senior Services shows. But the analysis, conducted at the request of Gov. Mike Parson’s office in early November, was never made public and was only obtained by The Missouri Independent and the Documenting COVID-19 project after a Sunshine Law request to the department."
Source: Missouri Independent, 12/03/2021Fossil Fuel Firms To Make Billions From Tax Break in Dems’ Budget Bill
"The legislation would increase tax breaks for carbon capture and carbon removal by 70 percent, potentially yielding payouts large enough to wipe out some companies’ income tax bills."
Source: Inside Climate News, 12/02/2021Kerry Says China, India, Russia Must Do More To Tackle Warming
"U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said on Wednesday that big greenhouse gas emitting countries like China, India, Russia and others must move faster to help the world avert the worst impacts of global warming."
Source: Reuters, 12/02/2021"The PR Firms Doing Big Oil’s Dirty Work"
"Oil companies haven’t acted alone in deceiving the public and stopping climate action. They’ve had a major assist from some of the world’s most profitable public relations companies, a relationship that has gone largely unexamined until now."
Source: Earther, 12/02/2021"Inside The Push To Revive Industry Superfund Fees"
"Key players in the long-dormant effort to make companies pay for toxic site cleanups notched a big win in the recently enacted infrastructure bill. Now, they’re hoping for a similar payoff in the massive reconciliation package."
Source: E&E News, 12/01/2021"Fact-Checking the Finger Pointing on High Gasoline Prices"
"President Joe Biden didn’t mince words as he blamed the oil industry for gasoline prices running at a seven-year high."
Source: Bloomberg, 12/01/2021"Biden Seeks Willing Hosts For Nuclear Waste Storage Sites"
"The Biden administration on Tuesday said it was seeking local communities willing to host nuclear waste storage sites, arguing they are needed to deal with the nation’s existing waste and encourage growth in virtually emissions-free nuclear power to fight climate change."
Source: Reuters, 12/01/2021"Police Burn Miners’ Boats In Brazil’s Amazon, Upping Tension"
"BORBA, Brazil — Brazilian police said Monday they burned 131 boats used by gold miners in the heart of the Amazon, raising tensions in an isolated region rife with poverty and crime.
Smoke has been wafting over the Madeira river since Saturday, with many locals complaining the swift action by authorities has left them stranded in the rainforest.
Source: AP, 12/01/2021
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