"FERC Grants Four-Year Extension for MVP Project"
"The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has granted a four-year extension to complete the Mountain Valley Pipeline."
Source: WDBJ7, 08/24/2022
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"Interior IG Finds Senior BLM Official Violated Ethics Rules"
"The Interior Department’s inspector general has concluded that a senior Bureau of Land Management official violated agency ethics rules last year when she met with a previous employer on potential changes to the agency’s regulation of oil and gas development and climate change."
Source: E&E News, 08/24/2022Experts Debunk Viral Post Claiming 1,100 Scientists Deny Climate Emergency
"To the average consumer of news, the petition’s message might seem reasonable—a healthy dose of skepticism in a debate that affects everyone. .... But despite its measured tone and its list of supporters with impressive-sounding titles like professor or doctor, the declaration isn’t what it appears to be, several career climatologists and disinformation experts told Inside Climate News. "
Source: Inside Climate News, 08/24/2022"Toyota Backs Down In Fight Against California Car Emission Rules"
"Toyota Motor Corp. agreed to recognize California’s authority to set its own auto emission standards, ending a standoff stretching back to the Trump administration."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 08/24/2022"Manchin-Linked Company Could Reap Millions From Climate Law"
"Tucked into the massive climate bill President Joe Biden signed into law this week is a one-sentence provision that could give a huge financial boost to a single energy company."
Source: E&E News, 08/22/2022"Mining Companies Strike Gold With New Climate Law"
"The Inflation Reduction Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law Tuesday, is chock full of mining industry benefits — including a large tax break to any mining company that can produce amounts of minerals central to energy transition products like electric vehicles."
Source: E&E News, 08/22/2022"Judge Revives Block On Biden Leasing Pause"
"A federal judge yesterday [Thursday] barred the Biden administration from pausing new oil and gas leases on federal lands in 13 Republican-led states."
Source: E&E News, 08/22/2022"Biden Proposes Restoring Chemical Safety Standards Weakened By Trump"
"The Biden administration is proposing to restore chemical safety regulations that were loosened under the Trump administration.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to reimpose certain safety requirements that apply to facilities including agricultural supply distributors, chemical manufacturers and distributors, food and beverage manufacturers and oil refineries.
Source: The Hill, 08/22/2022Top Business Lobby Promised Climate Action – But Worked To Block Efforts
"Business Roundtable aims to weaken efforts that would enable investors to hold companies accountable for their climate promises".
Source: Guardian, 08/22/2022"Feds Announce $310 Million In Funding To Combat ‘Megadrought’"
"On a tour of increasingly parched California on Thursday, U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland visited a water recycling project in Irvine to tout her department’s allocation of more than $310 million to combat a Western “megadrought” fueled largely by climate change."
Source: LA Times, 08/22/2022"Returning Sea Otters To Oregon Could Revive Kelp Forests"
"Reintroduction of the marine mammals may restore coastal ecosystems but also threatens shellfish industries and tribal self-governance."
Source: High Country News, 08/22/2022"Climate Bill’s Unlikely Beneficiary: US Oil And Gas Industry"
"The climate measure President Joe Biden signed Tuesday bypasses the administration’s concerns about emissions and guarantees new drilling opportunities in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska."
Source: AP, 08/19/2022Grijalva, Porter Threaten Subpoena Over Firm’s Work With Fossil Companies
"House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the panel’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, floated the possibility of a subpoena if a consulting firm does not produce documents relating to its marketing work for fossil fuel companies."
Source: The Hill, 08/19/2022"‘No Winners’ Seen if States Launch Water War Amid Megadrought"
"The seven states using Colorado River water likely will avoid an epic legal showdown over the most severe water cuts amid the region’s megadrought—but legal analysts say California, Nevada, and Arizona in particular will face heavy burdens to conserve."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 08/19/2022"Shadowy Oil and Gas Interests Are Deciding Texas' Energy Fate"
"The future of Texas’ troubled electric grid is being decided in the dark, with zero public input, by a group of people with deep connections to the fossil fuel industry."
Source: Earther, 08/17/2022
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