"6 Aspects of American Life Threatened by Climate Change"
"Two dozen federal agencies flagged the biggest dangers posed by a warming planet. The list spreads across American society."
Source: NYTimes, 10/08/2021
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"Navajo Leaders Seek Hearing On Oil And Gas Drilling Dispute"
"Top officials with the largest Native American tribe in the United States are renewing a request for congressional leaders to hold a field hearing before deciding on federal legislation aimed at limiting oil and gas development around Chaco Culture National Historical Park."
Source: AP, 10/08/2021"White House Outlines Plan To Overhaul Trump NEPA Rules"
"The White House Council on Environmental Quality has proposed reversing a number of Trump-era changes to the nation’s bedrock environmental permitting law."
Source: E&E News, 10/07/2021"DOJ Investigating Trump’s Car Emissions Probe"
"The Justice Department’s inspector general is investigating former President Trump’s decision to open a probe of U.S. automakers that bucked his vehicle emission standards in favor of California’s stricter ones, a lawmaker said today."
Source: E&E News, 10/07/2021"Greenpeace Calls For End To Carbon Offsets"
"Carbon offsets are allowing the world's biggest polluters to forge ahead with business plans that are threatening global climate goals, the head of Greenpeace International said in an interview."
Source: Reuters, 10/07/2021"Pandemic Complicates Preparations for COP26 Climate Summit"
"The United Nations event, known as COP26, will be one of the largest international gatherings during the Covid-19 pandemic. Challenges abound."
Source: NYTimes, 10/07/2021"Canada Invokes 1977 Treaty With US As Dispute Over Pipeline Intensifies"
"The Canadian government has invoked a decades-old treaty with the United States in its latest bid to save a pipeline that critics warn could be environmentally catastrophic if it were to fail."
Source: Guardian, 10/07/2021"Germany's Center-Right Woos Greens for Possible Coalition"
"Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right bloc sought to win over the environmentalist Greens for a possible coalition Tuesday as the parties that hope for a share of power in Germany wrapped up their first talks on forming a new government."
Source: AP, 10/06/2021Historical Emissions Reveal Responsibility Of Big Polluting Nations
"Analysis of the total carbon dioxide emissions of countries since 1850 has revealed the nations with the greatest historical responsibility for the climate emergency. But six of the top 10 have yet to make ambitious new pledges to cut their emissions before the crucial UN Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow in November."
Source: Guardian, 10/06/20215 Midwest Governors Agree To Create Network To Charge Electric Vehicles
"The governors of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin are joining forces to build a new network for charging electric vehicles. The bipartisan plan aims to improve the region's economy while also reducing toxic emissions from cars and trucks."
Source: NPR, 10/05/2021"How Do Thousands Prepare for a Climate Summit? With Difficulty."
"In a few weeks, an estimated 20,000 ministers, activists and executives from nearly every country in the world are set to descend on Glasgow to hammer out how to make progress on climate change."
Source: NYTimes, 10/05/2021"Manchin Clashes With Fellow Democrats Over Fossil-Fuel Demands"
"Centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is insisting that natural gas be allowed to have a central role in President Biden’s clean energy agenda, which puts him on a collision course with Democratic lawmakers who worry he will have the power to water down what they see as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to address climate change."
Source: The Hill, 10/04/2021"An 'Attack On American Cities' Is Freezing Climate Action In Its Tracks"
"The natural gas industry was losing in cities across the US. Then came an obscure partisan tactic called preemption."
Source: Vox, 10/04/2021In Your Facebook Feed: Oil Industry Pushback Against Biden Climate Plans
"The ads appear on Facebook millions of times a week. They take aim at vulnerable Democrats in Congress by name, warning that the $3.5 trillion budget bill — one of the Biden administration’s biggest efforts to pass meaningful climate policy — will wreck the United States economy."
Source: NYTimes, 10/01/2021"Senate Confirms Biden’s Pick to Lead the Bureau of Land Management"
"After a party-line vote, Tracy Stone-Manning became the leader of an agency that manages oil and gas drilling on public lands."
Source: NYTimes, 10/01/2021
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