"Kentucky Republicans Split Over Renewed Law to Prop Up Costly Coal Plants"
"Last month, one of the nation’s top Republican donors became a flashpoint in a debate over the outsized power coal has in the state of Kentucky."
Source: Sierra, 05/07/2024
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"The World’s Garment Workers Are On The Front Lines Of Climate Impacts"
"Fast fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Its global workforce is paying the price."
Source: Grist, 05/07/2024U.S. Oil and Gas Production Is Booming. So Are Donations to GOP Allies
"August Pfluger, an Air Force veteran and member of the U.S. House representing a small district in West Texas, isn’t exactly a household name on the national political scene, with little press coverage in the last two months outside a recent Fox News appearance. But he is the country’s top recipient of campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry".
Source: Capital & Main, 05/07/2024Epoch Times Promotes Climate Science Denial Ads to Millions Across Europe
"The pro-Trump Epoch Times has run hundreds of anti-climate social media adverts in Europe since the beginning of 2024 that have been seen millions of times, DeSmog can reveal."
Source: DeSmog, 05/06/2024New California Bill Could Allow Developers To Cut Down More Joshua Trees
"Environmentalists warn that a California Democrat’s bill “drives a bulldozer” through the state’s new law that protects imperiled Joshua trees from commercial development. But the lawmaker says his impoverished desert region desperately needs the economic boost."
Source: CalMatters, 05/03/2024"Big Oil Hearing: Dems Make Their Case Against The Industry"
"A Senate Budget Committee hearing Wednesday gave Democrats the chance to highlight new findings in an ongoing congressional investigation seeking to prove that major oil companies waged a decadeslong climate disinformation campaign."
Source: E&E News, 05/02/2024"Biden To Expand California Monuments At White House Event"
"President Joe Biden will add a combined 120,000 acres Thursday to a pair of national monuments in California at a White House ceremony, the administration announced."
Source: E&E News, 05/02/2024EQT Says Fracked Gas Is a Climate Solution; Scientists Call Greenwashing
"The Pittsburgh corporation says its natural gas is saving the world, countering Russian aggression and solving the climate crisis. Numerous experts say that’s not true."
Source: PublicSource, 05/02/2024"Florida Says No to Federal Funding Aimed at Greenhouse Gas Emissions"
"Florida gave up $3 million in federal grant funding and as much as $500 million more by declining to participate in a Biden administration program aimed at helping states address the human-caused emissions warming the global climate."
Source: Inside Climate News, 05/02/2024"Plastic Pollution Talks Make Modest Progress But Sidestep Production Curbs"
"Negotiations on a future global treaty to tackle soaring plastic pollution ran overtime into Tuesday morning amid tense debates over whether the world should seek to limit the amount of plastic being made. As the week-long talks in the Canadian capital of Ottawa ended before dawn, countries agreed to continue their work in ad hoc meetings before the final summit starting Nov. 25 in Busan, South Korea."
Source: Reuters, 05/01/2024Big 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"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, 05/01/2024
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