"Inside the Republican Attacks on Electric Vehicles"
"President Biden’s new rule cutting emissions from vehicle tailpipes has deepened a partisan battle over automotive technology."
Source: NYTimes, 03/22/2024
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"Watchdog to EPA: Step Up Gowanus Canal Cleanup Enforcement"
"A major construction project designed to help clean up one of the most contaminated water bodies in the U.S. is years behind schedule and massively over budget, EPA’s independent watchdog said Thursday."
Source: E&E News, 03/22/2024Companies to Inject Millions of Tons of CO2 Underground. Will It Stay Put?
"A new report highlights the risk 120,000 abandoned oil and gas wells pose to carbon dioxide storage in Louisiana, home to more proposals to pump the greenhouse gas underground than any other state." "With industry planning to inject tens of millions of tons annually, a looming question is whether the climate-warming gas will stay underground."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/22/2024"Senate-Passed Radiation Legislation Left Out Of House Spending Bill"
"A standalone bill to expand and reauthorize a 30-year-old radiation compensation program that passed the Senate with a filibuster-proof majority will not be included in the text of a House appropriations bill."
Source: The Hill, 03/22/2024DOE Announces $475M For Clean Energy Projects On Mine Land Sites
"The Biden administration pumped more money into clean energy projects Thursday, announcing up to $475 million in federal funding for projects in five states — including the political battleground states of Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada." "The administration said the clean energy projects will strengthen the country’s energy security while helping ensure mining communities continue playing a role in the energy economy."
Source: AP, 03/22/2024"Biden Administration Announces Rules Aimed at Expanding Electric Vehicles"
"The Biden administration on Wednesday issued one of the most significant climate regulations in the nation’s history, a rule designed to ensure that the majority of new passenger cars and light trucks sold in the United States are all-electric or hybrids by 2032."
Source: NYTimes, 03/21/2024"How A Trump Presidency Could Threaten Biden’s Signature Climate Achievement"
"Democrats’ sweeping Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has fueled significant progress in the fight against climate change since its passage in 2022. But if former President Trump wins back the presidency in November, he’s likely to undermine those gains — or help a Republican Congress do away with the law entirely."
Source: The Hill, 03/21/2024"Outside Groups Pledge Over $1 Billion to Aid Biden’s Re-election Effort"
"The League of Conservation Voters, among the biggest spenders on progressive causes, said it would put $120 million behind President Biden and Democrats as his Republican rival faces cash woes."
Source: NYTimes, 03/20/2024"Green Groups Plot Counterattack For GOP ‘Energy Week’"
"As House Republicans gear up for a four-day sprint of hearings and floor debate devoted to undermining President Joe Biden’s environmental agenda, environmental groups are preparing to fight back."
Source: E&E News, 03/20/2024"Oil Executives, Meeting in Texas, Cast Doubts on ‘Fantasy’ Energy Transition"
"To some, it felt like the oil executive blurted the quiet part out loud. “We should abandon the fantasy of phasing out oil and gas,” said Amin Nasser, head of what is, by far, the world’s biggest oil producer, Saudi Aramco."
Source: NYTimes, 03/20/2024"U.S. Approves $500 Million for Bahrain Oil Project, Despite Opposition"
"A federal bank that finances projects overseas voted Thursday to put $500 million toward an oil and gas project in Bahrain, a transaction that critics said was out of step with President Biden’s climate commitments."
Source: NYTimes, 03/19/2024"FBI Sent Several Informants To Standing Rock Protests, Court Documents Show"
"Up to 10 informants managed by the FBI were embedded in anti-pipeline resistance camps near the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation at the height of mass protests against the Dakota Access pipeline in 2016."
Source: Grist, 03/19/2024"5th Circuit Denies Biden Request To Review Nuclear Waste Ruling"
"An appeals court with a famously conservative bent narrowly rejected the Biden administration’s request to reconsider its August ruling that stripped the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of authority to license private nuclear waste storage facilities not located at a reactor site."
Source: E&E News, 03/19/2024"Trump’s Violent Language Toward EVs"
"The former president has deployed increasingly aggressive talk about electric vehicles and their effect on the American economy."
Source: NYTimes, 03/19/2024"An Oregon Bill to Cut Millions in Timber Taxes Is Dead, Despite Backing"
"The legislation aimed to reformulate how Oregon funds the rising costs of fighting wildfires. It sparked debate within the Democratic-controlled Legislature about who should pay: taxpayers or big timber owners, who won steep tax cuts in the 1990s."
Source: ProPublica, 03/19/2024
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