"World Bank President, Dogged by Climate Questions, Will Step Down Early"
"David Malpass, under fire for months by critics who accused him of climate denialism, said he would resign in June, a year before his term ends."
Source: NYTimes, 02/16/2023
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Will SEC Scale Back ESG Requirements For Publicly Traded Corporations?
"America’s top Wall Street regulator might scale back a proposal that would require public companies operating in the United States to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and any financial risks they face from global warming."
Source: Inside Climate News, 02/16/2023"Poor Nations Seek To Go Green With Debt Swaps"
"With many developing nations facing a triple whammy of rising debt loads, climate change and nature loss, conservationists say the answer could lie with a financial instrument enabling them to tackle all three at once: "debt-for-environment swaps".
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 02/16/2023"Feinstein Will Leave A Vast Environmental Legacy"
"Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein shaped California’s environment like no one else."
Source: E&E News, 02/16/2023"Exxon Gives Up on Much-Hyped Algae Biofuels"
"It’s the end of an algal era: Exxon is backing out of a biofuel effort that the company has for years centered as part of its work in clean energy."
Source: Earther, 02/14/2023"Report: Companies’ Climate Targets Not What They Claim To Be"
"Climate commitments by companies aren’t always as green as they seem. A new report concludes major brands are exaggerating how ambitious their efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions are — in effect misleading consumers, investors and governments."
Source: AP, 02/13/2023"Biden and Lula Project Unity On Democratic Values And Climate Change"
"U.S. President Joe Biden met on Friday with Brazilian leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a reboot of relations between the hemisphere's two largest democracies after the end of Donald Trump ally Jair Bolsonaro's stormy rule."
Source: Reuters, 02/13/2023"DeSantis, Aiming at a Favorite Foil, Wants to Roll Back Press Freedom"
"The Florida governor and possible presidential candidate is the latest in a string of Republicans to target the Supreme Court decision that has long protected journalists accused of defamation."
Source: NYTimes, 02/13/2023Million-Strong Army Of Environmental Super Voters Recruits In 2 Red States
"The Environmental Voter Project is expanding to Louisiana and Nebraska ahead of key state elections."
Source: HuffPost, 02/09/2023How US Climate Funding Could Make Water Pollution Worse
"The Inflation Reduction Act was hailed for its climate funding – but some are concerned several provisions will worsen a growing environmental disaster".
Source: Guardian, 02/09/2023"America, Meet Biden’s Climate Bill"
"President Joe Biden began a two-year tour to sell the climate bill Tuesday night. His first stop was the Capitol."
Source: E&E News, 02/08/2023Offshore Wind In The Gulf Take A Back Seat To Oil Drilling Under New Law
"President Joe Biden’s administration is tapping the brakes on offshore wind energy development in the Gulf of Mexico to make way for a new fast-tracked effort to open more federal waters to oil and gas drilling."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 02/08/2023"Nevada Monument Will Shield Sacred Tribal Land — From Renewables"
"For years now, Native American tribes have sought more protections for the federal lands in the Mojave Desert in southern Nevada that are central to their core beliefs about creation. But advocates say the effort took on new urgency as renewable energy developers eyed pieces of the same land for projects that could fit into the Biden administration’s push for clean electricity."
Source: E&E News, 02/07/2023"Climate Denial Campaign Goes Retro With New Textbook"
"This week, the [Heartland Institute] sent copies of its book “Climate at a Glance” to 8,000 middle and high school teachers across the country, in order to provide them, it says, with “the data to show the earth is not experiencing a climate crisis.”"
Source: Grist, 02/07/2023"Sens. Cruz, Manchin Team Up To Fight A Nonexistent Gas Stove Ban"
"Two of Congress’ biggest beneficiaries of fossil fuel industry money have introduced legislation to block a federal gas stove ban that does not exist and has not been proposed."
Source: HuffPost, 02/06/2023
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