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"Electricity: Report Offers Biden Framework For A Clean Energy Standard"

"Over a quarter-century, proposals for a clean energy standard (CES) have flared up and sputtered out, done in by political indifference or opposition to mandatory federal controls to shrink power plant carbon emissions. President Biden's climate team is searching now for the right design for a CES — an essential pathway toward his far-reaching clean energy goals — making the definition a high-stakes question."

Source: E&E News, 05/05/2021

Chemicals: Biden's 'End Cancer' Pledge Begs For Environmental Oversight

"President Biden pledged last week to 'end cancer as we know it,' a bold promise focused on boosting funding to the National Institutes of Health for a special Advanced Research Projects Agency-Health. ... But public health experts who have spent their careers examining environmental causes of cancer say it may not be possible to truly stop cancer without EPA stepping in."

Source: E&E News, 05/05/2021

"Enforcement: Internal EPA Memo Urges Agents To Up Inspections"

"EPA's top enforcement official has directed agents to ramp up inspections in communities that have long been afflicted by pollution and called on agents 'to step in and take necessary action' in cases where state regulators are falling short on the job."

Source: E&E News, 05/05/2021

Women in Film & Video

Washington, DC-based Women in Film & Video is a peer-to-peer forum for beginners through to advanced, with level-based membership fees. They provide advance notice of jobs, grants, festivals, scholarships, preview screenings, helpful members-only listservs and reduced admission for educational programs.

SEJ Investment Policy and Procedures

The SEJ Board of Directors has adopted this Investment Policy to provide guidelines for the investment of funds held by the organization, as well as a structured approach for management of SEJ’s cash reserves.

"Breeding Sea Stars in a Lab to Rehabilitate Warming Oceans"

"In an island laboratory off the coast of Washington State, scientists are bringing back to life a gorgeously ferocious predator that suddenly perished amid a climate change-driven marine heat wave seven years ago." "Climate change helped to kill most of the world’s sunflower sea stars. Resurrecting them could revive carbon dioxide-sequestering kelp forests."

Source: Bloomberg Green, 05/04/2021

"DuPont Loses Plastic Pollution Vote With Record 81% Rebellion"

"An overwhelming majority of DuPont de Nemours Inc. investors voted in favor of a proposal calling for more transparency on pollution, rebuffing the chemical giant’s management at its annual meeting."

Source: Bloomberg Environment, 05/04/2021

"Biden Plan to Boost Public Transit Funding: Visionary or Wasteful?"

"If President Joe Biden gets his way, the federal government will double public transit funding in the coming years. He sees it as an essential part of his proposed $2 trillion infrastructure package: a way to reduce traffic congestion, improve air quality and meet rider demand."

Source: Pew/Stateline, 05/04/2021

Environmentalists Sue Army Corps Of Engineers Over Pipeline Permitting

"A coalition of five environmental groups on Monday sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, saying the corps did not properly analyze environmental impacts when issuing a broad pipeline permit."

Source: The Hill, 05/04/2021

"California Senator Seeks Expansion Of Land, Water Protection"

"California Sen. Alex Padilla on Monday proposed a vast expansion of government protection for public lands and rivers that he said would fight climate change and safeguard natural treasures for generations to come."

Source: AP, 05/04/2021

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