"Senators Face Roadblocks To Passing Bipartisan Infrastructure Plan"
"Ten Democratic and Republican senators who crafted a bipartisan infrastructure plan are having trouble winning liberal senators to their cause."
Source: CNBC, 06/17/2021
Environmental Politics
"Arab States Call On U.N. Security Council To Meet Over Ethiopian Dam"
"Arab states are calling on the U.N. Security Council to discuss the dispute over Ethiopia’s plan to fill a giant dam it is building on the Blue Nile, Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said on Tuesday after a foreign ministers’ meeting."
Source: Reuters, 06/16/2021
G7 Brightens Outlook For New Nature Pact But Pandemic Threatens Deadline
"New pledges by G7 leaders on climate change and biodiversity loss will boost efforts to strike a global pact to protect nature but an October deadline is likely to be missed without in-person talks, officials and observers said on Tuesday."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 06/16/2021
Judge Says Biden Can't Pause New Leases for Drilling on Public Lands
"A federal judge in Louisiana has blocked the Biden administration’s suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters, in the first major legal roadblock for President Biden’s quest to cut fossil fuel pollution and conserve public lands."
Source: NYTimes, 06/16/2021
"Schumer To Trigger Reconciliation Process On Wednesday"
"Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) says he will convene a meeting with all 11 Democratic members of the Senate Budget Committee on Wednesday to begin the process for passing a budget resolution, paving the way for Democrats to pass a major infrastructure bill on a party-line vote."
Source: The Hill, 06/16/2021
Carbon Capture: Climate Solution Or Prolonging Fossil Fuel Dependency?
"Capturing and burying CO2 is heralded as the technological fix to mitigate climate change. But many oil and gas majors are using the technology to produce more fossil fuels."
Source: DW, 06/15/2021
Texas Grid Operator Urges Electricity Conservation As Temperatures Rise
"The Electric Reliability Council of Texas says a large number of power plants are offline, but it could not provide details as to what may be causing the “very concerning” number of outages. At the same time, the state is experiencing near-record demand for electricity in June."
Source: Texas Tribune, 06/15/2021
Haaland Urges Biden To Restore 3 National Monuments Weakened By Trump
"Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has recommended in a confidential report that President Biden restore full protections to three national monuments diminished by President Donald Trump, including Utah’s Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante and a huge marine reserve off New England."
Source: Washington Post, 06/15/2021
Boom and Bust — Two Books Explore Working-Class Communities in the Clean Energy Transition
For a clean energy transition to succeed, it almost certainly will have to bring along displaced workers and communities. To help journalists understand the challenges underlying that shift, BookShelf’s Jenny Weeks reviews two volumes. The first is a new memoir of working in North Dakota’s booming Bakken oil fields, the second an earlier account of decline in a working-class community in Oregon.
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Uncovering Inequality’s Roots in Timber Poaching
Journalist Lyndsie Bourgon had covered timber poaching in the Pacific Northwest for over a decade when she decided to expand her scope, heading to the Peruvian Amazon to explore old-growth poaching there. In FEJ StoryLog, she shares the ups and downs of that project, made possible in part by a grant from the Society of Environmental Journalists’ Fund for Environmental Journalism.
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