"A Historic Chance to Protect America’s Free-Flowing Rivers"
"Ten bills in Congress would add conservation protections to 7,000 miles of river to safeguard drinking water, biodiversity and recreation."
Source: The Revelator, 03/03/2022
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"SOTU: What Biden Said — And Didn’t Say — On Climate"
"President Biden used his first State of the Union address to reset his administration after a year of inflation and crises at home and abroad that has left him with nearly record-low approval ratings. But Biden did little to restart his stalled climate agenda."
Source: E&E News, 03/02/2022"IG: FOIA ‘Awareness Program’ Troubled Some Interior Staff"
"A Trump-era FOIA policy at the Interior Department caused some professionals to worry that “political considerations” were hampering the release of information, the department’s watchdog agency reported today."
Source: E&E News, 03/02/2022"Oil Industry Stirs Blowback After Weaving War Into U.S. Lobbying"
Industry executives and their allies on Capitol Hill are citing the war in a push for long-sought policy goals such as pipeline approvals, expanded exports of natural gas and more drilling rights -- even as the White House says companies aren’t making full use of the permits they already have."
Source: Bloomberg, 03/02/2022"Biden Push of Trump Nuke Waste Plan Irks Tribe, Washington State"
"The Biden administration’s backing of a Trump-era move to expedite cleanup of the country’s biggest nuclear waste site has run into staunch opposition from Washington state and tribal officials."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 03/02/2022"Oil and Gas Majors Race Out of Russia"
"It’s a race to the door for oil and gas companies with operations in Russia. Over the past 24 hours, three major international oil companies—BP, Equinor, and Shell—have publicly announced they will get out of the Russian oil business in response to Russia’s war against Ukraine."
Source: Earther, 03/01/2022"Major Hurdle Cleared In Plan To Demolish 4 California Dams"
"Federal regulators on Friday issued a draft environmental impact statement saying there were significant benefits to a plan to demolish four massive dams on Northern California’s Klamath River to save imperiled migratory salmon, setting the stage for the largest dam demolition project in U.S. history."
Source: AP, 03/01/2022"One Way To Combat Russia? Move Faster On Clean Energy"
"The war in Europe adds to the urgency of transitioning to clean energy sources such as solar and wind power that are harder for bad actors such as Russia to disrupt, those experts say."
Source: LA Times, 03/01/2022US Oil Industry Leaps On Invasion Of Ukraine To Argue For More Drilling
"The US oil and gas industry is using Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to pressure the Biden administration to throw open more land and ocean for domestic drilling and to loosen regulations for large companies attempting to ramp up their fossil fuel extraction."
Source: Guardian, 02/28/2022Canon Thinktank Pressured To Remove ‘Dangerous’ Climate Articles
"A thinktank linked to Japanese technology giant Canon is coming under pressure to remove multiple articles from a research director who describes the climate crisis as “fake news” and compares campaigner Greta Thunberg to a communist."
Source: Guardian, 02/28/2022Will Farmed Totoaba Stop Extinction of World’s Most Endangered Porpoise?
"International officials will soon decide the fate of Mexican totoaba fish farming—and with it, possibly the last glimmer of hope for the vaquita."
Source: Hakai, 02/28/2022"U.S. Environmental Enforcement Activity Has Dropped, Study Shows"
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's enforcement activities have dropped sharply since 2018, as criminal fines and civil penalties paid by polluters dropped to new lows, a Washington D.C. watchdog group said Friday in a report."
Source: Reuters, 02/25/2022"E.U. Will Unveil A Strategy To Break Free From Russian Gas"
"For years, Europe’s dependence on Russian energy has held it back from taking powerful action against Kremlin mischief. But now, the Russia-Ukraine crisis is forcing a change unlike any before, driving the European Union to make plans for a permanent, far-reaching break from Russian oil and gas, European policymakers said."
Source: Washington Post, 02/24/2022Top Companies Undermine Climate Pledges With Political Donations: Report
"Some of the nation's best-known corporations are undermining their promises to slash emissions by donating significant sums to elect Republican attorneys general, who have emerged as frequent courtroom foes of climate policies and regulations, according to a report shared exclusively with The Climate 202."
Source: Washington Post, 02/24/2022"Germany Stops Nord Stream 2, A Key Russian Natural Gas Pipeline
"Germany halted certification of the pipeline linking the country to Russia in response to the Kremlin’s recognition of two separatist regions in Ukraine."
Source: NYTimes, 02/23/2022
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