"An Alabama Town’s Sewage Woes Test Biden’s Infrastructure Ambitions"
"The new law allocates $11.7 billion for wastewater and stormwater projects. Will it get to the impoverished communities who need it most?"
Source: NYTimes, 01/13/2022
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"EPA OKs Weedkiller ‘Cocktail’ With New Wildlife Protections"
"EPA yesterday approved new seven-year registrations for two widely used weedkillers, adding "robust" label restrictions to protect endangered species."
Source: E&E News, 01/13/2022"On the Defensive a Year Ago, the American Petroleum Institute Is Back"
"The oil and gas lobby, looking at resurgent production, has more than held its own in dealings with the Biden administration."
Source: Inside Climate News, 01/13/2022Powell Says Climate Stress Tests Likely A 'Key Tool Going Forward'
"Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday said climate stress tests will “very likely” be a “key tool going forward,” a comment that may assuage progressives' concerns regarding his renomination to chief of the central bank."
Source: The Hill, 01/13/2022"No English River Is Free From Pollution - Parliament Report"
"Raw sewage, microplastics and slurry are coursing through all of England's rivers, putting health and nature at risk, a parliamentary report concludes."
Source: BBC News, 01/13/2022"Here’s How Climate Change and Covid Are Transforming Skiing"
"Skiing is an endangered sport, caught between a warming planet and a global pandemic. But there’s a boom in one corner of the ski world that’s being driven, at least in part, by a combination of climate change and Covid."
Source: NYTimes, 01/13/2022"EPA Moves To Crack Down On Dangerous Coal Ash Storage Ponds"
"The Environmental Protection Agency is taking its first major action to address toxic wastewater from coal-burning power plants, ordering utilities to stop dumping waste into unlined storage ponds and speed up plans to close leaking or otherwise dangerous coal ash sites."
Source: AP, 01/12/2022"White House Plan Aims To Protect Science From Politics"
"The White House today [Tuesday] released a wide-ranging plan to strengthen the work of government scientists and protect them from political meddling."
Source: E&E News, 01/12/2022"US Navy To Drain Hawaii Tank System Blamed For Tainted Water"
"After initially resisting, the U.S. Navy will comply with Hawaii’s order to remove fuel from a massive underground storage tank facility near Pearl Harbor blamed for contaminating drinking water, officials said Tuesday."
Source: AP, 01/12/2022Warming Permafrost Puts Key Arctic Pipelines, Roads At Risk: Study
"Nearly 70 percent of the infrastructure in the Northern Hemisphere’s permafrost regions are located in areas that could have near-surface thaw by 2050, researchers project".
Source: Washington Post, 01/12/2022DOE Blew $1.1B on Carbon Capture Projects That Were Mostly Failures: GAO
"The idea of trapping a dirty coal plant’s carbon emissions at the source and storing it underground may sound like the solution to our climate problems. In practice, it’s proven all but completely unfeasible, but that hasn’t stopped the government from plunging money into it."
Source: Earther, 01/12/2022"Biden Spending Bill Ignites Debate Over Dairy Methane Pollution"
"As U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration seeks to revive its ambitious social spending and climate plan in Congress, environmental groups and the farm industry are at odds over proposed subsidies aimed at offsetting agriculture’s substantial contribution to global warming."
Source: Reuters, 01/12/2022"Ghost Flights Are Polluting the Skies Thanks to Omicron"
"Airlines claim they're sending thousands of empty flights out in an attempt to maintain market share despite the environmental damage."
Source: Earther, 01/12/2022EPA To Assess Impact On Endangered Species Before Approving Pesticides
"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will evaluate the potential impact of new pesticide active ingredients on endangered species before registering them, reversing a decades-long policy."
Source: The Hill, 01/12/2022"Stirring Up Lead Dust In NYC Housing"
"“You can have the best law on the books. But if it's not enforced, it's meaningless.”"
Source: EHN, 01/12/2022
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