EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

Calif. Oil Town Chose Oil-Tied Firm to Review Impacts of a Drilling Permit [9]

"Signal Hill Petroleum spent millions to overturn California’s landmark law protecting neighborhoods from oil drilling. Now it wants to drill dozens of new wells in a city established a century ago to avoid taxes on oil development."

Economy & Business [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [14]
Infrastructure [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Public [18]
California [19]
Source: Inside Climate News [20], 06/07/2024
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Mich. Bottled Water Company Is Still Extracting Millions of Gallons Free [21]

"Gov. Gretchen Whitmer had pledged to crack down on bottled water companies taking water at the same time Flint, Michigan, faced a water crisis. Six years later and in her second term, little has changed."

Economy & Business [10]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [22]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [18]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [24]
Source: ProPublica [25], 06/07/2024
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"EPA Balked At TVA’s Fossil Fuel Plant, Then Stepped Aside" [26]

"Top EPA officials supported a rebuke of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s environmental review of a gas-fueled power plant this spring, but they backed off when the electric utility ignored their criticism."

Climate Change [27]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [28]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [29]
Source: E&E News [30], 06/07/2024
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Lawsuits from Citizens and States Targeting Plastic Pollution Pile Up [31]

"New litigation from state AG offices raises the stakes in court battles focused on fighting greenwashing and misleading claims about recycling."

Chemicals [32]
Consumer [33]
Economy & Business [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: Inside Climate News [34], 06/07/2024
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Secretive Court Has Awarded Over $100bn Public Money To Fossil Firms: Study [35]

"Fossil fuel firms are biggest beneficiaries of investor-state dispute settlement courts which have awarded $114bn of public money".

Climate Change [27]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Public [18]
International [36]
Source: Guardian [37], 06/07/2024
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Paris Is Aiming For The Most Sustainable Olympics Yet. Plan Not Perfect [38]

"Of all the decisions Paris Olympics organizers made about where to hold each sport, sending surfing competitions to the other side of the world — in the Pacific waters of Tahiti — provoked the strongest reactions. Tahitians and others railed against the building of a new viewing tower on Teahupo’o reef because of fears it would hurt marine life."

Activism [39]
Climate Change [27]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [15]
Journalism & Media [40]
Natural Resources [22]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [18]
International [36]
Europe [41]
Source: AP [42], 06/07/2024
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"UN Chief Rebukes Fossil Fuel Industry Supporters As Climate Records Break" [43]

"U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said Wednesday that countries must confront not just the fossil-fuel industry, but also companies that support efforts to obstruct climate action. The U.N. chief, a longtime critic of oil and gas companies' role in driving climate change, called the industry out for spending billions on "distorting the truth, deceiving the public, and sowing doubt" about climate change, while investing just "a measly 2.5%" of its total capital on clean energy alternatives."

Climate Change [27]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [40]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Public [18]
International [36]
Source: Reuters [44], 06/06/2024
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Only 3 Company Prosecutions In England And Wales For Unfit Drinking Water [45]

"The drinking water regulator for England and Wales has brought only three prosecutions against water companies for providing poor quality water since 2021, despite 362 instances in which water was flagged as being unfit for human consumption."

Consumer [33]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [17]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [18]
Europe [41]
Source: Guardian [46], 06/06/2024
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NYC Had A Bold Plan To Tax Drivers And Fund Transit. The Governor Killed It. [47]

"What would have been America’s first congestion pricing experiment has been delayed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, leaving public transit in a financial hole."

Air [48]
Climate Change [27]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [49]
Pollution [17]
Transportation [50]
Public [18]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [51]
Source: Washington Post [52], 06/06/2024
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Mich., Wisc. Govs Tout Biden’s Investments In Climate Group’s $1.4M Ad Buy [53]

"Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) and Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) will appear in ads touting the Biden administration’s green investments in ads running in their state. The $1.4 million total buy from climate group Evergreen includes an ad with each governor, highlighting the impact of the Biden administration’s investments in their state."

Climate Change [27]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [40]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [28]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [24]
Source: The Hill [54], 06/06/2024
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"Modi Will Feel the Heat in a Third Term. And Not Just Politically." [55]

"Narendra Modi, the Hindu nationalist prime minister who claimed victory Tuesday for a third five-year term, will face major challenges fueled by climate change. India, the world’s most populous country, is also among the most vulnerable to climate hazards."

Climate Change [27]
Disasters [56]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
People & Population [49]
Public [18]
Asia [57]
Source: NYTimes [58], 06/05/2024
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"A Billionaire-Backed City Promises to Be a Green Urban Paradise" [59]

"But it may not be what it appears"

"A plan to develop a new city northeast of San Francisco has been seven years in the making, but until recently, the details were largely kept under wraps. Now that the plans are public—and the proposal has garnered enough signatures to make it onto the November ballot for voter consideration—residents and activists are squaring off to defeat what the developers promise will be a kind of green urban paradise.
Activism [39]
Environmental Politics [13]
Environmental Studies [14]
Infrastructure [15]
Journalism & Media [40]
Natural Resources [22]
Planning & Growth [60]
Public [18]
California [19]
Source: Sierra [61], 06/05/2024
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Can Mexico's Sheinbaum, Climate Scientist, Shake Lopez Obrador's Oil Legacy? [62]

"Mexico's President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, an accomplished climate scientist, could struggle to fulfill her environmental pledges after she sailed to victory, in part, on the popularity of a predecessor who doubled down on fossil fuels."

Climate Change [27]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Public [18]
Mexico [63]
Source: Reuters [64], 06/05/2024
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"Trump Eyes Cutting Interior, ‘Environment Agencies’" [65]

"Former President Donald Trump said he wants to cut the Interior Department if he returns to the White House, and indicated “environmental agencies” more broadly are also on the chopping block."

Biodiversity [66]
Climate Change [27]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [67]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [22]
Pollution [17]
Water & Oceans [23]
Wildlife [68]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: E&E News [69], 06/04/2024
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Vermont Enacts 1st State Law Requiring Oil Companies Pay For Climate Damage [70]

"Vermont has become the first state to enact a law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a share of the damage caused by climate change after the state suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from other extreme weather."

Climate Change [27]
Economy & Business [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [18]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [51]
Source: AP [71], 06/04/2024
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