EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"SuperFund Tax Shortfall: Trouble For Cleanups, EPA Budget" [9]

"The Biden administration has juiced EPA’s Superfund program with billions of dollars, but an unexpected shortfall for “polluter pays” taxes and election-year politics may bring the high times for the toxic waste site cleanup program to a close."

Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [13]
Waste [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [17], 04/17/2024
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What To Know For The Fourth Round Of Global Plastic Pollution Treaty Talks [18]

"The fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international, legally binding plastic pollution treaty will take place from April 23 to April 29 in Ottawa, Canada."

Chemicals [19]
Consumer [20]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [13]
Waste [14]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [15]
International [22]
Source: EHN [23], 04/17/2024
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"California Derailed Its Booming Rooftop Solar Buildout. Can It Be Fixed?" [24]

"Over the past year, California regulators have kneecapped small-scale solar needed to hit the state’s climate goals. These lawmakers are trying to bring it back."

Climate Change [25]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [15]
California [27]
Source: Canary Media [28], 04/17/2024
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How To Spot 5 Of The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Biggest Disinformation Tactics [29]

"Increasingly sophisticated and better-funded disinformation is making climate coverage trickier both for journalists to produce and for the public to fully understand and trust."

Climate Change [25]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Politics [11]
Journalism & Media [30]
Science [31]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Guardian [32], 04/16/2024
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"‘Climate-Controlled’ Sausage? Courts Crack Down on ‘Greenwashing’" [33]

"From airlines to pork sellers, corporate brands face legal and regulatory challenges for misleading the public with lofty climate claims."

Climate Change [25]
Consumer [20]
Economy & Business [34]
Environmental Politics [11]
Environmental Studies [35]
Food [36]
Journalism & Media [30]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [22]
Source: NYTimes [37], 04/15/2024
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"Utilities Brace for Costs of Compliance With New PFAS Water Rule" [38]

"Water utilities will face costly challenges meeting the EPA’s new limits on PFAS in drinking water, making litigation nearly inevitable, lawyers and analysts say."

Chemicals [19]
Consumer [20]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [39]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [13]
Technology [40]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [41], 04/15/2024
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Greens Protest As DOT Approves Huge Oil Export Terminal Off Texas Coast [42]

"In a move that environmentalists called a betrayal, the Biden administration has approved the construction of a deepwater oil export terminal off the Texas coast that would be the largest of its kind in the United States."

Climate Change [25]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [43]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Alaska and Hawaii [44]
Source: AP [45], 04/15/2024
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"Biden Is Stalling On A Rule That Would Save Americans Nearly $1.5 Billion" [46]

"With just over six months before the election, at least one major Biden proposal appears to be stalled: an update to the federal housing rules that agency experts estimate would save homeowners nearly three times more money on energy bills than it would add to construction costs, spread out over a 30-year mortgage."

Climate Change [25]
Consumer [20]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [39]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Planning & Growth [47]
Technology [40]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: HuffPost [48], 04/15/2024
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"Trump Allies Target NOAA Climate Research" [49]

"Allies of former President Donald Trump don’t just want to muzzle federal climate science if he wins a second term — they also want to upend the agencies that fuel such research."

Climate Change [25]
Environmental Politics [11]
Pollution [13]
Science [31]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [50], 04/12/2024
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"Big Oil Is Quietly Paying State Legal Officials To Kill Climate Litigation" [51]

"Honolulu's climate lawsuit is an existential threat to Big Oil. So they’re buying Republican attorneys general to defend them in court."

Climate Change [25]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: HEATED [52], 04/12/2024
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Group Slams Gas Group’s Use Of Customers’ Money To Thwart Climate Efforts [53]

"A group of advocates and Democratic senators gathered in Washington DC on Tuesday to decry utilities’ practice of spending customers’ money to advance a pro-fossil fuel agenda."

Climate Change [25]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Justice [54]
Environmental Politics [11]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Guardian [55], 04/12/2024
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FirstEnergy Gave Secret $1 Million To Ohio Lt. Gov. Campaign in Scandal [56]

"A surge in FirstEnergy political spending ahead of the utility’s push to secure a legislative bailout for its nuclear power plants included a $1 million dark money contribution to support the campaign of Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s eventual running mate."

Consumer [20]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [57]
Journalism & Media [30]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [58]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [59]
Source: Floodlight/Energy News Network [60], 04/11/2024
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Trump Appointees Barred EPA Staff From Warning Senate About PFAS Loophole [61]

"Trump administration officials barred experts from warning legislators that they were about to write a major environmental loophole into law, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staffers alleged in newly revealed internal communications."

Chemicals [19]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [54]
Environmental Politics [11]
Journalism & Media [30]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: The Hill [62], 04/11/2024
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US Agrees With Native American Tribe That Line 5 Pipeline Is Trespassing [63]

"The Biden administration straddled the line on a controversial Canadian oil pipeline in a court filing Wednesday, saying a lower court’s order to drain portions running through tribal land may violate a 1977 treaty but agreeing with a Native American tribe that the operator is trespassing on tribal land."

Disasters [64]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Justice [54]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [39]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [43]
Pollution [13]
Transportation [65]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [59]
Canada [66]
Source: The Hill [67], 04/11/2024
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Senate Votes To Reject Rule To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions On Highways [68]

"The U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed a resolution that would overturn a federal agency's rule requiring states to measure and set declining targets for greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles using the national highway system."

Climate Change [25]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [13]
Transportation [65]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Reuters [69], 04/11/2024
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