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DOE Announces $400M To Help States Adopt Climate-Friendly Building Codes

"The Biden administration announced Tuesday it will open applications for the first tranche of funding — $400 million — to help states and territories take up energy-efficient building codes.

A senior administration official told reporters Monday that under the codes, new buildings and major renovations would be done with better construction and in a way that is more efficient and resilient.

The Energy Department said in a press release announcing the funding that homes built using modern energy codes are 40 percent more efficient than homes built 15 years ago."

Source: The Hill, 09/20/2023

"Biden Warns ‘What Awaits Us’ Without Climate Action"

"President Joe Biden issued a warning to international leaders on Tuesday about the global perils that lie ahead if nations don’t work together to slash emissions from fossil fuels."

Source: E&E News, 09/20/2023

"Ohio Injection Wells Suspended Over ‘Imminent Danger’ to Drinking Water"

"Four fracking waste injection wells in Athens County have temporarily suspended operations by order of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, which says the wells present an “imminent danger” to health and the environment."

Source: Athens County Independent, 09/19/2023

Errors In A Federal Carbon Capture Analysis Warn Of Waste: Former Official

"A coal plant seeking hundreds of millions in public funding submitted an analysis riddled with mistakes, according to a former Energy Department official. But the government published it anyway."

Source: Inside Climate News, 09/19/2023

"The US Electricity Transmission System Is in Gridlock"

"How a national macrogrid could accelerate the movement to electrify everything".

Source: Sierra, 09/19/2023

6 Governors Tell Biden Offshore Wind Projects Need US Help To Get Built

"Offshore wind projects need more federal funding and planning assistance to ensure they get built, the Democratic governors of six northeastern states told the Biden administration, warning that a cornerstone of the climate change fight could be in jeopardy."

Source: AP, 09/18/2023

"States Are Criminalizing Environmental Protest"

"Since the Dakota Access Pipeline conflict, 17 states have passed laws aimed at restricting protests, according to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL). Much of that legislation is aimed specifically at environmental protests, raising the penalties for gatherings that take place on "critical infrastructure" sites like pipelines."

Source: Sierra, 09/18/2023

"Biden to Target Industrial Pollution in a 2nd Term, If He Gets One"

"If President Biden wins a second term, his climate policies would take aim at steel and cement plants, factories and oil refineries — heavily polluting industries that have never before had to rein in their heat-trapping greenhouse gases."

Source: NYTimes, 09/18/2023

Gov. Newsom Says He’ll Sign Greenhouse Gas Emissions Disclosure Bill

"Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday announced that he will sign the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act, Sen. Scott Wiener’s greenhouse gas emissions disclosure requirement bill."

Source: Sacramento Bee, 09/18/2023

"Inside Exxon’s Strategy to Downplay Climate Change"

"ExxonMobil issued its first public statement that burning fossil fuels contributes to climate change in 2006, following years of denial. ... Yet behind closed doors, Exxon took a very different tack: Its executives strategized over how to diminish concerns about warming temperatures, and they sought to muddle scientific findings that might hurt its oil-and-gas business ... ."

Source: Wall St. Journal, 09/15/2023

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