"World Bank President, Dogged by Climate Questions, Will Step Down Early"
"David Malpass, under fire for months by critics who accused him of climate denialism, said he would resign in June, a year before his term ends."
Source: NYTimes, 02/16/2023
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"Biden and Lula Project Unity On Democratic Values And Climate Change"
"U.S. President Joe Biden met on Friday with Brazilian leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a reboot of relations between the hemisphere's two largest democracies after the end of Donald Trump ally Jair Bolsonaro's stormy rule."
Source: Reuters, 02/13/2023
"Biden Bans Roads and Logging in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest"
"The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it has banned logging and road-building on about nine million acres of the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska, aiming to settle a two-decade battle over the fate of North America’s largest temperate rainforest."
Source: NYTimes, 01/26/2023
"Depleted Under Trump, a ‘Traumatized’ E.P.A. Struggles With Its Mission"
"Despite an injection of funding, the agency still has not recovered from an exodus of scientists and policy experts, both insiders and critics say."
"WASHINGTON — The nation’s top environmental agency is still reeling from the exodus of more than 1,200 scientists and policy experts during the Trump administration. The chemicals chief said her staff can’t keep up with a mounting workload. The enforcement unit is prosecuting fewer polluters than at any time in the past two decades.
Source: NYTimes, 01/24/2023
"Trump’s Interior Secretary Didn’t Violate Ethics Rules, Watchdog Finds"
"The inspector general for the Interior Department said on Thursday it had found no evidence that the former secretary, David Bernhardt, violated federal ethics or conflict-of-interest rules when the department made decisions that affected one of his former clients, a California water district."
Source: NYTimes, 01/20/2023
"Biden’s Green Energy Bank Races to Leverage $394 Billion to Scale Cleantech"
"The Energy Department office that helped Tesla — and made a bad bet on Solyndra — is hustling to get loans out as the GOP vows scrutiny."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 01/18/2023
Reversing Trump, White House Moves To Weigh Climate In Infrastructure
"Federal regulators have been instructed to consider planet-warming pollution before approving large projects like pipelines and airports."
Source: HuffPost, 01/11/2023
"Biden Moves to End Doughnut Lures and Other Bear Hunting Tactics in Alaska"
"The National Park Service is moving to prohibit hunters on some public lands in Alaska from baiting black bears with doughnuts and using spotlights to shoot hibernating bears and cubs in their dens, techniques allowed by the Trump administration but considered inhumane by conservationists."
Source: NYTimes, 01/09/2023
"Biden Administration Moves to Tighten Limits on Deadly Air Pollution"
"A new rule would, for the first time in a decade, reduce emissions of soot that disproportionately harm communities of color."
Source: NYTimes, 01/09/2023
"Ahead of Major Court Case, E.P.A. Revises Clean-Water Protections"
"A new rule revives an older set of protections for rivers, marshes and waterways, setting aside changes in the Obama and Trump administrations that led to years of legal wrangling." "The Biden administration is working to complete a clean water regulation before a Supreme Court ruling that could complicate the government’s ability to protect wetlands and other waters."
Source: NYTimes, 01/02/2023
