"Air Pollution: 4 Trump Rules Likely Early Targets for Biden EPA"
"Incoming leaders of the EPA air office will face a consequential choice: Which Trump administration rollbacks will they undo first?"
Source: E&E News, 11/13/2020
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DOJ Stalled Probe Against Former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke: Sources
"Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen told prosecutors they needed more evidence to charge Zinke with lying to federal prosecutors."
Source: Washington Post, 11/13/2020
"Biden Insiders: Return BLM to D.C."
"A coalition of climate experts hoping to guide President-elect Joe Biden's transition team has suggested big changes for the Bureau of Land Management, including reversing the Trump administration's relocation of its headquarters to Colorado."
Source: E&E News, 11/13/2020
"EPA: Obama's 'Dream Team' To Smooth Biden's Transition"
"Some of the highest-profile EPA officials of the Obama administration are regrouping as members of President-elect Joe Biden's EPA transition team. The 12 members include several former officials who helped craft the agency's most consequential regulations dealing with air, climate and water — most of which have been rolled back by the Trump administration."
Source: E&E News, 11/13/2020
"Count On Biden To Restore The National Monuments Trump Trashed"
"The president-elect has vowed to not only reverse the Trump administration’s rollback of protected sites, but designate new ones."
Source: HuffPost, 11/13/2020
‘Covid-Hell.’ Experts Sound The Alarm About U.S. Coronavirus Outbreak.
"Public health experts are sounding the alarm about the trajectory of the pandemic in the United States as the coronavirus spreads through the country largely unabated and officials muse aloud about the possibility of fresh lockdowns."
Source: Washington Post, 11/13/2020
"What Will Trump’s Most Profound Legacy Be? Possibly Climate Damage"
"President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. will use the next four years to try to restore the environmental policies that his predecessor has methodically blown up, but the damage done by the greenhouse gas pollution unleashed by President Trump’s rollbacks may prove to be one of the most profound legacies of his single term."
Source: NYTimes, 11/12/2020
How Biden Aims To Amp Up The Government’s Fight Against Climate Change
"A new administration would enlist departments like Transportation, Agriculture and Treasury to advance its climate goals"
"President-elect Joe Biden is poised to embed action on climate change across the breadth of the federal government, from the departments of Agriculture to Treasury to State — expanding it beyond environmental agencies to speed U.S. efforts to mitigate global warming and to acknowledge that the problem touches many aspects of American life.
Source: Washington Post, 11/12/2020
"US Election Result Boosts Preparations for UN Climate Summit"
"Preparations for the next vital UN summit on the climate – one of the last chances to set the world on track to meet the Paris agreement – have been given a boost by the election of Joe Biden as president."
Source: Guardian, 11/11/2020
"Shell Wants Biden to Reverse Methane Emissions Rollback"
"Royal Dutch Shell Plc will push for the reversal of President Donald Trump’s rollback of methane emissions rules and the introduction of carbon pricing when Joe Biden moves into the White House next year.
“Some of the regulatory rollbacks that we’ve seen under the current administration haven’t actually benefited our industry,” Shell U.S. President Gretchen Watkins said Tuesday on a webcast hosted by the Greater Houston Partnership.
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 11/11/2020
