"Nebraska Decarbonization Vote Was Years In The Making"
"Nebraska has become the first Republican-dominated state to commit to a goal of net-zero electricity emissions by 2050."
Source: E&E News, 12/13/2021
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FEMA Restores Climate Goal In Strategic Plan After Trump Dropped It
"The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is once again considering climate change in its strategic planning after a plan released during the Trump administration did not include it."
Source: The Hill, 12/10/2021
Biden BLM Moves To Scrap Trump Cadiz Water Pipeline Permit
"Federal authorities have moved to reverse a Trump administration decision that cleared the way for Cadiz Inc. to pipe water across public land in the California desert."
Source: LA Times, 12/08/2021
Biden OKs More Oil And Gas Drilling Permits On Public Lands Than Trump
"The Biden administration has approved more oil and gas drilling permits on public lands per month than the Trump administration did during the first three years of Donald Trump's presidency, according to an analysis shared exclusively with The Climate 202."
Source: Washington Post, 12/08/2021
Biden Administration Proposes Lightbulb Efficiency Rule, Reversing Trump
"The Biden administration late Friday proposed a rule that would impose a lightbulb efficiency standard after the Trump administration declined to do so."
Source: The Hill, 12/07/2021
Pro-Trump Counties Have Higher COVID Death Rates: Blame Misinformation
"Since May 2021, people living in counties that voted heavily for Donald Trump during the last presidential election have been nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19 as those who live in areas that went for now-President Biden. That's according to a new analysis by NPR that examines how political polarization and misinformation are driving a significant share of the deaths in the pandemic."
Source: NPR, 12/07/2021
"Trump Rule Meant To Save Coal Is Forcing Plants To Close"
"A wastewater rule the Trump administration pushed through as a Hail Mary for struggling coal plants is now being cited as a reason some of those same units are opting to close."
Source: E&E News, 12/03/2021
"Lawsuit Takes Aim At Trump-Era Rule Expanding Hunting Grounds"
"Environmentalists on Monday accused the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of imperiling hundreds of vulnerable species when it expanded hunting and fishing on 147 national wildlife refuges and fish hatcheries under President Donald Trump."
Source: Reuters, 11/30/2021
"Defections, Morale Grip EPA Forensics Lab: ‘We Can’t Function’"
"At least a third of the scientists and staff at EPA’s specialized forensics lab have quit or retired over the past five years, an exodus that threatens the unit’s central role in solving some of the nation’s most difficult environmental crimes."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 11/30/2021
"State Attorneys Want Biden to Further Undo Trump’s NEPA Rule"
"The Biden administration’s proposal to bolster environmental permitting review is a good first step but doesn’t go far enough towards scrapping Trump-era rules, according to a coalition of Democratic attorneys general."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 11/24/2021
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