"US Safety Agency to Consider Ban on Gas Stoves Amid Health Fears"
"The US Consumer Product Safety Commission will move to regulate gas stoves as new research links them to childhood asthma."
Source: Bloomberg Green, 01/09/2023
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"Republicans Target Oil Reserve Releases With Initial Energy Bills"
"House Republicans are honing in on releases from the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve in the first set of bills that they’re expected to take up once they can start legislating."
Source: The Hill, 01/09/2023
"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
"PFAS Bans, Restrictions Go Into Effect in States in 2023"
"Laws and regulations restricting “forever chemicals” in more than a half dozen states are entering effect in 2023, including the start of a timeline for a first-in-the-nation ban on PFAS in all products in Maine."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 01/09/2023
"Great Salt Lake On Track To Disappear In Five Years, Scientists Warn"
"Without dramatic cuts to water consumption, Utah’s Great Salt Lake is on track to disappear within five years, a dire new report warns, imperiling ecosystems and exposing millions of people to toxic dust from the drying lake bed."
Source: Washington Post, 01/09/2023
"Biden Signs Water Bills Benefitting 3 Tribes in Arizona"
"A Native American tribe that has one of the largest and most secure rights to Colorado River water now has approval to lease some of it in Arizona, a state that’s been hardest hit by cuts to its water supply and is on a perpetual search for more."
Source: AP, 01/09/2023
Buyers Of Electric Cars Can Get A $7,500 Tax Credit, But It Won't Be Easy
"Uncle Sam wants you to buy an electric vehicle. And he's willing to throw $7,500 your way to make it happen ... if you and the model you want both qualify."
Source: NPR, 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
"Brazil Authorities Seek To Punish Pro-Bolsonaro Rioters"
"Brazilian authorities were picking up the pieces and investigating Monday after thousands of ex-President Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters stormed Congress, the Supreme Court and presidential palace then trashed the nation’s highest seats of power."
Source: AP, 01/09/2023
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