Laws & Regulations

Haaland Announces Restoration Of Once-Endangered Apache Trout In Arizona

"U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Wednesday that the Apache trout — Arizona’s state fish — has been removed from the federal list of endangered and threatened wildlife following more than five decades of recovery efforts."

Source: AP, 09/05/2024

"The World Is Pumping Out 57 Million Tons Of Plastic Pollution A Year"

"The world creates 57 million tons of plastic pollution every year and spreads it from the deepest oceans to the highest mountaintop to the inside of people’s bodies, according to a new study that also said more than two-thirds of it comes from the Global South."

Source: AP, 09/05/2024

"Electric Big Rigs Are Poised to Revolutionize the Trucking Industry"

"The charging yard for electric trucks at the Port of Long Beach is bright and sunny and full of semitrailer tractors—the truncated front ends of big rigs without their big-box loads. It’s also quiet. Elsewhere at the port, wherever there are trucks, there’s the near-deafening rumble of diesel engines. But the trucks here aren’t combusting; they’re filling up with electrons to power their next trip to Southern California’s Inland Empire, the constellation of cities to the east with one of the heaviest concentrations of warehouses in the world."

Source: Sierra, 09/04/2024

"Business Group Sues Texas Officials Over Law That Shields Oil Industry"

"A liberal business group sued Texas officials this week in a major challenge to a 2021 law that bars state entities from doing business with investment firms that the state comptroller says are boycotting energy companies."

Source: NYTimes, 09/04/2024

Navajo Nation Strengthens Law On Transportation Of Uranium Across Its Land

"The Navajo Nation has approved emergency legislation meant to strengthen a tribal law that regulates the transportation of radioactive material across the largest Native American reservation in the U.S."

Source: AP, 09/03/2024

Carbon Credits: How One Company’s Plan To Help The Planet Went Off The Rails

"C-Quest Capital claimed it could improve people’s lives in Africa with cleaner cookstoves. But an investigation by The Post shows it promised more than it could deliver."

Source: Washington Post, 09/03/2024

What Would Trump 2.0 Mean for the Environment?

If former President Donald Trump recaptures the White House this fall, it would likely bring back a radical deregulatory, climate change-oblivious, fossil fuel-intensive environmental policy. But could the fallout be even greater? The new Issue Backgrounder examines how the Project 2025 agenda of Trump’s allies takes aim, in particular, at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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