"Dozens Of Brands Come With A Side Of Dangerous Plastics, Report Finds"
"Food and cosmetics from dozens of major retailers come wrapped in potentially dangerous plastics, a new report has found."
Source: The Hill, 11/15/2024
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"Exxon’s Chief Has A Warning For Republicans"
"Exxon Mobil Chair and CEO Darren Woods urged the incoming Trump administration to avoid making turbulent climate policy swings — and he pushed the president-elect to reject carbon border taxes favored by some GOP lawmakers."
Source: The Hill, 11/15/2024Biden Admin Backs King Cove Road Through Izembek Wildlife Refuge
"The Biden administration on Wednesday endorsed a land exchange that would allow a controversial gravel road to be built through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Southwest Alaska."
Source: Anchorage Daily News, 11/14/2024"How Will Offshore Wind Fare Under A Second Trump Term?"
"Trump said he’ll end offshore wind “on day one.” Experts say he can’t do that, but his administration could cause plenty of trouble for the nascent industry."
Source: Canary Media, 11/14/2024Meat, Oil And Pesticide Lobbyists Turned Out In Record Numbers At Cop16
"In total 1,261 business and industry delegates registered for Cop16 in Cali, Colombia, which ended in disarray and without significant progress on a number of key issues including nature funding, monitoring biodiversity loss and work on reducing environmentally harmful business subsidies."
Source: Guardian, 11/14/2024"Oil Industry Asks Trump to Repeal Major Climate Policies"
"America’s oil industry released its wish list for the incoming Trump administration on Tuesday, a five-point plan that would eliminate many of the Biden administration’s most far-reaching efforts to reduce climate pollution and limit the warming that is driving ever more destructive and deadly extreme weather."
Source: Inside Climate News, 11/13/2024"Lee Zeldin Knows How to Defend Trump. Will He Defend the Environment?"
"When he ran for governor of New York two years ago, fellow Republicans privately exhorted former Representative Lee Zeldin to distance himself from Donald J. Trump and his debunked conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. He leaned in instead, most likely dooming any chance of his winning in a Democratic-leaning state."
Source: NYTimes, 11/13/2024Despite Promise, Biden BLM Keeps OKing Plans To Cut Down Old Forests
"In 2022, President Joe Biden announced a new effort to protect old forests, which are key to the fight against climate change. But it hasn’t made much of a difference."
Source: ProPublica/OPB, 11/13/2024"Cop29 Host Azerbaijan Hits Out At West In Defence Of Oil And Gas"
"The president of Azerbaijan, host of this year’s UN climate summit, lashed out at Western critics of his country’s oil and gas industry on Tuesday."
Source: Reuters, 11/13/2024"Climate Advocacy Groups Say They’re Ready for Trump 2.0"
"Disheartened, worried, even scared, activists and strategists are nevertheless better prepared this time around and bracing for a long fight."
Source: Inside Climate News, 11/13/2024"EPA Implements Climate Law’s Methane Fee As Republicans Plan Repeal"
"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final rule Tuesday that implements a charge for oil and gas companies that release too much of the planet-warming gas methane."
Source: The Hill, 11/13/2024"Trump Considers ‘Energy Czar’ Post"
"President-elect Donald Trump is considering appointing a White House “energy czar” to coordinate the incoming administration’s energy policies across the administration, according to two people with knowledge of the transition."
Source: E&E News, 11/13/2024"Trump Taps Former New York Congressman Lee Zeldin As EPA Chief"
"President-elect Donald Trump on Monday tapped former representative Lee Zeldin of New York to serve as Environmental Protection Agency administrator, a crucial role that will oversee the rollbacks of dozens of President Joe Biden’s environmental policies."
Source: Washington Post, 11/12/2024"With Ready Orders and an Energy Czar, Trump Plots Pivot to Fossil Fuels"
"As President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition team plans his energy and environment agenda, it is relying on two seasoned former cabinet leaders and fossil fuel lobbyists to dramatically reshape the agencies charged with protecting the nation’s air, water, climate and public lands, according to six people familiar with the matter."
Source: NYTimes, 11/12/2024"COP29 Chief Exec Filmed Promoting Fossil Fuel Deals"
"A senior official at COP29 climate change conference in Azerbaijan appears to have used his role to arrange a meeting to discuss potential fossil fuel deals, the BBC can report. A secret recording shows the chief executive of Azerbaijan's COP29 team, Elnur Soltanov, discussing "investment opportunities" in the state oil and gas company with a man posing as a potential investor."
Source: BBC News, 11/12/2024
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