"Subways, Buses and Bike Lanes Scored Billions in Local Ballot Wins"
"Voters overwhelmingly supported local measures to improve mass transit from Arizona to Tennessee."
Source: Bloomberg Green, 11/22/2024
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"Long Delayed Biden Rule Could Shake Up Offshore Oil Well Cleanups"
"The Biden administration promised to release a new standard for ocean drilling that could help clean up a growing number of old oil and gas wells, but the first-of-a-kind rule has yet to arrive with just two months before President-elect Donald Trump reenters the White House."
Source: E&E News, 11/22/2024Biden DOI Trying To Save The Colorado River Before Trump Takes Over
"The Biden administration is swimming against the current to get seven Western states to agree to divvy up the Colorado River’s water in a way that would protect the river basin and the West’s largest single water source – and do it before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, according to a source familiar with the negotiations."
Source: CNN, 11/22/2024"How Trump’s War On The Media Is Expected To Ramp Up In His Second Term"
"Donald Trump’s second term promises to deliver historic threats to US press freedom – directly from the Oval Office."
Source: The Conversation, 11/21/2024"China’s Soaring Emissions Are Upending Climate Politics"
"For many years, wealthy places like the United States and Europe have had the biggest historical responsibility for global warming and have been tasked with taking the lead in stopping it. China’s astonishing rise is upending that dynamic."
Source: NYTimes, 11/21/2024"Climate Finance Outcome at COP29 Still in Doubt"
"Countries are wrangling over who gets money, who will pay and whether debt relief will be part of the package."
Source: Inside Climate News, 11/21/2024"Huge Gas Plant Eyed To Power Mystery $5B Louisiana Data Center"
"Entergy proposes a new $3.2 billion natural gas plant to run a ‘game changing’ data center in northeast Louisiana; critics question the move"
Source: Floodlight, 11/21/2024"Biden Administration Requesting Roughly $100 Billion For Disaster Relief"
"The Biden administration is sending a roughly $100 billion request to Congress to help Americans impacted by a series of major and record-breaking natural disasters in 2023 and 2024, including Hurricanes Helene and Milton, calling on lawmakers to pass the needed relief with “bipartisan and bicameral support.”"
Source: CNN, 11/20/2024"Trump Threatens New York Times, Penguin Random House over Critical Coverage"
"The letter, addressed to lawyers at the New York Times and Penguin Random House, arrived a week before the election. Attached was a discursive ten-page legal threat from an attorney for Donald Trump that demanded $10 billion in damages over “false and defamatory statements” contained in articles by Peter Baker, Michael S. Schmidt, Susanne Craig, and Russ Buettner."
Source: Columbia Journalism Review, 11/20/2024"The US No Longer Supports Capping Plastic Production In UN Treaty"
"The Biden administration has backtracked from supporting a cap on plastic production as part of the United Nations’ global plastics treaty."
Source: Grist, 11/20/2024Canada Helped Fossil Companies Improve Global ‘Perception’ Of Oilsands
"As this year’s United Nations climate summit hits the halfway mark, newly obtained documents show how the Liberal government gave Canada’s oil and gas lobbyists a platform to polish the sector’s reputation at the same event in 2022. Days later, the same government began a process of cracking down on misleading environmental messaging."
Source: The Narwhal, 11/20/2024"Granholm Warns That Cutting EV Tax Credits Would Be ‘Ceding’ To China"
"Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm warned Friday that President-elect Trump’s reported plans to cut consumer subsidies for electric vehicles (EVs) would benefit China."
Source: The Hill, 11/20/2024"Lee To Lead Senate Energy Committee Next Year"
"Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) will lead the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee next year. He’ll take over for the panel’s current top Republican, Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), who will become the upper chamber’s No. 2 Republican next year."
Source: The Hill, 11/20/2024Trump Picks Brendan Carr, Who Set Agenda In Project 2025, As FCC Chair
"President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday he was naming Brendan Carr as the next Federal Communications Commission chairman, positioning the regulatory agency to do battle against social media companies and TV broadcasters that Republicans portray as too liberal."
Source: Washington Post, 11/19/2024Sean Duffy, Fox News Host, Gets Trump’s Nod For Transportation Secretary
"A former Wisconsin congressman and Fox Business host, Sean Duffy, was named on Monday by President-elect Donald J. Trump as his choice to lead the Transportation Department."
Source: NYTimes, 11/19/2024
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