"Biden Vetoes Bipartisan Resolution Resuming Solar Tariffs"
"President Biden on Tuesday vetoed a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution that would have undone his two-year moratorium on solar tariffs."
Source: The Hill, 05/17/2023
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"Cop28 Host UAE’s Approach Is ‘Dangerous’, Says UN’S Ex-Climate Chief"
"The United Arab Emirates’ approach to the Cop28 climate summit it will preside over in November is “very dangerous” and a “direct threat to the survival of vulnerable nations”, according to the UN’s former climate chief."
Source: Guardian, 05/17/2023"Burning Man Becomes Latest Adversary in Geothermal Feud"
"Festival organizers are trying to block plans to build a clean energy plant in the Nevada desert, highlighting the struggle to combat climate change and the cost of clean power."
"One of the darkest towns in America lies roughly 100 miles north of Reno, where the lights are few and rarely lit until one week each summer when pyrotechnics and LEDs set the sky and mountains aglow.
Source: NYTimes, 05/17/2023"Biden Nominates National Cancer Institute Director To Lead NIH"
"President Biden on Monday nominated cancer surgeon Monica M. Bertagnolli to be head of the National Institutes of Health, seeking to fill the leadership role atop the $46 billion health agency that has sat empty for more than a year."
Source: Washington Post, 05/16/2023Ads Claiming Products Are Carbon Neutral By Using Offsetting Face UK Ban
"Adverts that claim products are carbon neutral using offsets are to be banned by the UK’s advertising watchdog unless companies can prove they really work, the Guardian can reveal, as Gucci becomes the latest company to struggle with a high-profile environmental commitment based on offsetting."
Source: Guardian, 05/16/2023Transportation ‘Revolution’? How The Infrastructure Law Fuels Freeways
"The Biden administration is supporting a nearly $10 billion highway expansion in Houston that ignited a yearlong debate about its climate effects and the demolition of almost 1,000 homes."
Source: E&E News, 05/16/2023Kerry Challenges Oil Industry To Prove Its Promised Tech Rescues
"Oil and gas producers talk up technological breakthroughs they say will soon allow the world to drill and burn fossil fuels without worsening global warming. U.S. climate envoy John Kerry says the time is here for the industry to prove it can make the technology happen — at scale, affordably and quickly — to stave off climate disaster."
Source: AP, 05/15/2023Flush With Federal Money, a Deep South Factory Votes to Unionize
"Workers at a rural Georgia factory that builds electric school buses under generous federal subsidies voted to unionize on Friday, handing organized labor and Democrats a surprise victory in their hopes to turn huge new infusions of money from Washington into a union beachhead in the Deep South."
Source: NYTimes, 05/15/2023Climate Deniers Target Scientists For Vicious Abuse On Musk’s Twitter
"Some of the UK’s top scientists are struggling to deal with what they describe as a huge rise in abuse from climate crisis deniers on Twitter since the social media platform was taken over by Elon Musk last year."
Source: Guardian, 05/15/2023EPA Proposes Power Plant Emissions Rule To Confront Climate Change
"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing on Thursday a draft rule aimed at curbing planet-warming emissions from fossil-fired power plants that is expected to be a key piece of the Biden administration’s climate policy."
Source: The Hill, 05/11/2023"In a Climate Trade-Off, Biden Backs Manchin’s Fossil Fuel Plan"
"The White House on Wednesday endorsed a plan by Senator Joe Manchin III to speed the approval of some fossil fuel projects in order to also hasten the construction of new transmission lines critical for meeting President Biden’s climate goals."
Source: NYTimes, 05/11/2023"Air Pollution Monitoring Bill Blocked By Louisiana Senate Committee"
"The latest effort to create a public warning system for spikes in air pollution was snuffed out by a Senate committee."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 05/11/2023"Climate Maths 'Doesn't Add Up' Without Carbon Capture: COP28 Chief"
"The Emirati oil chief leading this year's UN climate talks said Wednesday the world must get "serious" about new emission-capturing technology, rather than focussing only on replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy."
Source: Phys.org, 05/11/2023"Florida Lawmakers Want To Use Radioactive Material To Pave Roads"
"Roads in Florida could soon include phosphogypsum — a radioactive waste material from the fertilizer industry — under a bill lawmakers have sent to Gov. Ron DeSantis."
Source: NPR, 05/11/2023New Mexico Officials: FEMA Delays Lead To Mistrust Among Wildfire Victims
"Members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation are criticizing federal emergency managers for missing deadlines as residents seek recovery assistance following the largest wildfire in the state’s recorded history."
Source: AP, 05/11/2023
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