"13 States Challenge Biden Oil Leasing Plan"
"More than a dozen Republican-led states filed lawsuits against the Biden administration yesterday over its moratorium on new oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters."
Source: E&E News, 03/26/2021
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"Midwest Transmission Morass: A 100% Clean Power Warning?"
"A first-of-its-kind transmission line proposed to help move Midwest wind energy east to the nation's largest electricity market was designed to avoid pitfalls that dog similar projects."
Source: E&E News, 03/26/2021"New Mexico Adopts Rules To Curb Emissions From Oil Industry"
"New Mexico oil and gas regulators on Thursday adopted new rules to limit most venting and flaring in the oilfield as a way to reduce methane emissions."
Source: AP, 03/26/2021"African Elephants Face Growing Risk Of Extinction - Red List"
"African elephants living in forests and savannas are increasingly threatened with extinction, the Red List of species in trouble showed on Thursday, as conservationists called for an urgent end to poaching."
Source: Reuters, 03/26/2021"Canada's Top Court Upholds Pillar Of Trudeau's Plan To Fight Climate Change"
"Canada’s Supreme Court ruled in favour of the federal government’s carbon pricing policy on Thursday, upholding a central pillar of Prime Minister Justin’s Trudeau’s climate plan and infuriating some provinces that opposed it."
Source: Reuters, 03/26/2021"Ad Agencies Step Away From Oil and Gas in Echo of Cigarette Exodus"
"A queasiness has set in among some people who have made ads promoting fossil fuels. One executive likened the shift to the ad industry’s move away from tobacco."
Source: NYTimes, 03/26/2021"E.P.A. to Review Attacks on Science Under Trump"
"The Biden administration is taking the unusual step of making a public accounting of the Trump administration’s political interference in science, drawing up a list of dozens of regulatory decisions that may have been warped by political interference in objective research."
Source: NYTimes, 03/25/2021Senate Dems Plan To Use Review Act To Reinstate Obama Methane Rule
"Senate Democrats plan to deploy an obscure but powerful legislative weapon in the coming weeks to try to quickly reinstate a major Obama-era climate change rule that the Trump administration had effectively eliminated."
Source: NYTimes, 03/25/2021Did Chemical Company Misrepresent Data To Avoid Making A Safer Product?
"A former Syngenta scientist alleges lives could have been saved with tweaks to the formulation of weedkiller paraquat".
Source: Guardian, 03/25/2021Line 3: "Need For Disputed Pipeline Argued In Minnesota Appeals Court"
"MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Tuesday heard arguments over Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 replacement project in northern Minnesota, which opponents are calling unnecessary due to an eventual decline in the demand for oil.
Source: AP, 03/25/2021Big Banks’ Trillion-Dollar Finance For Fossil Fuels ‘Shocking’ — Report
"The world’s biggest 60 banks have provided $3.8tn of financing for fossil fuel companies since the Paris climate deal in 2015, according to a report by a coalition of NGOs."
Source: Guardian, 03/25/2021"Conservationists Sue To Save Spotted Owl Logging Protections"
" Environmental groups have filed a lawsuit seeking to preserve protections for 3.4 million acres (1.4 million hectares) of northern spotted owl habitat from the US-Canada border to northern California, the latest salvo in a legal battle over logging in federal old-growth forests that are key nesting grounds for the imperiled species."
Source: AP, 03/25/2021"Proposed Rules Threaten To Derail Kan. Wind Industry"
"Renewable energy development would dry up in the nation's fifth-largest wind energy-producing state under a measure being debated in the Kansas Legislature this week, critics of the proposal warn."
Source: E&E News, 03/25/2021"Politics: Republicans Won't 'Take The Bait' On Infrastructure"
"Top congressional Republicans are warning Democrats against splitting up the upcoming infrastructure package, raising new doubts for the prospects of bipartisan cooperation on a top Biden priority in the months ahead."
Source: E&E News, 03/25/2021"'Buyer Beware': Ads Hide PFAS Cookware Risks"
"Consumers trying to avoid toxic chemicals in their nonstick cookware face convoluted advertising claims that can confuse even the most well-informed buyers."
Source: E&E News, 03/25/2021
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