"Planting Crops — And Carbon, Too"
"President Biden says farmers can adopt agricultural methods that help fight climate change. Maryland farmer Trey Hill has been trying."
Source: Washington Post, 01/25/2021
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"Biden's First 100 Days: What's Coming On Energy"
"President Biden took swift action to deliver on his promise to embrace green energy hours after he was sworn into office yesterday, mandating a review of regulatory rollbacks that were part of the Trump administration's efforts to boost the fossil fuel industry."
Source: E&E News, 01/22/2021"Biden Signals 'New Direction' On Regulations"
"President Biden last night signaled he would take a bold approach to federal regulations — giving some hope to the progressive wing of his party."
Source: E&E News, 01/22/2021Kerry Commits US To Climate Crisis Fight But Warns World Is Way Off Pace
"The world is lagging behind the pace of change needed to avert catastrophic impacts from the climate crisis, John Kerry has warned in his first remarks as the US’s new climate envoy."
Source: Guardian, 01/22/2021As Biden Takes Office, A Whole New Era For Writing About Climate Change
"The last story I wrote before Donald Trump was elected president, four years and two months ago, was about the Obama administration’s claim that it had approved 60 renewable energy projects on public lands, capable of powering up to 5 million homes. I scrutinized those numbers, finding they dramatically overestimated the outgoing president’s accomplishments."
Source: LA Times, 01/22/2021"Biden Halts Oil And Gas Leases, Permits on US Land And Water"
"The Biden administration announced Thursday a 60-day suspension of new oil and gas leasing and drilling permits for U.S. lands and waters, as officials moved quickly to reverse Trump administration policies on energy and the environment."
Source: AP, 01/22/2021"Sharon Block, Union Ally, Named to White House Regulatory Post"
"President Joe Biden has installed Obama-era labor official Sharon Block as interim political leader of the White House regulatory review office—an agency she’s recently said needs a worker-oriented overhaul—multiple sources briefed on the appointment told Bloomberg Law."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 01/22/2021"Biden Readies Second Batch Of Climate Orders For Next Week: Memo"
"U.S. President Joe Biden will announce a second round of executive orders focused on combating climate change early next week as he rushes to reverse Trump-era environmental rollbacks, according to a memo seen by Reuters."
Source: Reuters, 01/22/2021Southern Ocean Warming Faster Than Thought, Threatening Antarctic Ice
"A layer of warming water is rising from the subsurface, threatening to speed up Antarctic ice melt".
Source: Washington Post, 01/22/2021"Tracking Biden’s Environmental Actions"
The Washington Post has launched a tracker to count the Biden rollbacks of the Trump rollbacks.
Source: Washington Post, 01/22/2021"Why Are People Living Near Dutch Goat Farms Getting Sick?"
"A decade after an outbreak of Q fever killed 95 people in the Netherlands, scientists fear the emergence of a new disease",
Source: Guardian, 01/22/2021"Biden, in a Burst of Climate Orders, Rejoins the Paris Agreement"
"President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Wednesday recommitted the United States to the Paris climate agreement, the international accord designed to avert catastrophic global warming, and ordered federal agencies to start reviewing and reinstating more than 100 environmental regulations that were weakened or rolled back by former President Donald J. Trump."
Source: NYTimes, 01/21/2021"Keystone Rejection Tests Trudeau’s Balancing Act on Climate and Energy"
"While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shares the incoming president’s climate change agenda, the Canadian leader is also a pipeline proponent."
Source: NYTimes, 01/21/2021US, Canada Underestimating Climate Risk From Abandoned Oil And Gas Wells
"Methane leaking out of the more than 4 million abandoned oil and gas wells in the United States and Canada is a far greater contributor to climate change than government estimates suggest, researchers from McGill University said on Wednesday."
Source: Reuters, 01/21/2021Bernhardt Rescinds Wilderness Protection Order Before Leaving Office
"As one of his last official acts in the Trump administration, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt rescinded an Obama-era order that directs the department to protect wilderness areas."
Source: The Hill, 01/21/2021
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