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    • The General Assembly made progress on climate in 2021, but our work here is hardly done

      Posted by Bill on March 5, 2021
      Alternative Energy, Climate Crisis, Laws Regulations, Sierra Club

      Virginia Mercury: The General Assembly made progress on climate in 2021, but our work here is hardly done. By Ivy Main.

      Before the start of the 2021 legislative session, I highlighted three areas where Virginia needed to make significant progress to support its climate agenda: transportation electrification, improving the energy efficiency […]


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    • Biden hikes cost of carbon, easing path for new climate rules

      Posted by Bill on March 1, 2021
      Climate Crisis, GHGs, including methane, Laws Regulations, US Government Agencies

      Politico: Biden hikes cost of carbon, easing path for new climate rules.

      President Joe Biden on Friday restored an Obama-era calculation on the economic cost of greenhouse gases, a step that will make it easier for his agencies to approve aggressive actions to confront climate change.

      But the […]


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    • DeSmogBlog, February 27, 2021

      Posted by Bill on March 1, 2021
      Air Pollution, Alternative Energy, Climate Crisis, Denialism, Financial Implications, Food Production, Health, Laws Regulations, Toxic Waste, US Government Agencies

      Articles include:  Racial Equity & Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Community;  Exxon & Its Bad Fossil Fuel Investments;  Texas Catastrophe Shows How Natural Gas Systems Can Fail;  Aquaculture in the US;  Texas Refineries’ Release Pollutants During Storm;  Rejoining the […]


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    • Further delay feared as ‘like-minded’ countries resist online climate negotiations

      Posted by Bill on March 1, 2021
      Climate Crisis, International, Laws Regulations

      Climate Change News: Further delay feared as ‘like-minded’ countries resist online climate negotiations. Major developing countries oppose calls to hold preparatory climate negotiations online in June, citing connectivity and time zone concerns.

      Climate negotiations could face further delays as the coronavirus pandemic risk remains too high for meeting in person and […]


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    • Financial regulators home in on climate risks

      Posted by Bill on March 1, 2021
      Climate Crisis, Financial Implications, Laws Regulations, US Government Agencies

      The Hill: Financial regulators home in on climate risks.

      Financial regulators are putting their environmental agenda into action as the Biden administration expands the ways the federal government will fight climate change.

      After years of pressure from environmentalists and advocates for tighter financial rules, leaders at the Federal Reserve, Securities and Exchange […]


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    • Biden raises social cost of carbon, restoring key climate policy tool slashed by Trump

      Posted by Bill on March 1, 2021
      Climate Crisis, Financial Implications, Laws Regulations

      CBS News: Biden raises social cost of carbon, restoring key climate policy tool slashed by Trump. President Biden on Friday raised the social cost of carbon, a little-known but important number that informs a wide range of policies regulating industry and energy production. Mr. Biden’s action restores the number to […]


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    • Study: Environmental Group Charges EPA With Ignoring Evidence Of Cancer

      Posted by Bill on March 1, 2021
      Chemicals Pesticides Fertilizers, Health, Laws Regulations, Studies Reports Tools, Toxic Waste, US Government Agencies

      The Intercept: ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP CHARGES EPA WITH IGNORING EVIDENCE OF CANCER. The EPA downplayed the risks of the pesticide Telone, according to a complaint filed with the agency’s inspector general.

      AN ASSESSMENT OF a pesticide that the Environmental Protection Agency issued last year is fraudulent, according to a complaint the environmental group Public […]


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    • Report: Information on factory farms is spotty at best. The government has been hogtied from doing more

      Posted by Bill on March 1, 2021
      Food Production, Laws Regulations, Studies Reports Tools, US Government Agencies

      Investigate Midwest: Information on factory farms is spotty at best. The government has been hogtied from doing more. There is no comprehensive list of all the concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, in the Midwest. A lawsuit prevented the federal government from making one, and states take different approaches.

      Iowa is […]


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    • Interior Department halts seismic surveys for oil in Alaska’s Arctic refuge

      Posted by Bill on February 25, 2021
      Climate Crisis, Laws Regulations, Species Survival, US Government Agencies

      Arctic Today: Interior Department halts seismic surveys for oil in Alaska’s Arctic refuge. The company proposing to survey parts of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal plain missed a deadline for its plan to protect polar bears.

      lans for seismic surveys to help find oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge have fizzled […]


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    • Ky. Bill Would Allow Ban Of Large Solar Projects On Farmland

      Posted by Bill on February 25, 2021
      Alternative Energy, Climate Crisis, Laws Regulations

      Ohio Valley Resource: Ky. Bill Would Allow Ban Of Large Solar Projects On Farmland.

      A new bill in the Kentucky legislature could ban large-scale solar projects on farmland in the state, out of fears that the growing solar industry could be a detriment to the preservation of productive farmland. But a […]


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