The Biden administration has launched America the Beautiful Challenge, a $1 billion conservation program that will make navigating grant funding for new conservation and restoration projects easier. The project is part of a larger goal, called the America the Beautiful Initiative, to conserve 30% of land and water in the U.S. by 2030. This public-private […]
President Joe Biden used a novel argument for climate action in his State of the Union address Tuesday night: it can help combat inflation. During the speech, Biden outlined a plan to fight inflation by lowering costs instead of wages, and addressing the climate crisis was the second item on that agenda. “Second — cut […]
U.S. oil and gas companies are using Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to push back against the Biden administration’s climate agenda. The American Petroleum Institute (API), a lobby group which represents ExxonMobil, Chevron and Shell, tweeted out a series of policy suggestions hours before the invasion began Wednesday, The Guardian reported. “As crisis looms in Ukraine, […]
If you get your drinking water from an underground well, it may be contaminated with toxic forever chemicals. A new study from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) found at least one perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) in 20 percent of private wells and 60 percent of public wells in 16 states in the Eastern U.S. […]
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine may have effectively killed a controversial fossil-fuel project. On Wednesday, President Joe Biden announced sanctions against the company and CEO behind the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany after the Russian government recognized two separatist territories in Ukraine as independent. “Through his actions, President (Vladimir) Putin has provided […]
USPS will buy nearly 150 thousand gas-powered mail delivery trucks, defying objections from the Biden administration and advocates. The new postal delivery fleet, which includes more vehicles than any other government agency and accounts for nearly one-third of all federally owned cars and trucks, will achieve only a 0.4-mpg fuel efficiency improvement over the current […]
The Biden administration said Saturday it would halt all federal decisions on new oil and gas projects due to an ongoing legal battle over how to assess their climate impacts. The administration’s pause comes alongside an appeal of a decision from a Trump-appointed judge, who ruled earlier this month that the administration could not use […]
The U.S. and France have joined forces to call for an international treaty to control plastic pollution. They issued their joint statement on the last day of the One Ocean Summit from February 9 to 11 convened by France in its port city of Brest. “The United States and France are committed to protecting our […]
The Biden Administration announced plans on Thursday to spend nearly $5 billion to create a network of electric vehicle charging stations along U.S. highways. The funding comes from the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program established by President Joe Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the U.S. Departments of Transportation and Energy said in a joint announcement. The goal is to create Alternative Fuel Corridors, prioritizing the Interstate Highway System.
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