Operators of a major synthetic rubber manufacturing plant in Louisiana say they will shut down the plant “likely permanently” if they have to meet the government’s new deadline to reduce emissions. Located in the heart of what’s called “Cancer Alley”because of the high cancer rates among nearby Black residents, the Denka Performance Elastomer plant …
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** The Department of Energy’s “moonshot factory” has announced $150 million in funding to transform the American energy system from the ground up. ARPA-E, the research and development arm of the Energy Department, is looking for “open and audacious ideas” that help to build out “this vision of the energy landscape that doesn’t [yet] exist,” …
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** The Biden administration on Tuesday announced new guidelines for ensuring the integrity of carbon credits or offsets. Individuals, businesses and other entities can buy these credits to try to “offset” their emissions as part of an effort to achieve net-zero. This can entail things like paying organizations toplant trees or prevent them from being cut down. ** ConocoPhillips …
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** As President Joe Biden pushes to accelerate the nation’s transition to clean energy, three Chicago suburbs and more than two dozen other Illinois communities are mulling plans to double down on lung-damaging, climate-changing coal. ** The White House announced steps Tuesday to modernize the country’s aging electric infrastructure.The new initiative between the feds and 21 states …
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** Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) are asking the Justice Department to look into the oil industry’s handling of climate change after their own investigation. ** A group of state financial officers and other public and labor leaders called on Tuesday for major asset managers to vote against top Exxon directors, citing the …
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** The Biden administration said Tuesday it is releasing 1 million barrels of gasoline from a Northeast reserve established after Superstorm Sandy in a bid to lower prices at the pump this summer. The sale, from storage sites in New Jersey and Maine, will be allocated in increments of 100,000 barrels at a time. ** Broad majorities …
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** Wyoming legislators are examining an approach to energy independence and ownership of coal- and natural-gas power plants that would directly pit them against the Biden administration’s policy of ending coal production by 2041. ** Toyota plans $532M expansion to add 411 jobs at its San Antonio manufacturing plant. ** Regional electrical grid operators have …
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** The container ship that caused the deadly collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge was refloated at high tide Monday and began slowly moving back to port, guided by several tugboats. Officials have said the Dali will likely remain in the port for a several weeks and undergo temporary repairs before being moved to …
Ongoing EPA Visits Make Stop In Region 7: Kansas City May 28
Representatives of the EPA national office and Region 7 will make a stop in Kansas City on May 28th. Region 7 includes nine tribal nations. The purpose of the EPA initiative is to help communities navigate the federal Inflation Reduction Act. The May 28th opportunity will be held at the Gregg-Klein Community Center …
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** A group of states that loosely parallels those that filed suit last year to stop California’s Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) rule have taken similar action against the state’s Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule, seeking to stop the ACF while it awaits a waiver from the Environmental Protection Agency. ** California Gov. Gavin Newsom‘s administration said it …