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The California Air Resources Board May 20 announced that seven of its members have been named to the Environmental Justice Advisory Committee, with Indian American Neena Mohan among them.

The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending April 30th indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US rose by 60 billion cubic feet to 1,958 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 345 billion cubic feet, or 15.0% below the 2,303 billion cubic feet that were in storage on April 30th of last year, and 61 billion cubic feet, or 3.0% below the five-year average of 2,019 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have be...

Extension of Applications of Permit to Drill (APDs) Lease suspension Applications for royalty relief Notably, the March Memo specifically states that the above list is not exhaustive. And, to the extent approval is discretionary (i.e., extensions of APDs), we suspect an oil and gas lessee or operator will have difficultly receiving approval for those above-listed actions. Although the March Memo is not addressed to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) serves a...

House Science Subcommittee Issues Testimony From Foundation for Louisiana Climate Justice Program Director Russell Targeted News Service WASHINGTON, Liz Williams Russell, Climate Justice Program director at Foundation for Louisiana, as part of a video conference hearing entitled "Equity: the Case for a Federal Climate Service" on April 21, 2021: * * * Thank you for the opportunity to testify regarding the need for a strengthened Federal role in addressing climate change. I want to encourage ...

A conference explores energy justice, and emerging issue in the transition to renewable energy sources. Participants in the conference “Energy Justice: Prioritizing Equity in the Greener Grid,” organized by the Center for Energy and Environmental Law at the UConn School of Law on April 16, 2021. The rapid acceleration of climate change will soon force states to collaborate to combat it, Katie Dykes, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, told a la...

April 20, 2021 in Featured, Sticky The Center for the Political Future, the Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, and Grow@Annenberg will collaborate to host the week-long discussion about climate change. (Vincent Leo | Daily Trojan) The Climate Forward 2021 event kicked off Monday with its first virtual roundtable discussion. The solutions-based climate change conference will take place throughout the week, taking a break on Thursday for both a Wellness Day and Earth Day, according to ...

The deputy White House climate advisor discussed how the Biden administration will tackle climate change during one of the administrations first speaking engagements on climate change this year in a webinar hosted by the Student Climate Conference at Harvard. The event, entitled “Climate Action in Biden’s First 100 Days,” included opening remarks from Ali A. Zaidi ’08, the deputy White House national climate advisor, and a panel with Jacqueline Patterson, the senior director...

Panelists representing dozens of community organizations, researchers will discuss disproportionate impacts of environmental problems OLYMPIA — On March 23 and 24, Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Gonzaga University School of Law will convene a symposium to discuss environmental justice issues around Washington and the work being done to address them. The goal of the symposium, titled “Environmental Justice: Race, Poverty and the Environment,” is to provide a platform for communities dis...

New MREA scholarships to support solar training in underserved areas By: Daily Reporter Staff February 11, 2021 9:53 am Alex Jarvis, an instructor with the Midwest Renewable Energy Association, teaches PV 101 to students from the NAACP in Evansville, Indiana, in August through MREA’s Rise Up Giving Scholarship program. (Photo courtesy of the Midwest Renewable Energy Association) The Midwest Renewable Energy Association is bringing solar technical training and workforce development oppor...

How to design an energy transition that includes everyone—including the most vulnerable New Atlanticist by Katherine Walla People use face masks to protect themselves from morning smog as they ride on bike along a road. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed an “interdependent” world with “huge issues of inequity,” said Sunita Narain, director general of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). Without addressing these realities...