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Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images) This Earther report is being co-published with the . The Biden administration has pledged to make the climate crisis a top-tier issue, authorizing a “whole of government” to take on climate change. That would mean the responsibility to legislate environmental action wouldn’t be left up only to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy, but would extend to all agencies, including financial regulators. Advertisement Already, over ...

Oil Change International FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Over 350 Groups Urge President Biden to Stop the Line 3 Pipeline and Protect Indigenous Rights, Climate “We urge you and all federal leadership to stand firm against the Line 3 pipeline and act now to halt its construction. The pipeline’s construction is an urgent threat to the waters of Minnesota and Lake Superior, as well as to our global climate.” WASHINGTON, DC — Today, over 350 national, state, local, and international organizational l...

United States President Joe Biden is facing stiff resistance in the US Senate to his nominations for multiple cabinet and agency positions — including Neera Tanden, who on Tuesday was pulled from the process to become budget director at the White House. The political agenda for the first 100 days of his administration has been bogged down by the slow pace in congressional confirmation of Biden’s top picks. But one of the most contentious approval processes yet is over Representative Deb Haa...

Governors Wind Energy Coalition John Kerry warns Big Oil. Big Oil pushes back Source: By E&E News staff • Posted: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 (Left to right) Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO Darren Woods, White House climate envoy John Kerry and Chevron Corp. CEO Mike Wirth. Woods (Exxon); Kerry (Center for American Progress/Flickr); Wirth (Chevron) White House climate envoy John Kerry starkly warned the oil and gas industry yesterday that it could be left behind if it doesn’t clean...

Daily on Energy, sponsored by EFP: What makes Texas’ power grid unique Print this article Subscribe today to the Washington Examiner magazine and get Washington Briefing: politics and policy stories that will keep you up to date with whats going on in Washington. SUBSCRIBE NOW: Just $1.00 an issue! ALL ABOUT TEXAS: Texas touts itself as having the most competitive electricity market in the world, a characteristic that has allowed it to become one of the top producers of renewable energy, pa...

Print this article Beyond Keystone and Dakota Access, Biden has signaled his administration would make it harder for pipelines to obtain the federal permits they need to be built in the first place, as a way to respond to climate change. Manuel Balce Ceneta President Bidens pending decision whether to shut down the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline could deepen early tensions between environmentalists and unions that endorsed him. Bidens day-one order to revoke a p...

John Kerry, Bidens top climate envoy. | U.S. Embassy While President Joe Biden’s top climate envoy John Kerry told world leaders at a virtual climate summit that the U.S. will fulfill its commitment to provide financial support to developing countries as they grapple with the deadly consequences of a warming planet, campaigners are urging the U.S. to follow the lead of European Union officials who on Monday pledged to stop subsidizing fossil fuels and instead invest in a just transition...

Reprinted with permission from Alternet Embattled Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), already under fire for his support of the Capitol insurrection and the "big lie," and for saying he trusted the MAGA domestic terrorists over Black Lives Matter protestors, and for his record of spreading Russian disinformation, is now the target of mockery over his false claim about how Greenland got its name. There seems to be some GOP fascination with the autonomous territory that is a part of the Kingdom of Denmar...

Daily on Energy, sponsored by EFP: Biden order could mean trouble for financing oil and gas exports Print this article Subscribe today to the Washington Examiner magazine and get Washington Briefing: politics and policy stories that will keep you up to date with whats going on in Washington. SUBSCRIBE NOW: Just $1.00 an issue! SIGNIFICANT PROVISION IN BIDEN ORDER: As the dust settled on President Biden’s climate day, the administration slipped in a potentially important provision, one that...

Oil Change International FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON, DC — In response, released the following statement: “For decades, the fossil fuel industry has benefited from government-backed financing and fiscal support at the expense of communities and the environment. Today, with the stroke of a pen from President Biden, that begins to change. “Not only has President Biden instructed federal agencies to identify and remove domestic fossil fuel subsidies wherever they are able to, he has ...