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Governors Wind Energy Coalition Restoring Environmental Rules Rolled Back by Trump Could Take Years Source: By Coral Davenport, New York Times • Posted: Sunday, January 24, 2021 President Biden has promised to reinstate more than 100 rules and regulations aimed at environmental protection that his predecessor rolled back. It won’t happen overnight. President Biden signed his first executive orders in the Oval Office on Wednesday. Doug Mills/The New York Times WASHINGT...

Restoring Environmental Rules Rolled Back by Trump Could Take Years President Biden has promised to reinstate more than 100 rules and regulations aimed at environmental protection that his predecessor rolled back. It won’t happen overnight. President Biden signed his first executive orders in the Oval Office on Wednesday. Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times Published Jan. 22, 2021Updated Jan. 27, 2021 WASHINGTON — President Biden, vowing to restore environmental protections frayed over ...

John McCain’s Apache Land Grab Is Finally Happening The fight for a copper deposit beneath sacred lands shows the extent of the government’s extractive greed. Eric Thayer/Getty Images In 2014, the late Senator John McCain quietly slid a dagger into the backside of the Arizona tribal nations he was ostensibly elected to represent. Deep in an appropriations package for military funding, McCain tacked on a rider, known as Section 3003. The rider accomplished what the Arizona Republican had bee...

Trump Administration Offers Drilling Leases in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge, but No Major Oil Firms Bid Future oil development will be hampered by the Biden administration’s commitment to protect the refuge and lawsuits from Indigenous and environmental groups. Related Share this article As election officials in Georgia tallied votes to determine the control of the Senate and the U.S. Capitol was rocked by violent protests Wednesday, the Trump administration quickly and quietly made good on its...

Dive Brief: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday finalized a rule that narrows what studies it will consider in future rulemakings, based on whether the underlying data is public. EPA said it will now give greater consideration to scientific studies that provide public data when considering how a particular pollutant or contaminant impacts human health and the environment, in an effort to be more "transparent." Critics of the rule, including former EPA officials, environmentalist...

5:09 Colorado saw its two largest forest fires in state history in 2020. This fall, the U.S. Drought Monitor classified the entire state as in drought. Colorado’s average temperature has risen by 2 degrees Celsius in recent decades. Scientists say all of these effects are caused by climate change. While these statistics have an impact from an environmental standpoint, according to Hilary Cooper, they also affect the pocketbook of state and local governments. “Our roads are deteriorating fas...

John, thank you for your reporting there. this has been described as a sweeping agreement. for an environmental law professor that we spoke to earlier, this is very sobering. heres what patrick parenteau had to say. >> this is more of a political agreement than legal document, frankly. its important, certainly for the nations to commit to what theyve committed to and to commit to ratcheting up the pledges that have been made. but the time frame is very short. the amount of carbon that were put...