February 26, 2021 • Blog
On January 27, 2021, President Biden issued a Memorandum directing Federal agencies to make decisions guided by the best available science and data. Today, we are taking an important early step in bringing evidence-based principles back into the process of estimating the benefits of reducing climate pollution.
The evidence is clear that climate change is real and is already having economic consequences. The 2018 National Climate Assessment underscored the fact that climate change presents growing challenges to human health, safety, quality of life, and economic growth. We can see economic costs associated with climate change in more frequent and/or intense extreme weather events like wildfires, severe storms, and flooding, as well as the ways climate change disproportionately impacts the most vulnerable in society, particularly lower-income communities, communities of color, and Tribal communities. As decision-makers develop policies, they m
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been central in federal cybersecurity policy for years, as an important non-regulatory body that convenes the private sector, works across agencies, and protects information sharing with and between the private sector. We expect DHS to increase its influence on federal procurement in the coming years, both as a network security advisor to most federal agencies and as a purchaser of networking, security, and cybersecurity services. Contractors should keep an eye on DHS’s expanding role in procurement policy, particularly as new leadership takes the reins of the agency.
TSCA/FIFRA/TRI
“Environmental Justice: Operationalizing TSCA to Fulfill Its Destiny,” By Lynn L. Bergeson For The American College Of Environmental Lawyers (ACOEL) Blog: The Biden Administration has embraced environmental justice with unprecedented gusto. In its July 2020 Plan to Secure Environmental Justice and Equitable Economic Opportunity, the Biden Administration sets out in broad terms how it intends to use an “All-of-Government” approach to “rooting out systemic racism in our laws, policies, institutions, and hearts.” Read the full article online.
EPA Issues Final Compliance Guide Addressing Surface Coatings Under PFAS SNUR: On January 19, 2021, EPA announced the availability of a final compliance guide that outlines which imported articles are covered by EPA’s July 2020 final significant new use rule (SNUR) that prohibits companies from manufacturing, importing, processing, or using certain long-chain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) without prior EP
"Even the Obama administration determined the Keystone XL pipeline would have no significant impact on carbon dioxide emissions,” Heartland Institute President James Taylor said. “Rather than killing jobs for absolutely no environmental purpose, Joe Biden should allow the economical and environmentally friendly transport of North American oil through the Keystone XL pipeline.”
The claim: Joe Biden handed the grid to China through his Keystone Pipeline executive order
Some social media users are linking the Texas power outages to one of President Joe Biden s recent executive orders regarding a policy put in place by his predecessor.
A lengthy Feb. 18 Facebook text post claims Biden handed the grid to China through his Keystone Pipeline executive order and that one of Biden s purported engineers who is supposed to be working on the power situation in Texas worked as an engineer in China for five years. Millions of Texas families are pulling Biden’s EO’s this morning and found something buried in the Keystone Piepline (SIC) EO, the post reads, claiming that the president lifted the security on the U.S. power grid for 90 days the same day he shut down the Keystone Pipeline.