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RELEASE: How Infrastructure Reform Can Prioritize Ocean Climate Action Date: April 26, 2021 Contact: Sam Hananel Washington, D.C. — As the Biden administration and Congress pursue ambitious infrastructure investments that can also tackle the climate crisis, a new report from the Center for American Progress urges officials to look to the ocean as they build a clean energy future. This report proposes agency-by-agency infrastructure and transportation policies to directly improve ocean health and mitigate the impacts of further development on the ocean and coastal environment. “A comprehe...

Learning From California’s Ambitious Climate Policy By Aimee Barnes, Ashley Conrad-Saydah, Hannah Argento-McCurdy, Angela Luh, and Matthew Gobin April 16, 2021, 5:00 am Getty/Manny Crisostomo The Carquinez Bridge looms in the background of the playground area of the Ninth Street Park and Boat Launch in Benicia, California, on February 11, 2014. Sam Hananel Ari Drennen Subscribe California has long been synonymous with effective climate policy. Beginning in 2001, the Golden State established its first voluntary emissions reporting program under Gov. Gray Davis (D). Subsequently, Gov. Arn...

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Trump left Biden a $30 billion fund used for trade wars. Biden has other plans for it. POLITICO 2/1/2021 By Liz Crampton © Susan Walsh/AP Photo USDA nominee Tom Vilsack's intentions with the Commodity Credit Corp. are expected to be a line of questioning during his Senate confirmation hearing. The Trump administration used it to bail out farmers suffering from its trade wars. Now the Biden administration wants to deploy a $30 billion pot of money in the Agriculture Department to tackle climate change, support restaurants and kickstart other programs without waiting for Co...

The defanging of Ontario’s conservation authorities could open the door to more projects in the Greenbelt – two million largely undeveloped acres that ring the Greater Toronto Area