By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Defying critics and in an effort to bring the United States back to its leadership role on the world stage in fighting climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels for energy, the Biden administration announced major new regulations to limit greenhouse pollution from…
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Biden Administration Proposes Tough New Pollution Standards for Cars and Trucks
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden administration announced the most ambitious federal vehicle emissions standards ever on Wednesday that will accelerate the ongoing transition to a clean vehicles future by requiring that two-thirds of new passenger cars and a quarter of new heavy trucks sold in the United States are all-electric by 2032.…
Biden Administration Proposes Stronger Mercury and Air Toxic Standards for Power Plants
New standards would reduce hazardous air pollutants from coal-fired power plants, further protect public health and advance environmental justice – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden administration released a set of proposed new pollution standards on Wednesday to update the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for coal-fired power plants, advancing tougher requirements to…
The True Dangers of Long Trains
By Dan Schwartz and Topher Sanders, with additional reporting by Gabriel Sandoval and Danelle Morton – ProPublica Just before 5 a.m., Harry Shaffer’s wife called to him from across the living room, where he’d fallen asleep on the couch, exhausted from installing an aboveground pool. Did he hear that sound, that metallic screeching from up…
Biden Administration Announces $250 Million in Spending to Tackle Climate Pollution
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden administration announced Wednesday it is making $250 million available to develop innovative strategies to cut climate pollution and build clean energy economies. The money will distributed in the form of planning grants through the Environmental Protection Agency, and the funding will go to states, local governments, Tribes,…
Biden Administration Announces Details of Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden administration announced guidelines for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program this week created under the Inflation Reduction Act, which will dole out $27 billion in federal spending over the next few years to mobilize billions more in private capital to reduce pollution and improve public health, lower…
State of the Union Followup: Biden Administration Rolls Out First Electric Buses at Kansas School
EPA Administrator Regan Marks Delivery of Kansas’ First Electric School Buses, Announcing Electric Utility Pledge to Support Electric School Buses Nationwide – EPA Highlights Progress to Invest in America Through Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Just on the heels of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address, with…
Biden Administration Announces Tough New Pollution Standards for Trucks
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden Administration announced the strongest-ever national clean air standards to cut emissions from trucks, vans and buses beginning with model year 2027, the first update to clean air standards for trucks in more than 20 years. According to the announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency, the new standards…
America Plans Return to the Moon For the First Time in 50 Years
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — All things being stable, the United States of America will launch a rocket to the moon this Wednesday for the first time since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, 50 years ago. While many critics say the billions of dollars being spent on this Artemis moon mission that…
Biden Administration Launches New National EPA Office to Advance Environmental Justice
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – With less than six weeks to go before the critical midterm elections, the Biden administration and the Environmental Protection Agency have announced the establishment of a new national office charged with advancing environmental justice and civil rights to deliver on President Biden’s commitment to elevate these critical issues to…
The Story of Wild, Native Brook Trout and Why They Are So Ecologically Important Like the Canary in the Coal Mine for Climate Change
When the Brook Trout Leaps – By Anonymous – The slender dew-tipped grasses are trembling in the breeze, The east is blushing rosy red beneath the Sun’s caress, The wild rose bends to kiss the stream—but only Nature sees, And the reed-harps play weird music just above the water cress. The quail is calling loudly…
Biden Administration Launches Major Funding Effort to Create More Outdoor Recreation Opportunities Across America
The FICOR Program Will Also Help Prepare the Country for the Worst Impacts of Climate Change – By Glynn Wilson – ANALYSIS – If you are a long-time nature lover who understands the environmental, biological, economic, psychological and sociological needs to protect and expand green spaces across the country, or a new convert who discovered…
Another Above Average Atlantic Hurricane Season Predicted for 2022
Staff Report – It’s that time of year again when the weather begins to grow hotter and the hurricanes start forming off the west coast of Africa and swirling across the Atlantic Ocean toward the United States. And yes, the planet is still growing hotter due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels…
Americans Remain Concerned About Climate Change and Related Disasters, as WMO Predicts the World Could See a 1.5 Degree Rise in the Next Five Years
By Glynn Wilson – As carbon emissions rise and the planet continues its warming trend, climate change and energy are increasingly on the public’s mind, according to public opinion surveys from Morning Consult. For good reason, according to the latest data. There is a 50-50 chance of the annual average global temperature temporarily reaching 1.5°…
Earth Day 2022: Will We Ever Learn?
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Millions of people all over the world came out on April 22, 1970 to celebrate the first Earth Day, and the era of environmental activism was launched. The movement was an evolution from the non-violent activism for civil rights and against the war in…
Biden Administration Announces New Vehicle Fuel Economy Standards to Require 49 MPG by 2026
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Spurred on by high gas prices and increasing evidence of climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels for transportation as well as energy, the Biden Administration moved quickly and aggressively to reverse Trump administration rollbacks in new car fuel economy standards and announced much…
Distracted by War and Crises, the World Sleepwalks to ‘Climate Catastrophe’
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — All you have to do is glance at what people are paying attention to on social media and television to see that United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres was right on Monday when he said the world is “sleepwalking to climate catastrophe.” “There is no kind way to put…
Summer Global Warming Trends Expected to Continue Across U.S., Along With Droughts, Fires in the West
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the Earth turns toward the first day of Spring on Sunday, March 20, climate scientists are forecasting the continuation of a trend from April to June of higher temperatures across most of the Unites States, from the Desert Southwest to the East Coast and north through the Midwest…
Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Biden Administration and Considering Climate Change When Forming Federal Policy
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden Administration received a favorable ruling from an appeals court Wednesday that overruled a local Louisiana judge who had tried to ban the federal government from considering climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels when making policy decisions on such things as…
Biden Administration Won’t Fight Court Ruling Revoking Massive Oil Drilling Leases in Gulf of Mexico
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden administration will not challenge a federal court ruling saying the Department of the Interior under former President Trump failed to take climate change into account when it auctioned off 1.7 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling last year. The decision invalidated…