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Faith groups applaud Biden's 'bold' executive actions on climate, environmental justice
… the first-ever, White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy, led by McCarthy, who headed the EPA under former President Barack Obama. It also creates a 21-agency national climate task force, …
Biden to enter White House with Cabinet stocked with climate advocates
… the Office of Management and Budget and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. To lead the EPA, Biden nominated Michael Regan, current secretary for North Carolina's Department of … Justice Network, whose executive committee said in a statement that naming the former EPA official "shows that the commitment to environmental justice as a cornerstone of President … of state, will lead international engagement as special envoy on climate, and Gina McCarthy, EPA chief from 2013 to 2017, will head the new White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy as …
Unbreathable: The Fight for Healthy Air
… screening of the short film Unbreathable followed by the webinar, Unbreathable No More: The EPA and Clean Air in 2021. … The 30-minute film will screen on January 19, at 3:30pm PT/6:30pm … 60-minute webinar will follow directly afterward at 4pm PT/7pm ET. Unbreathable No More: The EPA and clean air in 2021: After the film, Interfaith Power & Light President Rev. Susan … Church. IPL National Organizing Director, Bill Bradlee, will also speak to IPL priorities for EPA advocacy in the coming year, focusing on clean cars and methane pollution. Sign up here …
Divestments and investments, COVID-19 and climate justice: EarthBeat's most read stories of 2020
… involvement is growing. It's not just about prayer, though. … 5. … Oklahoma governor asked EPA to strip tribes of environmental authority … From our partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration, came this piece: Gov. Kevin Stitt (R-OK) has asked the EPA to give his state jurisdiction over environmental regulations on Native American …
EarthBeat Weekly: Biden picks signal seat at table for environmental justice
… served as counsel for that office during the Obama administration and has also worked in the EPA. Most recently, Mallory has been director of regulatory policy at the non-profit Southern … and Gina McCarthy, who will take the lead on the domestic climate front . McCarthy, a past EPA administrator, has most recently been president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a …
Loyola Chicago launches School of Environmental Sustainability as center for research, action
… school has hosted an annual climate change conference, with keynote speakers including former EPA administrator Gina McCarthy, former Irish President Mary Robinson and author and activist …
President-elect Biden pledges to push climate agenda despite legislative obstacles
… of Energy and Department of Interior. According to Politico , potential nominees at the EPA include Mary Nichols, chair of the California Air Resources Board, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Heather McTeer Toney, a former EPA official and senior director of Moms Clean Air Force. At the Energy Department, Biden could … Whoever Biden selects will be an about-face from the Trump administration, particularly at EPA, which was led first by Scott Pruitt, the former Oklahoma attorney general who sued the …
Trump and Biden approach environmental protection from widely varying viewpoints
… intended when adopting anti-pollution laws beginning in the 1970s. An evangelical and a former EPA official in the administration of George W. Bush, Fewell said he believes Trump is concerned …
What does equitable climate policy actually look like?
… its roots in the U.S., President Donald Trump directed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to do something devastating: The agency was to indefinitely and cruelly suspend environmental rule enforcement. The EPA complied, and for just under half a year, it provided over 3,000 waivers that granted … plan are extensions of what the Obama administration already got started — expanding the EPA’s EJSCREEN tool that identifies environmental justice hotspots, for instance. This is …
Tracking energy use in the Chicago Archdiocese, one meter at a time
… the archdiocese worked with teams of volunteers to set up each parish with accounts through EPA's Energy Star Portfolio Manager, a free online program that allows an organization to upload … its energy data and track it over time. The massive data dump the archdiocese fed into the EPA software gave a general sense of the energy usage at each parish or school, but didn't tell …