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Coronavirus spurs new clash between Big Oil and Big Corn over US biofuels
… economic disaster," he said. A spokesperson for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in charge of overseeing the RFS, said the agency is watching the situation closely and … small refining facilities in financial distress. A federal court in January ruled that Trump's EPA had granted such exemptions inappropriately, a decision that is likely to dramatically reduce …
EarthBeat Weekly: An eco-streaming guide while we're cooped up by coronavirus
… environmental investigations, including … "Climate of Doubt" … (2012), … "War on the EPA" … (2018), … "Blackout in Puerto Rico" … (2018), and … "Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown" …
Religious conference organizers cancel, monitor upcoming events in light of virus
… Springs, Colorado, in April. "Attendees continue to register daily," said Lamar Keener, EPA's executive director. "Our convention hotel has assured us they are putting extra hygienic …
POSTPONED: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court: A Book Talk with Richard Lazarus, Harvard Law
… When the Supreme Court announced its ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA the decision was hailed as a landmark, leading EPA to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions as pollutants and making … dynamics of the justices and dramatizes the workings of the Court during the Massachusetts v. EPA arguments. Ann Carlson, Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law and Faculty …
University of Notre Dame converts tons of dining hall leftovers into energy
… Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. She's found campus culture very different than the EPA environment. Not everyone on campus is well informed about or even interested in …
What is environmental justice?
… for humans and other living things." A year later, President George H.W. Bush formed the EPA's office of environmental justice. And in 1994, President Bill Clinton signed an executive … for renewable energy, real-time air quality monitoring in Texas; a court battle to force the EPA to investigate civil rights complaints; and efforts by environmental organizations to build …
EarthBeat Weekly: 11,224 scientists 'telling it like it is'
… Climate-Related Risks? It’s Now Up to a Judge to Decide. (Inside Climate News) Obama’s former EPA chief takes the helm of environmental group that’s sued Trump nearly 100 times (Washington …
How four dioceses are actually doing something about the climate crisis
… portions of the action plan in their own sustainability efforts. The chancery, already an EPA-certified Energy Star building for energy efficiency, is looking at what it would take to …
Meet the young Catholic suing the government over climate change
… Martin Eminent Scholar Chair in Environmental Law at Loyola University New Orleans and former EPA official under Obama. "They have framed their concerns using a set of values that I think …
Can we arm the nation without harming our own?
… river. Contamination at Bannister was so extensive the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had in 1987 considered placing the property on the Superfund National Priorities List, a … thought was essential to protecting the country." The private-public collaboration so pleased EPA they honored all the companies and agencies involved in the transfer, including Breslin's BTD … of the manufacturing spaces — walls, pillars, drains, air ducts and rooftops. The DOE and the EPA also contracted specialists who checked and rechecked factory shops for remnants of …