#environmental-policy

#environmental-policy

The current Trump administration has made 70% more changes to government environmental websites during its first 100 days than the first Trump administration did.

It is critical that federal policymaking is informed by the best available scientific evidence. Decades of climate research have yielded expanded understanding of how greenhouse gases affect the climate.

The analysis from the Centre for International Environmental Law revealed that 234 lobbyists from the oil, petrochemical, and plastics industries are attending the UN's meeting, outnumbering EU member state delegations.

The Northeast Supply Enhancement pipeline, proposed by energy giant Williams, would bury about 17 miles of 26-inch-diameter, natural gas pipelines 4 feet under the ocean floor near Staten Island and the Rockaways, with around 10 miles of additional pipeline in New Jersey. According to Williams, the new infrastructure will move enough fracked gas from Pennsylvania to serve more than 2 million New York City homes.

Since the pilot's start in 2019, there have been 413,889 bike trips and 60,003 pedestrian crossings on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, showing significant use.

At the Geneva negotiations, 170 countries aim to finalize a global treaty to significantly curb plastic production, focusing on the entire lifecycle of plastic, from design to disposal.

The Trump administration's proposed rule aims to rescind the endangerment finding, undermining the government's legal authority to limit greenhouse gases essential for addressing the climate crisis.

New York State is allocating an additional $200 million to expand its electric school bus program, aimed at increasing the transition to zero-emission vehicles.

Rep. Troy E. Nehls introduced a resolution to halt a plan to kill 450,000 barred owls over three decades, aimed at protecting threatened spotted owls.

Fox said his company, Foxy Development, is moving forward with the project after scrapping some of the most ambitious environmental goals and obtaining new state funding to replace some of the lost EPA money.

Steve Reed expressed that the consistent lead of Reform UK over Labour in the polls reflects public disenchantment with politics and unmet promises over the past 14 years.

"Supporters of the approach believe the cull is necessary to avert disastrous consequences for the spotted owls. But the coalition argues the effort is too expensive, unworkable and inhumane."

The Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion Project had been intended to rebuild upward of 20 square miles of land in southeast Louisiana to combat sea level rise and erosion on the Gulf Coast.

Ursula von der Leyen proposed new EU taxes on large companies, tobacco, and electronic waste as part of a 2tn budget aimed at addressing Europe's challenges.

The motion to rescind the climate emergency declaration in Durham has been condemned as a very dark day for the authority. The council has shifted its focus to a County Durham care emergency instead.

A group of Republican lawmakers expressed concern over Canadian wildfire smoke negatively impacting summer outdoor activities for Americans, urging Canada to take action for cleaner air.

"We hope this departure from Trump's anti-public lands agenda becomes the norm and isn't just a PR ploy to distract voters from the backlash some Republicans received after spending months trying to sell off these same public lands to the highest bidder."

Nearly two-thirds of England's largest solar farms have been built on productive agricultural land, with 827 hectares of the most versatile farmland taken out of food production.

Some farms in England could be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make more space for nature, as announced by Environment Secretary Steve Reed.

The EU should slash its planet-heating pollution by 90% by 2040, according to a proposed change to its climate law from the European Commission.