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Report identifies opportunities for successful co-digestion at water resource recovery facilities
Water World
February 10, 2020
Diverting food waste feedstocks like fats, oils and grease, food scraps, and food processing residuals to anaerobic digestion at water resource recovery facilities (WRRFs) can provide significant benefits to WRRF finances, as well as to our environment and community well-being; however, WRRFs face a number of hurdles that leave this potential sustainability strategy largely untapped. . . .
Read More >Thanks to Trump, Keystone XL Is Back. The Anti-Pipeline Movement Is Ready.
Mother Jones (by Delilah Friedler)
February 7, 2020
You may remember the Keystone XL pipeline from 2015, when a movement galvanized by the growing threat of climate change successfully pushed President Obama to reject the project.
Read More >Report details opportunities for successful co-digestion at resource recovery facilities
Water Finance & Management
February 6, 2020
Diverting food waste feedstocks like fats, oils and grease, food scraps, and food processing residuals to anaerobic digestion at water resource recovery facilities (WRRFs) can provide significant benefits to WRRF finances, as well as to the environment and community, according to a recent report from the Water Research Foundation and the Environmental Law Institute. . . .
Read More >Trump is trying to cripple the environment and democracy
The Hill (OpEd by Alejandro E. Camacho & Robert L. Glicksman)
January 18, 2020
The Trump administration has fired the latest salvo in its never-ending assault on environmental safeguards: a proposal from the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to overhaul its regulations governing federal agency compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). . . .
Read More >Big firms become climate advocates
E&E ClimateWire (by Jennifer Hijazi)
January 7, 2020
While U.S. courts continue to grapple with a burgeoning body of climate litigation, attorneys for the nation's top law firms are turning to legal advocacy to help address the consequences of a warming planet. The American Bar Association last summer adopted a resolution enshrining goals for legal practitioners to use their resources and expertise to bolster clean energy projects and support emissions reductions (Climatewire, Aug.
Read More >White House Memo Shows Plans to Speed Environmental Permitting
Bloomberg Environment (Stephen Lee)
January 6, 2020
The Trump administration’s proposal to remake the rules governing environmental permitting will state that a project’s effects on the environment will only be considered if they are “reasonably foreseeable” and causally linked to the project, according to a draft memo seen by Bloomberg Environment. . . .
Read More >Faster Permitting Won’t Harm Environment, Top Trump Adviser Says
Bloomberg Environment & Energy Report (by Stephen Lee)
January 2, 2020
The Trump administration’s upcoming plan to speed environmental permitting won’t increase pollution or harm endangered species, said Mary B. Neumayr, the president’s top environmental adviser. The Council on Environmental Quality, which Neumayr leads as chairman, is trying to change the rules under the National Environmental Policy Act so projects can get reviewed faster. The 2018 advance notice of the proposal said the changes would also ensure reviews are done more efficiently and effectively. . . .
Read More >How Even Libertarians Can Tackle The Climate Crisis
Forbes (by Jeff McMahon)
December 3, 2019
When the Environmental Law Institute compiled its more than 1,000-page compendium of pathways to decarbonize the United States, its editors asked the 58 chapter authors to recommend changes in law. The result is more than 1,500 adjustments to law that could reduce the nation’s collective carbon footprint, many of which call for repealing laws entirely. “What surprised me a bit reading the chapters, editing the chapters, was the extent to which the chapters said, look, on hydropower, on nuclear power, on distributed renewables, on utility-scale renewables, on carbon capture, law is
Read More >Mount Laurel and Climate Change
Harvard Magazine (by Cherone Duggan)
November 1, 2019
"The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying, ‘This is mine,’ and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.” So argued Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 1754. And so bemoans anyone who wants to tackle the might of NIMBYism and local property rights in the global fight against climate change today. . . .
Read More >Increasingly popular single-use bans pose hurdle for plastics industry
Waste Dive (by E.A. Crunden)
October 25, 2019
When it comes to plastics policy, recent momentum appears to be on the side of environmentalists. Bans and taxes on plastic bags are increasingly common across the United States and in other countries, while items like plastic straws are growing more controversial. Those worried about potential pollution and toxicity associated with plastics see the trend as critical to rectifying environmental issues. But during a recent afternoon panel in Washington, D.C., members of the industry pushed back on that narrative. . . .
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