Allegheny Group of the Sierra Club

"As the US government flips, a few random looks back, and a peek ahead." https://www.ehn.org/a-big-green-turnaround-2650067387.html

"More than 1 million young people around the world have urged governments to prioritise measures to protect against the ravages of climate breakdown during the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. World leaders are due to meet by video link on Monday to consider how to adapt to the extreme weather, wildfires and floods that have become more common as temperatures rise. Ban Ki-moon, the former UN secretary general, will lead the Climate Adaptation Summit, and leaders including Boris Johnson, Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel and Narendra Modi are expected to attend." https://www.theguardian.com//a-million-young-people-urge-g

"Hours after taking the oath of office, President Biden signed executive orders restoring environmental protections removed by his predecessor. Steve Curwood and Bobby Bascomb take stock of his first executive actions and put them in context. And with narrow Democratic control of Congress, President Biden and his party could also make use of the Congressional Review Act to quickly undo recent Trump administration rules. Romany Webb of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University joins Host Steve Curwood to discuss the appeal and perils of using this tool." https://loe.org/shows/segments.html

"On his first day in office, President Biden recommitted the United States to the Paris Climate Accord. Jennifer Morgan, Executive Director of Greenpeace International, joins Host Steve Curwood to discuss the actions the United States must take to get back on track with the Paris climate plan, after four years of turning its back on climate diplomacy." https://loe.org/shows/segments.html

"A column highlighting climate-related studies, innovations, books, cultural events and other developments from the global warming frontier." https://insideclimatenews.org//warming-trends-monarchs-sc/

"Amid growing alarm about methane’s role in driving global warming, a Canadian firm has begun selling a service to detect even relatively small leaks. At least two rivals are on the way." https://www.nytimes.com//methane-leaks-satellite-space.html

"The plan calls for $600 billion in investments over 10 years in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky, to fund renewable and energy efficiency projects. The authors say this would create 270,000 direct and 140,000 induced jobs." https://stateimpact.npr.org//appalachian-marshall-plan-pr/

"What can President-Elect Biden do to reverse course on the environment and climate change? What can he accomplish with a Republican-controlled U.S. Senate, pending results of two runoff elections in Georgia? What can he pursue in the executive branch? And how will the left wing of the Democratic Party play into his plans? For our podcast, Trump on Earth, Reid Frazier unpacks all of this with Jody Freeman, law professor and director of the Environmental and Energy Law Program at Harvard Law School. Before that she worked for the Obama EPA, where she helped write fuel efficiency regulations for cars, which were later rolled back under President Trump." https://www.alleghenyfront.org/what-bidens-win-means-for-t/

"He did his best to destroy EPA completely. But his devastating budget proposals got nowhere. Trump was awful for the environment. But he wanted to be even worse. If Trump had had his way, only shreds of key environmental agencies would now be left. Although Trump has certainly succeeded in weakening them, the cores of the agencies remain intact. Without them, Biden’s task would be much harder." https://legal-planet.org//trumps-biggest-environmental-fa/

"State regulators plan to hold ten virtual public hearings on a proposed rule that would have Pennsylvania join a regional effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions. It’s the next step in a long process for joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), which has been a topic of hot debate at the state capitol." https://www.alleghenyfront.org/public-comment-period-opens/