by Yiming Fu | Dec 8, 2021 | Environment
WASHINGTON — Every morning, more than 20 million American children catch a school bus. Soon, many will be boarding electric buses, part of a $5 billion federal investment in clean school buses in the Biden administration’s infrastructure bill. The bill, which...
by Delaney Nelson & Henry Rogers | Dec 4, 2021 | Environment
WASHINGTON — Despite state and federal drilling bans along most of Florida’s western shoreline, the state’s coastal communities are still at risk from oil spills because of inadequate enforcement of drilling elsewhere in the Gulf of Mexico, according to environmental...
by Delaney Nelson | Nov 30, 2021 | Environment
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration should spend more money for research on pipeline leaks because a majority have gone undetected due to outdated data collection technology, leaving people unaware whether hazardous substances may be endangering their health,...
by Delaney Nelson | Nov 23, 2021 | Environment
WASHINGTON — Environmental experts recommended Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency allocate more resources on studying the health and environmental impacts of PFAS chemicals and prioritize getting information from affected communities in its research on...
by Delaney Nelson | Nov 20, 2021 | Environment
WASHINGTON – Top federal disaster and weather officials called on Congress last week to invest in natural hazard-resilient infrastructure and data collection to reduce the deaths and financial losses caused by the increasing number and intensity of windstorms such as...
by Delaney Nelson | Nov 18, 2021 | Environment
WASHINGTON — Tribal leaders and experts called on lawmakers Thursday to invest much more money in tribal climate resilience efforts and elevate Indigenous knowledge in climate change decision-making. Indigenous people across the country have lost nearly 99% of their...
by Yiming Fu | Nov 16, 2021 | Environment, Topics
WASHINGTON – Tribal leaders Tuesday applauded President Joe Biden’s efforts to integrate indigenous knowledge into the administration’s climate change efforts during a virtual White House Tribal Nations Summit. Biden kicked off the two-day summit Monday, an annual...
by Hannah Zhihan Jiang | Oct 28, 2021 | Environment
WASHINGTON —The House Oversight and Reform Committee will issue subpoenas to ExxonMobil, BP America, Chevron, Shell and the American Petroleum Institute to obtain key internal documents that the companies have not provided, Chairwoman Rep. Carolyn Maloney announced...
by Delaney Nelson | Oct 27, 2021 | Environment
WASHINGTON – Emergency management officials from Washington and other Western states on Tuesday called on the Federal Emergency Management Agency to improve mitigation measures for wildfires and make the agency’s disaster relief easier to access and more transparent....
by Zinya Salfiti | Oct 21, 2021 | Environment
WASHINGTON — Climate experts warned a House subcommittee Thursday that the window for limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is narrowing and that an international effort to increase countries’ commitments to climate action is essential. “We’re running out of...
by Yiming Fu | Oct 21, 2021 | Environment
WASHINGTON – Surrounded by a dozen electric buses and a few other electric vehicles outside the Transportation Department building Wednesday, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg called on Congress to fund electric vehicle initiatives — especially in polluted...
by Delaney Nelson | Oct 20, 2021 | Environment
WASHINGTON — Two days after the Environmental Protection Agency released a plan to address PFAS chemicals, lawmakers expressed concern Wednesday that the agency’s plan will leave communities across the country waiting too long for regulations. Testifying before the...
