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☆ A Climate Laggard in America’s Industrial Heartland Has a Plan to Change, Fast
  + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Coral Davenport | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
From toxic algal blooms in the Great Lakes to sewage pouring into Detroit basements to choking wildfire smoke that drifted south from Canada, Michigan has been contending with the fallout from climate change. Even the state’s famed cherry trees have been struggling against rising temperatures, forcing some farmers to abandon the crop. The centerpiece is based on a 58-page “MI Healthy Climate” plan offered by Gov. It would require Michigan to generate all of its electricity from solar, wind or other carbon-free sources by 2035, eliminating the state’s greenhouse pollution generated by coal- and gas-fired power plants. The package would also toughen energy efficiency requirements for electric utilities and require a phaseout of coal-fired plants in the state by 2030.
Persons: Gretchen Whitmer Organizations: Gov Locations: Great, Detroit, Canada , Michigan, Michigan
☆ Auto-Industry Group Assails Biden’s Plan to Electrify America’s Cars
  + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Coral Davenport | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
But last year, all-electric vehicles accounted for just 5.8 percent of new cars sold in the United States. The Environmental Protection Agency published its proposed rule earlier this spring and it is in the process of soliciting public comments ahead of finalizing and implementing the rule by the first half of next year. But his administration took the auto industry by surprise this spring with the proposed rule that went considerably further. Biden administration regulators are expected to weigh public comments before revising and finalizing proposals. In a blog post, John Bozzella, the president of the group, suggested that the Biden administration include plug-in hybrid vehicles in its target, rather than pushing for such rapid adoption of all-electric vehicles.
Persons: Biden, Barack Obama, Donald J, Trump, John Bozzella Organizations: Environmental Protection Agency, Obama, Biden, White Locations: United States, Michigan, Ohio, Washington
☆ Debt Deal Includes a Green Light for a Contentious Pipeline
  + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Coral Davenport | Brad Plumer | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The bill includes some other small steps aimed at getting energy projects of all types approved more quickly by modifying federal permitting policies under the National Environmental Policy Act. But opponents of the pipeline argue that completion was far from certain as several court cases are pending. A provision in the debt deal could deem those challenges moot, and would block any future lawsuits. The agreement would order federal agencies to approve any outstanding permits for the pipeline within 21 days and exempt those permits from judicial review. “This is an unprecedented end run around the courts, which have repeatedly rejected permits over M.V.P.’s failure to comply with basic environmental laws,” said Ben Jealous, executive director of the Sierra Club, which has challenged several permits related to the pipeline.
Persons: ”, Ben Jealous Organizations: National Environmental, White, Pipeline, U.S ., Appeals, Fourth Circuit, District of Columbia Circuit, Sierra Club Locations: Richmond, M.V.P
☆ You’ve Never Heard of Him, but He’s Remaking the Pollution Fight
  + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Coral Davenport | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
This spring the Biden administration proposed or implemented eight major environmental regulations, including the nation’s toughest climate rule, rolling out what experts say are the most ambitious limits on polluting industries by the government in a single season. Piloting all of that is a man most Americans have never heard of, running an agency that is even less well known. But Richard Revesz has begun to change the fundamental math that underpins federal regulations designed to protect human health and the environment. Mr. Revesz, 65, heads the obscure but powerful White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, which is effectively the gatekeeper and final word on all new federal regulations. It has been known as the place where new rules proposed by government agencies, particularly environmental standards, go to die — or at least to be weakened or delayed.
☆ He Could Uncork Trillions to Help Fix the Planet
  + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Manuela Andreoni | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Can you give one example of the sort of thing people want to see the bank do. About half of the countries in Africa at the moment, about 60 percent of low-income emerging market countries, are debt distressed. But a large part of the debt is actually held by private equity or private banks. It’s the bank sort of going to them and saying, if you do this, you will save yourself hundreds of millions of dollars in costs incurred in humanitarian aid, responses to disasters, in refugees. The bank has to be an advocate for smart development, smart climate action.
☆ United Auto Workers Hold Off on Backing Biden, for Now
  + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Shane Goldmacher | Coral Davenport | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The United Auto Workers, a politically potent labor union, is planning to withhold its endorsement of President Biden in the early stages of the 2024 race, according to an internal memo from its president to members on Tuesday. The memo, written by Shawn Fain, the Detroit-based union’s president, said the leadership of the United Auto Workers had traveled to Washington last week to meet with Biden administration officials and had expressed “our concerns with the electric vehicle transition” that the president has pursued. In April, the Biden administration proposed the nation’s most ambitious climate regulations yet, which would ensure that two-thirds of new passenger cars are all-electric by 2032 — up from just 5.8 percent today. The rules, if enacted, could sharply lower planet-warming pollution from vehicle tailpipes, the nation’s largest source of greenhouse emissions. But they come with costs for autoworkers, because it takes fewer than half the laborers to assemble an all-electric vehicle as it does to build a gasoline-powered car.
☆ New California Rule Would Ban Sale of Diesel Trucks by 2036
  + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( Neelam Bohra | Coral Davenport | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
The rule is the latest in a series of increasingly ambitious moves by California and the federal government to curb planet-warming pollution from vehicles, the nation’s largest source of greenhouse gases. The California Air Resources Board approved the regulation, which by 2045 would fully eliminate the sale of new trucks that emit carbon dioxide across the state. The rule builds in intermediate goals in the coming years for government organizations and private companies to decrease their use of diesel trucks. But the American Trucking Associations, a trade organization for the trucking industry, criticized the ban, saying that it has worked to significantly reduce emissions but needs more flexibility. The state hopes the ban will save money related to health costs caused by pollution, including asthma attacks and respiratory illness.
☆ E.P.A. to Propose First Controls on Greenhouse Gases From Power Plants
  + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Coral Davenport | Lisa Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
In releasing a climate rule for power plants, Mr. Biden hopes to succeed where his former boss, President Barack Obama, failed. had the authority to regulate carbon emissions from power plants but in a limited way. Lastly, the new law provides tax credits to power plant operators that capture their carbon, making the technology more financially feasible. Instead of creating one limit that all power plants must comply with, the E.P.A. “We are eager to review the E.P.A.’s new proposed rule on power plants, and we’ll be ready once again to lead the charge in the fight against federal overreach,” he said in a statement.
☆ Biden Plans an Electric Vehicle Revolution. Now, the Hard Part.
  + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Coral Davenport | Neal E. Boudette | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
WASHINGTON — Aggressive rules proposed by the Biden administration to drastically speed up the country’s transition to electric vehicles, and significantly cut the auto pollution that is dangerously heating the planet, face several economic, logistical and legal challenges. The plans, outlined Wednesday by the Environmental Protection Agency, are designed to ensure that two-thirds of new passenger cars and a quarter of new heavy trucks sold in the United States are all-electric by 2032. If enacted as proposed, the regulations would mean a quantum leap for the auto industry in the United States, where just 5.8 percent of new cars and less than 2 percent of trucks sold last year were all-electric. Transportation is the single largest source of greenhouse gases generated by the United States, the second-biggest polluting country after China. To head off climate catastrophe, President Biden has promised to cut the nation’s emissions in half by 2030.
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