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Global briefing: EPA suspends environmental law enforcement in response to pandemic

Business Green

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday announced it was suspending its enforcement of environmental laws in response to the crisis, informing companies they would not be pursued for environmental infractions during the outbreak. The government said the policy was temporary, but provided no end date.

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Rooftop solar skyrockets if an alternative to monopoly utility models is employed

Renewable Energy World

Since rooftop solar became possible, electric utilities have struggled to incorporate it into their outdated business model. In recent years, this lag in utility recognition has become increasingly problematic, risking the health, environmental, and financial impacts of over-investment in large fossil fuel power plants.

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UK Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho Meets And Praises Climate Science Denier Reform Candidate

DeSmogBlog

The UK government’s most senior climate minister has publicly celebrated a petrol campaigner who wants to “scrap net zero” and claims “man is not responsible for global warming”. Coutinho, who was photographed smiling with Cox, hailed his ‘PumpWatch’ campaign to monitor the price of petrol and diesel.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. . Other wood pellet companies have flocked to the region, including Drax , a major energy utility in the UK that now manufactures wood pellets in the U.S.

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New Prime Minister faces flurry of proposals for tackling the energy crisis

Business Green

Trade body Energy UK becomes latest influential group to endorse plans to shrink electricity bills by reducing the costs paid to legacy low carbon electricity generators. The voluntary CfD scheme would apply to generators that secured contracts under the Renewables Obligation scheme, which closed to new applicants in 2017.

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Lessons from a year of reporting on climate solutions in Cascadia

Grist

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . Worried about the climate crisis? If not sooner.

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Analysis: How did the 2019 legislative session fare on climate justice?

Front And Centered

Front and Centered envisions a more just future that is not only cleaner and safer, but where our communities and the earth are healed and thriving, our people have dignified work opportunity and prosperity, and our government values, respects, and represents us. Equitable Governance in Climate and Environmental Decision-making.