Registration is still open for the 2023 Tribal Lands and Environment Forum! Visit the 2023 TLEF website to register. From there, you can also make your hotel reservation at our host hotel at a special rate.

This TLEF will be hybrid – you can attend either virtually or in person. However, you decide to join us, we look forward to seeing you this August!

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AP News – 10 states plan to sue the EPA over standards for residential wood-burning stoves

Clean Technica – EPA must protect communities from sterilizer plants’ carcinogenic emissions

The Guardian – Weather tracker: 100m people in US under air quality warnings as wildfires spread

NACAA Washington Update – This Week in Review

Ambient Air Quality/EPA/Tribes News

WWD – EPA Could Stop Spray-applied Stain Guard Apparel From ‘Being Manufactured at All’

The Washington Post – The EPA is racing to spend $27 billion the GOP wants to repeal

CBS News – EPA sued over reapproval of weed killers

Toxics/Mobile Sources

Reason Magazine – Automotive Lobby: EPA’s Vehicle Emission Standards ‘Neither Reasonable Nor Achievable’

The Drive – How Does the EPA Determine EV Range?

Greenwire – 5 things to watch as the EV tax credits take shape

Indoor Air Quality/Environmental Justice

NY Times – Can Indoor Air Quality Sensors Keep Offices Safe?

CS – How To Minimize Wildfire Impact on Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)

Greenwire – Supreme Court ruling entangles Biden’s environmental justice efforts

Proposals for sessions and trainings for the TLEF are due THIS Friday, May 19! We really want to hear your stories, your successes and challenges, new approaches you’ve taken that might help others, updates on projects you’ve been working on, or anything else that might inspire and help your colleagues working on the front line. We prioritize selecting proposals that are specific to Superfund/Federal Facilities, solid waste, USTs, emergency response, and brownfields. We love seeing proposals that may straddle various topics, or deal with over-arching challenges like the climate crisis, habitat restoration, environmental justice, or other areas that affect these core environmental media. If you have something to share, don’t delay!

Go to the 2023 TLEF Website and click on the “Call for Proposals” tab to access the proposal form.

We look forward to seeing you at this year’s TLEF – whether you attend in person or virtually!

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The White House has developed a page where you can find all of the open IRA NOFOs: Open Funding Opportunities | Clean Energy | The White House

EPA maintains a similar list of BIL and IRA funding opportunities on the EPA website that is updated monthly: https://www.epa.gov/invest/epa-funding-announcements-bipartisan-infrastructure-law-and-inflation-reduction-act

Evergreen – Evergreen Explains the Climate Impact of the Inflation Reduction Act

New York Times – EPA Proposes Limits on Climate Pollution from Existing Power Plants

US News – When Does the COVID-19 Pandemic End?

NACAA Washington Update – This Week in Review

Ambient Air Quality/EPA/Tribes News

Native News Online – NDN Collective launches podcast, ‘LANDBACK for the people’

NPR – An EPA proposal to (almost) eliminate climate pollution from power plants

Ensia – Thinking about a heat pump? Here are a few things to consider.

EPA – EPA Proposes New Carbon Pollution Standards for Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Plants to Tackle the Climate Crisis and Protect Public Health

Toxics/Mobile Sources

NPR – Texas petrochemical plant fire sends 5 workers to hospital

Native News Online – Feds propose mineral extraction withdrawal in Jenny Gulch

High Country News – San Carlos Apache call for international intervention over copper mine at Oak Flat

Indoor Air Quality/Environmental Justice

Colorlines – What is Collective Power and How Do We Build It? An Explainer with Maurice Mitchell

Colorlines – Should Racial Justice Movements Give up on Government? An Explainer with Eric K. Ward

NPR – 5 ways to improve your indoor air quality: Life kit

NewScientist – How indoor air quality affects your health and what to do about it

Top Stories

GT – EPA Announces New Grants for Zero-Emissions School Buses

EPA – EPA Releases Framework for the Implementation of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund as Part of President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda

NACAA Washington Update – This Week in Review

Ambient Air Quality/EPA/Tribes News

KTLA – Air quality improving in California, but still worst in the nation, report shows

NEWSNATION  – EPA denies approving burn after Ohio train derailment

WTOC – EPA announces national effort to improve emissions at ports

Toxics/Mobile Sources

E&E  – EPA power plant rules are coming. Are utilities ready?

The Hill – Top environment Democrat to release permitting proposal focused on emissions cuts

Indoor Air Quality/Environmental Justice

E&E – Biden notched big climate wins. Can his campaign sell that?

NPR – 5 ways to improve your indoor air quality

The 2023 NTFAQ is less than a week away! We look forward to seeing everyone at Gila River Indian Community’s Wild Horse Pass!

Registration is now open for the 2023 Tribal Lands and Environment Forum! Visit the 2023 TLEF website to register. From there, you can also make your hotel reservation at our host hotel at a special rate. Have a presentation idea? We are still accepting session proposals through May 19.

We are using a new registration system this year, hosted by Northern Arizona University Ticketing Office, that is different from past TLEFs. So please read the instructions carefully. We will also be opening up submissions soon for those interested in sponsoring this year’s TLEF or being an exhibitor. If you know any groups or companies that might like to either help sponsor this event, or be an exhibitor, please steer them toward the website and let them know we’ll have that information soon.

As a reminder, this TLEF will be hybrid – you can attend either virtually or in person. However, you decide to join us, we look forward to seeing you this August!

Top Stories

EPA – Funding for Tribes in the Inflation Reduction Act

EPA – EPA Releases Framework for the Implementation of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund as Part of President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda

NACAA Washington Update – This Week in Review

Ambient Air Quality/EPA/Tribes News

Inside Climate News – As Extreme Fires Multiply, California Scientists Zero In on How Smoke Affects Pregnancy and Children

American Lung Association – ALA Releases its State of the Air Report

Medical Press – Poor air quality linked to cognitive problems in babies

Toxics/Mobile Sources

electrek – CA hits EV target ahead of schedule. It’s not the first place to do so, and won’t be the last

CleanTechnica – Insurmountable Obstacles To Mass EV Adoption? Think Again

Indoor Air Quality/Environmental Justice

The Hill – Majority of adults have been personally affected by extreme weather, climate change: poll

The Hill – Biden establishes Office of Environmental Justice, blasts GOP attempts to roll back IRA

E&E News – Biden order tackles environmental justice