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TOP STORIES/HEADLINES: Week of July 3 – 7, 2023
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!
Top Stories
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
TOP STORIES/HEADLINES: Week of May 15 – 19, 2023
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!
Top Stories
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.
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/HEADLINES: Week of May 8 – 12, 2023
Top Stories
GT – EPA Announces New Grants for Zero-Emissions School Buses
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?