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The NTAA is announcing the release of the NTAA mobile app! Take the Weekly Update’s latest air quality news with you wherever you go via your iPhone or android smart phone! The app is available on both the Apple App and Google Play stores. It is also free to download!

NTAA is seeking quotes from interested parties willing to conduct a national needs assessment of all federally recognized Tribes to ascertain the budgetary and programmatic needs of the Tribes related to the management of air quality programs. Click here to view the Request for Offers. This request closes on March 20, 2021.

Ambient Air Quality/EPA/NTAA/Tribes

Pew Charitable Trust – In Hard-Hit Indian Country, Tribes Rapidly Roll Out Vaccines

Science Daily – Commuters are inhaling unacceptably high levels of carcinogens

Inside Climate News – A New Study Closes the Case on the Mysterious Rise of a Climate Super-Pollutant

EPA – EPA Awards Contracts Worth up to $220 million to Three Companies for Cleanup at Navajo Nation Area Abandoned Uranium Mines

Buzzfeed News – Trump Led An “All-Out Assault” On The EPA. Now Biden Has To Rebuild It.

NY Times – Biden’s Climate Task Force Opens for Business, Aiming to Restore ‘Credibility’

NY Times – There’s no one size fits all treatment for asthma

WION – Study reveals irreversible link between air pollution and vision loss

Slate – Gassed Up

Salon – Communities of color are saving the planet — why won’t funders support what works?

National Association of Clean Air Agencies – Washington Update

Climate Change/Energy

E&E News – 40% of climate benefits? Explaining Biden’s EJ promise

The Guardian – Heating Arctic may be to blame for snowstorms in Texas, scientists argue

The Guardian – US conservatives falsely blame renewables for Texas storm outages

The New Yorker – When Climate Change and Xenophobia Collide

Washington Post – EPA to jettison major Obama climate rule, as Biden eyes a bigger push

Global Climate Change – ACTIVATE Begins Year Two of Marine Cloud Study

TIME – Healthy Planet, Healthy People. How Slowing Climate Change Saves Lives

ClimateWire – COVID-19 aid should be contingent on climate action: report

The Guardian – California’s rainfall is at historic lows. That spells trouble for wildfires and farms

Toxics/Mobile Sources

The Hill – Electric vehicles are poised to aid Biden in climate fight

The Hill – Trump EPA ripped over approach to chemical risk evaluations in new report

CNN – Shell says its oil production has peaked and will all every year

The Guardian – ‘A clear danger’: oil spill in California city revives calls to cut ties with Chevron

High Country News – New Mexico eyed for major nuclear waste storage facility

Gizmodo – Facebook Is Letting a Pipeline Company Run Ads While Muzzling Its Opponents

Mother Jones – How the Fossil Fuel Industry Convinced Americans to Love Gas Stoves

The Hill – Biden administration delays Trump rule allowing companies to pay less money for drilling on federal lands

Indoor Air Quality

Washington Post – The coronavirus is airborne. Here’s how to know if you’re breathing other people’s breath.

Businesswire – United States Indoor Air Quality Market Report 2021: Impact of COVID-19 on the Industry

JD Supra – EPA Extends Coronavirus Enforcement Against On-Line Sales of Unregistered Disinfectants

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NTAA is seeking quotes from interested parties willing to conduct a national needs assessment of all federally recognized Tribes to ascertain the budgetary and programmatic needs of the Tribes related to the management of air quality programs. Click here to view the Request for Offers. This request closes on March 20, 2021.

NY Times – Tribal Elders Are Dying From the Pandemic, Causing a Cultural Crisis for American Indians

AP – Senate panel advances EPA nominee; GOP slams Interior pick

PBS Newshour – Biden EPA nominee vows ‘sense of urgency’ on climate change

Reuters – U.S. cities underestimating their carbon emissions – study

Ambient Air Quality/EPA/NTAA/Tribes

CNN – Fossil fuel air pollution causes almost 1 in 5 deaths globally each year

Vox – The mess that Biden’s EPA nominee Michael Regan will inherit, explained

Washington Examiner – Scrapping Keystone XL pipeline makes Biden a tribal hero, but villain off reservation

The Hill – Court strikes down part of rule easing pollution standard implementation

E&E – DOJ ditches Trump policies, restores focus on polluters

AP – Judge blocks Trump rule to limit health studies in EPA regs

Science Magazine – Death of EPA’s controversial ‘censored science’ rule delights researchers

Slate – The Fight Against Big Tobacco Can Teach Us How to Fight Big Oil

National Association of Clean Air Agencies – Washington Update

Climate Change/Energy

NY Times – Two Biden Priorities, Climate and Inequality, Meet on Black-Owned Farms

NY Times – How Climate Change May Affect Your Health

TIME – Biden’s Biggest Climate Move: Signaling that Fossil Fuels Are Not the Future

AZ Central – Heat killed a record number of people in Arizona last year, ‘a staggering increase’

Reuters – How Biden’s climate agenda aims to trigger a ‘good-paying’ jobs boom

Climate Change News – Fatal Himalayan glacial lake outburst highlights destabilizing effect of warming

The Washington Post – The Energy 202: Biden stokes hope among climate scientists

Gizmodo – The Murky Connection Between the Coronavirus and Climate Change

Newsone – A Global Fight For Freedom: Black Lives Matter Movement Nominated for 2021 Nobel Peace Prize

Toxics/Mobile Sources

The Hill – Court pauses litigation on Trump-California vehicle emissions fight

The Hill – Biden gets more time to decide on Dakota Access Pipeline

The Hill – EPA alleges political interference by Trump officials over toxic chemical

Gizmodo – How the Department of Energy and Transportation Could Revolutionize How We Get Around

The Wall Street Journal – Exxon, Chevron CEOs Discussed Merger

Nexus – DOI Effectively Suspends Public Lands Drilling

Indoor Air Quality

Forbes – Indoor Air Quality Takes Center Stage During Building Reopening

Science Daily – Advanced simulations reveal how air conditioning spreads COVID-19 aerosols

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