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AP – New vehicles must average 40 mpg by 2026, up from 28 mpg
NTAA News!
NTAA has published a white paper today! You can read NTAA’s White Paper on the Utilization of Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) Additional Impacts Analysis to Better Incorporate Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Address Environmental Justice in Air Quality Permitting Decisions here!
The purpose of this white paper is to explore where discretion in the Clean Air Act sections 165(a)(2) and section 165(a)(6) could be used in combinations with direction of EO 13175, the Agency’s Indian policy, and the Agency’s Indian Policy and Policy on Treaty Rights and EO 12898 on environmental justice, can provide for consideration of Tribal concerns, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Environmental Justice, in decisions on issuing permits. You can find the white paper on NTAA’s website policy resource kit tab.
If you are headed to Tulsa for this year’s National Tribal Forum on Air Quality, be sure to book your travel soon!
Registration for the 2022 National Tribal Forum on Air Quality is now open! Click here to register to attend in-person or virtually. NTFAQ’s Planning Committees have been busy planning this year’s forum hosted by the Muscogee Nation in Tulsa, Oklahoma, May 2-5, 2022. You can learn more about the NTFAQ and NTAA’s Annual Meeting that will take place during NTFAQ on NTAA’s website here. Be sure to contact andy.bessler@nau.edu if you have any questions!
The Call For Proposals for The National Tribal & Indigenous Climate Conference is now open!
The Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP) Tribes and Climate Change Program announced the opening for the call for proposals for the upcoming 2022 National Tribal & Indigenous Climate Conference (NTICC) in St. Paul, MN and online August 29 – September 1, 2022.
We welcome proposals that discuss climate-related impacts, assessments, tools, adaptation, mitigation, actions, and the intersection of Traditional/Indigenous Knowledges with western science and adaptation strategies and are accepting both in-person and virtual proposals. Proposal submissions include: Presentations, Trainings, Working Groups, & Climate Conversations
We are particularly excited about our new Climate Conversation proposal category which is seeking submissions for art, games, posters, demonstrations, films, and more to further engage NTICC attendees in Tribal climate work.
Application deadline: Friday, April 22nd by close of business
Letter of notification: Monday, June 6th
Materials deadline: Friday, August 5th
For more information and to apply, please visit our website.
Ambient Air Quality/EPA/NTAA/Tribes News
Forest Declaration Platform – Sink or swim: How Indigenous and community lands can make or break nationally determined contributions
HuffPost – Inside The Contentious Leadership Battle At The Nation’s Biggest Environmental Group
The Hill – EPA revives Obama-era rule removing emergency liability protection for polluters
E&E News – Regan on the Hill to defend EPA’s spending, staffing plan
Native News Online – Oklahoma Governor Faces Pushback from Native Americans for “Indian Card” Comments Made on Fox News
Native News Online – Community Investments Will Grow a Healthier Cherokee Nation
E&E News – EPA plots asbestos ban in landmark rule
Canary Media – Carbon removal now ‘unavoidable’ part of fighting climate change, UN says
Green Media – Poor Air Quality Affects 99 Percent of Humanity, Per New WHO Data — What We Can Do
Here’s your link to this week’s NACAA Washington Update
Climate Change/Energy
AP – UN warns Earth ‘firmly on track toward an unlivable world’
Axios – Biden seeks a crosswalk between oil and clean energy
CNBC – Biden’s top economic advisor says restarting the Keystone XL pipeline now won’t lower oil prices
The Hill – Will Biden’s SPR release lower gas prices?
Reuters – Climate change could cost U.S. budget $2 trillion a year by the end of the century, White House says
Canary Media – A deeper dive into 24/7 carbon-free energy
NY Mag – Once Again, Environmentalists Are Sabotaging Climate Progress
ClimateWire – Business-GOP alliance crumbles over climate
Axios – White House climate adviser: “We can no longer wait” to cut emissions
Energy Monitor – Do renewables need carbon markets?
ITEP Tribes and Climate Change Monthly Newsletter
Toxics/Mobile Sources
Utility Dive – Biden invokes Defense Production Act to bolster domestic battery manufacturing for EVs, energy storage
The Hill – EV leaders want Biden to be more aggressive with Defense Production Act
E&E News – Biden’s Defense Production Act order promises money to miners
Reuters – Carmakers dream of clean, green, mean electric machines
CNN – Hertz to buy up to 65,000 electric cars from Polestar
Oil Price – Tight Supply Sends U.S. East Coast Jet Fuel Price Surging
Washington Examinar – Daily on Energy: Manchin pumps the brakes on Biden electric vehicle push
Yale Examinar – As EV Sales Soar, Automakers Back Higher Fuel Standards
Axios – GM CEO says hybrid work helped speed up EV program
Indoor Air Quality
The News – Feds to Step Up Indoor Air Quality Efforts
E&E News – White House aims for energy-efficient, Covid-safe schools
Science News – We can do better than what was ‘normal’ before the pandemic
