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Be sure to join today’s NTAA Informational Webinar on EPA’s Proposed Methane Rule at 2pm ET. You can register and attend NTAA’s webinar here. The 1 ½ hour webinar will include a Panel Discussion with:
- NTAA’s Ian Fisher and Laura McKelvey
- American Lung Association’s Laura Kate Bender
- Moms Clean Air Force’s Shaina Oliver and Celerah Hewes
- EDF’s Eric Kills a Hundred and Edwin LaMair
You can learn more and comment from NTAA’s Policy Resource Kits page here.
Ambient Air Quality/EPA/NTAA/Tribes News
E&E News – EPA to review rules for largest source of lead in air
Indian Country Today – Tribal sovereignty ballot initiative smashes threshold
Inside Climate News – In the Latest Rights of Nature Case, a Tribe Is Suing Seattle on Behalf of Salmon in the Skagit River
Mongabay News – By cultivating seaweed, Indigenous communities restore connection to the ocean
ABC News – Low-income schools facing string of challenges after natural disasters: Report
The Hill – GOP senator blocks Biden EPA nominees over coal plant decision
Indian Country Today – Setting a climate course when politics divides
Indian Country Today – Vicious circle: Tribal broadband program hindered
Here’s your link to this week’s NACAA Washington Update
Climate Change/Energy
Reuters – How the White House hopes to save Biden’s Build Back Better bill
E&E News – DOT to allot $27B to fix bridges, ensure climate resilience
E&E News – Interior reveals plans for orphan well cleanup
E&E News – EPA tackles coal-to-crypto industry trend
Energy Wire – Power companies back EPA climate authority at Supreme Court
The Guardian – Global heating linked to early birth and damage to babies’ health, scientists find
Grist – Biden is ending Trump’s war on green appliances — but not very quickly
Reuters – Emissions set to rise with global power demand – IEA
ITEP Tribes and Climate Change Monthly Newsletter
Toxics/Mobile Sources
NBC News – California’s Salton Sea is a potential hotspot for lithium production
CNBC – How the U.S. fell behind in lithium, the ‘white gold’ of electric vehicles
The Guardian – Chemical pollution has passed safe limit for humanity, say scientists
The Verge – Bill Gates’ climate fund looks to funnel billions into carbon removal, green hydrogen, and more
Indoor Air Quality
Street Insider – Clean Air Matters; How Effective Clean Air Technology Is Becoming Essential to a Healthy Future
