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Upcoming Oil & Natural Gas Methane Rule

Comment deadline: Friday, July 30, 2021

The NTAA has created a template letter that your Tribe can use to comment on the EPA’s Upcoming Oil and Natural Gas Methane Rule, which is a pre-proposal public outreach effort by the EPA. The template letter can be downloaded here, or found on the PRK page of the NTAA’s website.

 

PBS News Hour – Wildfires are increasing health risks of already-polluted regions of the U.S., experts warn

 

AP – EXCLUSIVE: Biden mileage rule to exceed Obama climate goal

 

Los Angeles Times – Bipartisan infrastructure deal could advance as soon as today after breakthrough in talks

 

Ambient Air Quality/EPA/NTAA/Tribes

 

Political Pro – EPA advisers eye improving air quality equity

 

National Geographic – Wildfire smoke blowing across the U.S. is more toxic than we thought

 

Seattle Times – How to prepare for wildfire smoke in your home, car and while outdoors

 

Taos News – Nonprofit helps Native tribes utilize their natural resources

 

NPR – Without Enough Water To Go Around, Farmers In California Are Exhausting Aquifers

 

Vox – The West is burning. Climate change is making it worse.

 

Yahoo – How wildfires can impact soil and cause it to repel water

 

Yale Environment 360 – U.S. power sector sees biggest one-year drop in emissions in more than two decades

 

The Independent – Cutting air pollution levels ‘improves brain function and lowers risk of dementia’, studies suggest

 

National Association of Clean Air Agencies – Washington Update

 

Climate Change/Energy

 

Science – U.N. climate panel confronts implausibly hot forecasts of future warming

 

The Hill – Shocking video shows salmon almost boiled alive in heat wave

 

Lakeland PBS – White Earth Gives 48-Hour Cease-and-Desist Order to Enbridge

 

The Guardian – The cost of cooling: how air conditioning is heating up the world

 

Washington Post – How to cool down your home without relying on air conditioning

 

AP – Landslides, monsoon flooding kill over 100 in western India

 

Inside Climate News – A Triple Whammy Has Left Many Inner-City Neighborhoods Highly Vulnerable to Soaring Temperatures

 

Rolling Stone – Want Proof We Need a Civilian Climate Corps? Look No Further Than Louisiana

 

Vox – Our bodies can adapt to hotter conditions – but there’s a limit

 

The Guardian – Marijuana farmers blames for water theft as drought grips American west

Toxics/Mobile Sources

 

U.S. Department of Justice – Justice Department and EPA Reach Clean Air Act Settlement with Advanced Flow Engineering for Selling Defeat Devices

 

Houston Chronicle – U.S. natural gas exports to Mexico established a new monthly record in June 2021

 

Wall Street Journal – gas engines, and the people behind them, are cast aside for electric vehicles

 

Fast Company – This new study debunks one of the biggest criticisms of electric vehicles

 

Indoor Air Quality

 

NPR – Masks Will Return To The U.S. House And White House After The CDC Changes Guidance

 

USA Today – CDC and doctors call for masks in school. Will states, schools follow guidelines?

 

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