NTAA News
The NTAA EC (shown below) presented the key findings from NTAA’s first national baseline needs assessment (BNA) for Tribal Air Programs. You can read the full report here, and the key findings here.
To help readers navigate the 110-page report, NTAA will be hosting a national webinar on Wednesday, June 15th at 2 ET. All members of the public are welcome to join the webinar. Follow this link to register to the event.
At NTAA’s Annual Meeting, the new one-hour NTAA film, “NTAA’s 20th year anniversary” was screened. You can view the full film on NTAA’s “About Us” page here.
Last week, NTAA also published new Policy Resource Kits for Tribes to use that includes fact sheets and template letters you and/or your Tribe can use to comment on:
This was the first in-person meeting of the NTAA Executive Committee, staff, partners, airheads and other and NTFAQ attendees in over 3 years and it was great to reconnect with all of you! Thanks to the NTAA Executive Committee and ITEP staff for their hard work and dedication and to everybody in the NTAA family who helped make a successful NTFAQ for 2022!
Top Stories
Buzzfeed News – Trump Broke The EPA. Biden Is Struggling To Fix It.
EPA – New Enforcement Strategy Advances President Biden’s Environmental Justice Agenda
Grist – A new Office of Environmental Justice is announced
Reuters – U.S. takes unprecedented steps to replenish Colorado River’s Lake Powell
Ambient Air Quality/EPA/NTAA/Tribes News
Yes! Magazine – Muscogee Nation Turns to Cows to Build for the Future
Prism – Climate change is leaving its mark on Indigenous-owned food businesses
Reuters – New Mexico firefighters beg holdouts to evacuate village
AP – Biden to crack down on polluters in poor, minority areas
Indian Country Today – Raising awareness for missing and murdered Indigenous people
Grist – Indigenous climate migrants face unique challenges — with too few resources
Yale Climate Connections – Why a tool for reversing Trump era rules is seldom used
Here’s your link to this week’s NACAA Washington Update
Climate Change/Energy
CNBC – Energy secretary explains why feds are spending $2.5 billion on carbon capture
The Navajo Times – ‘Please listen to us’: Diné allottees try to reclaim Chaco Canyon
Yale Climate Connections – Moms push Massachusetts utilities to transition to renewable heat sources
Thomson Reuters Foundation – As conflict and climate change bite, are high food prices here to stay?
Inside Climate News – ‘Stripped of Everything,’ Survivors of Colorado’s Most Destructive Fire Face Slow Recoveries and a Growing Climate Threat
Reuters – Explainer: Why are U.S. natural gas prices soaring?
Energy News Network – Iowa carbon pipeline opponents see lessons from Dakota Access fight
Energy Monitor – The birth of the carbon removal market
CNBC – Carbon capture challenges are not deterring investor at Bill Gates’ firm
ITEP Tribes and Climate Change Monthly Newsletter
Toxics/Mobile Sources
NM Political Report – New Mexico’s Clean Car Rule will go into effect July 1
Canary Media – Chart: Lithium prices are through the roof this year
Oil Price – The Next Frontiers In The Lithium Boom
Vox – The massive, unregulated source of plastic pollution you’ve probably never heard of
E&E News – Manchin open to methane fee in climate, energy talks
Indoor Air Quality
CMM – USGBC Releases New Report on Indoor Air Quality in Schools
Magnolia News – Indoor Air Quality Market Is Thriving Worldwide
Coatings World – New Center for Green Schools Report on Indoor Air Quality in our Schools
