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Climate group will spend $80 million to tout Biden’s environmental record | #alaska | #politics

CNN — Advocacy group Climate Power is committing $80 million in advertising to call attention to President Joe Biden’s climate and environment agenda ahead of the 2024 election, the group announced Monday. The ad campaign broadly aims to inform voters about the president’s wide-ranging climate and clean energy agenda. As he took office, Biden set […]

Alaska

Biden touts his climate credentials in California | #alaska | #politics

CNN — President Joe Biden on Monday touted his administration’s record on climate change, which he called “the most aggressive climate action ever,” while hitting Republicans in Congress for trying to block it. “What we’re seeing here is an amazing success story of how you can work together to make our communities more climate resilient […]

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Biden to highlight climate commitments during West Coast swing | #alaska | #politics

CNN — President Joe Biden will highlight climate commitments made by his administration and announce new federal funding for climate resilience projects as part of a three-day trip to the Bay Area in Northern California that begins Monday, according to a White House official. Biden’s trip builds on several campaign-related stops over the past week […]

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Biden administration takes another step toward advancing a controversial oil drilling project in Alaska | #alaska | #politics

CNN — The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management on Wednesday advanced the controversial Willow oil drilling project on Alaska’s North Slope, releasing the final environmental impact statement before the project can be approved. The ConocoPhillips proposed Willow drilling plan is a massive and decadeslong project that the state’s bipartisan Congressional delegation says will create […]

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Senate approves treaty to combat climate change | #alaska | #politics

CNN — The Senate ratified an international climate treaty to phase out hydrofluorocarbons – potent greenhouse gases used in air conditioning and refrigeration. The vote was 69-27, with more than half of Republican senators objecting. In 2016, the United Nations struck an agreement known as the Kigali Amendment to the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances […]

Arkansas

Arkansas River Compact Administration agrees to establish water storage account | Energy & Environment

The Arkansas River Compact Administration has agreed to establish a 20,000-acre feet multi-purpose storage account in John Martin Reservoir in southeastern Colorado, with some of the water emanating from a water-sharing agreement by the Colorado Springs Utilities. The storage account should benefit water users in Colorado and Kansas and “promote commonly-held interests not directly related […]

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Daily on Energy: What Interior tried to do with its pre-Independence Day news dump | #alaska | #politics

Subscribe today to the Washington Examiner magazine and get Washington Briefing: politics and policy stories that will keep you up to date with what’s going on in Washington. SUBSCRIBE NOW: Just $1.00 an issue! IN CASE YOU WERE TOO BUSY ENJOYING THE FOURTH OF JULY… The Interior Department waited until close of business on Friday […]