"Rep. Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) privately asked the Trump administration on Tuesday to release funding for a Mercedes-Benz plant to convert to the production of electric vehicles, according to a letter obtained by The Washington Post." "The program, set up through President Joe Biden’s climate law, would benefit a Mercedes-Benz plant in South Carolina."
"Florida officials have said the facility, nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” by Republicans, will open early next week and hold up to 3,000 detainees."
"Protesters lived in a tree for 40 days on the Olympic Peninsula to protest logging of older forests." "On the 40th night of the protest, a black Jeep drove up a logging road and stopped near the base of a towering grand fir."
"Aamjiwnaang First Nation has spent decades battling Sarnia’s industrial emissions. Documents show the Ontario government knew stricter pollution rules were needed long before it acted"
"Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, said late Saturday that he had dropped his contentious plan to sell millions of acres of public lands from the sweeping domestic policy package that the Senate will soon begin debating."
"Senate Republicans have quietly inserted provisions in President Trump’s domestic policy bill that would not only end federal support for wind and solar energy but would impose an entirely new tax on future projects, a move that industry groups say could devastate the renewable power industry."
"Almost a third of all of Tuvalu’s residents have put in requests for the first batch of climate visas from Australia, as scientists fear the Pacific nation will be uninhabitable within the next 80 years."
"Louisiana is the latest state to redefine natural gas as green energy under a new law the Republican governor signed this week, even though it’s a fossil fuel that emits planet-warming greenhouse gases."
"Roughly 1.1 million gallons of crude oil spilled from a pipeline into the Gulf of Mexico in November 2023 because operators failed to shut it down for nearly 13 hours after their data first hinted at a problem, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday."
"Provisions that aim to prevent U.S. tax credits from going to China are written in a way that could shut off just about all clean energy credits."
