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Judge blocks EPA civil rights enforcement plan in Louisiana |
A federal judge has permanently blocked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from considering "disparate" environmental harms on Black communities in Louisiana in its enforcement of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. |
The ruling Thursday from Judge James Cain of the Western District of Louisiana makes permanent a temporary hold he issued in January. Cain, an appointee of former President Trump, sided with the state of Louisiana in prohibiting the EPA's Office of External Civil Rights Compliance and the Justice Department from enforcing the provision "against any entity in the State of Louisiana, or requiring compliance with those requirements as a condition of past, existing, or future awards of financial assistance to any entity in the State of Louisiana." The judge ruled in January that the Civil Rights Act only authorizes enforcement in cases of intentional discrimination. That ruling came shortly after the EPA announced it was ending an investigation into "Cancer Alley," a predominantly Black and low-income section of Louisiana that is a hub of petrochemical production and has disproportionately high cancer rates relative to the country at large. Cain declined a request from the federal government to dismiss Louisiana's case after the end of the investigation, ruling that the state still had a right to "unambiguous clarity concerning Defendants' power to regulate beyond the plain text of Title VI." Read more at TheHill.com. |
Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter, we're Rachel Frazin and Zack Budryk — keeping you up to speed on the policies impacting everything from oil and gas to new supply chains. |
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How policy will affect the energy and environment sectors now and in the future: |
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Brian Deese, a former White House advisor who now advises the Harris campaign, is calling for a "Clean Energy Marshall Plan." |
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Vanishing glaciers. Newly ice-free stretches in the Arctic. Record droughts punctuated by record deluges. A hurricane, supercharged by hot Pacific water, that lasted six weeks. |
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The golf course is not a threatened species in the Sunshine State — but the Florida scrub-jay is. And advocates are warning that life for the small blue and gray birds and many other imperiled species could get much harder if Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration follows through on a proposal to build golf courses, pickleball courts and 350-room hotels at state parks from Miami to the Panhandle. |
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A MESSAGE FROM AMERICAN ENERGY ACTION |
🚨 Tariffs Risk U.S. Solar Manufacturing! — Act now |
A group of solar manufacturers wants to slap tariffs on imported solar cells, risking consumer costs and threatening highly skilled local jobs. Tell Congress to reject these tariffs. Learn more. |
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Frost, Haaland emphasize climate crisis at DNC |
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.), the youngest Member of Congress, hit on the importance of climate action on the final night of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) Thursday. Haaland praised Vice President Harris, Democrats' presidential nominee, for "[holding] polluters accountable for spilling oil into the San Francisco Bay," as well as defending the Obama-era Clean Power Plan in court and casting the deciding vote for the Inflation Reduction Act. Frost, meanwhile, called combating climate change "patriotic," adding, "When you love someone, you want them to have safe drinking water. And when you love someone, you want them to have a dignified job." He also took aim at former President Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), for "think[ing] they can divide us by saying the climate crisis is some hoax." |
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Branch out with a different read from The Hill: |
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After World War II, Black people in Houston found the rare chance to buy a nice home in the new community of Pleasantville, Texas. But in the years that followed, officials routed the Interstate 610 loop with its tailpipe exhaust along one side of Pleasantville and cement plants and other heavy industry grew nearby. |
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News we've flagged from other outlets touching on energy issues, the environment and other topics: |
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Climate change: 4 weapons to slow or reverse global warming (USA Today) Rebates on the way for farmers who paid fuel surcharges under WA climate law (Washington State Standard)
Illegal gold mine surges in Brazil farm state bordering Amazon (Reuters)
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A MESSAGE FROM AMERICAN ENERGY ACTION |
🚨 Tariffs Risk U.S. Solar Manufacturing! — Act now |
A group of solar manufacturers wants to slap tariffs on imported solar cells, risking consumer costs and threatening highly skilled local jobs. Tell Congress to reject these tariffs. Learn more. |
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Two key stories on The Hill right now: |
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The growing possibility that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could drop out and endorse former President Trump is injecting further chaos into an already unpredictable moment in the election. Read more |
| Members of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s extended family called it a "betrayal of the values that our father and our family hold most dear" on Friday after the independent presidential candidate announced that he was endorsing former President Trump. Read more |
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