Gov/Politics | https://ens-newswire.com We Cover the Earth for You! Fri, 10 Mar 2023 05:37:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.7 https://ens-newswire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/favicon.jpg Gov/Politics | https://ens-newswire.com 32 32 Freight Train Derailment Politics https://ens-newswire.com/freight-train-derailment-politics/ Fri, 10 Mar 2023 05:36:06 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=98453 WASHINGTON, DC, March 9, 2023 (ENS) – Norfolk Southern President and CEO Alan Shaw apologized today during a hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee for the February [...]

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]]> Climate Denier Gosar Rejoins House Natural Resources Committee https://ens-newswire.com/climate-denier-gosar-rejoins-house-natural-resources-committee/ Thu, 19 Jan 2023 02:04:39 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=98245 WASHINGTON, DC, January 18, 2023 (ENS) – Ally of industrial development and ex-President Donald Trump, far-right election denier Republican Congressman Paul Gosar of Arizona is back on the House Committee [...]

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]]> Europe Evaluates New Rules for Cleaner Air, Water https://ens-newswire.com/europe-evaluates-new-rules-for-cleaner-air-water/ Fri, 28 Oct 2022 06:01:56 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=97918 BRUSSELS, Belgium, October 27, 2022 (ENS) – The European Commission Wednesday proposed stronger rules on ambient air, surface and groundwater pollutants, and the treatment of urban wastewater.

All the new [...]

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]]> EPA Opens Environmental Justice Office to Support Civil Rights https://ens-newswire.com/epa-opens-environmental-justice-office-to-support-civil-rights/ Tue, 11 Oct 2022 00:35:11 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=97848 By Benjamin Seidman

WASHINGTON, DC, October 10, 2022 (ENS) – The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, has just established the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights to serve underprivileged [...]

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]]> Bolsonaro Blamed as Invaders Plunder Brazil’s Indigenous Lands https://ens-newswire.com/bolsonaro-blamed-as-invaders-plunder-brazils-indigenous-lands/ Fri, 26 Aug 2022 01:54:35 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=97669 BRASILIA, Brazil, August 25, 2022 (ENS) – The Indigenous peoples of Brazil, subject to the rapid invasion of their lands by miners, loggers, hunters, fishermen, and land grabbers, are committing [...]

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]]> Senate to Vote on Record $369 Billion Climate Change Spending https://ens-newswire.com/senate-to-vote-on-record-369-billion-climate-change-spending/ Fri, 29 Jul 2022 09:27:00 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=97496 WASHINGTON, DC, July 29, 2022 (ENS) – Two of the Democrats’ most powerful senators have agreed to add a $700 billion climate change, energy security and debt reduction package, the [...]

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]]> One Man Blockade of Climate Funding Forces Biden’s Hand https://ens-newswire.com/one-man-blockade-of-climate-funding-forces-bidens-hand/ Thu, 21 Jul 2022 02:39:04 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=97391 WASHINGTON, DC, July 20, 2022 (ENS) – Senator Joe Manchin of the coal-producing state of West Virginia, a Democrat, has told Democratic congressional leaders that he won’t support new climate [...]

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]]> Germany’s G7 Puts Climate Infrastructure Front and Center  https://ens-newswire.com/germanys-g7-puts-climate-infrastructure-front-and-center/ Sun, 26 Jun 2022 23:44:56 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=97311 SCHLOSS ELMAU, Bavaria, Germany, June 26, 2022 (ENS) – At a century-old luxury resort in a Bavarian Alpine nature reserve, the world’s seven largest and wealthiest liberal democracies today formally [...]

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]]> Congress OKs Climate, Energy, Water Spending in $1.5T Bill https://ens-newswire.com/1-5-trillion-omnibus-bill-would-fund-climate-energy-water/ Sun, 13 Mar 2022 00:25:00 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=96912 WASHINGTON, DC, March 12, 2022 (ENS) – In a bipartisan vote of 68-31, the U.S. Senate has passed an appropriations bill that will fund government climate, energy, water and wildfire [...]

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]]> Plastics Pact, Wildfires Top UN Environment Assembly Agenda https://ens-newswire.com/plastics-pact-wildfires-top-un-environment-assembly-agenda/ Mon, 28 Feb 2022 16:40:26 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=96753 NAIROBI, Kenya, February 28, 2022 (ENS) – The world’s foremost environmental decision-making body, the United Nations Environment Assembly, opens its annual meeting today in Nairobi. For the next three days, [...]

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]]> EU, USA Pledge Energy Security as Russia Threatens Ukraine https://ens-newswire.com/eu-usa-pledge-energy-security-as-russia-threatens-ukraine/ Fri, 28 Jan 2022 18:03:00 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=96235 BRUSSELS, Belgium, January 28, 2022 (ENS) – In a joint statement today, U.S. President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen reinforced their cooperation on energy security. [...]

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]]> Green Values Shape Germany’s 2022 Government https://ens-newswire.com/green-values-shape-germanys-2022-government/ Sat, 08 Jan 2022 23:18:20 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=95769 BERLIN, Germany, January 8, 2022 (ENS) – In Germany’s September 2021 federal election, voters supported the Greens at historic levels, and Germany became the sixth and largest European Union Member [...]

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]]> Youth Urgency Influenced COP26 Climate Negotiations https://ens-newswire.com/youth-urgency-influenced-cop26-climate-negotiations/ Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:54:28 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=95329 By Benjamin Seidman

GLASGOW, Scotland, November 15, 2021 (ENS) – Young people have long fought at the forefront of social justice movements and environmental justice is no exception. Youth roles [...]

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]]> Climate Activists Can’t Wait, Biden Can’t Wait Either https://ens-newswire.com/climate-activists-cant-wait-biden-cant-wait-either/ Mon, 18 Oct 2021 02:02:52 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=95012 WASHINGTON, DC, October 16, 2021 (ENS) – At least 300 people were arrested at the White House last week while demonstrating to demand that President Joe Biden declare a climate [...]

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]]> Biden to UN: We Stand At an ‘Inflection Point in History’ https://ens-newswire.com/biden-to-un-we-stand-at-an-inflection-point-in-history/ Wed, 22 Sep 2021 01:02:57 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=94737 NEW YORK, New York, September 21, 2021 (ENS) – UN Secretary-General António Guterres today welcomed important commitments made towards climate action by the world’s two largest economies, the United States [...]

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]]> US-Australia Fortify Climate, Environmental, Human Rights Alliance https://ens-newswire.com/us-australia-fortify-climate-environmental-human-rights-alliance/ Fri, 17 Sep 2021 01:37:51 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=94613 WASHINGTON, DC, September 16, 2021 (ENS) – Climate, clean energy, and the environment were front and center today in US-Australia ministerial consultations, setting policy on the 70th anniversary of a [...]

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]]> G7 Leaders Agree Global Agenda to ‘Build Back Better’ https://ens-newswire.com/g7-leaders-agree-global-agenda-to-build-back-better/ Tue, 15 Jun 2021 07:36:44 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=93869

FALMOUTH, Cornwall, UK, June 13, 2021 (ENS) – The leaders of the world’s seven wealthiest democracies, the Group of Seven, G7, underlined their shared democratic values in today’s agreement to [...]

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]]> Historic G7 Billion Covid Vaccine Donation Falls Short of Need https://ens-newswire.com/historic-g7-billion-covid-vaccine-donation-falls-short-of-need/ Sat, 12 Jun 2021 00:27:27 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=93853

FALMOUTH, Cornwall, UK, June 12, 2021 (ENS) – Hosted by the UK, the Group of Seven Leaders’ Summit this weekend in Cornwall aims to unite the wealthiest democracies to help [...]

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]]> Tax Status Complaint Targets Group Battling Biden’s 30 by 30 Land Plan https://ens-newswire.com/tax-status-complaint-targets-group-battling-bidens-30-by-30-land-plan/ Tue, 18 May 2021 01:57:15 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=93708

WASHINGTON, DC, May 17, 2021 (ENS) – Government watchdog Accountable.US has filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service requesting an investigation of the nonprofit American Stewards of Liberty for [...]

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]]> Haaland Confirmed 1st Indigenous Secretary of Interior https://ens-newswire.com/haaland-confirmed-as-first-indigenous-secretary-of-the-interior/ Tue, 16 Mar 2021 01:24:41 +0000 http://ens-newswire.com/?p=93139  

WASHINGTON, DC, March 15, 2021 (ENS) – History was made today as the U.S. Senate voted 51-40 to confirm President Joe Biden’s nominee Congresswoman Debra Haaland as Secretary of [...]

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