Sustainable Bioenergy, Farms, and Forests - August 24, 2018

Biomass Has Smaller Role in Administration’s New Coal-Heavy Power Plan

On Tuesday, August 21, the Trump administration released its plan to dramatically revise the Clean Power Plan (CPP), President Obama’s signature climate policy.  Under the CPP, emissions from the power sector would have been reduced 32 percent by 2030 relative to 2005 levels. While the EPA is legally required to tackle greenhouse gas emissions per the endangerment finding, the Trump administration has taken a much narrower interpretation of the Clean Air Act than what was found in the CPP.   

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Headlines: 

1. Judge Revives Obama WOTUS Rule, Blocking Trump Suspension
2. Why Is Trump Slashing the USDA’s Independent Research Arm? 
3. Plan Bee: The Rise of Alternative Pollinators
4. Scientists Conquer the ‘Mount Everest of Genetics’ after Unlocking Secrets of Wheat Genome
5. Science Says: Hotter Weather Turbocharges US West Wildfires
 

 

 

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