Energy & Fuel

November 8, 2024

DEADLINE: Jaime Espina Klima Correspondents Fellowship

The Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities seeks applications from professional journalists across the Philippines for its six-month story grants. The aim is to provide space for climate and energy stories in Philippine communities by training provincial journalists and media practitioners. Deadline: Nov 8, 2024.

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"New Survey Puts Human Face On Pollution Caused By U.S. Wood Pellet Mills"

"A new groundbreaking survey highlights the human toll from pollution and other quality of life impacts connected to those living near the forest biomass industry’s wood pellet mills in the U.S Southeast. Door-to-door interviews were conducted by a coalition of NGOs, with 312 households surveyed in five mostly poor, rural and minority communities located near pellet mills"

Source: Mongabay, 10/29/2024

New Reports Ahead of COP29 Show World Spinning Its Wheels on Climate Action

"A trio of reports released ahead of next month’s COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan all show that the existing national policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions under the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement will heat the planet by close to 3 degrees Celsius by 2100, as warming has accelerated in the past few years."

Source: Inside Climate News, 10/29/2024

Nevada Lithium Mine Wins Final Permit Despite Risk To Endangered Wildflower

"For the first time under President Joe Biden, a federal permit for a new lithium mine has been approved for a Nevada project essential to his clean energy agenda, despite conservationists’ vows to sue over the plan, which they say will drive an endangered wildflower to extinction."

Source: AP, 10/25/2024

World On Pace For Much More Warming Without Immediate Action, Report Warns

"The world is on a path to get 1.8 degrees Celsius (3.2 Fahrenheit) warmer than it is now, but could trim half a degree of that projected future heating if countries do everything they promise to fight climate change, a United Nations report said Thursday."

Source: AP, 10/25/2024

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