Environmental Politics

"FTC Cracks Down On Food Industry For Paid Dietitian ‘Influencer’ Posts"

"Federal regulators announced warnings against two major food and beverage industry groups and a dozen nutrition influencers Wednesday, as part of a broad action to enforce stricter standards for how companies and social media creators disclose paid advertising."

Source: Washington Post, 11/17/2023

"Top Companies' Lobbying Undermines Their Climate Pledges, Study Finds"

"Glencore, ExxonMobil and Stellantis are among companies lobbying for policies that conflict with their own pledges to cut carbon emissions, a study published by non-profit think tank InfluenceMap on Thursday found."

Source: Reuters, 11/17/2023

"Scientists Say Health Should Be The Core Of Global Plastic Treaty"

"More than 20 international scientists put forth a plan today to encourage world leaders to put human health at the center of global plastic treaty negotiations taking place this week in Nairobi, Kenya."

Source: EHN, 11/15/2023

2 Grim Reports On Global Climate Highlight Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Ill Health

"Humanity’s fight to curb climate change is failing in dozens of ways with people getting sicker and dying as the world warms and the fossil fuels causing it get more subsidies, according to two global reports issued Tuesday."

Source: AP, 11/15/2023

Desperate For Water, Desert City Hopes To Build Pipeline To Calif. Aqueduct

"After decades of unrestricted pumping in the rain-starved northwestern corner of the Mojave Desert, the Indian Wells Valley Groundwater Basin Authority has the distinction of managing one of the most critically overdrawn aquifers in California."

Source: LA Times, 11/14/2023

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