"Everything You Need to Know About Project 2025's Plan for the EPA"
"The details of Project 2025 plans on climate, and for the EPA."
Source: Drilled, 07/29/2024
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"Project 2025 Plan Calls For Demolition Of NOAA and National Weather Service"
"Among its many sweeping calls for change in American government, a conservative platform document known as Project 2025 urges the demolition of some of the nation’s most dependable resources for tracking weather, combating climate change and protecting the public from environmental hazards."
Source: LA Times, 07/29/2024"The Plastic Industry’s $30 Million Lie"
"If you’ve tuned into any major TV network in the last few months, you may have seen an ad promising a brand new way to end plastic pollution: advanced recycling."
Source: HEATED, 07/29/2024"Second Trump Term Could Boost Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’, Experts Warn"
"A second Donald Trump presidency would represent a serious threat to dealing with the toxic impact of PFAS “forever chemicals”, as well as other toxins, and could be a danger to the health of millions of Americans, experts and environmental campaigners warn."
Source: Guardian, 07/29/2024"A Company Wanted To Store Carbon Under US Forests; It May Get Its Wish"
"The U.S. Forest Service said ‘no’ when CapturePoint asked to put carbon capture projects under national forests. The agency is now reconsidering."
Source: Floodlight, 07/29/2024Wind Farms’ Benefits To Communities Face Opposition And Misinformation
"After NextEra proposed a wind farm in Greeley County, Nebraska two years ago, Robert Bernt, a dairy farm owner in the area, helped to mobilize community members against the idea."
Source: AP, 07/29/2024"Harris Offered A ‘Blueprint’ For Environmental Justice. Can She Grow It?"
"The vice president could double down on President Joe Biden’s focus on communities burdened by pollution if she is elected president."
Source: E&E News, 07/26/2024Recycled Bottle Tops And Tables From Shuttlecocks - Greenest Olympics?"
"The organising committee of Paris 2024 has vowed to make it the greenest Games in Olympic history, with half the carbon footprint of London 2012 and Rio 2016."
Source: BBC Sport, 07/26/2024"Red States Ask Supreme Court To Halt Biden Climate Rule For Power Plants"
"Republican-led states on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to block the Biden administration’s effort to cut planet-warming emissions from the power sector."
Source: The Hill, 07/26/2024"Meet Kamala Harris’ Go-To Guy On Climate"
"Vice President Kamala Harris’ longtime climate adviser is a 37-year-old Colorado native who has a Ph.D. in marine science, a penchant for electric buses and a miniature poodle named Newton who’s a member of the KHive."
Source: E&E News, 07/25/2024"PFAS Widely Added To US Pesticides Despite EPA Denial, Study Finds"
"Toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” are widely added to pesticides, and are increasingly used in the products in recent years, new research finds, a practice that creates a health threat by spreading the dangerous compounds directly into the US’s food and water supply."
Source: Guardian, 07/25/2024"What Project 2025 Would Do To Climate Policy In The US"
"As delegates arrived at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee earlier this week to officially nominate former president Donald Trump as their 2024 candidate, a right-wing policy think tank held an all-day event nearby. The Heritage Foundation, a key sponsor of the convention and a group that has been influencing Republican presidential policy since the 1980s, gathered its supporters to tout Project 2025, a 900-plus-page policy blueprint that seeks to fundamentally restructure the federal government."
Source: Grist, 07/25/2024"When Kamala Harris Sued Obama Over Fracking"
"A 2016 lawsuit illustrates why some activists believe Harris will be more aggressive on climate than Biden."
Source: HEATED, 07/24/2024"Between Attacks on Electric Cars, Trump Says They’re ‘Incredible’"
"The former president’s comments on E.V.s have shifted since he has grown more friendly with Elon Musk, the billionaire head of Tesla."
Source: NYTimes, 07/24/2024‘Dark Oxygen’ In Pacific Depths Could Force Rethink About Origins Of Life
"In the total darkness of the depths of the Pacific Ocean, scientists have discovered oxygen being produced not by living organisms but by strange potato-shaped metallic lumps that give off almost as much electricity as AA batteries."
Source: AFP, 07/24/2024
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