"The MAGA Plan To Stop Forest Fires: Remove The Forest"
"Project 2025 plans to increase commercial logging to fight wildfires. Ecologists and fire experts say this will make fires worse."
Source: HEATED, 09/09/2024
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"Massive CP2 LNG Export Facility Faces New Legal Hurdle Over FERC Approval"
"Environmental advocates, landowners, and fishers filed two petitions with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Wednesday, challenging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) recent authorization for the construction of a massive liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. FERC approved the Calcasieu Pass (CP2) LNG terminal proposed by Venture Global in a 2-1 vote in late June."
Source: DeSmog, 09/09/2024"What Would It Take to Bring Renewable, Reliable Power to Puerto Rico?"
"The island is struggling to build a more stable electrical grid. What’s taking so long?"
Source: Sierra, 09/09/2024"Why Protecting Bats Could Save Children’s Lives"
"An analysis published Thursday in the journal Science suggests farmers have increased their use of pesticides on crops in response to the population collapse of bats, potentially leading to the deaths of more than 1,000 human infants through intoxication from the chemicals."
Source: Washington Post, 09/06/2024"Biden Administration Adds Historic California Mine To Federal Cleanup List"
"The Biden administration announced Wednesday the addition of a historic Northern California mine to the Superfund National Priorities List — a federal index that ranks hazardous waste site risk and helps in prioritizing cleanup operations."
Source: The Hill, 09/06/2024"Project Bison Fails. What’s Next For The Carbon Removal Megaproject?"
"The Wyoming venture’s collapse raises questions about the fledgling direct air capture industry — and the Biden administration’s support of it."
Source: E&E News, 09/06/2024Do Cellphones Cause Brain Cancer? A WHO Review Of 63 Studies Finds No Link.
"A review commissioned by the World Health Organization found wireless technology use has skyrocketed, but brain cancer rates have not gone up accordingly."
Source: Washington Post, 09/06/2024"Pakistan Hasn’t Learned Lessons From 2022 Deadly Floods, Experts Say"
"Millions of people in Pakistan continue to live along the path of floodwaters, showing neither people nor the government have learned any lessons from the 2022 devastating floods that killed 1,737 people, experts said Thursday, as an aid group said half of the victims among 300 people killed by rains since July are children."
Source: AP, 09/06/2024"Can The US Census Keep Up With Climate-Driven Displacement?"
"Four years after a string of disasters plagued one Louisiana town, its residents are still on the move."
Source: Grist, 09/06/2024Colleges With Fossil Fuel Funding Can Become 'Vehicle Of Climate Obstruction'
"For decades, oil and gas companies have donated tens to hundreds of millions of dollars to colleges and universities, sat on governing boards, sponsored scholarships and built pro-fossil fuel programming and curriculum — resulting in real or apparent conflicts of interest for universities and their researchers."
Source: Floodlight, 09/06/2024"Coral Restoration's Wake Up Call"
"Rebuilding degraded coral reefs started as a noble endeavor, but now some coral scientists are confronting a dark reality."
Source: HuffPost, 09/06/2024"With Hotter, Drier Weather, California’s Joshua Trees Are in Trouble"
"In the Mojave Desert, rising temperatures, less rainfall, and more intense wildfires are killing off Joshua trees. California officials are working on a plan to protect the distinctive yucca tree and its desert ecosystem by establishing refuges and controlling development."
Source: YaleE360, 09/06/2024"Opinion: How The Quiet War Against Press Freedom Could Come To America"
"Some foreign leaders have ruthlessly curtailed journalism. U.S. politicians could draw from their playbook."
Source: Washington Post, 09/06/2024"EPA Restores Industrial Air Pollution Rule Axed By Trump"
"The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday strengthened a rule limiting toxic air pollution from factories, refineries and other industrial facilities, reversing one of former president Donald Trump’s major environmental rollbacks."
Source: Washington Post, 09/05/2024"The World Is Pumping Out 57 Million Tons Of Plastic Pollution A Year"
"The world creates 57 million tons of plastic pollution every year and spreads it from the deepest oceans to the highest mountaintop to the inside of people’s bodies, according to a new study that also said more than two-thirds of it comes from the Global South."
Source: AP, 09/05/2024
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