"California Sues Exxon Over ‘Deceptive’ Plastic Recycling Claims"
"The landmark lawsuit is the first time a state has targeted an oil company over claims that recycling could solve the plastic pollution crisis."
Source: E&E News, 09/24/2024
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"The Hidden Environmental Costs of Food"
"Damage to the natural world isn’t factored into the price of food. But some governments are experimenting with a new way of exposing the larger costs of what we eat."
Source: NYTimes, 09/24/2024Midwest States Struggle to Fund Dam Safety Projects as Federal Aid Surges
"Many dams in the Midwest do not meet grant eligibility requirements, leaving safety officials and residents worried about how they’ll prevent future collapses as flood risks increase."
"MINNEAPOLIS—A record amount of federal aid will soon flow to states to help fix, replace or demolish their aging dams, many of which are under increasing pressure as climate change fuels more frequent and severe extreme weather events.
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/24/2024Storm Likely To Slam Florida Gulf Coast As Hurricane Helene On Thursday
"Potential Tropical Cyclone 9 could become a landfalling major hurricane for the Florida Gulf Coast on Thursday."
Source: Yale Climate Connections, 09/24/2024Newsom Signs Law Banning All Plastic Shopping Bags At Grocery Stores
“Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags."
Source: AP, 09/24/2024"Pope Denounces Slaying Of Honduran Environmental Defender"
"Pope Francis on Sunday condemned the slaying of an environmental activist in Honduras, adding to a growing number of international voices that have raised concern over the killing."
Source: AP, 09/24/2024Federal Judge Throws Out Suit To Protect Dolphins From Spillway Openings
"A lawsuit filed by Mississippi Gulf Coast local governments, representatives of its tourism industry and Mississippi fishers against the Army Corps of Engineers to protect bottlenose dolphins from death or injury caused by openings of the Bonnet Carre Spillway has been thrown out by a federal judge in Gulfport."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 09/24/2024New Green Aluminum Plant Could Bring Jobs And Clean Energy To Kentucky
"The coal-rich state wants to land the first new U.S. smelter in 45 years. But the deal won’t happen unless Kentucky can furnish lots of clean energy. "
Source: Canary Media, 09/24/2024"At COP16, Colombia Seeks To Lead By Example On Biodiversity"
"As one of the world's most biodiverse countries, Colombia is determined to lead by example when it hosts an upcoming UN summit to save nature, Environment Minister Susana Muhamad told AFP on Monday."
Source: AFP, 09/24/2024Midwest Could Offer Fall’s Most Electric Foliage But Elsewhere May Too
"Leaves around the northern U.S. are starting to turn orange, yellow and red, inspiring legions of leaf lovers to hop in their cars and travel to the countryside for the best look at fall’s fireworks."
Source: AP, 09/24/2024In NYC And Elsewhere, Climate Protesters Say Action Isn’t Fast Enough
"Six years after a teenage Greta Thunberg walked out of school in a solitary climate protest outside of the Swedish parliament, people around a warming globe marched in youth-led protest, saying their voices are being heard but not sufficiently acted upon."
Source: AP, 09/23/2024"From Malaise To Mania: How Green Fundraising Rebounded"
"Before President Joe Biden exited the race, environmental groups were badly lagging the rate of their 2020 campaign spending. That’s changing."
Source: E&E News, 09/23/2024Americans Most Affected By Climate Crisis Head To Midwest
"Unbearable heat and worsening storms prompt residents of states such as Florida to move elsewhere"
"As a Rust belt town of 65,000 people in eastern Indiana, Muncie may not be the most exciting place in the world. It doesn’t have beaches, year-round warm weather or much in the way of cosmopolitanism.
But for Laura Rivas, a cybersecurity engineer formerly of North Miami Beach, Florida, Muncie is perfect.
Before she moved there in 2022, life in Florida had become unbearable.
Source: Guardian, 09/23/2024"US CFTC Issues First Guidelines For Carbon Credit Markets"
"The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved on Friday the first guidelines for trading voluntary carbon credit derivative contracts in the country, a move expected to help bolster the nascent market."
Source: Reuters, 09/23/2024DOE Promised Yakama Nation a $32 Million Solar Grant. Bureaucracy Stalls It
"The Department of Energy gave the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation what seemed like very good news earlier this year: It had won a $32 million grant for a novel solar energy project in Washington state. ... Months after announcing the grant, the same department is making it nearly impossible for the tribal nation to access the money."
Source: OPB/ProPublica, 09/23/2024
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