Romance and Ecological Damage: The Saga of Sable Island’s Wild Horses
"They’ve roamed free for hundreds of years, but is that freedom harming the ecosystem they call home?"
Source: Hakai, 07/29/2022
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"Manchin, in Reversal, Agrees to Quick Action on Climate and Tax Plan"
"Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, a key centrist Democrat, announced on Wednesday that he had agreed to include hundreds of billions of dollars for climate and energy programs and tax increases in a package to subsidize health care and lower the cost of prescription drugs, less than two weeks after abruptly upending hopes for such an agreement this summer."
Source: NYTimes, 07/28/2022"Hidden Menace: Massive Methane Leaks Speed Up Climate Change"
"To the naked eye, the Mako Compressor Station outside the dusty West Texas crossroads of Lenorah appears unremarkable, similar to tens of thousands of oil and gas operations scattered throughout the oil-rich Permian Basin. What’s not visible through the chain-link fence is the plume of invisible gas, primarily methane, billowing from the gleaming white storage tanks up into the cloudless blue sky."
Source: AP, 07/28/2022"Temperatures Could Hit Triple Digits Again In Northwest"
"Heat wave duration records could be broken in the Pacific Northwest this week and authorities are expanding capacity at some cooling centers as temperatures near triple digits are forecast to extend into the weekend."
Source: AP, 07/28/2022"Biden Administration Announces Initiatives To Boost Solar Energy Use"
"The Biden administration is announcing several initiatives aimed at boosting the deployment of solar energy."
Source: The Hill, 07/28/2022Wildfire Pollution May Play Surprising Role in Fate of Arctic Sea Ice
"Scientists say changes in the amounts of wildfire smoke mixing with clouds over the Arctic Ocean may play a key role in determining how fast the Arctic sea ice cover will shrink during the next few decades, and when it will disappear completely in summer."
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/28/2022These Hurricane Flood Maps Reveal Climate Future For Miami, NYC and DC
"Rising seas and stronger winds mean the punishing waves pushed ashore by tropical storms and hurricanes will make their way farther and farther inland. That inland march would expose a larger swath of the U.S. coast to the kind of flooding unleashed during Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, and put more people at risk of drowning, the leading cause of death in hurricanes."
Source: NPR, 07/28/2022DOE Gives Major Loan To Facility For Processing Electric Vehicle Materials
"The Energy Department announced Wednesday that it will give a $102 million loan to expand a processing facility for materials used in electric vehicle batteries."
Source: The Hill, 07/28/2022Largest Audubon Chapter Yet Is Changing Its Name, Rebuking An Enslaver
"One of the largest chapters in the National Audubon Society network is changing its name to distance itself from John James Audubon, the famed naturalist who was also an enslaver and a strong critic of those who sought to free African Americans from bondage."
Source: Washington Post, 07/28/2022"Streaming Service Hulu Is Rejecting Ads About Climate Change"
"The popular streaming service Hulu has been refusing to run ads involving certain topics that the company deems too “controversial,” including abortion rights, gun control and climate change, according to a series of news reports."
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/28/2022"Climate Change and Vanishing Islands Threaten Brown Pelican"
"Sliding off the side of her small boat, seabird biologist Bonnie Slaton wades through waist-high water, brown pelicans soaring overhead, until she reaches the shores of Raccoon Island.'
Source: AP, 07/28/2022Grim Heat And Stressed Grids Make Dangerous Outages Increasingly Likely
"Power grids are dangerously strained, and resulting blackouts could take a deadly toll."
Source: HuffPost, 07/27/2022"Federal Government Fires Up Website All About Heat"
"The Biden administration unveiled a website on Tuesday to help Americans stay safe from extreme heat, as scorching temperatures continued to grip portions of the country."
Source: NYTimes, 07/27/2022"Documents Show BLM Wild Horses Sold To Slaughter, Advocates Say"
"The American Wild Horse Campaign today released a report the group says shows that since 2019 at least 840 animals removed from federal rangelands, placed into holding pens and corrals, and adopted into private care were later sold at livestock auctions that included known buyers from slaughterhouses in Canada and Mexico."
Source: E&E News, 07/27/2022175+ Green Groups Urge Buttigieg To Reinstate State Emission Rule
"More than 175 environmental organizations sent a letter Tuesday to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg urging him to adopt a federal rule that requires state and city transportation departments to measure and set standards for their greenhouse gas emissions."
Source: The Hill, 07/27/2022
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