Gas Giants Ghostwrote Letters Of Support From Elected Officials
"Internal emails show pipeline firms provided North Carolina and Virginia leaders with draft letters and talking points praising their own projects."
Source: HuffPost, 05/03/2022
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"Texas Stumbles In Its Effort To Punish Green Financial Firms"
"For years, fossil fuel producing states have watched investors shy away from companies causing the climate crisis. Last year, one state decided to push back."
Source: NPR, 05/03/2022"Pandemic, War, Politics Hamper Global Push For Climate Action"
"The promises arrived at a rapid clip over two weeks in Glasgow last fall. There, along the banks of the River Clyde, leaders from nearly 200 nations vowed to do more — and move faster — to combat climate change. ... But nearly six months later, no large nation has come forward with a bolder climate plan, and none of the world’s top emitters has committed to doing so this year."
Source: Washington Post, 05/03/2022"Extreme Heat Kills At Least 25 In India's Maharashtra State"
"India's western state of Maharashtra has registered 25 deaths from heat stroke since late March, the highest toll in the past five years, with more fatalities likely elsewhere in a country sweltering in temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius."
Source: Reuters, 05/03/2022"Biden’s Environmental Civil Rights Effort Wrestles With Caseload"
"President Joe Biden’s administration is prioritizing environmental civil rights cases, with the Justice Department joining the EPA to turn the dial on a yearslong struggle to manage a growing list of complaints."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 05/03/2022"Is That an Outlaw Lawn? Las Vegas Has a New Approach to Saving Water"
"With drought and growth taking a toll on the Colorado River, the source of 90 percent of the region’s water, a new law mandates the removal of turf, patch by patch."
Source: NYTimes, 05/03/2022"Firefighters Battling New Mexico Blaze Brace For Wind"
"More than 1,000 firefighters backed by bulldozers and aircraft battled the largest active wildfire in the US on Saturday after strong winds pushed it across some containment lines and closer to a town in northern New Mexico."
Source: AP, 05/02/2022"EPA Staff Backs Status Quo On Ozone Limits In Blow To Enviros"
"EPA staffers have tentatively concluded that the agency’s ground-level ozone standards do not need to be strengthened, reaffirming a Trump administration decision on one of the agency’s most closely watched pollutant limits."
Source: E&E News, 05/02/2022"Why Americans Became More Vulnerable to Oil Price Spikes"
"When prices soared years ago, Americans launched broad efforts to wean the nation off oil and gas to protect households from price swings. But then supply rose and plans fizzled."
Source: NYTimes, 05/02/2022"Buffeted by Weather, a Historic Black Town Strives To Endure"
"As she exits her hometown’s only restaurant clutching an order of cabbage and hush puppies, Carolyn Suggs Bandy pauses to boast about a place that stakes its claim as the oldest town chartered by Black Americans nearly 140 years ago."
Source: AP, 05/02/2022"Rescuing The Massive Swamp Our Country Depends On But Has Mostly Forgotten"
"Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin, the nation’s largest cypress swamp, nurtures an abundant ecosystem and protects a critical coast. But years of exploitation and neglect have made it a “ticking time bomb.”"
Source: HuffPost, 05/02/2022New Iron Curtain Eroding Norway's Hard-Won Ties With Russia On Arctic
"Capt. Pal Bratbak has patrolled the Barents Sea for decades. His Norwegian coast guard search and rescue cutter mostly chases after distress calls from fishermen. The fishermen are chasing the cod — and the cod sometimes lead them astray."
Source: NPR, 05/02/2022"Rob Bilott On His 20-Year Fight Against Forever Chemicals"
"Last month, an Ohio court certified a class action lawsuit brought by lawyer Rob Bilott that would cover 7 million people – and at some point possibly everyone living in the United States – who have been exposed to certain hazardous “forever chemicals” known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS."
Source: Guardian, 05/02/2022"EPA Proposes Scaling Back Weedkiller Tied To Cancer"
"EPA has proposed to end the use of the weedkiller diuron on most food crops, citing cancer risks to people who are exposed as well as danger to bees and other wildlife."
Source: E&E News, 05/02/2022Calif. Accuses Exxon Deceiving Public, Push ‘Myth’ Of Plastics Recycling
"California’s attorney general has announced a first-of-its kind investigation into the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries for their alleged role in causing and exacerbating a global crisis in plastic waste pollution."
Source: LA Times, 05/02/2022
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