"Peter Dykstra: The Birth of Greenwashing"
"When I was growing up, I had a fascination with phonies – that certain brand of phonies that make millions off a gullible public by offering a warped reality."
Source: EHN, 08/08/2022
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"Sinema Agrees to Climate and Tax Deal, Clearing the Way for Votes"
"Senator Kyrsten Sinema, Democrat of Arizona, announced on Thursday evening that she would support moving forward with her party’s climate, tax and health care package, clearing the way for a major piece of President Biden’s domestic agenda to move through the Senate in the coming days."
Source: NYTimes, 08/05/2022Biden HHS Declares Monkeypox Outbreak Public Health Emergency In U.S.
"The Biden administration is declaring monkeypox a public health emergency as the U.S. outbreak has grown into the largest in the world, the nation’s top health official said Thursday."
Source: CNBC, 08/05/2022History of DDT Ocean Dumping Off L.A. Even Worse Than Expected, EPA Finds
"After an exhaustive historical investigation into the barrels of DDT waste reportedly dumped decades ago near Catalina Island, federal regulators concluded that the toxic pollution in the deep ocean could be far worse — and far more sweeping — than what scientists anticipated."
Source: LA Times, 08/05/2022"Despite Slow Start, NOAA Still Predicts Above-Average Hurricane Season"
"Despite the meager prospects in the short term, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday that it is still expecting an above-average season, with three to five major hurricanes likely and a dozen or more named storms probable."
Source: Washington Post, 08/05/2022"Nuclear Milestone: Feds Greenlight Vogtle To Fuel Up"
"Federal regulators cleared the way yesterday for Southern Co.’s nuclear business to load radioactive fuel rods into one of its newly constructed reactors at Plant Vogtle, officially moving the long-troubled project closer to producing electricity in Georgia."
Source: E&E News, 08/05/2022"Drought Emergency in Mexico Rekindles Demand for Water Law Reform"
"The nation added a right to water to its constitution a decade ago, but has never created the policies that would ensure it’s met, leaving twice as many people thirsty today."
Source: Inside Climate News, 08/05/2022"U.S. Cities Push The Homeless To Live In Tent Camps"
"Cities tackling a surge of street homelessness are offering official camps while penalizing people sleeping in public elsewhere".
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 08/05/2022"Communities Near 23 Sterilization Plants Have Increased Cancer Risk: EPA"
"Communities near 23 sterilization facilities across the U.S. have increased risks of cancer due to the facilities’ emissions of a toxic chemical, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said this week."
Source: The Hill, 08/05/2022Judge Rejects Federal Plans For Fossil Fuel Mining In Powder River Basin
"A federal judge on Wednesday night threw out two resource management plans developed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), finding they failed to account for the risk of fossil fuel leasing on public lands in Montana and Wyoming."
Source: The Hill, 08/05/2022"Appalachian Voices Sues State Over Release Of Carbon Market Document"
"Nonprofit Appalachian Voices is suing Virginia to force the release of a document that allegedly contains an opinion from the attorney general’s office that Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin cannot pull the state out of a regional carbon market."
Source: Virginia Mercury, 08/05/2022"How the New Climate Bill Would Reduce Emissions"
"A major climate and energy package announced last week in a deal by Senate Democrats would put the United States much closer to its goal of cutting global warming pollution in half by 2030, several new independent analyses have concluded."
Source: NYTimes, 08/04/2022"EPA Announces Flights To Look For Methane In Permian Basin"
"The Environmental Protection Agency says it will conduct helicopter overflights to look for methane “super emitters” in the nation’s largest oil and gas producing region."
Source: AP, 08/04/2022"Ukraine: Situation at Europe's Largest Nuclear Plant 'Out Of Control'"
"Experts say that Ukraine's occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant — Europe's biggest — is "extremely vulnerable" to meltdown after the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said all safety measures had been "violated" by Russian forces."
Source: DW, 08/04/2022"A Race To Save Fish As Rio Grande Dries, Even In Albuquerque"
"On a recent, scorching afternoon in Albuquerque, off-road vehicles cruised up and down a stretch of dry riverbed where normally the Rio Grande flows. The drivers weren’t thrill-seekers, but biologists hoping to save as many endangered fish as they could before the sun turned shrinking pools of water into dust."
Source: AP, 08/04/2022
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