"Feds Want Endangered Species Protection For Feisty Owl"
"The Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed restoring federal protections for a tiny desert owl that fights above its weight class."
Source: E&E News, 12/22/2021
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"E.P.A. Announces Tightest-Ever Auto Pollution Rules"
"The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced strengthened limits on pollution from automobile tailpipes in a bid to reduce a major source of the carbon dioxide emissions that are heating the planet."
Source: NYTimes, 12/21/2021Black Communities Become “Sacrifice Zones” for Industrial Air Pollution
"One of the most dangerous chemical plants in America sits in one of West Virginia’s only majority-Black communities. For decades, residents of Institute have raised alarms about air pollution. They say concerns have “fallen on deaf ears.”"
Source: Mountain State Spotlight, 12/21/2021Revealed: Fla. Power Company Pushing Legislation To Slow Rooftop Solar
"Florida Power & Light delivered bill text to a state lawmaker. Its parent company sent $10,000 to her campaign coffers"
Source: Miami Herald/Floodlight, 12/21/2021Unleashed by Warming, Debris Threaten to ‘Crush’ Alaska Pipeline
"When the highway and pipeline were planned in the 1970s, the debris “lobes” were frozen solid. Now, they’re monsters devouring everything in their paths."
Source: Inside Climate News, 12/21/2021Wood Burners Cause Nearly Half Urban Air Pollution Cancer Risk: Study
"Wood burning stoves in urban areas are responsible for almost half of people’s exposure to cancer-causing chemicals found in air pollution particles, new research has shown."
Source: Guardian, 12/21/2021"Walmart Faces California Suit Alleging Huge Dumps of Toxic Waste"
"Walmart Inc. was sued by California for allegedly dumping hazardous waste including toxic cleaning supplies, pesticides and batteries in local landfills."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 12/21/2021"One Month after Arrests, Wet’suwet’en Return to Block Pipeline"
"One month after dozens of arrests, supporters of Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs have reoccupied a worksite on the Coastal GasLink pipeline route in the nation’s territory."
Source: The Tyee, 12/21/2021"EPA Expands Testing Of ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Drinking Water"
"EPA is expanding testing efforts for "forever chemicals" in the nation’s drinking water systems."
Source: E&E News, 12/21/2021"60 Minutes: Americans Fighting For Access To Sewage Disposal"
"Lowndes County, Alabama, which sits between Selma and Montgomery, was once called Bloody Lowndes for its central role in the struggle for civil rights. Today people in Lowndes are fighting for another basic right: access to sewage treatment."
Source: CBS News, 12/21/2021Die-Offs, Melting Ice: Climate Change Is Wreaking Havoc In Arctic Seas
"Forces profound and alarming are reshaping the upper reaches of the North Pacific and Arctic oceans, breaking the food chain that supports billions of creatures and one of the world’s most important fisheries."
Source: LA Times, 12/21/2021Manchin Rejects Landmark Bill, Putting Biden’s Climate Goals at Risk
"The declaration from Senator Joe Manchin III that he cannot support his party’s $2.2 trillion Build Back Better bill has significantly dimmed the prospects for the climate action that scientists say the United States must take to avert the most catastrophic effects of global warming."
Source: NYTimes, 12/20/2021"Biden to Toughen Auto Emissions Limits to Counter Climate Change"
"The Biden administration is preparing to impose more stringent limits on car and truck emissions in an effort to clamp down on a top U.S. source of the greenhouse gases fueling climate change.
The standards, set to govern passenger cars and light trucks from model years 2023 through 2026, will reverse a Trump-era move to relax the mandates and are set to be issued within days, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Source: Bloomberg Green, 12/20/2021After Decades, Some Of Most Toxic U.S. Sites Will Finally Get Cleaned Up
"New funding and the revival of a long-lapsed tax on chemical makers in the bipartisan infrastructure law mean cities like Newark will get money to restore toxic Superfund sites".
Source: Washington Post, 12/20/2021"Carbon Monoxide From Generators Poisons Thousands of People a Year"
"Portable generators are among the deadliest consumer products. Two decades after the government identified the danger, and as climate change leads to more power outages, people are left vulnerable by a system that lets the industry regulate itself."
Source: ProPublica, 12/20/2021
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