"Microsoft Deal Would Reopen Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant To Power AI"
"The owner of the shuttered Pennsylvania plant plans to bring it online by 2028, with the tech giant buying all the power it produces."
Source: Washington Post, 09/20/2024
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Dom Phillips And Bruno Pereira: Murder Charge Dropped Against One Suspect
"Activists greet decision over killings of British journalist and Brazilian Indigenous expert with ‘indignation’"
Source: Guardian, 09/20/2024"Worst Drought On Record Lowers Amazon Rivers To All-Time Lows"
"The worst drought on record has lowered the water level of the rivers in the Amazon basin to historic lows, in some cases drying up riverbeds that were previously navigable waterways."
Source: Reuters, 09/20/2024"Ranchers Are Using Toxic Herbicides to Clear Forests in Brazil"
"A destructive cocktail of herbicides, including a key compound in the lethal defoliant Agent Orange, is being used to chemically deforest huge areas of Brazil as ranchers there seek new, less detectable ways to clear forests for grazing cattle."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/20/2024"Biden Administration Nears Approval For ioneer's Nevada Lithium Mine"
"The Biden administration on Thursday published a key environmental report for ioneer's Rhyolite Ridge lithium mine in Nevada, the last step needed before approving what would become one of the largest U.S. sources of the electric vehicle battery metal."
Source: Reuters, 09/20/2024"How Colorado Cowboys and Conservationists Joined Forces to Stop Drilling"
"The drilling leases in a pristine corner of Colorado seemed like a done deal. But then an unlikely alliance of cowboys and environmentalists emerged. And things changed."
Source: NYTimes, 09/20/2024"Asphalt Schoolyards Get a Shady Makeover"
"The bare hot asphalt schoolyard of the American past is getting a redo." "Schools across the country are adding trees, tent-like structures and water to their playgrounds as temperatures soar."
Source: NYTimes, 09/20/2024California Insurers Begin Giving 'Discounts' For Fire-Proofed Homes
"Under a new state program, property insurers must provide discounts for home wildfire mitigation. But some discounts are miniscule."
Source: E&E News, 09/20/2024"Lawsuits Buffet US Offshore Wind Projects, Seeking To End Or Delay Them"
"Opponents of offshore wind around the U.S. are pelting projects with lawsuits seeking to cancel them or tie them up for years in costly litigation."
Source: AP, 09/20/2024"Too Hot For Humpbacks: The Race To Protect Pacific Whales"
"Move over Moby Dick. Big Mama, the first humpback whale to have returned to the North Pacific's Salish Sea after decades of absence, is telling a new story about the global threat to whale populations."
Source: BBC News, 09/20/2024EPA Scientists Said They Were Pressured to Downplay Harms From Chemicals: IG
"Three reports issued by the agency’s inspector general detailed personal attacks suffered by the scientists — including being called “stupid,” “piranhas” and “pot-stirrers” — and called on the EPA to take “appropriate corrective action” in response."
Source: ProPublica, 09/19/2024Biden Admin Spending Climate Cash Fast, As Trump Threatens To Cancel It
"Former President Donald Trump has said he would cancel all unspent funds from President Joe Biden's signature climate law if he wins the presidential election on Nov. 5. But the vast majority of grants will be spent by the time a new president takes office in January, and targeting what remains would be a massive legal challenge, according to Biden administration officials."
Source: Reuters, 09/19/2024NY State Lets Dangerous Chemical Foul Niagara Falls’ Air
"For at least 15 years, a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. chemical plant in Niagara Falls, New York, has been sending a pollutant that causes bladder cancer into the air at levels 1,000 percent higher than what state regulators now consider safe for the public to breathe, documents show."
Source: Public Health Watch, 09/19/2024"Environmental Groups Face Off With EPA to Control Manure Pollution"
"For the third time in two decades the Environmental Protection Agency appeared in federal Appellate Court this week to defend its admittedly flawed approach to regulating the billions of pounds of manure running off into the nation’s waters from large industrial animal feeding operations."
Source: Circle of Blue, 09/19/2024"States Own Lands On Reservations. To Use Them, Tribes Have To Pay"
"How schools, hospitals, prisons and other institutions in 15 states profit from land and resources on 79 tribal nations."
Source: HCN/Grist, 09/19/2024
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