"US To Boost Water Supplies Hit By Climate Change"
"The Interior announced that $420 million will be spent on projects in New Mexico, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa".
Source: AP, 04/07/2022
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"Zoos Hiding Birds As Avian Flu Spreads In North America"
"Zoos across North America are moving their birds indoors and away from people and wildlife as they try to protect them from the highly contagious and potentially deadly avian influenza."
Source: AP, 04/07/2022"New Power Plant Rule Awaits Supreme Court Ruling, EPA Chief Says"
"The EPA will have a new standard to limit carbon emissions “ready to go as soon as the Supreme Court rules” on its authority to regulate in that space, agency head Michael Regan told lawmakers on Wednesday."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 04/07/2022"Trade Secret Protection Strategy for Chemicals to Get EPA Revamp"
"The EPA will soon propose a rule to clarify what chemical manufacturers must do when they seek to keep details such as the company’s name, location, or identity of a chemical confidential."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 04/07/2022"How The War In Ukraine Could Speed Up Europe's Climate Plans"
"The war in Ukraine has made getting more fossil fuels to Europe a top priority of the Biden Administration, in order to wean European Union members off Russian energy. But this comes as both Europe and the U.S. are behind on their goals to quickly reduce carbon emissions to avoid the worst consequences of climate change."
Source: NPR, 04/07/2022"The Razor's Edge of A Warming World"
"As we hurtle toward an ever-hotter future, GQ spotlights eight places whose very identities depend on a simple calculation: If we limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, these places could be saved. In a 2-degree scenario, they would be irredeemably lost."
Source: GQ, 04/07/2022"EPA Rule Would Finally Ban Asbestos, Carcinogen Still In Use"
"The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed a rule to finally ban asbestos, a carcinogen that is still used in some chlorine bleach, brake pads and other products and kills thousands of Americans every year."
Source: AP, 04/06/2022"House Dems Tell USPS To Pump The Brakes On Gas-Guzzling Truck Contract"
"A top House Democrat told senior U.S. Postal Service officials Tuesday that the agency “needs to go back to the drawing board” on an $11.3 billion plan to replace its aging delivery vehicles with up to 148,000 gas-guzzling trucks despite directives from the Biden administration to make the federal fleet more “green” and opposition from environmental regulators."
Source: Washington Post, 04/06/2022Food, Farming, Forestry Must Change To Curb Global Warming, U.N. Says
"Protecting forests, changing diets, and altering farming methods could contribute around a quarter of the greenhouse gas cuts needed to avert the worst impacts of climate change, according to the United Nations' climate panel."
Source: Reuters, 04/06/2022"Native American Tribe Reacquires Hundreds Of Acres in Virginia"
"The Department of the Interior (DOI) announced on Friday the return of more than 400 acres of land to an indigenous tribe in Virginia."
Source: The Hill, 04/06/2022"Gallup Finds Worries About Environment Have Grown Since Trump"
"A new poll from Gallup finds that nearly half of all Americans worry “a great deal” about the environment, and that concerns have risen since before former President Trump took office."
Source: The Hill, 04/06/2022Climate Change Risks Trillions To Federal Budget, White House Says
"Floods, drought, wildfires and hurricanes made worse by climate change could cost the U.S. federal budget about $2 trillion each year — a 7.1% loss in annual revenue — by the end of the century, the White House said in an assessment on Monday."
Source: CNBC, 04/06/2022"Declared Extinct, the Yaghan Rise in the Land of Fire"
"The Indigenous people of Tierra del Fuego were once relegated to historical oblivion. Now, archaeologists are helping them pursue deeper stories about their ancestors."
Source: Hakai, 04/06/2022"UN: 18 Nations Have Gone Green On Climate, Raked In Green"
"Proponents of clean energy and thinks tanks have long said it’s possible to reduce emissions and keep an economy growing. Now the latest report from the world’s top climate scientists says 18 countries have done just that, sustaining emissions reductions “for at least a decade” as their economies continued to grow."
Source: AP, 04/06/2022"With Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, Arctic Science Crumbles"
"Russian scientists are being barred from international collaborations, including at-sea surveys and scientific conferences."
Source: Hakai, 04/06/2022
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