"The Millions of Tons of Carbon Emissions That Don’t Officially Exist"
"How a blind spot in the Kyoto Protocol helped create the biomass industry."
Source: New Yorker, 12/09/2021
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"Alaska’s Absent Snowy Owls"
"The only reliable snowy owl breeding site in the United States has a conspicuous shortage of owls."
Source: Hakai, 12/09/2021"Major U.S. Utilities Plan Coast-To-Coast, EV-Charging Network"
"More than 50 U.S. power companies have joined forces to build a coast-to-coast fast charging network for electric vehicles along major U.S. travel corridors by the end of 2023."
Source: E&E News, 12/08/2021Biden OKs More Oil And Gas Drilling Permits On Public Lands Than Trump
"The Biden administration has approved more oil and gas drilling permits on public lands per month than the Trump administration did during the first three years of Donald Trump's presidency, according to an analysis shared exclusively with The Climate 202."
Source: Washington Post, 12/08/2021"Pushing Back On Lead Ammo And Fishing Tackle Misinformation"
"A science denial campaign is being waged to keep lead in hunting and fishing. Who’s fighting back and how should they do it? "
"Groups including the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF), the National Rifle Association (NRA), and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) are waging science denial campaigns to keep lead products in hunting ammunition and fishing tackle.
As a result, wildlife is poisoned and human health is at risk.
Source: EHN, 12/08/2021"Deal Forces EPA To Revisit Chemical Industry Emissions"
"The Biden administration has tentatively agreed to revisit EPA air toxics standards for hundreds of chemical plants, signaling a move on an issue that groups framed as central to the pursuit of environmental justice.
Under the terms of a proposed consent decree officially made public today, the agency commits to consider tightening the existing emissions limits for synthetic organic chemical manufacturers on a series of deadlines running from next year to 2024.
Source: E&E News, 12/08/2021"Florida To Feed Starving Manatees In Rare Conservation Move"
"Starving manatees will soon be fed by hand in Florida, a rare ... intervention to save the marine mammals whose natural food is vanishing from the effects of pollution, state officials told Reuters."
Source: Reuters, 12/08/2021"Biden May Get Reprieve With Gas Prices Projected To Drop"
"The price of gasoline is expected to fall in the coming weeks, a shift that could give U.S. consumers shaken by inflation some relief — and that could also boost President Biden."
Source: The Hill, 12/08/2021"A Slow-Motion Climate Disaster: The Spread of Barren Land"
"CARNAÚBA DOS DANTAS, Brazil — The land has sustained the Dantas family for more than 150 years, bearing fields of cotton, beanstalks up to a grown man’s hip and, when it rained enough, a river that led to a waterfall."
Source: NYTimes, 12/08/2021"The Fierce Politics of Dust"
"A small town in southern Utah wanted to suppress dust on its roads. Not everyone was pleased."
Source: Washington Post, 12/08/2021Biden BLM Moves To Scrap Trump Cadiz Water Pipeline Permit
"Federal authorities have moved to reverse a Trump administration decision that cleared the way for Cadiz Inc. to pipe water across public land in the California desert."
Source: LA Times, 12/08/2021"How to Save the Prairie, Acre by Acre"
"The vital Kansas ecosystem is rapidly shrinking. Its future depends on private landowners like Lorna Harder."
Source: Washington Post, 12/08/2021Pro-Trump Counties Have Higher COVID Death Rates: Blame Misinformation
"Since May 2021, people living in counties that voted heavily for Donald Trump during the last presidential election have been nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19 as those who live in areas that went for now-President Biden. That's according to a new analysis by NPR that examines how political polarization and misinformation are driving a significant share of the deaths in the pandemic."
Source: NPR, 12/07/2021"Schumer Steps On The Gas To Move Biden Agenda"
"Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is raising the pressure on his own party to get President Biden’s spending bill on track to pass the chamber by Christmas."
Source: The Hill, 12/07/2021Police Hunt Suspects After 8 Wolves Poisoned in Oregon
"At least eight wolves were fatally poisoned in eastern Oregon earlier this year, and Oregon State Police investigators are hoping the public will help apprehend the culprits."
Source: Portland Oregonian, 12/07/2021
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