‘We Can’t Live Like This’: Climate Shocks Rain On Honduras’s Poorest
"Rural communities like Chapagua that have done least to stoke the climate crisis barely have time to recover from one disaster before another hits".
Source: Guardian, 10/29/2021
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Big Oil Uses Newsletter Ads to Spread Misinformation Ahead of Hearing
"On Thursday, a cadre of Big Oil CEOs will testify at a high-profile Congressional hearing examining whether their companies engaged in a campaign to mislead the public about climate change. In the run-up to that hearing, those same Big Oil companies have been running ads to mislead the public about climate change in the nation’s most popular political newsletters."
Source: Earther/HEATED, 10/28/2021Putin Pledges Carbon Neutrality By 2060 -- Claims Forests Will Do Job
"Even as large swaths of the Siberian forest have burned in wildfires — made increasingly worse by climate change — the Kremlin has focused its strategy to slash emissions on the region’s trees."
Source: Washington Post, 10/28/2021‘Not a Solution Itself’: India Questions Net Zero Targets Ahead of COP26
"Setting net zero carbon emissions targets is not the solution to climate change, India’s federal environment minister said days before world leaders meet at the Cop26 climate summit."
Source: Guardian, 10/28/2021"Release of EPA Methane Rules Expected This Week"
"EPA is preparing to release two new draft rules this week that could dramatically reduce the role that oil and gas production plays in driving climate change."
Source: E&E News, 10/28/2021"EPA Taps 10 Environmental Justice Panel Members to Advise Agency"
"The Environmental Protection Agency has named 10 new members to the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council, which has advised the agency on environmental equity issues since the 1990s."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 10/28/2021Trudeau Picks Ex-Greenpeace Activist As Climate Chief, Angering Oil Patch
"Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a post-election overhaul of his government on Tuesday, naming a former Greenpeace activist dubbed “Green Jesus” as environment and climate change minister in a move that has caused consternation in the country’s oil-rich west."
Source: Washington Post, 10/28/2021Indigenous Leaders Push Land Tenure Rights As Climate Solution At COP26
"Indigenous leaders from around the world will join government officials, scientists, activists, and NGO representatives at the U.N. climate summit in Scotland to highlight the role of Indigenous peoples in providing climate mitigation and adaptation solutions."
Source: Mongabay, 10/28/2021Human Rights Group To Investigate Uranium Contamination On Navajo Nation
"Rita Capitan has been worrying about her water since 1994. It was that autumn she read a local newspaper article about another uranium mine, the Crownpoint Uranium Project, getting under way near her home. Capitan has spent her entire life in Crownpoint, New Mexico, a small town on the eastern Navajo Nation, and is no stranger to the uranium mining that has persisted in the region for decades."
Source: Guardian, 10/28/2021Wildfires, Cutting, Heating Turn 10 Unesco Forests Into Carbon Sources
"Forests in at least 10 Unesco world heritage sites have become net sources of carbon since the turn of the millennium due to wildfires, deforestation and global heating, says a new report."
Source: Guardian, 10/28/2021"Are We on the Verge of Chatting With Whales?"
"An ambitious project is attempting to interpret sperm whale clicks with artificial intelligence, then talk back to them."
Source: Hakai, 10/28/2021World Faces Disastrous 2.7C Heating On Current Climate Plans, UN Warns
"The world is squandering the opportunity to “build back better” from the Covid-19 pandemic, and faces disastrous temperature rises of at least 2.7C if countries fail to strengthen their climate pledges, according to a report from the UN."
Source: Guardian, 10/27/2021"White House Sets Climate Spending At Up To $555 Billion"
"The White House has told allies in Congress that climate change programs in Democrats' spending bill will range between $500 billion and $555 billion, according to four sources familiar with the negotiations."
Source: Politico, 10/27/2021Biden FWS Moves To Undo Two Trump-Era Endangered Species Act Rollbacks
"The Biden administration will move to rescind two Trump-era rollbacks of protections for endangered species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced Tuesday."
Source: The Hill, 10/27/2021"Amplify Energy Cashed Out Cleanup Fund While Racking Up Violations"
"Years before Amplify Energy made headlines for its ruptured pipeline that spewed oil into Southern California ocean waters in early October, the company’s owners were successfully fighting in court to change its obligation to maintain federally mandated funds for plugging and abandoning offshore oil and gas wells and equipment."
Source: Capital & Main, 10/27/2021
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