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"As climate change drives more wildfires and makes the job more dangerous than ever, U.S. firefighters may finally receive long fought for medical benefits to deal with cancers and other work-related diseases".
"With the summer driving season approaching, the national average price for regular gasoline soared on Tuesday to a nominal record of $4.37 a gallon. But relief may be on the way, with oil prices falling below $100 a barrel, a drop of roughly 10 percent since the weekend."
"The fire season has started early in Siberia, as drought and strong winds fuel blazes in its carbon-rich peat forests. But with Russian forces fighting in Ukraine, this year's emergency response could suffer."
"Fires have broken out across Russia's vast forests and steppes in recent weeks, with blazes flaring up in several regions across southwestern Siberia. Several villages have already been destroyed by the flames, and local authorities have reported at least 10 dead in recent days.
"Accused of misleading the public for decades on the promise of plastic recycling, oil and chemical companies are pushing a new idea: “advanced recycling”. Environmental advocates, however, say it’s more of the same old greenwash and litigators hope holding companies accountable for past lies might prevent the spread of a new one."
"As rising seas increase saltwater intrusion and soaring temperatures cause greater evaporation, scientists say that the mounting levels of salt in waters and in soils pose a major climate-related danger and could become a leading cause of climate migration globally."
"Big meat and food conglomerates threaten to push out smaller producers of meat alternatives in the same way they have affected other food industries, according to two recent reports."
"When Royal Dutch Shell sold off its stake in the Umuechem oil field in Nigeria last year, it was, on paper, a step forward for the company’s climate ambitions: Shell could clean up its holdings, raise money to invest in cleaner technologies, and move toward its goal of net zero emissions by 2050."
"Fossil fuel interest groups are telling New Mexicans: Let us keep drilling or the state’s education system will collapse."
"An RCMP commander told Commissioner Brenda Lucki there was evidence some journalists had assisted opponents of TC Energy's Coastal GasLink pipeline. Then the RCMP's story changed"
"The United Nations will launch a $144 million appeal on Wednesday for an operation to offload a million barrels of crude oil from a tanker stranded off the coast of war-torn Yemen for years which threatens a major environmental disaster."
"Despite official calls to increase conservation amid worsening drought, urban water use across California increased by nearly 19% in March, according to the State Water Resources Control Board."
"A new political action committee run by two former Trump administration officials is marking its territory in a disinformation-rich campaign against the Biden administration’s goal of conserving 30% of America’s lands and waters by 2030, known informally as “30x30.”
"More than 100 black vultures have been found dead near the Conowingo Dam since mid-April after an outbreak of the highly pathogenic avian flu, officials say."
"A new Justice Department directive ordering each of the nation’s 93 U.S. attorneys to designate an environmental justice coordinator will bring a sharper focus to the issue, former U.S. attorneys tell Bloomberg Law."
"About 20m acres of cropland in the United States may be contaminated from PFAS-tainted sewage sludge that has been used as fertilizer, a new report estimates."
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