Guyana, A Poor Country, Was A Green Champion. Then Exxon Discovered Oil.
"For more than a century, a wide, low seawall has protected the country of Guyana from the depravations of the Atlantic Ocean."
Source: NPR, 11/09/2021
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"In Iraq's Famed Marshlands, Climate Change Is Upending A Way Of Life"
"A water buffalo, her stomach bloated and haunches sunken, lies dying on a dry expanse of cracked earth. Her calf nuzzles her but she doesn't respond. A few yards away, another water buffalo, all skin and bone, wallows in the mud at the edge of the drying marsh waters. The people who herd these animals in Iraq's southern marshlands are unable to save them."
Source: NPR, 11/09/2021"EPA To Begin Testing Water At 300 Benton Harbor Homes"
"Officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will soon start testing the water in 300 homes in a Michigan city where there’s been a lead crisis to check certified filters given area residents by the state to remove lead from the drinking water."
Source: AP, 11/09/2021"Health Groups Quit Baby Food Industry Effort To Limit Toxins"
"Two environmental health groups have resigned from a council meant to lower the heavy metal content of baby foods due to what they say is a lack of cooperation from some of the nation’s biggest baby food brands."
Source: E&E News, 11/09/2021Indigenous Women in Peru Sue For ‘Rights of Nature’ to Fight Oil Spills
"Their lawsuit demands protection for the Marañón River from Lot1AB, an oilfield carved into the Amazon Rainforest with nearly 2,000 contaminated sites."
Source: Inside Climate News, 11/09/2021"Are Carbon Markets The New Gaming For Tribes?"
"The rush is on, and CO2 could be the new gold. Or is it another scheme to appropriate tribal land and resources without addressing the root cause of climate change?"
Source: Indian Country Today, 11/09/2021Infrastructure Bill Makes 1st Major US Investment in Climate Resilience
"The $1 trillion infrastructure bill now headed to President Biden’s desk includes the largest amount of money ever spent by the United States to prepare the nation to withstand the devastating impacts of climate change."
Source: NYTimes, 11/08/2021Nations’ Climate Pledges Built On Flawed Data, Post Investigation Finds
"Across the world, many countries underreport their greenhouse gas emissions in their reports to the United Nations, a Washington Post investigation has found. An examination of 196 country reports reveals a giant gap between what nations declare their emissions to be versus the greenhouse gases they are sending into the atmosphere."
Source: Washington Post, 11/08/2021"COP Carbon-Market Talks Struggle as U.S. Lines Up Behind EU"
"Talks at COP26 on international carbon markets are running into difficulties, as the U.S. lines up behind the European Union with objections to a key demand from developing countries, according to people familiar with the situation."
Source: Bloomberg, 11/08/2021"CDC Changes Its Definition Of Lead Poisoning In Young Children"
"For young children, any amount of lead exposure is bad. The element can damage children’s brains, stunt growth and cause developmental problems. Now, a new definition of lead poisoning will increase the number of U.S. children found to have dangerously high levels of lead in their blood."
Source: Washington Post, 11/08/2021Okla. Proposes Letting Gas Utility Charge $1,400 ‘Exit Fee’ To Go Electric
"Oklahoma’s biggest natural gas utility could soon charge customers who switch to electric stoves and heating systems an “exit fee” of nearly $1,400 to disconnect service, HuffPost has learned, setting a precedent that could help the industry lock millions of Americans into fossil fuel use for decades."
Source: HuffPost, 11/08/2021"Climate Lawsuits Poised to Create ‘Tobacco Moment’ for Big Oil"
"Litigation will grow to be a tool to force multinational companies and governments to meet their climate commitments, attorneys and advocates said Saturday at the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 11/08/2021"Frustrations Grow As Marchers Demand Faster Climate Action"
"Tens of thousands of climate activists marched Saturday through the Scottish city hosting the U.N. climate summit, physically close to the global negotiators inside but separated by a vast gulf in expectations, with frustrated marchers increasingly dismissive of the talks and demanding immediate action instead to slow global warming."
Source: AP, 11/08/2021Trudeau Promised To Cap Emissions, But Oil Companies Have Other Plans
"A new analysis shows the climate plans of eight Canadian oil and gas producers are ‘wholly out of line’ with Canada’s climate goals".
Source: The Narwhal, 11/08/2021"Saudi Arabia’s Climate Plan Relies On More Oil"
"Saudi Arabia says it wants to join the global fight against climate change — by drilling for more oil."
Source: E&E News, 11/08/2021
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