"6 Big Environmental Stories to Watch in 2022"
"From plastic pollution to extreme weather and the extinction crisis, the year ahead promises tough fights, enormous challenges and critical opportunities."
Source: The Revelator, 01/06/2022
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Biden ‘Over-Promised and Under-Delivered’ on Climate. 2022 Trouble Looms
"As the new year opens, President Biden faces an increasingly narrow path to fulfill his ambitious goal of slashing the greenhouse gases generated by the United States that are helping to warm the planet to dangerous levels."
Source: NYTimes, 01/05/2022"Regulatory Fight Looms Over First-Ever Air Toxics Addition"
"EPA has given one last stamp of approval to adding a common solvent to its list of air toxics, opening the door to a potentially contentious fight over how to regulate businesses that emit the compound, known as 1-bromopropane."
Source: E&E News, 01/05/2022"US Judge Blocks Work At Nevada Geothermal Plant For 90 Days"
"A federal judge said Tuesday he intends to temporarily block any construction work for 90 days at a proposed geothermal power plant in Nevada that opponents said would destroy a sacred tribal site and could result in extinction of a rare toad being considered for endangered species protection."
Source: AP, 01/05/2022"Federal Report IDs New Carcinogens"
"Eight new substances were added to a federal list of carcinogens — substances found in numerous products and water systems across the United States."
Source: E&E News, 01/05/2022"Wildfires Are Digging Carbon-Spewing Holes in the Arctic"
"Soaring temperatures are rapidly thawing permafrost, leading to huge sinkholes called thermokarst. Northern fires are making the situation even worse."
Source: Wired, 01/05/2022PG&E Power Line Sparked The Nearly Million-Acre Dixie Fire: Probe
"State investigators have determined that a Pacific Gas & Electric Co. power line was responsible for sparking last year’s massive Dixie fire, which torched more than 960,000 acres in five Northern California counties as it burned clear across the Sierra Nevada."
Source: LA Times, 01/05/2022"What To Watch At DOE, FERC, Interior in 2022"
"One year after President Biden took office, federal agencies are facing pressure to carry out his administration’s energy and climate policies while navigating political calculations ahead of critical midterm elections."
Source: E&E News, 01/05/2022"Six Hot Topics For Climate Change And Nature Policy In 2022"
"From phasing out fossil fuel subsidies to tackling the surging costs of loss and damage caused by climate change impacts, 2022 is likely to see growing pressure for more ambitious action to fight global warming on the ground."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 01/05/2022"Off-Season 'Cover' Crops Expand As U.S. Growers Eye Low-Carbon Future"
"Illinois farmer Jack McCormick planted 350 acres of barley and radishes last fall as part of an off-season crop that he does not intend to harvest. Instead, the crops will be killed off with a weed killer next spring before McCormick plants soybeans in the same dirt."
Source: Reuters, 01/05/2022"The Ghost Wolves of Galveston Island"
"From a distance, the canids of Galveston Island, Texas, look almost like coyotes, prowling around the beach at night, eyes gleaming in the dark. But look closer and oddities appear."
Source: NYTimes, 01/05/2022"Germany Calls Nuclear Power ‘Dangerous,’ Rejects EU Plan"
"The German government said Monday that it considers nuclear energy dangerous and objects to European Union proposals that would let the technology remain part of the bloc’s plans for a climate-friendly future."
Source: AP, 01/04/2022"Ormat Nevada Geothermal Project Approval Before a Federal Judge"
"The Bureau of Land Management will try to persuade a federal judge Tuesday to allow Ormat Nevada’s geothermal project to proceed over objections from an American Indian tribe and an environmental group."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 01/04/2022"Hawaii Upholds Order Requiring Navy To Drain Fuel Tanks"
"Hawaii’s Department of Health on Monday upheld the governor’s order requiring the Navy to drain massive World War II-era fuel tanks after oil leaking from the aging facility contaminated Pearl Harbor’s tap water."
Source: AP, 01/04/2022"Famed Fossil Hunter And Conservationist Richard Leakey Dies At 77"
"Richard Leakey, the world-renowned paleoanthropologist-turned-conservationist, has died at 77."
Source: NPR, 01/04/2022
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