"A Bitcoin Boom Fueled by Cheap Power, Empty Plants and Few Rules"
"Cryptocurrency miners are flocking to New York’s faded industrial towns, prompting concern over the environmental impact of huge computer farms."
Source: NYTimes, 12/06/2021
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"EPA Outlines $7.4B For Water Infrastructure Headed To States"
"States, Native American tribes and U.S. territories will receive $7.4 billion in 2022 to improve water quality and access, the first installment from the infrastructure bill that President Joe Biden signed into law last month, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday."
Source: AP, 12/03/2021Coal Provinces ‘Co-Ordinated’ Fight Against Federal Water Pollution Rules
"Internal government documents show Alberta, B.C., Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia worked in opposition to proposed regulations to crack down on contaminated wastewater from coal mines".
Source: The Narwhal, 12/03/2021"Shell Pulls Out Of Cambo Oilfield Project"
Source: Guardian, 12/03/2021‘They Can’t Silence Us’: Female Lawyers Defending Colombia’s Environment
"Legal team faces daily threats as it works to protect displaced families from landowners, ecosystems from mining and indigenous groups from oil companies".
Source: Guardian, 12/03/2021"So You Want to Donate to a Climate Group…"
"An analysis by Carbon Switch released on Giving Tuesday shows that donations to environmental groups is concentrated mostly at just a couple of big nonprofits, most of which work in land conservation."
Source: Earther, 12/03/2021"Trump Rule Meant To Save Coal Is Forcing Plants To Close"
"A wastewater rule the Trump administration pushed through as a Hail Mary for struggling coal plants is now being cited as a reason some of those same units are opting to close."
Source: E&E News, 12/03/2021Mo. Health Dept Found Mask Mandates Work, But Didn’t Make Findings Public
"Mask mandates saved lives and prevented COVID-19 infections in Missouri’s biggest cities during the worst part of the delta variant wave, an analysis by the state Department of Health and Senior Services shows. But the analysis, conducted at the request of Gov. Mike Parson’s office in early November, was never made public and was only obtained by The Missouri Independent and the Documenting COVID-19 project after a Sunshine Law request to the department."
Source: Missouri Independent, 12/03/2021California Water Districts To Get 0% Of Requested Supplies
"California water agencies that serve 27 million residents and 750,000 acres of farmland won’t get any of the water they’ve requested from the state heading into 2022 other than what’s needed for critical health and safety, state officials announced Wednesday."
Source: AP, 12/03/2021In First, Alaska’s Arctic Waters Appear Poised for Dangerous Algal Blooms
"Climate change is bringing potentially deadly dinoflagellate blooms to the Far North, posing a new risk to food security."
Source: Hakai, 12/03/2021"‘Phenomenal’: Farne Islands Seal Numbers Expected To Reach New High"
"INNER FARNE -- “This is what it’s all about,” said Richard Bevan, beaming. “To see this many seals when 10 years ago there would not have been any.”
Source: Guardian, 12/03/2021"Science Report: US Should Make Less Plastic To Save Oceans"
"America needs to rethink and reduce the way it generates plastics because so much of the material is littering the oceans and other waters, the National Academy of Sciences says in a new report."
Source: AP, 12/02/2021Jordan Cove Developers Abandon Plans For Pipeline, Coos Bay LNG Terminal
"The developers that had hoped to build the Pacific Connector Pipeline and Jordan Cove Energy Project have told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission they do not intend to move forward with the project."
Source: Roseburg News-Review, 12/02/2021"The Arctic Could Get More Rain And Less Snow Sooner Than Projected"
"The planet’s warming is transforming the sprawling and fragile Arctic, moving it toward a future that can be summed up in four words: more rain, less snow. But now researchers say that unprecedented shift — and the profound impacts that are likely to accompany it — could come decades sooner than previously thought."
Source: Washington Post, 12/02/2021Fossil Fuel Firms To Make Billions From Tax Break in Dems’ Budget Bill
"The legislation would increase tax breaks for carbon capture and carbon removal by 70 percent, potentially yielding payouts large enough to wipe out some companies’ income tax bills."
Source: Inside Climate News, 12/02/2021
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