"NPS Employees Face A Worsening Housing Crunch As Prices Soar"
"Park superintendents across the country these days find themselves keeping close tabs on the real estate market."
Source: E&E News, 02/02/2022
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"Biden Officials Head To EPA Regional Offices"
"EPA has sent a number of political officials to its regional offices, including a former top aide to Administrator Michael Regan."
Source: E&E News, 02/02/2022"Climate Change A Rising Fed Concern As Nominees Face Hearing"
"How far the Federal Reserve can go to compel banks to consider the consequences of climate change in their lending policies could take center stage at a Senate hearing Thursday on the nominations of Sarah Bloom Raskin and two economists to the Fed’s influential Board of Governors."
Source: AP, 02/02/2022"Climate Change May Be Fueling Increase In Major Northeast Snowstorms"
"Scientists say the recent surge of intense Northeast winter storms is probably tied to rising ocean temperatures and changes in the Arctic".
Source: Washington Post, 02/02/2022O'Rourke Driving Pickup Across Texas To Highlight Issues With Grid
"Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke (D) will be driving over 2,000 miles across the state over 12 days this month to bring attention to its infrastructure."
Source: The Hill, 02/02/2022Groundhog Day 2022: Punxsutawney Phil Furrsees Six More Weeks Of Winter
"Here ye! Here ye! Punxsutawney Phil has chirped — another six weeks of winter will be!"
Source: Washington Post, 02/02/2022"Biden Begins Crackdown On Power Plant Pollution"
"Biden administration officials are kicking off a crackdown on power plant pollution, aiming to shift the nation’s electricity supply to cleaner energy in the face of congressional resistance and a Supreme Court that could limit the federal government’s ability to tighten public health standards."
Source: Washington Post, 02/01/2022"Georgia Power Plans To Double Renewables, Ditch All Coal"
"Southern Co.’s Georgia Power utility announced a plan yesterday to double its renewable energy footprint by 2035 as it maps out a path to close the rest of its coal fleet in that time."
Source: E&E News, 02/01/2022"‘Reduced Risk’ Pesticides Are Widespread in California Streams"
"A new generation of pesticides promoted as safe alternatives to compounds shown to endanger the environment and public health are turning up in California streams at toxic levels, researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey report."
Source: Inside Climate News, 02/01/2022Count Estimates Earth Has 73,000 Tree Species – 14% More Than Reported
"There are an estimated 73,300 species of tree on Earth, 9,000 of which have yet to be discovered, according to a global count of tree species by thousands of researchers who used second world war codebreaking techniques created at Bletchley Park to evaluate the number of unknown species."
Source: Guardian, 02/01/2022"Measuring Climate Change: It’s Not Just Heat, It’s Humidity"
"When it comes to measuring global warming, humidity, not just heat, matters in generating dangerous climate extremes, a new study finds."
Source: AP, 02/01/2022Methane: Biden DOI To Give States $1.15 Billion To Plug Orphaned Wells
"The White House on Monday announced new steps to help curb emissions of methane, saying it will send $1.15 billion to states to clean up thousands of orphaned oil and gas wells that leak the powerful planet-warming gas."
Source: Washington Post, 02/01/2022"Climate-Driven Floods Will Disproportionately Affect Black Communities"
"Flood risk in the United States will increase by about 25% in the next three decades, and Black communities in the South will face disproportionate harm, according to a sweeping new analysis published Monday."
Source: NPR, 02/01/2022Climate, Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Undergird the Ukraine-Russia Standoff
"Russia’s $11 billion natural gas conduit to Germany is a by-product of Donald Trump’s pro-Putin foreign policy—and a real headache for President Biden."
"As tensions simmer on the Ukraine-Russia border, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline has become an emblem of the energy and climate issues underlying the conflict—even though it has yet to deliver a molecule of natural gas.
Source: Inside Climate News, 02/01/2022Beavers Are Flooding the Warming Alaskan Arctic, Threatening Fish
"A thawing of permafrost in beaver-built wetlands can release vast stores of greenhouse gases to warm the climate, but Native peoples are already feeling the rodent’s impacts." "When the beavers came to streams near the Alaskan village of Venetie, the fish disappeared."
Source: Inside Climate News, 02/01/2022
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