"The Big Sneeze: Climate Change To Make Pollen Season Nastier"
"Climate change has already made allergy season longer and pollen counts higher, but you ain’t sneezed nothing yet."
Source: AP, 03/16/2022
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"Here's Who Stands To Win From High Gas Prices"
"Not everyone is suffering from high gas prices that have spiked further with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the international sanctions imposed on Moscow."
Source: The Hill, 03/15/2022"House Dems Seek Probe of USPS Plan For New Mail Truck Fleet"
"Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are seeking an investigation into a U.S. Postal Service plan to replace its aging mail trucks with mostly gasoline-powered vehicles."
Source: AP, 03/15/2022"Manchin Comes Out Against Fed Nominee Sarah Bloom Raskin"
"West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin today came out against Sarah Bloom Raskin, which could kill her nomination to be the Federal Reserve’s top banking regulator."
Source: E&E News, 03/15/2022"Judge Axes Trump-Era Lease Sales To Protect Sage Grouse"
"A federal judge last week blocked five more Trump-era oil and gas lease sales for failing to comply with statutory protections for the greater sage grouse."
Source: E&E News, 03/15/2022"Iowa's Second 'Ag-Gag' Law Violates 1st Amendment, Federal Court Rules"
"Seven months after a divided federal appeals court partially upheld the first of Iowa's "ag-gag" laws, a judge has ruled the state's second such law is unconstitutional."
Source: Des Moines Register, 03/15/2022"UN Gathering Gears Up For Push To Save Planet’s Biodiversity"
"Nearly all the world’s countries kicked off a U.N.-backed meeting Monday aimed at preventing the loss of biodiversity — seen as critical to avoiding the extinction of many vulnerable species, the emergence of pathogens like the coronavirus, and the damage to both lives and livelihoods of people around the world, Indigenous peoples in particular."
Source: AP, 03/15/2022"Brazil Detects Record Amazon Deforestation in Jan. and Feb."
"Detected deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached a record high for the month of February following a similar record the prior month."
Source: AP, 03/15/2022As US Rushes for Energy Minerals, 1872 Law Allows Miners Free Rein
"The Mining Law of 1872 lets miners pay no royalties for the precious minerals they dig from federal land and requires no restraints on their activities."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/15/2022"Court: Duke Can’t Make Customers Pay Coal-Ash Cleanup Costs"
"Indiana’s biggest utility can’t make its customers pay more than $200 million in costs related to cleaning up its toxic coal ash, according to a ruling Thursday from the Indiana Supreme Court."
Source: Indianapolis Star, 03/15/2022"Adirondack Rail Trail Takes Another Step Closer To Reality"
"The transfer of a 34-mile section of a Adirondacks railbed from one state agency to another is being heralded as the start of a major phase to convert it into a recreational pathway."
Source: Albany Times Union, 03/15/2022"EPA Expands Reach Of Ozone Regulations"
"Power plants, paper mills and other industries in roughly half the country would face fresh requirements to cut smog-forming emissions under a new EPA “good neighbor” plan that would sharply expand the agency’s efforts to curb harmful pollution that crosses state lines."
Source: E&E News, 03/14/2022"US Tsunami Warning System Needs Major Overhaul, Report Says"
"The United States’ tsunami system is in need of a major update, with ongoing problems that include outdated software, delayed alerts and poor communication to the public, according to a panel of tsunami experts. Its recent report sees “an urgent need for action” and advises the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to overhaul aspects of the system to fix these and other pressing issues."
Source: Washington Post, 03/14/2022"Edible Extinction: Why We Need to Revive Global Food Diversity"
"The Green Revolution helped feed a surging global population, but at the cost of impoverishing crop diversity. Now, with climate change increasingly threatening food supplies, the need for greater agricultural resilience means restoring endangered crop and food varieties."
Source: YaleE360, 03/14/2022Ontario Politicians Have Dodged York Region Sewage Problem For 13 Years
"Georgina Island First Nation and other residents aren't convinced a new treatment plant will protect Lake Simcoe from more wastewater. With $100 million already spent, the Ford government is now proposing a pipe built under the Oak Ridges Moraine to an alternate facility".
Source: The Narwhal, 03/14/2022
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