"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, 01/05/2022
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PG&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"Jackpile Mine Toxic Legacy Continues At Laguna Pueblo"
"In the village of Paguate as June Lorenzo’s grandmother knew it growing up, orchards and fields of wheat and corn carpeted nearby hillsides. Streams traversed a verdant valley where people hunted and grazed sheep near the small farming community in Laguna Pueblo. This was before a massive mine cratered the nearby land and altered the skyline. Lorenzo has looked for old photos of that landscape, but they’re hard to find. That place exists now only in stories from elders."
Source: Indian Country Today, 01/04/2022"Changing Climate Parches Afghanistan, Exacerbating Poverty"
"Fed by rain and snowmelt from mountains, this valley nestled among northwestern Afghanistan’s jagged peaks was once fertile. But the climate has changed in the last few decades, locals say, leaving the earth barren and its people struggling to survive."
Source: AP, 01/04/2022"EPA To Require More Facilities To Report Releases Of Carcinogenic Gas"
"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Monday [Dec. 27] that it will require more facilities to report the release of a carcinogenic gas called ethylene oxide (EtO), after previously not requiring them to do so."
Source: The Hill, 01/04/2022Jump in Deforestation Of World's Most Biodiverse Savanna Alarms Scientists
"Deforestation last year rose to the highest level since 2015 in Brazil's Cerrado, prompting scientists on Monday to raise alarm over the state of the world's most species-rich savanna, a major carbon sink that helps to stave off climate change."
Source: Reuters, 01/04/2022"Advocates Call EPA 'Forever Chemical' Testing Announcement Insufficient"
"The Biden administration will require new testing on some “forever chemicals,” but advocates are disappointed in what they characterized as insufficient requirements."
Source: The Hill, 01/04/2022
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