"The Push to Save the Coho at Dry Creek"
"The Warm Springs Dam isn’t coming down anytime soon. Conservationists want to use it to help save salmon."
Source: Sierra, 01/29/2024
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Megabats: Adelaide Adjusts To New And Growing Colonies Of Flying Foxes
"With wingspans over a metre and an insatiable love for fruit and nectar, grey-headed flying foxes have settled in massive numbers across South Australia".
Source: Guardian, 01/29/2024"Pollution Has Made Houston Ship Channel Communities A ‘Sacrifice Zone’"
"The average life expectancy in predominantly nonwhite communities along the Houston Ship Channel, the site of largely unregulated petrochemical production, is up to 20 years less than nearby predominantly white communities, according to a report released Thursday by Amnesty International"
Source: The Hill, 01/26/2024Brazil Orders Vale, BHP, Samarco To Pay $9.7 Bln Damages For Dam Disaster
"A Brazilian federal judge ruled that miners Vale, BHP and their joint venture Samarco must pay 47.6 billion reais ($9.67 billion) in damages for a 2015 tailings dam burst, according to a legal decision on Thursday seen by Reuters."
Source: Reuters, 01/26/2024"This Georgia Refinery Is Making Low-Carbon Jet Fuel From Alcohol"
"On Wednesday, LanzaJet marked the opening of its Freedom Pines Fuels facility, which uses novel technology to convert ethanol into sustainable aviation fuel, or SAF. The $200 million biorefinery is the first in the world to deploy an “alcohol-to-jet” process, one that the company claims can curb greenhouse gas emissions by over 70 percent compared to conventional jet fuel."
Source: Canary Media, 01/26/2024"The Biggest Solar-Plus-Storage Project In The US Just Came Online"
"The largest combined solar and energy-storage project in the U.S. is now online and operating in California’s Mojave Desert." "The new California installation has nearly 2 million solar panels, more than 120,000 batteries, and an enormous amount of clean energy capacity."
Source: Canary Media, 01/26/2024Canada Tar Sands Are Larger Source of Air Pollution Than Previously Thought
"Canada’s tar sands have gained infamy for being one of the world’s most polluting sources of oil, thanks to the large amounts of energy and water use required for their extraction. A new study says the operations are also emitting far higher levels of a range of air pollutants than previously known, with implications for communities living nearby and far downwind."
Source: Inside Climate News, 01/26/2024"What A Hand-Cranked Drill Just Revealed About The West’s ‘Megadrought’"
"A new study is part of an emerging field of tree-ring science that found the West’s two-decade drought is inextricably linked to rising temperatures".
Source: Washington Post, 01/26/2024NOAA, BOEM Lay Out Plan To Protect Endangered Whales Amid Wind Power Build
"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) on Thursday finalized their strategy on the protection of endangered North Atlantic right whales in the offshore wind power development process."
Source: The Hill, 01/26/2024"Who Pays for Cleanup When a Solar Project Reaches the End of Its Life?"
"One of the objections to utility-scale solar power that I hear most often is that local communities will be left to cover the costs of cleanup at the end of a project’s life. But state and local rules in nearly all of the country are clear about who pays: The developer or the owner is responsible for restoring the land once a project is no longer operating."
Source: Inside Climate News, 01/26/2024Trump Deregulated Nearly 21 Percent Of Streams, 25 Percent Of Wetlands
"A rule published by the Trump administration removed protections for 21 percent of streams and 25 percent of wetlands that otherwise could have received federal protection, new research has found."
Source: The Hill, 01/26/2024"Hawaii’s Out-Of-Control, Totally Bizarre Fight Over Stray Cats"
"On a warm day last spring, dozens of protesters gathered outside a shopping center on the west side of Hawaii’s Big Island. They weren’t there to boycott a store or a pipeline or to deride a politician. They came to revolt against a new ban on feeding cats in the parking lot. “Stop starving the cats,” the protesters chanted, according to a local newspaper."
Source: Vox, 01/26/2024"Atomic Scientists Keep 'Doomsday Clock' As Close To Midnight As Ever"
"Atomic scientists on Tuesday kept their "Doomsday Clock" set as close to midnight as ever before, citing Russia's actions on nuclear weapons amid its invasion of Ukraine, nuclear-armed Israel's Gaza war and worsening climate change as factors driving the risk of global catastrophe."
Source: Reuters, 01/25/2024"White House Said to Delay Decision on Enormous Natural Gas Export Terminal"
"The Biden administration is pausing a decision on whether to approve what would be the largest natural gas export terminal in the United States, a delay that could stretch past the November election and spell trouble for that project and 16 other proposed terminals, according to three people with knowledge of the matter."
Source: NYTimes, 01/25/2024"The Big Battle Brewing Over LNG Exports"
"The Biden admin has presided over a vast buildout of liquefied natural gas infrastructure that threatens its climate goals. Here’s what could happen next."
Source: Canary Media, 01/25/2024
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