"A Life’s Work Bearing Witness to Humanity’s Impact on the Planet"
"Photographer James Balog gives an overview of his career in his big new book, “The Human Element: A Time Capsule From the Anthropocene.”"
Source: Inside Climate News, 12/07/2021
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"Facing Economic Collapse, Afghanistan Is Gripped by Starvation"
"An estimated 22.8 million people — more than half the country’s population — are expected to face potentially life-threatening food insecurity this winter. Many are already on the brink of catastrophe."
Source: NYTimes, 12/06/2021"What Happens to Democracy When Local Journalism Dries Up?"
"It has been our great privilege to bring you news from Stoneham and Woburn over the years,” read the announcement. “We regret to inform you that this will be the final edition of the Sun-Advocate newspaper.” The Massachusetts weekly, as of August, is no more."
Source: Washington Post Magazine, 12/06/2021"SCOTUS Rejects Lobster Union Plea To Undo Whale Protections"
"The nation’s highest bench today [Friday] rejected lobstering groups’ call to unwind fishing restrictions designed to protect endangered whales off the coast of Maine."
Source: E&E News, 12/06/2021Honolulu Shuts Down Largest Well Due To Navy Oil Contamination
Honolulu's Board of Water Supply (BWS) shut down the Halawa Shaft, Oahu's largest water source, on Thursday after the Navy said it found "a likely source of the contamination," the Navy said in a virtual town hall meeting."
Source: CNN, 12/06/2021"Gambling ‘America’s Amazon’"
"Alabama’s largest utility plans to bury a heap of toxic coal waste in one of North America’s most biodiverse river systems. Experts say it will put one of the nation’s most pristine wetlands at risk."
Source: CNN, 12/06/2021"Why Some Of Your Favorite Podcasts Are Filled With Oil Company Ads"
"Exxon and other fossil fuel companies are running podcast ads that suggest they are taking aggressive climate action. Climate experts call them greenwashing".
Source: Guardian, 12/06/2021"Democrats Might Be Able To Halt Most New Offshore Oil And Gas Drilling"
"A slew of climate provisions in Democrats' roughly $2 trillion social spending bill face an uncertain future in the Senate. But there's one big exception: limits on offshore oil and gas drilling."
Source: Washington Post, 12/06/2021"Lawmakers Demand Oil And Gas Firms Divulge Methane Leak Data"
"House Science Committee says information will help the U.S. meet its Global Methane Pledge "
"The House Science Committee has notified the chief executives of 10 major oil companies that they must disclose more data about their emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, in one of America’s biggest oil and gas producing regions.
Source: Washington Post, 12/06/2021Latino Residents Kept in Dark on Health Threat at Texas TCE Superfund Site
"Predominantly Latino residents in Grand Prairie, west of Dallas, say they’ve been told little or nothing about air, soil and groundwater poisoned by TCE, a known human carcinogen."
"The Beltrán family always stocks two to three cases of bottled water in the cluttered garage of their home in Grand Prairie, Texas. They’ve used it to drink and cook for 15 years. And they trek to the nearest Walmart to stay fully stocked.
“We got here and the water was salty, super salty,” Santa Barbara Beltrán, 72, said in Spanish. “We buy jugs of water for cooking.”
Source: KERA, 12/06/2021"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"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
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