"Climate Crisis Pushes Albatross ‘Divorce’ Rates Higher – Study"
"Albatrosses, some of the world’s most loyally monogamous creatures, are “divorcing” more often – and researchers say global heating may be to blame."
Source: Guardian, 11/29/2021
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"Biden Announces Oil Release From Strategic Petroleum Reserve"
"Hammered by high gasoline prices, President Biden announced this morning that the Department of Energy will release 50 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an effort to lower prices."
Source: E&E News, 11/24/2021"EPA Forces Natural Gas Plants To Make Pollution Data Public"
"For the first time, hundreds of natural gas processing plants will have to publicly report emissions of benzene and other hazardous air pollutants."
Source: E&E News, 11/24/2021Canada's Trudeau Vows Flood Aid, Climate Action After Third Election Win
"Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, opening a new parliamentary session on Tuesday, vowed to help British Columbia rebuild after the devastating floods last week, and said it was time to ramp up the fight against climate change."
Source: Reuters, 11/24/2021"DEP Commissioner Suspends Permit for $1 Billion Transmission Line"
"Maine’s environmental commissioner suspended a permit Tuesday for a $1 billion electricity transmission line, delivering another blow to the project aimed at bringing Canadian hydropower to New England."
Source: AP, 11/24/2021"Boston Mayor Divests Vulnerable City From Fossil Fuels"
"Boston Mayor Michelle Wu signed an ordinance Monday designed to divest the city from fossil fuels."
Source: AP, 11/24/2021Secretive Texas Company Owns Largest Share of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
"Hilcorp Energy Co. has a spotty pipeline safety record and refuses to make its financial records public. Can it safeguard the pipeline from climate change?"
"Environmental organizations and pipeline experts continue expressing concerns about a secretive Texas petroleum company with a spotty safety record that acquired the largest share of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline last year as thawing permafrost and flooding linked to climate change threatened the massive oil conduit.
Source: Inside Climate News, 11/24/2021"State Attorneys Want Biden to Further Undo Trump’s NEPA Rule"
"The Biden administration’s proposal to bolster environmental permitting review is a good first step but doesn’t go far enough towards scrapping Trump-era rules, according to a coalition of Democratic attorneys general."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 11/24/2021"Giant Pipeline In U.S. Midwest Tests Future Of Carbon Capture"
"Dan Tronchetti received a letter in August that alarmed him: Summit Carbon Solutions, a company he'd never heard of, wanted his permission to conduct survey work for a 2,000-mile pipeline it planned to route through his Iowa corn and soybean fields."
Source: Reuters, 11/24/202120+ People Sickened By Sewage-Tainted Oysters After Md. Failed To Warn
"When Chesapeake Bay oysters and other shellfish become contaminated with sewage or other pollution, Maryland environmental officials normally alert the public before any are harvested or eaten. But that didn’t happen after a recent sewage spill in Southern Maryland — and at least two dozen people became ill."
Source: Baltimore Sun, 11/24/2021"These Americans Are Just Going Around in Circles. It Helps the Climate."
"CARMEL, Ind. — It’s getting harder and harder to run a stoplight here, because there are fewer and fewer of them around. Every year, at intersections throughout this thriving city, traffic lights and stop signs have disappeared, replaced with roundabouts. Lots and lots of roundabouts."
Source: NYTimes, 11/24/2021Powell Committed To Tackling Climate Change In Talks With Biden: WH
"U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell underscored his commitment to putting climate change at the center of the central bank's policymaking decisions during his conversations with President Joe Biden, the White House said on Monday."
Source: Reuters, 11/23/2021"Supreme Court Hands Win to Tennessee in Water Resource Fight"
"The U.S. Supreme Court found that Tennessee didn’t steal groundwater from Mississippi, in a dispute with wide-ranging implications for how states manage natural resources."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 11/23/2021"Northeast States Abandon Cap-And-Trade Plan For Cars"
"The Transportation and Climate Initiative — a cap-and-trade program covering cars in three Northeastern states and the District of Columbia — was abandoned last week after Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) and Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (R) pulled the plug on the program."
Source: E&E News, 11/23/2021U.S. To Release 50 Million Barrels Of Oil From Reserve - White House
"The White House on Tuesday said it would make 50 million barrels of oil available from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserves to help cool oil prices."
Source: Reuters, 11/23/2021
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