Conservation Dogs May Help in Search for Endangered Franklin’s Bumblebee
"Handlers hope a mutt named Filson can sniff out a pollinator no one has seen in 15 years."
Source: The Revelator, 10/26/2021
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"Biden Crafts a Climate Plan B: Tax Credits, Regulation and State Action"
"After losing the centerpiece of his climate agenda just a week before heading to a major global warming summit, President Biden intends to make the case that the United States has a new plan that will still meet its ambitions to sharply cut greenhouse gases that are warming the planet."
Source: NYTimes, 10/25/2021"UN Warns World 'Way Off Track' As Greenhouse Gases Grow"
"Greenhouse gas concentrations hit a new record in 2020, the U.N. weather agency said on Monday, warning that the world was "way off track" for capping rising temperatures."
Source: Reuters, 10/25/2021"Judge Issues Injunction Blocking Wisconsin Fall Wolf Hunt"
"A judge on Friday halted Wisconsin’s fall wolf season two weeks before hunters were set to take to the woods, siding with wildlife advocacy groups who argued that holding the hunt would be unconstitutional."
Source: AP, 10/25/2021Big Ag Pays Farmers For Control Of Their Soil-Bound Carbon
"The biggest global agriculture companies are competing on a new front: enticing farmers to join programs that keep atmosphere-warming carbon dioxide in the soil."
Source: Reuters, 10/25/2021"Drought-Stricken California Doused By Powerful Storm"
"A powerful storm barreled toward Southern California after flooding highways, toppling trees and causing mud flows in areas burned bare by recent fires across the northern part of the state."
Source: AP, 10/25/2021"Judge Nixes Trump-Era Limits On Regulation Of Water-Polluting Projects"
"A federal judge on Thursday refused to leave a contested Trump-era water pollution rule in place while the Biden administration reviews it for the next 18 months, finding that letting it stay in effect could cause long-lasting environmental harm."
Source: Courthouse News Service, 10/25/2021Total Accused of Campaign to Play Down Climate Risk From Fossil Fuels"
"The French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies was aware of the link between fossil fuels and rising global temperatures 50 years ago but worked with other oil majors to play down the risks for at least three decades, according to internal company documents and interviews with former executives."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/25/2021"White House Taps Martha Williams To Head FWS"
"The White House announced last night the intention to nominate Martha Williams as director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, capping nine months in which she has already been leading the agency as the administration overhauls key policies."
Source: E&E News, 10/25/2021"Navajo Nation Pushes For Radioactive Waste Remnants To Be Removed"
"Navajo Nation continues to hold strong on its stance against radioactive waste being dumped near its lands, while also pushing for the waste to be removed completely."
Source: Source New Mexico, 10/25/2021"Fishery Closures and the Ghosts of Past Mistakes"
"Canada is closing fisheries and buying back licenses. Will this latest scheme save salmon or sink fishers?"
Source: Hakai, 10/25/2021"U.S. Warns Climate Poses ‘Emerging Threat’ to Financial System"
"Climate change is an “emerging threat” to the stability of the U.S. financial system, top federal regulators warned in a report on Thursday, setting the stage for the Biden administration to take more aggressive regulatory action to prevent climate change from upending global markets and the economy."
Source: NYTimes, 10/22/2021"Billions In Environmental Justice Funds Hang In The Balance"
"Tens of billions of dollars for U.S. environmental justice initiatives originally proposed in a $3.5 trillion domestic spending package now hang in the balance as Democrats decide how to trim the bill down to $2 trillion."
Source: AP, 10/22/2021"La Niña Weather Pattern Likely to Prolong Western Drought, NOAA Says"
"For the second year in a row, the climate pattern known as La Niña has developed in the Pacific Ocean, which will likely prolong the severe drought in much of the Western United States this winter while bringing some relief to Northern California and the Pacific Northwest, government forecasters said Thursday."
Source: NYTimes, 10/22/2021"Climate Change Poses a Widening Threat to National Security"
"The Biden administration released several reports Thursday about climate change and national security, laying out in stark terms the ways in which the warming world is beginning to significantly challenge stability worldwide."
Source: NYTimes, 10/22/2021
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