"Brent Crude Breaks $120 A Barrel As Gas Prices Soar"
"Brent crude, the international oil benchmark, has surpassed $120 a barrel, reaching a two-month high as gasoline and diesel fuel prices continue to rise."
Source: The Hill, 05/31/2022
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"Navajo Sign Water Rights Settlement With Utah, Feds"
"Federal officials signed an agreement with leaders of the Navajo Nation on Friday that provides funding for clean drinking water infrastructure for reservation residents and resolves questions about longstanding Navajo claims to water rights in the drought-stricken U.S. West."
Source: AP, 05/30/2022
"A Waterway Project in Brazil Imperils a Vast Tropical Wetland"
"The Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland, has been battered in recent years by agricultural development, drought, and fire. Now, a push to turn the region’s key river into a waterway for soybean-laden barges threatens to alter the natural flows of this iconic ecosystem."
Source: YaleE360, 05/30/2022
"Hurricane Agatha Poses Dangerous Flood Threat To Mexico"
"There’s a chance the storm’s remnants will regenerate in the Gulf of Mexico this week"
"Hurricane warnings are in effect in Mexico’s Oaxaca state, where a rapidly strengthening Hurricane Agatha is expected to make landfall Monday near the town of Mazunte.
Source: Washington Post, 05/30/2022
"Judge Orders US To Decide If Wolverines Need Protection"
"A federal judge has given U.S. wildlife officials 18 months to decide if wolverines should be protected under the Endangered Species Act, following years of dispute over how much risk climate change and other threats pose to the rare and elusive predators."
Source: AP, 05/30/2022
"Tribal Request To Halt Arizona Copper Mine Work Is Denied"
"A federal judge has rejected a request by Native American tribes to stop Toronto-based Hudbay Minerals Inc. from preparing a planned new Arizona copper mine’s site in the Santa Rita Mountains near Tucson."
Source: AP, 05/30/2022
Some States Are Trying A New Approach To Recycling Plastic
"After recycling's failure to appreciably reduce the amount of plastic the U.S. throws away, some states are taking a new approach, transferring the onus of recycling from consumers to product manufacturers."
Source: NPR, 05/30/2022
"Biden’s Pipeline Rules Target Key Link of Carbon Capture Buildout"
"The Biden administration’s new rulemaking for carbon dioxide pipeline safety, and a nearly $4 million fine for a 2020 pipeline rupture, are seen as a step toward carbon capture goals that envision building out thousands of miles of pipelines, industry watchers said Friday."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 05/30/2022
Odd Bedfellows: Farmers And Greens Square Off Against Biden And GOP
"Kathy Stockdale is no climate activist. The corn and soybean grower and conservative Christian says God controls the weather — “not the carbon dioxide.” Until now, Stockdale and her husband Ray couldn’t imagine linking arms with the Sierra Club, a critic of the corn ethanol industry and an environmental ally of President Joe Biden."
Source: E&E News, 05/30/2022
"Ford Beats Tesla to the Punch With First Electric F-150 Delivery"
"In the rural Michigan community Nicholas Schmidt lives, pickup trucks are a way of life. On Thursday, Schmidt and the city he calls home — Standish, Michigan, population less than 1,500 — made history with the handover of a key fob. He became owner No. 1 of Ford Motor Co.’s first electric pickup, the F-150 Lightning."
Source: Bloomberg Green, 05/30/2022
