Oil And Gas Firms In Colorado Falsified Environmental Impact Reports
"State’s energy and carbon management commission said fraudulent pollution data was reported for at least 344 wells"
Source: Guardian, 01/02/2025
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Florida Debates Where To Build The Nation’s Largest Trash Incinerator
"Residents argue the project will disproportionately impact majority-Black and -Hispanic communities in the Miami-Dade area."
Source: KFF Health News, 01/02/2025
Toxic Benzene Plagued Channelview, Tex. Regulators Never Told Residents.
"The highest levels exceed even Texas’ benzene guideline — the weakest in the nation — but aren’t being recorded by a state monitor. That means the community’s cancer risk could be higher than previously thought."
Source: Public Health Watch, 01/02/2025
"Jimmy Carter’s Conservation Legacy"
"The 39th U.S. president led the fight to preserve vast swaths of Alaskan wilderness. It forever changed the state and the National Park Service."
Source: E&E News, 01/02/2025
"Big Oil Backtracks On Renewables Push As Climate Agenda Falters"
"Major European energy companies doubled down on oil and gas in 2024 to focus on near-term profits, slowing down - and at times reversing - climate commitments in a shift that they are likely to stick with in 2025."
Source: Reuters, 01/02/2025
"The E.P.A. Promotes Toxic Fertilizer. 3M Told It of Risks Years Ago."
"The agency obtained research from 3M in 2003 revealing that sewage sludge, the raw material for the fertilizer, carried toxic “forever chemicals.”"
Source: NYTimes, 01/02/2025
Oil Industry Playbook: How Drillers Offload Costly Cleanup Onto the Public
"Oil executive Tom Ragsdale walked away from his old wells, making the pollution left behind the state of New Mexico’s problem. His tactics, however, are ubiquitous in the industry."
Source: ProPublica, 01/02/2025
Calif. Will Require Insurers To Increase Home Coverage In Fire-Prone Areas
"Insurance companies that stopped providing home coverage to hundreds of thousands of Californians in recent years as wildfires became more destructive will have to again provide policies in fire-prone areas if they want to keep doing business in California under a state regulation announced Monday."
Source: AP, 01/02/2025
"Climate Change Added 41 Days Of Dangerous Heat Around World In 2024"
"People around the world suffered an average of 41 extra days of dangerous heat this year because of human-caused climate change, according to a group of scientists who also said that climate change worsened much of the world’s damaging weather throughout 2024.
The analysis from World Weather Attribution and Climate Central researchers comes at the end of a year that shattered climate record after climate record as heat across the globe made 2024 likely to be its hottest ever measured and a slew of other fatal weather events spared few.
Source: AP, 01/02/2025
DEADLINE: ICFJ News Creator Award for Excellence in Independent Video Journalism
This inaugural award, organized by the International Center for Journalists with support from YouTube, will honor independent journalists and news creators from across the world who produce high-quality, reliable news in the public interest. Deadline is Jan 15, 2025.
