Millions of US Homes Are So Overheated They Open Windows In The Winter. Why?
"Nineteenth-century technology is finally being phased out in New York City, but its past is deeply entwined with American history".
Source: Guardian, 11/07/2023
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Texas Could Spend U.S. Funds Meant To Cut CO2 Emissions On Highway Projects
"The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act required Texas’ transportation agency to create a carbon reduction strategy to get $641 million federal dollars. Critics say the plan is unlikely to meaningfully cut greenhouse gasses from the state’s massive transportation sector."
Source: Texas Tribune, 11/07/2023
"In the Florida Everglades, a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Hotspot"
"Drainage has exposed the fertile soils of the Everglades Agricultural Area, a region responsible for much of the nation’s sugar cane."
"ORLANDO, Fla. — It used to be the water spilled over Lake Okeechobee’s southern shore, flowing eventually into the sawgrass prairies of the Florida Everglades. For thousands of years the marsh vegetation flourished and died here in an endless cycle, the plant remains falling beneath the slow-coursing water to form a rich layer of organic soil called peat.
Source: Inside Climate News, 11/07/2023
How Midwest Landowners Helped to Derail One of the Biggest CO2 Pipelines
"Lured by billions of dollars in federal funding for carbon capture, developers are proposing huge pipelines to carry the CO2 across the Midwest. In Illinois, one retired academic united her neighbors to fight a key project."
Source: Inside Climate News, 11/07/2023
Majority-Black Penn. Community Fights Proposed $6 Billion LNG Terminal
"In what was once a proud and neighborly community where residents sat on their porches and looked after kids playing in the streets, the noxious smell and degraded air quality attributable to the Covanta waste incinerator — the largest in the country, burning as much as 3,500 tons of trash a day — have driven residents indoors or out of town."
Source: EHN, 11/07/2023
"This County Could Create The Strictest Workplace Heat Rules In The U.S."
"Miami-Dade County commissioners on Tuesday will decide whether to establish the first county-level workplace heat protections in the United States, a test of whether local governments can protect workers from increasingly dangerous temperatures in the absence of federal rules."
Source: Washington Post, 11/07/2023
"EPA Watchdog Accused Of Creating A Hostile Work Environment"
"The top watchdog tasked with overseeing EPA faced accusations that he abused his authority, wasted government money and showed partisan favor. EPA Inspector General Sean O’Donnell denied the allegations, which an oversight body ultimately deemed not worthy of further investigation, according to documents obtained by E&E News."
Source: E&E News, 11/07/2023
"As Climate Talks Near, Calls Mount for a ‘Phaseout’ of Fossil Fuels"
"With UN climate negotiations set for next month, a growing number of nations and business leaders are calling for a phaseout of fossil fuels. But with major fossil fuel expansion projects moving ahead around the globe, advocates of strong action face a daunting challenge."
Source: YaleE360, 11/07/2023
Covering Food Systems — The Next Climate Action Battleground
Freelance food systems reporter Thin Lei Win believes that if the world doesn’t change the way it produces, processes, transports, consumes and discards food, climate change will worsen and hunger levels will spike. But she also worries that powerful interests want to keep the status quo and cites parallels with the tobacco and fossil fuel industries. More in Freelance Files, including places for freelancers to pitch climate-food stories.
Reporting on Environmental Solutions and Equity — at a Watershed Scale
Reporting on interconnected ecosystems lends itself to better environmental stories, and so tracing how water moves across landscapes, communities, industries and regulatory schemes can help the public connect the dots. That’s how Annie Ropeik, who helps run the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, sees the watershed beat. She shares expert views and offers insights for environment journalists to use in their reporting.
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