"EPA Updates Freedom of Information Act Rule With Focus on Equity"
"The EPA has updated Freedom of Information Act regulations with its Phase II FOIA final rule, according to a Thursday news release."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 09/08/2023
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"Adriana Carillo’s Life’s Work Is To Find Migrants Lost In The Desert"
"She and her team of volunteers brave extreme heat to search for people left behind on the perilous journey from Mexico to the U.S."
Source: Yale Climate Connections, 09/08/2023"Green Groups Sue, Say Farmers Are Drying Up Great Salt Lake"
"The state of Utah is not doing enough to save its imperiled Great Salt Lake and stop an impending ecological collapse, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by national and western environmental groups."
Source: NPR, 09/08/2023Firms Profit From Climate Disaster Clean-Up – While Investing In Fossil Fuels
"Private equity firms are increasingly profiting from cleaning up climate disasters in the US, while failing to better protect workers and often also investing in the fossil fuels that are causing the climate emergency, new research has found."
Source: Guardian, 09/08/2023"A Scientist Manipulated Climate Data. Conservative Media Celebrated."
"A climate scientist ignited controversy Tuesday when he claimed that he withheld key details of his wildfire research to fit “preapproved narratives” on climate risks in order to be published in one of the world’s most esteemed science publications."
Source: E&E News, 09/08/2023"Dynamite Use Sends Shockwaves Through Fishing Industries"
"Using explosives is illegal, wasteful and devastating to marine life and people’s livelihoods. Yet in Sri Lanka and around the world it’s thriving as a quick and easy route to a lucrative haul".
Source: Guardian, 09/08/2023"As Fall Migration Arrives, Apps That ID Birds By Sound Have Taken Off"
"I was sitting in solitude earlier this summer in an Adirondack chair in my backyard, when I realized I wasn’t as alone as I’d thought. Thanks to the app I’d just downloaded on my phone — the popular and free Merlin Bird ID — I learned just from listening that I was surrounded by more than a dozen species of birds."
Source: AP, 09/08/2023"Biden To Cancel ANWR Leases, Expand Arctic Drilling Protections"
"Nearly three years after the Trump administration sold the first-ever oil drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the White House Wednesday canceled those leases in a huge blow to pro-oil Alaskans."
Source: E&E News, 09/07/2023"African Leaders Call For New Global Taxes To Fund Climate Change Action"
"African leaders on Wednesday proposed new global taxes and reforms to international financial institutions to help fund climate change action in a declaration that will form the basis of their negotiating position at November's COP28 summit."
Source: Reuters, 09/07/2023Why Extreme Heat Is So Dangerous For Those With Schizophrenia
"On July 12, 2022, Stephan Goodwin left his home with a drawstring bag and a gallon of water, fleeing the voices in his head. He never came back."
Source: Washington Post, 09/07/2023"States Withhold Cooling Aid For The Poor As Heat Gets Deadlier"
"More than 30 million low-income households that are eligible for federal funding to defray the cost of air conditioning have not received any money from a government program that was created to protect vulnerable people from dangerous temperatures, an E&E News analysis shows."
Source: E&E News, 09/07/2023This Summer Broke World Record For The Highest Temperature Ever Measured
"Earth has sweltered through its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever measured, with a record warm August capping a season of brutal and deadly temperatures, according to the World Meteorological Organization."
Source: AP, 09/07/2023"A Colorado City Has Been Battling for Decades to Use Its Own Water"
"Lawsuits, protests and fierce disputes over who controls water in the parched American West have held up a crucial pipeline."
Source: NYTimes, 09/07/202361 Indicted In Georgia On RICO Charges Connected To ‘Stop Cop City’ Movement
"ATLANTA — Sixty-one people have been indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges following a long-running state investigation into protests against a planned police and firefighter training facility in the Atlanta area that critics call “Cop City.”
In the sweeping indictment released Tuesday, Republican Attorney General Chris Carr alleged the defendants are “militant anarchists” who supported a violent movement that prosecutors trace to the widespread 2020 racial justice protests.
Source: AP, 09/07/2023"Invasive Species Costing World Billions A Year, UN Warns"
"From rats to fire ants, invasive creatures are threatening local ecosystems. Influenced by global trade and climate change, they are pushing native species to the brink."
Source: DW, 09/07/2023
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