"Invasive Species Have Created A Cycle Of Wildfire In Hawaiʻi"
"Planting native flora could help prevent the island's next wildfire."
Source: Grist, 08/31/2023
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"Exxon Says Global Climate Goals Are Destined To Fail"
"The company’s researchers predict that an expanding population and worldwide economy will drive up energy demand for fossil fuels."
"Exxon Mobil projected that greenhouse-gas emissions and the efforts to keep the planet’s temperature from rising beyond an increase of 2 degrees Celsius by 2050 is destined to fail in a report released by the oil giant on Monday.
Source: Grist, 08/31/2023Scrapping Housebuilder Pollution Rules Is A Regression: UK Watchdog
"Office for Environmental Protection chair tells ministers plan will degrade England’s rivers and demands that they explain it to MPs".
Source: Guardian, 08/31/2023"In New Scramble for Africa, an Arab Sheikh Is Taking the Lead"
"A company established by a Dubai sheikh is finalizing agreements with African nations to manage vast tracts of their forests and sell the carbon credits. Critics are concerned the deals will not benefit Africans and will just help foreign governments perpetuate high emissions."
Source: YaleE360, 08/31/2023"Photo Essay: What It’s Like To Flee A Wildfire In B.C."
"As someone who has long frequented burning landscapes to put out fires, I hadn’t ever feared for my safety before. That changed the day two explosive blazes converged in the province’s Shuswap region".
Source: The Narwhal, 08/31/2023After 100+ Years, Gray Wolves Reappear In Giant Sequoia National Monument
"GIANT SEQUOIA NATIONAL MONUMENT, Calif. — On the morning of July 6, Michelle Harris saw a huge canid with yellow eyes dash across a fire road lined with charred snags and giant sequoias blackened by recent wildfires."
Source: LA Times, 08/31/2023"Protesters Block Road Into Burning Man Festival; Rangers Ram Blockade"
"Climate activists caused a miles-long traffic jam when they blocked the only road leading into the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.
Videos posted online show activists using a trailer to block the road that leads into Black Rock City. One video posted to X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, shows a white pickup truck appearing to be from the Pyramid Lake Ranger Station crashing through the barricade set up by protesters.
Source: The Hill, 08/31/2023Cat 4 Idalia Projected To Hit Florida With ‘Catastrophic’ Storm Surge
"Hurricane Idalia strengthened to a dangerous Category 4 storm Wednesday morning as it steamed toward Florida’s Big Bend region and threatened to unleash life-threatening storm surges and rainfall."
Source: AP, 08/30/2023"EPA Revises Waters Rule to Align With High Court Wetlands Ruling"
"A new rule governing federally protected waters and wetlands was issued Tuesday by the EPA to align agency regulations with a US Supreme Court ruling that will allow unpermitted development in wetlands across the country."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 08/30/2023"America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow"
"Overuse is draining and damaging aquifers nationwide, a New York Times data investigation revealed."
Source: NYTimes, 08/30/2023How Industry Is Fighting Stricter Controls For Manganese In Drinking Water
"High levels of manganese in drinking water could harm infants and children, research shows. But industries that use or produce the metal are downplaying the risks in a battle with the EPA."
Source: Grist, 08/30/2023"Offshore Wind Auction for the Gulf of Mexico Gets a Tepid Response"
"The first auction of leases for wind farms in the Gulf of Mexico, which the Biden administration had heralded as part of its effort to expand clean energy, ended on Tuesday with just one of three available tracts sold."
Source: NYTimes, 08/30/2023"Why Climate Denial Could Still Be Taught At Texas Schools"
"PragerU doesn’t need official approval to spread climate denial in public schools, a Texas State Teachers Association representative tells HEATED."
Source: HEATED, 08/30/2023"3M's $10.3 Billion PFAS Settlement Gets Preliminary Approval"
"3M on Tuesday secured preliminary approval for a $10.3 billion deal resolving claims by U.S. public water providers that the company polluted drinking water with toxic chemicals, less than a day after a group of 22 U.S. states and territories dropped their objections to the deal."
Source: Reuters, 08/30/2023Study: Damage Would Cost Corporations 44% If They Paid For Their Emissions
"The world’s corporations produce so much climate change pollution, it could eat up about 44% of their profits if they had to pay damages for it, according to a study by economists of nearly 15,000 public companies."
Source: AP, 08/30/2023
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