"State And Federal Funds Fuel More Wildlife Crossings"
"Wildlife crossings are getting more go signs, on Capitol Hill and beyond."
Source: E&E News, 02/21/2023
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Pythons Snacking on GPS-Wearing Opossums That Give Up Their Locations
"After nearly five months of waiting, an alarm activated on Michael Cove’s radio, a sign his study was working. To hunt pythons, an invasive predator in the Florida Keys, Cove and fellow researchers have been strapping GPS collars to opossums and raccoons."
Source: Washington Post, 02/21/2023"UN Ocean Treaty Talks Resume With Goal To Save Biodiversity"
"United Nations members gather Monday in New York to resume efforts to forge a long-awaited and elusive treaty to safeguard the world’s marine biodiversity."
Source: AP, 02/20/2023"Before Ohio Derailment, Norfolk Southern Lobbied Against Safety Rules"
"The Trump administration abandoned rail safety rules that were pursued during the Obama era. The Biden administration is trying to revive some of them."
Source: Washington Post, 02/20/2023"Biden E.P.A. Reinstates Mercury Limits Weakened Under Trump"
"The Biden administration on Friday restored the legal foundation of an Obama-era regulation governing mercury, a pollutant from power plants that can damage brain development in babies and cause heart disease in adults."
Source: NYTimes, 02/20/2023"Scientists Examine Dangerous Global Warming ‘Accelerators’"
"Recent climate projections may be underestimating the pace of global warming in an atmosphere damaged by greenhouse gas emissions, because the interaction of powerful climate feedback loops that can accelerate warming are not well-represented in key climate models, an international team of scientists concluded in a study published today in the journal One Earth. "
Source: Inside Climate News, 02/20/2023Climate Change Is Making Tampons (and Lots of Other Stuff) More Expensive
"Cotton farmers in Texas suffered record losses amid heat and drought last year, new data shows. It’s an example of how global warming is a “secret driver of inflation.”"
Source: NYTimes, 02/20/2023Group Is Spreading Misinformation To Stop Solar Projects In Rural America
"Roger Houser's ranching business was getting squeezed. The calves he raises in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley were selling for about the same price they had a few years earlier, while costs for essentials like fuel and fertilizer kept going up. But Houser found another use for his 500 acres."
Source: Floodlight/NPR, 02/20/2023"Water Utilities Brace for Imminent EPA Proposal on PFAS in Water"
"Drinking water systems are preparing for the possibility that the EPA will try to codify its 2022 health advisories suggesting no amount of PFAS substances are safe, water attorneys say."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 02/20/2023"Paleotsunami Detectives Hunt for Ancient Disasters"
"Gigantic tsunamis have been decimating coastlines since time immemorial. We ignore these prehistoric warnings at our own peril."
Source: Hakai, 02/20/2023"A Dance Of Hope By Children Who Scavenge Coal"
"Before sunset, in the 110-square-mile mining region of Jharia in eastern India, an ensemble of girls dances near an opencast coal mine. Come sunrise, they'll be back at the mines for another reason: survival."
Source: NPR, 02/20/2023"Two Evangelical Leaders on ‘Radical Faith’"
"With a focus on issues normally considered progressive, the Revs. Jim Wallis and Kyle Meyaard-Schaap hope to expand the evangelical political imagination."
Source: NYTimes, 02/20/2023"Governments Spent Record $1 Trillion Last Year Subsidizing Fossil Fuels"
"Even as global governments raise their ambitions to cut fossil fuels in the future, they spent a record $1 trillion last year subsidizing energy sources that are the main driver of climate change."
Source: Bloomberg Green, 02/17/2023Feds Send Help After Ohio Derailment, but Residents’ Frustrations Persist
"A visit to East Palestine from the head of the E.P.A. and a White House pledge to lend more support were met with skepticism in the community."
Source: NYTimes, 02/17/2023"Two Dozen Republican-Led States Sue EPA Over Water Protection Rule"
"A group of 24 Republican-led states is suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to try to knock down a rule governing which waters get federal protections."
Source: The Hill, 02/17/2023
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