"Fossil Fuels v. Our Future: Young Montanans Wage Historic Climate Fight"
"Sixteen young people are suing the state of Montana in what will be the first youth-led climate case to make it to trial".
Source: Guardian, 04/14/2022
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"Biden Will Allow Summertime Sales Of Higher-Ethanol Gas"
"The Environmental Protection Agency will issue a waiver that would allow the blend known as E15 — which is made of 15 percent ethanol — to be used between June 1 and Sept. 15. The White House estimated that approximately 2,300 stations in the country offer the blend and cast the decision as a move toward “energy independence.”"
Source: NYTimes, 04/13/2022Newsom's Wildfire-Prevention Program Hasn't Completed a Single Project
"In the foothills of Mendocino County, where stretches of flat grazing land give way to thick brush and towering conifers, sits the community of Brooktrails. Idyllic, picturesque — and primed for burning."
Source: KQED, 04/13/2022"Backed-Up Pipes, Stinky Yards: Climate Change Is Wrecking Septic Tanks"
"Lewis Lawrence likes to refer to the coastal middle peninsula of Virginia as suffering from a “soggy socks” problem. Flooding is so persistent that people often can’t walk around without getting their feet wet."
Source: Washington Post, 04/13/2022"New Sanctions Deal Fatal Blow to Russia's Arctic LNG"
"The EU’s fifth round of sanctions against Russia following the its attack on Ukraine will hit hard on the country’s energy industry."
Source: Barents Observer, 04/13/2022"Pouring It On: Climate Change Made 2020 Hurricanes Rainier"
"Climate change made the record-smashing deadly 2020 Atlantic hurricane season noticeably wetter, a new study says. And it will likely make this season rainier, too, scientists said."
Source: AP, 04/13/2022"California Utility To Pay $55 Million For Massive Wildfires"
"Pacific Gas & Electric, the nation’s largest utility, has agreed to pay more than $55 million to avoid criminal prosecution for two major wildfires sparked by its aging Northern California power lines and submit to five years of oversight in an attempt to prevent more deadly blazes."
Source: AP, 04/13/2022"Global Warming Drove a Deadly Burst of Indian Ocean Tropical Storms"
"Global warming supercharged one of the most destructive tropical storm seasons on record in the South Indian Ocean, an international science team said on Monday."
Source: Inside Climate News, 04/13/2022"A ‘Silent Victim’: How Nature Becomes a Casualty of War"
"The Black Sea Biosphere Reserve, on the southern coast of Ukraine, is a haven for migrating birds. More than 120,000 birds spend the winter flitting about its shores, and a multicolored spectrum of rare species — the white-tailed eagle, red-breasted merganser and black-winged stilt, to name just a few — nest among its protected waters and wetlands."
Source: NYTimes, 04/13/2022Back From The Dead? Elusive Ivory-Bill Woodpecker Not Extinct: Researchers
"In terms of elusiveness, it is the Bigfoot or Loch Ness monster of the bird world, so rare and undetectable that the US government declared it extinct last year. But the ivory-bill woodpecker is, in fact, still alive and pecking in the forests of Louisiana, a team of researchers has claimed."
Source: Guardian, 04/13/2022"An Ocean Of Noise: How Sonic Pollution Is Hurting Marine Life"
"Today’s oceans are a tumult of engine roar, artificial sonar and seismic blasts that make it impossible for marine creatures to hunt or communicate. We could make it stop, so why don’t we?"
Source: Guardian, 04/13/2022In Iowa Trip, Biden Will Announce That E15 Gas To Be Sold This Summer
"President Biden will announce today that his administration will temporarily allow E15 gasoline — gasoline that uses a 15 percent ethanol blend that is typically banned from sale from June to September — to be sold this summer."
Source: NPR, 04/12/2022"Majorities in US Back Climate Change Proposals: Gallup"
"The majority of Americans are in favor of six recent climate change proposals from the Biden administration, according to the annual Gallup environment poll released Monday."
Source: The Hill, 04/12/2022"White House Launches $1B Program To Boost Conservation Goal"
"The Biden administration has launched a $1 billion program to advance its goal of conserving 30% of the nation’s lands and waters by 2030." "The program will allow states, tribes and NGOs to access numerous federal conservation and restoration grants all in one place."
Source: HuffPost, 04/12/2022"Rural Arizonans Might Gain Protection of Their Groundwater This Year
"Residents in the Sulphur Springs Valley in southeastern Arizona are tired of waiting for the state legislature to protect groundwater in rural Arizona, where water security is increasingly at risk from over-pumping and a longstanding drought."
Source: Inside Climate News, 04/12/2022
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