Climate, Development Pushing Vampire Bats North -- Maybe To Florida
"Vampire bats could soon make their way into the United States from Mexico due to climate change and development, scientists say."
Source: WUSF, 05/26/2021
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As Hurricane Season Looms, Biden Doubles Funding To Prepare For Extremes
"Administration will also launch NASA initiative aimed at collecting better climate data"
"President Biden announced Monday that he was doubling the amount of money the U.S. government will spend helping communities get set for extreme weather events, proclaiming the need for full readiness as he visited government workers and told them to prepare for another season of natural disasters.
Source: Washington Post, 05/25/2021U.S. Environmental Journalist Arrested When Trying To Leave Myanmar
"Danny Fenster, an American journalist working in Myanmar, was detained today by local authorities and prevented from leaving the country."
Source: Mongabay, 05/25/2021"Fighting Attacks on Inconvenient Science — and Scientists"
"The atrazine wars offer a cautionary tale for scientists whose work triggers blowback by regulated industries, and lessons for protecting scientific integrity."
Source: Inside Climate News, 05/25/2021"Top Court Revives Guam’s Superfund Cost Claim Against U.S."
"Guam may pursue a Superfund cost recovery claim against the federal government for a $160 million landfill cleanup as its action was timely, the U.S. Supreme Court said Monday in a significant victory for the territory."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 05/25/2021Okefenokee Swamp a Battlefield in Epic Trump Waters Rule Fight"
"A floating mat of muck on the surface of Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp, home to rare carnivorous pitcher plants, blooming lilies and countless alligators and insects, looks like any other patch of mud from a distance."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 05/25/2021"Pesticides: Trump EPA Dodged Science Policy For Weedkiller"
"Trump EPA officials purposely veered from the agency's principles of scientific integrity to approve continued use of the weedkiller dicamba on genetically modified crops, the agency has admitted."
Source: E&E News, 05/25/2021"Supreme Court: Inside Barrett's Family Ties To Big Oil"
"Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett's father was a highly active and respected member of the American Petroleum Institute for more than two decades, according to interviews with four former colleagues. Michael Coney's time at the powerful oil and gas industry trade group has raised concerns from environmental lawyers about Barrett's participation in a high-profile climate case that the Supreme Court decided last week."
Source: E&E News, 05/25/2021"It’s Crunch Time and Biden’s Climate Gambit Faces Steep Hurdles"
"The linchpin of President Biden’s climate plan faces a perilous path through the Congress, as scientists say nations must move now to aggressively reduce the pollution that is heating the planet and the United States is trying to reassert a leadership role in that global effort."
Source: NYTimes, 05/25/2021"White House: Biden Imposes Flood Standard After Stumbling The First Time"
"When Biden issued an expansive day one executive order on climate change and public health, it included a little-noticed provision that intended to reinstate a flood-mitigation policy that President Obama had established in 2015 and President Trump revoked in 2017."
Source: E&E News, 05/25/2021"Top Climate Scientist Blasts Government Lab After Denier Invited to Speak"
"Ben Santer, one of the nation’s leading climate scientists, said he is cutting ties with a prestigious government-funded laboratory over its plans to invite a scientist who has spread climate denial to speak in a seminar."
Source: Earther, 05/25/2021"In Climate Push, G7 Agrees To Stop International Funding For Coal"
"The world’s seven largest advanced economies agreed on Friday to stop international financing of coal projects that emit carbon by the end of this year, and phase out such support for all fossil fuels, to meet globally agreed climate change targets."
Source: Reuters, 05/24/2021"Biden Says He Won’t Allow His DOJ To Seize Reporters’ Records"
"President Joe Biden on Friday responded to reports that the former administration secretly obtained records belonging to a reporter covering the Pentagon during Donald Trump’s presidency. “Absolutely, positively it’s wrong,” Biden told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins ..."
Source: HuffPost, 05/24/2021Biden Holds Firm On Climate Provisions In Infrastructure Counterproposal
"President Biden is holding firm on energy and climate provisions in the White House infrastructure proposal but has expressed a willingness to cut some research and development funds, according to a memo to Senate Environment Committee ranking member Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) obtained by The Hill."
Source: The Hill, 05/24/2021"Tribe Allowed To Join Mount Rushmore Lawsuit"
"A federal judge will allow a tribe to join legal arguments opposing South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem's efforts to put on a July Fourth fireworks display at Mount Rushmore."
Source: AP, 05/24/2021
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