"Greenland Votes to Move Whaling Away from Tourists’ Eyes"
"In a bid to boost the whale watching economy, a new law bars Greenlanders from taking humpback whales near the capital."
Source: Hakai, 05/21/2021
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"White House Brings Back Climate Scientist Forced Out By Trump Admin"
"The Biden administration has reinstalled the director of the federal climate program that produces the U.S. government’s definitive reports on climate change, after the Trump administration removed him in November."
Source: Washington Post, 05/20/2021"Banks Always Backed Fossil Fuel Over Green Projects — Until This Year"
"In more than five years since the world agreed to limit warming temperatures, banks have poured more than $3.6 trillion into fossil fuel—almost three times more than total bonds and loans backing green projects, according to Bloomberg data. Now this enduring disparity favoring oil, gas and coal producers might finally be at an end."
Source: Bloomberg Green, 05/20/2021"Biden’s Climate Chops Face A Big Test On Old-Growth Forests"
"As the administration lays out an aggressive climate and conservation agenda, the Forest Service has primed logging projects in carbon-rich forests."
Source: HuffPost, 05/20/2021Planting A Million Trees In Semi-Arid Desert To Combat Climate Change
"Tucson's ambitious tree planting goal aims to improve the health of residents, wildlife, and the watershed."
Source: Daily Climate, 05/20/2021"Project Reviews May Include Environmental Justice, CEQ Head Says"
"A potential Biden administration rewrite of Trump-era restrictions on project reviews could include new language on environmental justice, a White House official said Wednesday."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 05/20/2021"Metal Shredding Firm Sues Chicago Over Operating Permit"
"The owner of a metal-shredding facility is asking a federal court to force the city of Chicago to issue a permit that would allow the company to open a facility in a Southeast Side neighborhood."
Source: AP, 05/20/2021"Protected Areas Cover A Sixth Of Earth’s Land And Freshwater"
"Roughly a sixth of the planet’s land and freshwater area now lies within protected or conservation areas, according to a United Nations report released Wednesday."
Source: AP, 05/20/2021"'Free-For-All' Used Car Export Threatens Climate Goals"
"Replacing gasoline cars with electric vehicles is a pillar of President Biden's strategy for tackling climate change. But even if the administration sets a deadline to sunset sales of gas-powered passenger vehicles, the export of used cars abroad could stall the global reductions needed to stave off catastrophic warming."
Source: E&E News, 05/20/2021"Intruder Pests May Drain Trillions From Africa’s Economies, Study Finds"
"The financial burdens caused by invasive pests and plants in Africa may total more than $3.5 trillion per year, according to a study published Thursday."
Source: NYTimes, 05/20/2021"Overwintering 'Zombie' Fires May Become More Common As Climate Changes"
"In the boreal forests of the planet’s far north, where the climate is warming faster than almost anywhere else in the world, some wildfires are surviving winter snows and sparking back up again in spring."
Source: Reuters, 05/20/2021"Biden Makes Electric Pitch At Ford Plant: 'There's No Turning Back'"
"Visiting the Ford Motor Co. Rouge Electric Vehicle Center Tuesday, President Joe Biden presented an American auto industry at a crossroads, forced to choose between two options: Spend around $174 billion and speed ahead to dominate the burgeoning electric vehicle market, or cede the race to China."
Source: Detroit News, 05/19/2021"Nations Must Drop Fossil Fuels, Fast, World Energy Body Warns"
"Nations around the world would need to immediately stop approving new coal-fired power plants and new oil and gas fields and quickly phase out gasoline-powered vehicles if they want to avert the most catastrophic effects of climate change, the world’s leading energy agency said Tuesday."
Source: NYTimes, 05/19/2021"Top Interior Lawyer Nominee Quizzed Over Public Records Law"
"Acting Solicitor of the Department of the Interior Robert Anderson was pressed by members of both parties Tuesday over how he would handle public records requests if confirmed to the position on a permanent basis."
Source: The Hill, 05/19/2021"Kerry Says US Examining Carbon Border Tax, Sees Risks"
"U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said Tuesday that Washington is looking into the possibility of introducing a fee on imports from countries that don’t tax heavy polluters, but he cautioned that such a move could carry risks “downstream.”
Source: AP, 05/19/2021
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