"Why Are People Living Near Dutch Goat Farms Getting Sick?"
"A decade after an outbreak of Q fever killed 95 people in the Netherlands, scientists fear the emergence of a new disease",
Source: Guardian, 01/22/2021
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"Biden, in a Burst of Climate Orders, Rejoins the Paris Agreement"
"President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Wednesday recommitted the United States to the Paris climate agreement, the international accord designed to avert catastrophic global warming, and ordered federal agencies to start reviewing and reinstating more than 100 environmental regulations that were weakened or rolled back by former President Donald J. Trump."
Source: NYTimes, 01/21/2021"Keystone Rejection Tests Trudeau’s Balancing Act on Climate and Energy"
"While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shares the incoming president’s climate change agenda, the Canadian leader is also a pipeline proponent."
Source: NYTimes, 01/21/2021US, Canada Underestimating Climate Risk From Abandoned Oil And Gas Wells
"Methane leaking out of the more than 4 million abandoned oil and gas wells in the United States and Canada is a far greater contributor to climate change than government estimates suggest, researchers from McGill University said on Wednesday."
Source: Reuters, 01/21/2021Bernhardt Rescinds Wilderness Protection Order Before Leaving Office
"As one of his last official acts in the Trump administration, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt rescinded an Obama-era order that directs the department to protect wilderness areas."
Source: The Hill, 01/21/2021"Senate Power-Sharing Talks Hits Filibuster Snag"
"Senate leaders negotiating a power-sharing agreement to govern the evenly split chamber in the 117th Congress are at odds over the filibuster, as the impeachment trial for President Trump continues to hang over President-elect Joe Biden's early agenda."
Source: E&E News, 01/21/2021"Grim Prospects for Drilling on Arctic Leases Despite Trump Push"
"Donald Trump pushed through controversial oil leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as one of his last acts as president—but legal observers say the chance that oil development actually proceeds there is slim."
Source: Bloomberg, 01/21/202115 States Sue EPA Over Decision Not To Tighten Pollution Standard For Smog
"Fifteen states and two cities sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Tuesday for declining to tighten air quality standards for ozone pollution, the main ingredient in smog."
Source: The Hill, 01/21/2021"Path to Biden’s Green Buying Pledge Runs Through Obama Policies"
"President Joe Biden‘s most potent weapon for making climate change a priority for companies and federal officials may already be in his arsenal as chief executive: the country’s roughly $600 billion annual procurement budget."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 01/21/2021"Northwest’s Salmon Population May Be Running Out of Time"
"A Washington State report put it bluntly: Because of the devastating effects of climate change and deteriorating habitats, several species of salmon in the Pacific Northwest are “on the brink of extinction.”"
Source: NYTimes, 01/21/2021"Electric Car Batteries With Five-Minute Charging Times Produced"
"Batteries capable of fully charging in five minutes have been produced in a factory for the first time, marking a significant step towards electric cars becoming as fast to charge as filling up petrol or diesel vehicles."
Source: Guardian, 01/21/2021"Court Voids a ‘Tortured’ Trump Climate Rollback"
"A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down the Trump administration’s plan to relax restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, paving the way for President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. to enact new and stronger restrictions on power plants."
Source: NYTimes, 01/20/2021"Gina McCarthy Outlines Biden's First Climate Actions"
"Joe Biden will spend his first hours as president trying to obliterate much of the Trump administration's deregulatory agenda, restore public land protections and reestablish the United States as a global leader on climate change policy."
Source: E&E News, 01/20/2021Biden to Cancel Keystone XL Pipeline in Inauguration Day Executive Order
"President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is expected to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline permit on his first day in office, quickly reversing his predecessor’s approval of a project to move oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico long opposed by environmentalists, according to a person familiar with Mr. Biden’s plans."
Source: NYTimes, 01/20/2021High Court Hears Arguments on Climate Change: State or Fed Jurisdiction?
"Cities, counties and states suing the fossil fuel industry want state courts to award damages. But industry says it’s a federal, if not a global, concern."
Source: Inside Climate News, 01/20/2021
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