"Climate Finance Outcome at COP29 Still in Doubt"
"Countries are wrangling over who gets money, who will pay and whether debt relief will be part of the package."
Source: Inside Climate News, 11/21/2024
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Human-Caused Warming Intensified All 11 Atlantic Hurricanes In 2024
"Human-caused climate change boosted the wind speeds of recent Atlantic hurricanes, making them more damaging and costly, according to a pair of scientific reports released today."
Source: Yale Climate Connections, 11/21/2024"Huge Gas Plant Eyed To Power Mystery $5B Louisiana Data Center"
"Entergy proposes a new $3.2 billion natural gas plant to run a ‘game changing’ data center in northeast Louisiana; critics question the move"
Source: Floodlight, 11/21/2024Five Firms In Alliance ‘Made 1,000 Times More Plastic Than They Cleaned Up’
"Oil and chemical companies who created a high-profile alliance to end plastic pollution have produced 1,000 times more new plastic in five years than the waste they diverted from the environment, according to new data obtained by Greenpeace."
Source: Guardian, 11/21/2024"Protect This Place: Ladakh, the Planet’s ‘Third Pole’"
"Home to glaciers, snow leopards, and rich human cultures, Ladakh suffers from a lack of political representation, which has inspired recent protests."
Source: The Revelator, 11/21/2024"Biden Administration Requesting Roughly $100 Billion For Disaster Relief"
"The Biden administration is sending a roughly $100 billion request to Congress to help Americans impacted by a series of major and record-breaking natural disasters in 2023 and 2024, including Hurricanes Helene and Milton, calling on lawmakers to pass the needed relief with “bipartisan and bicameral support.”"
Source: CNN, 11/20/2024‘Bomb Cyclone’ Kills 1 And Knocks Out Power Across The Northwest US
"A major storm swept across the northwest U.S., battering the region with strong winds and rain, causing widespread power outages and downing trees that killed at least one person."
Source: AP, 11/20/2024"Trump Threatens New York Times, Penguin Random House over Critical Coverage"
"The letter, addressed to lawyers at the New York Times and Penguin Random House, arrived a week before the election. Attached was a discursive ten-page legal threat from an attorney for Donald Trump that demanded $10 billion in damages over “false and defamatory statements” contained in articles by Peter Baker, Michael S. Schmidt, Susanne Craig, and Russ Buettner."
Source: Columbia Journalism Review, 11/20/2024"The US No Longer Supports Capping Plastic Production In UN Treaty"
"The Biden administration has backtracked from supporting a cap on plastic production as part of the United Nations’ global plastics treaty."
Source: Grist, 11/20/2024Canada Helped Fossil Companies Improve Global ‘Perception’ Of Oilsands
"As this year’s United Nations climate summit hits the halfway mark, newly obtained documents show how the Liberal government gave Canada’s oil and gas lobbyists a platform to polish the sector’s reputation at the same event in 2022. Days later, the same government began a process of cracking down on misleading environmental messaging."
Source: The Narwhal, 11/20/2024"Despite Critics, Organic Farming Thrives In Heart Of US Corn Country"
"With just shy of 800 residents, West Bend, Iowa is barely a blip on a prairie landscape, but it has become home base for an uncommonly large expanse of organically grown crops- operations that have found success in challenging the popular convention that pesticides and other agricultural chemicals are needed to feed the world."
Source: The New Lede, 11/20/2024"Granholm Warns That Cutting EV Tax Credits Would Be ‘Ceding’ To China"
"Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm warned Friday that President-elect Trump’s reported plans to cut consumer subsidies for electric vehicles (EVs) would benefit China."
Source: The Hill, 11/20/2024"Lee To Lead Senate Energy Committee Next Year"
"Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) will lead the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee next year. He’ll take over for the panel’s current top Republican, Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), who will become the upper chamber’s No. 2 Republican next year."
Source: The Hill, 11/20/2024"17,000 Axis Deer Were Killed On Maui This Year, But They Just Keep Coming"
"About 50 axis deer crowded around the fence line separating Maui Nui Botanical Gardens and Keopuolani Regional Park, startling the gardens staff on a recent Thursday afternoon. The threat posed by the invasive deer was alarming because the gardens serve as a seed bank and are home to some of Hawaii’s rarest endemic and native plants."
Source: Honolulu Civil Beat, 11/20/2024"Drought Is an Immigration Issue"
"In Mexico, the conditions that have contributed to the largest sustained movement of humans across any border in the world will get only more common. This spring, at the start of the corn-growing season, 76 percent of Mexico was in drought, and the country was sweltering under a deadly heat dome."
Source: Atlantic, 11/20/2024
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