"Mosquito Season Has Gotten A Month Longer In Some Places"
"As the climate warms, mosquito-swatting season is getting longer in many parts of the country."
Source: YaleE360, 08/15/2023
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"The Clean Energy Future Is Arriving Faster Than You Think"
"Across the country, a profound shift is taking place that is nearly invisible to most Americans. The nation that burned coal, oil and gas for more than a century to become the richest economy on the planet, as well as historically the most polluting, is rapidly shifting away from fossil fuels."
Source: NYTimes, 08/15/2023"DOE Rule Would Permit Power Lines Quickly"
"The Biden administration proposed a rule Thursday to streamline the federal permitting process for major transmission lines, a move that could help transform the grid and bring renewable energy online faster."
Source: E&E News, 08/15/2023"US Appeals Court Rejects Challenge To Mountain Valley Pipeline"
"A U.S. appeals court on Friday rejected a challenge to federal approvals for the Mountain Valley Pipeline, in a decision that likely ends legal fights over the construction of the $6.6 billion natural gas project led by Equitrans Midstream."
Source: Reuters, 08/15/2023Survival of Wild Rice Threatened by Climate Change, Increased Rainfall
"Low water levels are critical for manoomin, a sacred crop for the Ojibwe people of the Great Lakes region. But climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels is bringing more rain and flooding to Minnesota and the Upper Midwest, making harvests of wild rice less reliable."
Source: Sahan Journal, 08/15/2023"Texas’ Brazos River, Captive and Contaminated"
"Dow-Freeport, the largest chemical plant complex in the Western Hemisphere, dominates—and pollutes—the Lower Brazos Watershed."
Source: Texas Observer, 08/15/2023Off Alaska Coast, Research Crew Peers Down To Map Deep And Remote Ocean
"For the team aboard the Okeanos Explorer off the coast of Alaska, exploring the mounds and craters of the sea floor along the Aleutian Islands is a chance to surface new knowledge about life in some of the world’s deepest and most remote waters."
Source: AP, 08/15/2023"After Maui Wildfires Kill 96, Search For The Missing Continues"
"The death toll from the Maui wildfires reached 96 on Sunday as relatives of the missing frantically searched for signs their loved ones may still be alive, while survivors grappled with the scale of the disaster and sought solace at church services."
Source: Reuters, 08/14/2023"Raid of Small Kansas Newspaper Raises Free Press Concerns"
"A small town in Kansas has become a battleground over the First Amendment, after the local police force and county sheriff’s deputies raided the office of The Marion County Record." "The search of Marion County Record’s office led to the seizure of computers, servers and cellphones of reporters and editors."
Source: NYTimes, 08/14/2023"Louisiana Created Alleged Conflict Of Interest In ‘Cancer Alley’ Case"
"Facing a pivotal federal investigation into Louisiana’s relationship with petro-chemical companies, the state’s attorney general hired lawyers who were simultaneously representing one of the main corporations at the center of the investigation, documents reveal."
Source: Guardian, 08/14/2023"Mi’kmaw Nation, Lobster Harvesters Suing Feds For Treaty Violations"
"Mi’kmaw has a treaty right to earn a moderate livelihood from the fishery. It’s a right that was enforced by the Supreme Court of Canada. But Canada hasn’t moved to protect those rights – or fishers from benefiting from them".
Source: APTN, 08/14/2023"EPA Launches Civil Rights Probe Over Calif. Water Fight"
"EPA is probing California’s water department over accusations of discrimination against Native tribes and people of color, launching a significant environmental justice investigation that could affect how the state oversees water."
Source: E&E News, 08/14/2023"We're In For An 'Above Average' Atlantic Hurricane Season, NOAA Predicts"
"The rest of the 2023 hurricane season will be busier than previously thought, according to new projections from the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)."
Source: Earther, 08/14/2023"Playing Matchmaker for Corals"
"Along Florida’s coast, multiple coral restoration projects have hundreds of people painstakingly attaching thousands of coral fragments to acres of endangered reefs. These efforts are yielding impressive results, but they won’t be enough — especially now, in the face of unprecedented high sea temperatures, as some projects scramble to rescue corals from in-water nurseries."
Source: The Revelator, 08/14/2023"South Korean Activists Protest Against Fukushima Water Discharge"
"Hundreds of South Korean activists gathered in central Seoul on Saturday to protest against Japan's plan to release treated radioactive water from the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean."
Source: Reuters, 08/14/2023
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