"Bringing Beavers Back To The Beaver State"
"Oregon tribes are reintroducing a species that creates important habitat for First Foods. But the Beaver State's laws don't work in the animal's favor."
Source: Underscore.News, 05/05/2021
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"EPA Hits Troubled Virgin Islands Oil Refinery With A Violation Notice"
"A giant oil and gas refinery was served with a “notice of violation” by the Environmental Protection Agency following two major accidents that released noxious fumes and a chemical-filled vapor cloud over nearby neighborhoods in the U.S. Virgin Islands."
Source: Washington Post, 05/04/2021"Memphis Pipeline Faces Environmental Justice Reckoning"
"Brad Robinson's eyes roll upward in thought as he counts them out — his mother, father, grandmother, his father-in-law and more. 'All of 'em,' he said. 'Died of cancer, and we never knew why.'"
Source: E&E News, 05/04/2021"Leaked Docs: Gas Industry Secretly Fights Electrification"
"In public, Eversource Energy likes to tout its carbon neutrality goals and its investments in offshore wind. But officials from New England's largest utility struck a different tone during an industry presentation in mid-March. Instead of advocating for lower emissions, company officials outlined a defensive strategy for preserving the use of natural gas for years to come."
Source: E&E News, 05/04/2021"A Growing Summertime Risk for Cities: Power Failures During Heat Waves"
"The growing risk of overlapping heat waves and power failures poses a severe threat that major American cities are not prepared for, new research suggests."
Source: NYTimes, 05/04/2021"U.S. Approves Massive Solar Project In California Desert"
"The Biden administration on Monday said it has approved a major solar energy project in the California desert that will be capable of powering nearly 90,000 homes."
Source: Reuters, 05/04/2021"California Senator Seeks Expansion Of Land, Water Protection"
"California Sen. Alex Padilla on Monday proposed a vast expansion of government protection for public lands and rivers that he said would fight climate change and safeguard natural treasures for generations to come."
Source: AP, 05/04/2021Environmentalists Sue Army Corps Of Engineers Over Pipeline Permitting
"A coalition of five environmental groups on Monday sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, saying the corps did not properly analyze environmental impacts when issuing a broad pipeline permit."
Source: The Hill, 05/04/2021"Biden Plan to Boost Public Transit Funding: Visionary or Wasteful?"
"If President Joe Biden gets his way, the federal government will double public transit funding in the coming years. He sees it as an essential part of his proposed $2 trillion infrastructure package: a way to reduce traffic congestion, improve air quality and meet rider demand."
Source: Pew/Stateline, 05/04/2021"DuPont Loses Plastic Pollution Vote With Record 81% Rebellion"
"An overwhelming majority of DuPont de Nemours Inc. investors voted in favor of a proposal calling for more transparency on pollution, rebuffing the chemical giant’s management at its annual meeting."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 05/04/2021"Breeding Sea Stars in a Lab to Rehabilitate Warming Oceans"
"In an island laboratory off the coast of Washington State, scientists are bringing back to life a gorgeously ferocious predator that suddenly perished amid a climate change-driven marine heat wave seven years ago." "Climate change helped to kill most of the world’s sunflower sea stars. Resurrecting them could revive carbon dioxide-sequestering kelp forests."
Source: Bloomberg Green, 05/04/2021"E.P.A. to Announce Phase-Down of Powerful Greenhouse Gases"
"The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday will take its first significant step to curb climate change, an agency spokesman confirmed, moving to phase down chemicals used in refrigeration and air-conditioning that are thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide at warming the planet."
Source: NYTimes, 05/03/2021"California Lawmakers Seek Cleanup of Old Dumped DDT Barrels"
"California lawmakers are urging federal officials and Congress to act after researchers mapped what appeared to be more than 25,000 barrels dumped in an area off the coast of Los Angeles known for DDT contamination."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 05/03/2021Forest Offsets Actually Adding Millions of Tons of CO2 Into Atmosphere
"Along the coast of Northern California near the Oregon border, the cool, moist air off the Pacific sustains a strip of temperate rainforests. Soaring redwoods and Douglas firs dominate these thick, wet woodlands, creating a canopy hundreds of feet high. But if you travel inland the mix of trees gradually shifts."
Source: ProPublica/MIT, 05/03/2021"RIP Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, 1962-2021"
"New York’s Indian Point Energy Center, a nuclear power plant 35 miles (57 kilometers) from the heart of Times Square, shut down its last reactor on Friday."
Source: Earther, 05/03/2021
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