"From E. Coli to Flesh-Eating Bacteria, Floodwaters Are a Health Nightmare"
"Floodwater often contains pollutants and pathogens that can sicken and kill people in the aftermath of a storm."
Source: Earther, 10/26/2022
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"Rich Countries Keep Funding Our Demise"
"The most powerful countries in the world keep ratcheting up public funding for fossil fuel projects and increasing emissions—despite the fact that continued investment in dirty fuels could push us beyond the warming targets laid out in the Paris Agreement."
Source: Earther, 10/26/2022"U.S. Groups Urge Kerry To Back Climate Compensation Fund"
"Over 100 U.S. environmental groups on Monday urged top U.S. climate diplomat John Kerry to support the creation of a fund that would compensate countries that have experienced economic and physical loss from climate change, a key demand of vulnerable countries at the upcoming COP27 climate summit in Egypt."
Source: Reuters, 10/26/2022"Forest Service Backs Arrested ‘Burn Boss’"
"The Forest Service is defending the manager of a prescribed fire that went astray in Oregon, resulting in the employee’s arrest by a local sheriff."
Source: E&E News, 10/26/2022"Opponents Of US Carbon Pipeline Draw Lessons From Prior Pipeline Fights"
"Landowners hoping to block proposed carbon pipeline projects in the U.S. Midwest are getting help from some of America's most prominent anti-pipeline campaigners, including groups that fought the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines."
Source: Reuters, 10/26/2022"Future Of Pipelines, Black School Hinge On Court NEPA Fight"
"An upcoming federal appeals court battle could reset the rules for environmental reviews of major projects like power plants and highways — and determine the fate of a historic Virginia school built to educate Black children during the Jim Crow era."
Source: E&E News, 10/26/2022"‘He’s A Believer’: Will Sunak Rebuild Green Agenda Torn Up By Truss?"
"Environmental groups see new PM as welcome relief but restoring climate credentials will be difficult".
Source: Guardian, 10/25/2022None of 380 Million Tons Of Plastic Made Per Year Is Truly Recyclable
"No plastic is truly recyclable — not even the water bottles and milk jugs that people usually toss into their blue bins."
Source: Grist, 10/25/2022"Cyclone Lashes Bangladesh Killing Nine, Flooding Low-Lying Areas"
"A cyclone roared into the Bangladesh coast on Tuesday, killing at least nine people, destroying houses, uprooting trees and disrupting road, power and communication links, officials said."
Source: Reuters, 10/25/2022Emissions From China-Funded Overseas Coal Plants Equal To Whole Of Spain
"Carbon dioxide emissions from China-invested power plants overseas now stand at an estimated 245 million tonnes per year, about the same as the annual energy-related CO2 emissions from Spain or Thailand, new research showed on Tuesday."
Source: Reuters, 10/25/2022"Deforestation Slowed Last Year — But Not Enough To Meet Climate Goals"
"Countries are failing to meet international targets to stop global forest loss and degradation by 2030, according to a report. It is the first to measure progress since world leaders set the targets last year at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, UK."
Source: Nature, 10/25/2022"‘It’s Like A Death:’ What It’s Like To Leave One Flood-Prone Community"
"SOCASTEE, S.C. — On the day she would finally move to higher ground, Terri Straka awoke in the neighborhood where she had lived for three decades, but a place steadily becoming less recognizable."
Source: Washington Post, 10/25/2022"EPA Details Plan to Improve Long-Criticized New Chemical Reviews"
"The EPA outlined new tools and technology it plans to use to review the risks of new chemicals, part of an effort to address criticism about slow assessments, lack of transparency, and deficient consideration of potential hazards."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 10/25/2022"Cow-Harming ‘Forever Chemicals’ Strain USDA’s Relief Resources"
"Dairy farmer Art Schaap had to watch his cows slowly die for over three years before the federal government paid him for the animals — contaminated with toxic “forever chemicals” from a nearby military base."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 10/25/2022"Western Wildfires Are Making Far Away Storms More Dangerous"
"In late July of 2018, massive wildfires blazed across Northern California. At the same time in Colorado, weather alerts went out warning of heavy thunderstorms and baseball-sized hail. The two disasters were separated by a thousand miles, but scientists are now finding they're connected."
Source: NPR, 10/25/2022
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