"The Barbados Rebellion"
"Caribbean nations are trapped between the global financial system and a looming climate disaster. One country’s leaders have been fighting to find a way out."
Source: NYTimes Magazine, 07/27/2022
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"Papal Visit: 'It's Going To Take A Long Time'"
"The Pope’s apology brings renewed calls for reconciliation, reparations".
Source: ICT, 07/26/2022FPL Secretly Took Over A Florida News Site And Used It To Bash Critics
"When Florida Power & Light faced a spate of bad publicity and political blowback, a small but ambitious news website called the Capitolist sprang to the public utility’s defense."
Source: McClatchy, 07/26/2022Is Calif. Carbon Capture Play a Climate Solution or a Ruse?
"[As Californians] prepare to finalize a state climate plan that relies on CCS technology, some environmentalists are urging officials to abandon the idea. Instead of helping to wean California off fossil fuels, they say CCS will actually increase oil production."
Source: LA Times, 07/26/2022"US To Plant 1 Billion Trees As Climate Change Kills Forests"
"The Biden administration on Monday said the government will plant more than one billion trees across millions of acres of burned and dead woodlands in the U.S. West, as officials struggle to counter the increasing toll on the nation’s forests from wildfires, insects and other manifestations of climate change."
Source: AP, 07/26/2022"Air Conditioning Will Not Save Us"
"It keeps happening. Every summer, unprecedented heat surges through cities across the United States—in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho; in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio; and in Maryland, Virginia, and New Jersey. Last week, a heat wave melted records in Texas with unrelenting highs well into the 100s for days."
Source: TIME, 07/26/2022"Flooding Could Expose Toxic Soil In City Neighborhoods"
"Climate change is surfacing industries’ toxic legacy in marginalized communities."
Source: Center for Public Integrity, 07/26/2022Pa. Just Lost A Key Tool To Address Its Abandoned Oil Well Problem
""It’s a green light for the conventional oil and gas industry to continue to do what they’ve done, which is abandon these wells whenever they feel like it.""
Source: Grist, 07/26/2022Atlanta Superfund Site Leaves Black Neighborhoods Wary of Gentrification
"The EPA wants to test soil for lead contamination in two historically Black neighborhoods on Atlanta’s west side. Residents, eyeing the creep of gentrification, worry that the cleanup is part of an effort to push them out."
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/26/2022"The Audacious PR Plot That Seeded Doubt About Climate Change"
"Thirty years ago, a bold plan was cooked up to spread doubt and persuade the public that climate change was not a problem. The little-known meeting - between some of America's biggest industrial players and a PR genius - forged a devastatingly successful strategy that endured for years, and the consequences of which are all around us."
Source: BBC News, 07/26/2022"There Are 40% More Tigers In The World Than Previously Estimated"
"It's the Year of the Tiger, and a new population assessment offers some hope for the endangered species."
Source: NPR, 07/26/2022"How the Government Is Failing Americans Uprooted by Calamity"
"Two summers ago, Hurricane Laura wrecked Betty Swope’s modest bungalow at the edge of Lake Charles, a city surrounded by oil refineries in southwest Louisiana. The Federal Emergency Management Agency helped at first, paying for Ms. Swope and her son Adrian to stay in hotels, then putting a trailer in their yard and providing about $7,000 toward fixing their house."
Source: NYTimes, 07/25/2022"Crews Protect Homes As California Fire Burns Near Yosemite"
"A destructive wildfire near Yosemite National Park burned out of control through tinder-dry forest on Sunday and had grown into one of California’s biggest blazes of the year, forcing thousands of residents to flee remote mountain communities."
Source: AP, 07/25/2022Epidemiologists Warn U.S. Reaches Critical Moment To Contain Monkeypox
"On the heels of a public health emergency declaration from the World Health Organization, epidemiologists and public health experts warn the U.S. is running out of time to contain a monkeypox outbreak that has infected nearly 3,000 Americans."
Source: NPR, 07/25/2022"Texas Republicans Make Renewable Energy a Political Punching Bag"
"Texas is on a roll—an energy use roll, that is. This week, amid sweltering temperatures, the power demand on the state’s grid soared to an all-time high on Wednesday, reaching 80,000 megawatts of demand. This marks the eleventh time this demand record has been broken this year alone."
Source: Earther, 07/25/2022
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