"The Coming Age of Climate Trauma"
"Three years after a devastating wildfire, a California community faces another crisis: PTSD. Is what’s happening there a warning to the rest of us?"
Source: Washington Post Magazine, 11/01/2021
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"Climate Change Became the Largest Part of Biden Spending Bill"
"Climate has emerged as the single largest category in President Biden’s new framework for a huge spending bill, placing global warming at the center of his party’s domestic agenda in a way that was hard to imagine just a few years ago."
Source: NYTimes, 10/29/2021"Dems, Oil Execs Clash At Hearing: ‘They Are Obviously Lying’"
"Minutes into the questioning of oil company executives at a hearing on climate disinformation this morning, House Oversight and Reform Chair Carolyn Maloney suggested the head of Exxon Mobil Corp. had perjured himself."
Source: E&E News, 10/29/2021"China’s New Climate Pledge Changes Little, in Bad Omen for Global Talks"
"China’s updated targets for cutting emissions to fight climate change reiterate what its leader pledged nearly a year ago. That doesn’t bode well for progress at next week’s global climate summit."
Source: NYTimes, 10/29/2021Brazil's Greenhouse Emissions Rose 9.5% In 2020 With Amazon Deforestation
"Brazil’s greenhouse gas emissions increased by 9.5% in 2020 largely due to increased deforestation in the Amazon during the second year of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s government, said a report published on Thursday by climate change experts."
Source: Reuters, 10/29/2021"Forced Relocation Left Native Americans More Exposed to Climate Threats"
"Centuries of land loss and forced relocation have left Native Americans significantly more exposed to the effects of climate change, new data show, adding to the debate over how to address climate change and racial inequity in the United States."
Source: NYTimes, 10/29/2021Enviros Petition EPA To Rescind Factory Farms’ “Free Pass To Pollute”
"A coalition of environmental and animal rights groups petitioned the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday to abandon a "sweetheart" deal with factory farm owners—and start enforcing air pollution regulations."
Source: EHN, 10/29/2021"EPA Unveils Strategy For Reducing Lead Exposure"
"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday announced a revised strategy for reducing lead exposure, with a focus on communities that have had a disproportionate amount.
The draft plan would focus on identifying communities with especially high levels of both lead exposure and blood lead levels. The agency would next develop national standards and guidance to address those exposures and enforce existing regulations.
Source: The Hill, 10/29/2021"What a $2B Texas Project Says About U.S. Quest For CO2-Free Grid"
"After a dozen years, multiple energy crises, regulatory delays and political turnover, construction of a novel 400-mile power line connecting Texas to the Southeast is finally within sight."
Source: E&E News, 10/29/2021"What Is COP26 and Why Is It Important?"
"Answers to all your questions about COP26 Glasgow, the world's most important and confusing climate conference."
Source: Earther, 10/29/2021‘We Can’t Live Like This’: Climate Shocks Rain On Honduras’s Poorest
"Rural communities like Chapagua that have done least to stoke the climate crisis barely have time to recover from one disaster before another hits".
Source: Guardian, 10/29/2021Big Oil Uses Newsletter Ads to Spread Misinformation Ahead of Hearing
"On Thursday, a cadre of Big Oil CEOs will testify at a high-profile Congressional hearing examining whether their companies engaged in a campaign to mislead the public about climate change. In the run-up to that hearing, those same Big Oil companies have been running ads to mislead the public about climate change in the nation’s most popular political newsletters."
Source: Earther/HEATED, 10/28/2021Putin Pledges Carbon Neutrality By 2060 -- Claims Forests Will Do Job
"Even as large swaths of the Siberian forest have burned in wildfires — made increasingly worse by climate change — the Kremlin has focused its strategy to slash emissions on the region’s trees."
Source: Washington Post, 10/28/2021‘Not a Solution Itself’: India Questions Net Zero Targets Ahead of COP26
"Setting net zero carbon emissions targets is not the solution to climate change, India’s federal environment minister said days before world leaders meet at the Cop26 climate summit."
Source: Guardian, 10/28/2021"Release of EPA Methane Rules Expected This Week"
"EPA is preparing to release two new draft rules this week that could dramatically reduce the role that oil and gas production plays in driving climate change."
Source: E&E News, 10/28/2021
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