"Nuclear Power: Downward Trend Ahead Of Climate Summit"
"Ten years since the Fukushima disaster, expensive nuclear energy plants are being shut down across the world as renewable power prices plummet."
Source: DW, 09/29/2021
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DOI Axes Trump Rule That Would Have Made Public Lands Drilling Cheaper
"The Interior Department on Tuesday withdrew a Trump-era rule that was expected to make it cheaper for industry to drill on federally owned lands and in public waters."
Source: The Hill, 09/29/2021"Carbon Offsets Are Growing Fast, But Climate Benefits Remain Murky"
"Over the past couple of years, hundreds of corporations from Amazon to Visa have announced plans to move toward “net-zero” greenhouse gas emissions. Look more closely, though, and the promises also reflect something else: the growing prominence of a controversial environmental accounting tool generally known as “carbon offsets,” or “carbon credits.”"
Source: Christian Science Monitor, 09/29/2021"US Says Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, 22 Other Species Extinct"
"Death’s come knocking a last time for the splendid ivory-billed woodpecker and 22 more birds, fish and other species: The U.S. government is declaring them extinct."
Source: AP, 09/29/2021"Dangerous Air: As California Burns, America Breathes Toxic Smoke"
"Western wildfires pose a much broader threat to human health than to just those forced to evacuate the path of the blazes."
Source: NPR, 09/29/2021"Ahead Of Winter Hibernation, Alaska Celebrates Fat Bear Week"
"In Alaska, leaves are falling, daylight is dwindling and salmon-devouring brown bears are racing the clock to pack on the pounds they need to survive their winter hibernation. Unbeknownst to the enormous bruins, some of them are also competing in Katmai National Park and Preserve's Fat Bear Week, Alaska's annual celebration of gluttony and nature's abundance."
Source: Reuters, 09/29/2021"Climate Plans In Flux As Democrats Eye Reconciliation Deal"
"House Democratic leaders continued to project outward confidence last night they’ll be able to reach an agreement with the Senate by Thursday on a massive spending package, despite a litany of outstanding policy differences related to climate and continued clashes over the current $3.5 trillion top-line number."
Source: E&E News, 09/28/2021"Ford Unveils Record $11B Bet On Sprawling EV Factories"
"Ford Motor Co. said it would go big on electric vehicles and last night explained what that means: two new factories in the Southeast to make legions of batteries and up to a million electric pickup trucks a year."
Source: E&E News, 09/28/2021"PennEast Becomes The Latest To Scuttle A Natural Gas Pipeline Project"
"PennEast Pipeline said on Monday it would stop developing a proposed pipeline from Pennsylvania to New Jersey, the latest in a series of natural gas lines to run aground due to legal and regulatory challenges."
Source: Reuters, 09/28/202121 States Urge EPA To Toughen Vehicle Emissions Rewrite
"A group of 21 state attorneys general, the District of Columbia, and several major U.S. cities urged the Biden administration to finalize significantly stricter vehicle emissions rules than it has proposed."
Source: Reuters, 09/28/2021"Almost Half A Million US Households Lack Indoor Plumbing"
"Renters and people of color are most likely to be living without water or flushing toilets in some of America’s wealthiest cities, new research shows".
Source: Guardian, 09/28/2021"Landsat-9: 'Satellite Of Record' Launches To Picture Earth"
"What is arguably the world's most important satellite has launched to orbit from California. Landsat-9 is the continuation of a series of Earth-observing spacecraft stretching back almost 50 years."
Source: BBC News, 09/28/2021Race To The Bottom: Disastrous Blindfolded Rush To Mine The Deep Sea
"One of the largest mining operations ever seen on Earth aims to despoil an ocean we are only barely beginning to understand".
Source: Guardian, 09/28/2021"The ‘Burn Scars’ of Wildfires Threaten the West’s Drinking Water"
"Colorado saw its worst fire season last year, with the three largest fires in state history and more than 600,000 acres burned. But some of the effects didn’t appear until this July, when heavy rain pushed sediment from damaged forests down mountainsides, causing mudslides that shut down sections of Interstate 70 for almost two weeks."
Source: Kaiser Health News, 09/28/2021"Exxon’s Secret Assist From the World’s Top PR Firm"
"A new report says that Edelman, the world’s largest independent PR company, has been working on an Exxon ad campaign to oppose climate regulations."
Source: Earther, 09/28/2021
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