Rising Seas Could Kill The Oldest Tree In Eastern US
"A 2,624-year-old bald cypress could teach us how to fight climate change – if it doesn’t get destroyed first".
Source: Guardian, 08/03/2021
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After Months Of Work, Senators Unveil $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill
"U.S. senators introduced a sweeping $1-trillion bipartisan plan to invest in roads, bridges, ports, high-speed internet and other infrastructure, with some predicting the chamber could pass this week the largest public works legislation in decades."
Source: Reuters, 08/02/2021"China, India Miss UN Deadline To Update Emissions Targets"
"China and India have missed a U.N. deadline to submit fresh plans for cutting their greenhouse gas emissions in time for the global body to include their pledges in a report for governments at this year’s global climate summit, officials said Saturday."
Source: AP, 08/02/2021"EPA Outlines Plan To Expand Wetland Protections"
"The Biden administration laid out plans today [Friday] for scrapping and replacing a contentious Trump-era Clean Water Act rule that pulled back federal protections for millions of streams and wetlands."
Source: E&E News, 08/02/2021"Athletes Battle Tokyo Summer As Staff Suffer Heat Illness"
"As competitors battled for the podium on the third day of Olympic athletics on Sunday, it was Tokyo's oppressive heat that perhaps dished out the most pain."
Source: Reuters, 08/02/2021Brain Drain Among Federal Scientists Bogs Down Biden Climate Ambitions
"Hundreds of scientists and policy experts left the government during the Trump administration. The jobs remain unfilled nearly six months into President Biden’s term, slowing his climate agenda."
Source: NYTimes, 08/02/2021Climate Groups Plan Make-or-Break Blitz Over Congressional Recess
"A coalition of climate-focused groups is readying a multimillion-dollar blitz of advertising, organizing and public events over Congress’s recess in August, seeing it as their best and last opportunity to influence members before Democrats start crafting crucial climate legislation this fall."
Source: HuffPost, 08/02/2021"Fighting Fire With Fire"
"It’s a clear, sunny spring morning in Seeley Lake, Mont., and 34 firefighters are gathering on a road east of town, drip torches in hand. They are here to set a fire, not stop one."
Source: Washington Post, 08/02/2021"Sewage Equity? In Alabama, Trust Is As Important As Pipes."
"LOWNDES COUNTY, Ala. -- For almost 30 years Perman Hardy obeyed a simple rule: When it rains, turn off the water."
Source: Christian Science Monitor, 08/02/2021"Washington's Orca Whale Pods Receive New Federal Habitat Protection"
"Washington's endangered orca whales received new habitat protections from the federal government on Friday. The National Marine Fisheries Service finalized rules to expand the orca's critical habitat from the Canadian border all the way down to Point Sur in California, adding 15,910 square miles of foraging areas, river mouths and migratory pathways."
Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 08/02/2021New Report Provides Map For Expanding Chestnut Agroforestry In The U.S.
"Chestnuts were considered to be America’s “perfect tree” because of the high quality of their nuts and wood, but an imported blight nearly eradicated the species by the early 1900s. Resistance has been bred back into the crop, though, and it’s now being planted by farms in agroforestry systems in places like the U.S. Midwest, which sell nuts to the huge international market and, increasingly, to Americans as well."
Source: Mongabay, 08/02/2021Biden Bid To Turn America’s Auto Fleet Electric Harder Than It Seems
"The White House’s 2030 goal for electric vehicle sales could fall short of what experts say is needed to meet U.S. climate goals".
Source: Washington Post, 07/30/2021"Climate Crisis Catches Power Companies Unprepared"
"Utilities are fighting to keep the lights on amid extreme wildfires, heat and flooding fueled by global warming."
Source: NYTimes, 07/30/2021Recycling Myth: Big Oil’s Solution For Plastic Waste Littered With Failure
"In early 2018, residents of Boise, Idaho were told by city officials that a breakthrough technology could transform their hard-to-recycle plastic waste into low-polluting fuel. The program, backed by Dow Inc, one of the world’s biggest plastics producers, was hailed locally as a greener alternative to burying it in the county landfill."
Source: Reuters, 07/30/2021"Bayer To Pull Glyphosate from U.S. Lawn and Garden Markets"
"Bayer officials announced on Thursday the company is removing glyphosate from the U.S. residential lawn and garden marketplace, effective as early as January 2023."
Source: AgWeb, 07/30/2021
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