"US Fishermen Sound Alarm At Plans For Offshore Wind"
"Fishermen say their concerns, from safety issues to how offshore wind will alter the ocean environment, aren’t being meaningfully considered by regulators".
Source: Guardian, 07/26/2021
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Heritage Committee Won't Place Great Barrier Reef On ‘In Danger’ List
"The Great Barrier Reef will not be placed on a list of world heritage sites “in danger” after a global lobbying effort from Australia against the proposed listing."
Source: Guardian, 07/26/2021"Groups Urge State To Protect Last Wild Atlantic Salmon in US"
"Maine is home to the last wild Atlantic salmon populations in the U.S., but a new push to protect the fish at the state level is unlikely to land them on the endangered list."
Source: AP, 07/26/2021Bailout of N. Dakota Coal Plant Faces Backlash from Minnesota Customers
"In the next week, the boards of electric cooperative utilities across Minnesota will vote on whether to approve a plan to sell, rather than close, a North Dakota coal-fired power plant that has provided them with electricity for decades. But the utilities have done little to disclose that the votes are taking place or to solicit the views of customers, who, in the cooperative model, are also shareholders."
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/26/2021"U.S. Judge Rules Lithium Americas May Excavate Nevada Mine Site"
"A U.S. federal judge has ruled that Lithium Americas Corp may conduct excavation work at its Thacker Pass lithium mine site in Nevada, denying a request from environmentalists who said the digging could harm sage grouse and other wildlife."
Source: Reuters, 07/26/2021"Montana’s Famed Trout Under Threat as Drought Intensifies"
"Few places in the world rival Montana’s fly fishing, and the state’s cold, clear mountain streams are renowned for their large populations of trout, especially the rainbow and brown. But this is a drought year, and a confluence of extreme conditions now threatens the state’s legendary waters."
Source: NYTimes, 07/26/2021Biden’s Public Lands Nominee Advances With Key Senate Vote
"Tracy Stone-Manning, President Biden’s pick to be the top public lands manager, moved one step closer to becoming director of the Bureau of Land Management on Thursday as the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee advanced her nomination solely with Democratic support."
Source: Washington Post, 07/23/2021"G20 Agrees Statement On Environment, Struggles Over Climate Progress"
"Environment and energy ministers from the Group of 20 rich nations made little progress on Thursday on how to reach climate goals, officials said, with a cluster of countries resisting firm commitments."
Source: Reuters, 07/23/2021"Inside Clean Energy: Ohio Shows Hostility to Clean Energy. Again"
"A new Ohio law solidifies the state’s reputation for stifling clean energy industries. And the law may well be an economic development victory for places that stand to gain projects Ohio chases away."
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/23/2021"PG&E Will Spend At Least $15 Billion Burying Power Lines"
"Pacific Gas & Electric plans to bury 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometers) of its power lines in an effort to prevent its fraying grid from sparking wildfires when electrical equipment collides with millions of trees and other vegetation across drought-stricken California."
Source: AP, 07/23/2021"Is Our Reliance On Air-Conditioning Warming The Planet?"
"Eric Dean Wilson, a professor who teaches climate-themed writing and environmental justice at Queens College in New York, has spent much of the past six years investigating the history and impact of artificial cooling on the environment."
Source: Washington Post, 07/23/2021Enviros Sue Government Over This Controversial Oil Exploration Method
"Environmental groups sued the federal government Thursday over the Trump administration's easing of rules that had limited use of deep-penetration seismic blasts to search for oil and gas deposits at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico."
Source: Nola.com, 07/23/2021"Deadly Coral Disease Sweeping Caribbean Linked To Wastewater From Ships"
"A virulent and fast-moving coral disease that has swept through the Caribbean could be linked to waste or ballast water from ships, according to research."
Source: Guardian, 07/23/2021"Climate Crisis Turns World’s Subways Into Flood Zones"
"Terrified passengers trapped in flooded subway cars in Zhengzhou, China. Water cascading down stairways into the London Underground. A woman wading through murky, waist-deep water to reach a New York City subway platform. Subway systems around the world are struggling to adapt to an era of extreme weather brought on by climate change."
Source: NYTimes, 07/23/2021As Red Tide Grips Tampa Bay, Shrimpers Turn Their Nets Toward Death
"Toliver and Jessica Tucker are used to the dark, oily water, the bulging eyes, the gray flesh decaying to a pulp in the city’s bayous. They have even become accustomed to the smell — God, the smell — of all the rotting fish in gruesome flotillas, victims of a toxic Red Tide in Tampa Bay."
Source: Tampa Bay Times, 07/23/2021
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