"No Red Tide Relief In Sight As Dead Fish Overwhelm St. Petersburg"
"A toxic algal bloom is plaguing Tampa Bay and befouling St. Petersburg’s shores. It could stick around for a while."
Source: Tampa Bay Times, 07/14/2021
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"Water Crisis Reaches Boiling Point On Oregon-California Line"
"Ben DuVal knelt in a barren field near the California-Oregon border and scooped up a handful of parched soil as dust devils whirled around him and birds flitted between empty irrigation pipes. DuVal’s family has farmed the land for three generations, and this summer, for the first time ever, he and hundreds of others who rely on irrigation from a depleted, federally managed lake aren’t getting any water from it at all."
Source: AP, 07/14/2021"WTO Seeks To Land Big Prize After 20 Years Of Fish Talks"
"Negotiators are hoping the World Trade Organization will on Thursday not only deal a major blow to overfishing after 20 years of trying, but in doing so also dispel doubts about its own usefulness."
Source: Reuters, 07/14/2021Denver Children Aren’t Tested Enough For Blood Lead Levels: Officials
"Doctors test only a fraction of Denver children for levels of lead in their blood each year, even though federal law requires the tests for thousands of them."
Source: Denver Post, 07/14/2021"Rare Whooping Cranes Raised For Wild as COVID Rules Relax"
"A year after pandemic precautions all but halted work to raise the world’s most endangered cranes for release into the wild, the efforts are back in gear. Fourteen long-legged, fuzzy brown whooping crane chicks — one more than in 2019 — are following their parents or costumed surrogates in facilities from New Orleans to Calgary, Canada."
Source: AP, 07/14/2021"The Climate-Safe Houses of the Future"
"When Brandon Jorgensen picked up the phone, he was in the middle of staging his latest house in Napa, California. “We are getting very very close to, I wouldn’t say fireproofing, but fire-resisting a house,” Jorgensen, an architect, said, speaking from the home’s driveway."
Source: Earther, 07/14/2021"EPA Directs Employees Not to Talk to the Press"
"The Environmental Protection Agency is reminding employees not to engage with members of the media, sending a memorandum this week instructing them to deflect any press inquiries."a
Source: Government Executive, 07/13/2021"Wildfires Threaten Homes, Land Across 10 Western States"
"Wildfires that torched homes and forced thousands to evacuate burned across 10 parched Western states on Tuesday, and the largest, in Oregon, threatened California’s power supply."
Source: AP, 07/13/2021"US Drilling Approvals Increase Despite Biden Climate Pledge"
"Approvals for companies to drill for oil and gas on U.S. public lands are on pace this year to reach their highest level since George W. Bush was president, underscoring President Joe Biden’s reluctance to more forcefully curb petroleum production in the face of industry and Republican resistance."
Source: AP, 07/13/2021"Climate Scientists Take Swipe At Exxon Mobil, Industry In Leaked Report"
"A recently leaked draft report written by some of the world’s top climate scientists blamed disinformation and lobbying campaigns — including by Exxon Mobil — for undermining government efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increasing the dangers of global warming to society."
Source: Politico, 07/13/2021"Hydrogen Is One Answer to Climate Change. Getting It Is the Hard Part."
"Hydrogen is one of the most plentiful elements in the universe, but producing it in a way that is emission-free is costly. Pioneering companies are working to change that."
Source: NYTimes, 07/13/2021"UN Sets Out Paris-Style Plan To Cut Extinction Rate By Factor Of 10"
"The goals set out by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to help halt and reverse the ecological destruction of Earth by the end of the decade also include protecting at least 30% of the world’s oceans and land and providing a third of climate crisis mitigation through nature by 2030."
Source: Guardian, 07/13/2021"The Science Of Forest Biomass: Conflicting Studies Map The Controversy"
"A major political and environmental dispute is heating up as the forestry industry and governments promote forest biomass — cutting trees, turning them into wood pellets, and burning them to make electricity. "
Source: Mongabay, 07/13/2021"EPA says "No" to Mountain Valley Pipeline Water Crossings Permits"
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants the Army Corps of Engineers to refuse to issue water crossing permits along the path of the Mountain Valley Pipeline. Those permits would allow digging and blasting through hundreds of water bodies in Virginia and West Virginia says David Sligh, with the environmental advocacy group, Wild Virginia."
Source: WVTF, 07/13/2021"EPA Considers Restricting 66 Pollutants in Drinking Water"
"The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that it’s taking steps to regulate 66 possible contaminants in drinking water, including PFAS chemicals."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 07/13/2021
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