Chemical Industry Lobbying And Cash Defeated Regulation In Trump Era
"Industry’s congressional allies defeated nearly all PFAS legislation while the Trump EPA killed, watered down or slowalked new rules".
Source: Guardian, 04/26/2021
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"Why Scientists Are Sounding The Alarm On Canada’s Melting Permafrost"
"Nearly half of Canada’s land mass lies above permafrost. As it thaws, greenhouse gases stored for centuries in the frozen ground are released and once-stable land is susceptible to collapse".
Source: The Narwhal, 04/26/2021"Diminishing Ice Cover On Maine’s Lakes Could Impact Fish Populations"
"AUBURN, Me. — In September 2012, local and state officials noticed something odd at Lake Auburn. Fish were dying for no discernible reason."
Source: Portland Press Herald, 04/26/2021Study Finds Lyme-Carrying Ticks Next To Beaches And Almost Everywhere
"Disease-carrying ticks, commonly associated with wooded areas, are also abundant near beaches in Northern California, according to a study. They weren’t found on beaches themselves, but in the brush and vegetation beachgoers may walk through to get to the sand."
Source: Washington Post, 04/26/2021Fla. Passes Bill To Protect Sugar Farmers From Health Hazard Suits
"Persuaded by testimony from the leaders in the Glades agriculture community that sugar burning is not harming their residents, the Florida House on Thursday sent to the governor a bill that gives the agriculture industry protection from lawsuits related to long-term health damage."
Source: Miami Herald, 04/26/2021"Climate Crisis Has Shifted The Earth’s Axis, Study Shows"
"The massive melting of glaciers as a result of global heating has caused marked shifts in the Earth’s axis of rotation since the 1990s, research has shown. It demonstrates the profound impact humans are having on the planet, scientists said."
Source: Guardian, 04/26/2021Biden, Calling for Action, Commits US to Halving Its Climate Emissions
"President Biden on Thursday moved to put four years of official climate denial behind the United States, declaring that America would cut its global warming emissions at least in half by the end of the decade."
Source: NYTimes, 04/23/2021"Tracy Stone-Manning Tapped to Lead Bureau of Land Management"
"The White House on Thursday nominated Tracy Stone-Manning as the Bureau of Land Management director, potentially putting an environmentalist in charge of America’s largest land-owning agency."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 04/23/2021Biden DOT Proposes Restoring Calif.'s Right To Set Car Pollution Rules
"The Transportation Department announced Thursday it was withdrawing part of a Trump-era rule that blocked states from setting their own tough car pollution standards, setting the stage for a return of broader power to California to fight climate change."
Source: LA Times, 04/23/2021There Are Massive Chemical Dumps In The Gulf We Know Almost Nothing About
"Seventy miles off the coast of Louisiana, among a maze of drilling platforms and seafloor pipelines, thousands of 55-gallon drums containing hazardous industrial chemicals litter a vast, dark swath of the ocean floor. They’ve been sitting there for nearly 50 years."
Source: HuffPost, 04/23/2021Calif. Wells Will Go Dry This Summer. ‘Alarm Bells Sounding’ In Valley
"Thousands of wells that bring water to San Joaquin Valley homes are at risk of drying up this summer, leaving families without running water for drinking, cleaning and bathing."
Source: Fresno Bee, 04/23/2021Citing Nutrients, Enviros Appeal 50-Year License For Conowingo Dam
"Environmental groups have appealed a ruling by a federal commission that last month granted Maryland’s Conowingo Dam a new 50-year license."
Source: Baltimore Sun, 04/23/2021"Major Everglades Restoration Project To Break Ground This Year"
"A key project in the restoration of the Everglades moved forward Thursday with the signing of an agreement between Florida and the federal government to construct a huge reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee."
Source: South Fla. Sun-Sentinel, 04/23/2021"Greta to Congress: ‘End Fossil Fuel Subsidies Now’"
"At a hearing on Thursday, 17-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg offered [Biden] some advice on a way to do so: ending all subsidies to the dirty energy sector."
Source: Earther, 04/23/2021After a Century, Dispossessed Black Farmers Fight to Get Back to the Land
"In the decades before the Civil War, one of the South’s largest slave enterprises held sway on the northern outskirts of Durham, North Carolina. At its peak, about 900 enslaved people were compelled to grow tobacco, corn, and other crops on the Stagville Plantation, 30,000 acres of rolling piedmont that had been taken from the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation. Today, the area has a transitional feel: Old farmhouses, open fields, and pine forests cede ground to subdivisions, as one of America’s hottest real estate markets sprawls outward."
Source: Mother Jones, 04/23/2021
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