"‘This Is Environmental Racism’"
"How a protest in a North Carolina farming town sparked a national movement".
Source: Washington Post, 04/08/2021
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Marine Species Increasingly Can’t Live At Equator Due To Global Heating
"Global heating has made the ocean around the equator less rich in wildlife, with conditions likely already too hot for some species to survive, according to a new study."
Source: Guardian, 04/08/2021Banks Pledge Climate Fight, But Their Boards Have Deep Fossil-Fuel Ties
"US banks are pledging to help fight the climate crisis alongside the Biden administration, but their boards are dominated by people with climate-related conflicts of interest, and they continue to invest deeply in fossil fuel projects."
Source: Guardian, 04/08/2021"Biden Tax Plan Targets Fossil Fuel Subsidies Worth $35 Billion"
"President Joe Biden’s plan to eliminate subsidies claimed by oil and gas companies and raise levies on corporate polluters would increase government receipts by $35 billion over the coming decade. "
Source: Bloomberg, 04/08/2021"Biden Nominates Interior Deputy As Department's Top Lawyer"
"President Biden has nominated Robert Anderson, the Interior Department’s principal deputy solicitor, to serve as the department’s solicitor, according to an announcement Wednesday."
Source: The Hill, 04/08/2021"‘Opening The Lid’ On Toilet Innovation: Q&A With Author Chelsea Wald"
"A new book, “Pipe Dreams: The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet,” published on April 6, looks at the environmental and public health case for developing better solutions to deal with human waste."
Source: Mongabay, 04/08/2021"EPA Chief Vows Tougher Tailpipe Rules by July, Unwinding Trump’s"
"The Biden administration is on track to propose by the end of July new limits on the emission of greenhouse gases from automobiles that are strong enough to meet “the urgency of the climate crisis,” according to EPA Administrator Michael Regan."
Source: Bloomberg, 04/07/2021"Left-Wing Party Opposed To Big Mining Project Wins Greenland Election"
"A left-wing party that opposes a large rare earth mining project has become the biggest in parliament after securing more than a third of votes in a snap election."
Source: Reuters, 04/07/2021Gulf Coast Fish Farm Permit Will Get A Second Look Under Biden Admin
"Under direction from the Biden administration, the Environmental Protection Agency is revisiting a permit granted to a proposed industrial fish farm off the coast of Sarasota."
Source: WUSF, 04/07/2021Indictment Claims Kansas Man Tampered With Ellsworth County Water System
"WICHITA, Kan. — An indictment made public today claims an Ellsworth County man tampered with a public water system."
Source: KSNW, 04/07/2021"California Is On The Brink Of Drought – Again. Is It Ready?"
"California is at the edge of another protracted drought, just a few years after one of the worst dry spells in state history left poor and rural communities without well water, triggered major water restrictions in cities, forced farmers to idle their fields, killed millions of trees, and fueled devastating megafires."
Source: Guardian, 04/07/2021A Top US Seller of Carbon Offsets Starts Investigating Its Own Projects
"Following concerns that it is facilitating the sale of meaningless carbon credits to corporate clients, the Nature Conservancy says it’s conducting an internal review of its portfolio of carbon-offset projects. The nonprofit owns or has helped develop more than 20 such projects on forested lands mostly in the U.S., which generate credits that are purchased by such companies as JPMorgan Chase & Co., BlackRock Inc., and Walt Disney Co., which use them to claim large reductions in their own publicly reported emissions."
Source: Bloomberg Green, 04/07/2021Groups Petition EPA To Remove Ethane, Methane From Emissions Exempt List
"Hundreds of environmental groups on Tuesday submitted a petition calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take action to curtail ethane and methane emissions responsible for smog."
Source: The Hill, 04/07/2021"U.S. Climate Envoy Kerry Says India Is "Getting Job Done" On Climate"
"U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry praised India as a world leader in renewables as he began talks with government leaders aimed at cutting carbon emissions faster to slow global warming."
Source: Reuters, 04/07/2021"Alleged Mastermind Of Honduran Activist’s Murder On Trial"
"The trial of an alleged mastermind of the killing of Honduran environmental and Indigenous rights activist Berta Cáceres began Tuesday, five years after the prize-winning activist was shot to death."
Source: AP, 04/07/2021
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