"Tar Sands Pipeline Is Sucking Water From Minnesota Watersheds"
"The Anishinaabe people are rallying to save their lakes and their traditional wild rice harvests".
Source: Guardian, 09/22/2021
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"Michigan Plans 1st U.S. Charging Road For Electric Vehicles"
"Plans are underway for Michigan to construct a first in the nation segment of road that will charge electric vehicles while they’re driving, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Tuesday at the Motor Bella auto show in Pontiac."
Source: AP, 09/22/2021
Will Taxpayers Bear Cost Of Cleaning Up America’s Abandoned Oil Wells?
"Oil and gas companies have a century-old bad habit of drilling wells and ditching them. And while Congress finally has a plan to plug some abandoned wells, new proposals effectively pass the fossil fuel industry’s cleanup costs on to taxpayers and may even enable more drilling."
Source: Guardian, 09/22/2021
"China Pledges to Stop Building Coal-Burning Power Plants Abroad"
"In a move designed to bolster Beijing’s climate credentials, President Xi Jinping of China said Tuesday that his country would stop building coal-burning power plants overseas, ending its support for construction projects that rely on the world’s dirtiest fossil fuel."
Source: NYTimes, 09/22/2021
Powerful Democrat Linked to Fossil Fuels Will Craft U.S. Climate Plan
"Joe Manchin, the powerful West Virginia Democrat who chairs the Senate energy panel and earned half a million dollars last year from coal production, is preparing to remake President Biden’s climate legislation in a way that tosses a lifeline to the fossil fuel industry — despite urgent calls from scientists that countries need to quickly pivot away from coal, gas and oil to avoid a climate catastrophe."
Source: NYTimes, 09/21/2021
Dakota Access Pipeline Asks Supreme Court To Scrap Environmental Study
"Dakota Access on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit whether the largest pipeline out of the North Dakota oil basin requires additional environmental review."
Source: Reuters, 09/21/2021
"Judge: Construction Can Continue On Most Of $1B Corridor"
"Construction on a 145-mile (233-kilometer) electricity transmission corridor in western Maine can continue while litigation proceeds over a 1-mile section that was leased by the state, a state Supreme Court justice ruled."
Source: AP, 09/20/2021
"UN Warns of ‘Catastrophic Pathway’ With Current Climate Pledges"
"The global average temperature will rise 2.7 degrees Celsius by century’s end even if all countries meet their promised emissions cuts, a rise that is likely to worsen extreme wildfires, droughts and floods, the United Nations said in a report on Friday."
Source: NYTimes, 09/20/2021
Black Town Stood In The Way Of Pipeline – So Developers Called It White
"When residents in Union Hill, Virginia, decried the pipeline as a form of environmental racism, the energy company insisted it wasn’t".
Source: VPM/Floodlight, 09/17/2021
"Glasgow Climate Summit At Risk Of Failure, U.N. Chief Warns"
"United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said a critical meeting on climate change later this year in Scotland is at risk of failure due to mistrust between developed and developing countries and a lack of ambitious goals among some emerging economies."
Source: Reuters, 09/17/2021
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