"North Carolina Allows Manure Mounds ‘As Big As A House’ On Factory Farms"
"The state’s uniquely lax regulation permits chicken waste to collect outdoors – but there’s no easy way to complain about it".
Source: Guardian, 04/12/2024
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Group Slams Gas Group’s Use Of Customers’ Money To Thwart Climate Efforts
"A group of advocates and Democratic senators gathered in Washington DC on Tuesday to decry utilities’ practice of spending customers’ money to advance a pro-fossil fuel agenda."
Source: Guardian, 04/12/2024
"Big Oil Is Quietly Paying State Legal Officials To Kill Climate Litigation"
"Honolulu's climate lawsuit is an existential threat to Big Oil. So they’re buying Republican attorneys general to defend them in court."
Source: HEATED, 04/12/2024
"Trump Allies Target NOAA Climate Research"
"Allies of former President Donald Trump don’t just want to muzzle federal climate science if he wins a second term — they also want to upend the agencies that fuel such research."
Source: E&E News, 04/12/2024
"Global Stockpile of Cholera Vaccine Is Gone as Outbreaks Spread"
"Doses of cholera vaccine are being given to patients as fast as they are produced and the global stockpile has run completely dry, as deadly outbreaks of the disease continue to spread."
Source: NYTimes, 04/12/2024
"World’s Coal Power Capacity Rises Despite Climate Warnings"
"The world’s coal power capacity grew for the first time since 2019 last year, despite warnings that coal plants need to close at a rate of at least 6% each year to avoid a climate emergency."
Source: Guardian, 04/12/2024
On Thin Ice: Covering Climate Adaptation in a Rapidly Changing World
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"Mapping America’s Access To Nature, Neighborhood By Neighborhood"
"Using satellite imagery and data on dozens of factors — including air and noise pollution, park space, open water and tree canopy — NatureQuant has distilled the elements of health-supporting nature into a single variable called NatureScore. Aggregated to the level of Census tracts — roughly the size of a neighborhood — the data provide a high-resolution image of where nature is abundant and where it is lacking across the United States."
Source: Washington Post, 04/11/2024
"The U.S. Urgently Needs a Bigger Grid. Here’s a Fast Solution."
"One of the biggest obstacles to expanding clean energy in the United States is a lack of power lines. Building new transmission lines can take a decade or more because of permitting delays and local opposition. But there may be a faster, cheaper solution, according to two reports released Tuesday."
Source: NYTimes, 04/11/2024
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