Former Official Says EPA Fails To Protect Public From Toxic Pesticides
"Federal regulators are discouraged from speaking up about potentially dangerous pesticides, according to a former agency official."
Source: Guardian, 12/20/2023
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"Why People Still Fall For Fake News About Climate Change"
"It was the hottest year on Earth in 125,000 years, and #climatescam is taking off."
Source: Grist, 12/19/2023"Biden Admin Approves Smallest Offshore Oil Program In History"
"The Biden administration approved the smallest offshore oil program in U.S. history Friday, a move that’s already provoked both outrage from Republicans and disappointment from climate activists who had urged the president to take more dramatic action."
Source: E&E News, 12/18/2023"Biden Administration Supports Removal of Four Dams on the Snake River"
"Decommissioning the dams is the first step toward restoring salmon runs and respecting Native treaties".
Source: Sierra, 12/15/2023"Brazil Congress Overturns Lula Veto On Limit To Indigenous Land Claims"
"Brazil's Congress on Thursday overturned a presidential veto that had struck down the core of a bill to limit Indigenous land claims, setting up a likely clash at the Supreme Court."
Source: Reuters, 12/15/2023"COP28 Does Not Deliver Clear Path to Fossil Fuel Phase Out"
"Going into overtime under the cover of a dark winter night in Dubai, climate negotiators at COP28 cooked up a weak sauce of climate half-measures that fail to adequately address the existential risk of global warming to millions of people around the globe, according to leading climate experts at the conference."
Source: Inside Climate News, 12/14/2023"Virginia County Approves Data Center Project After 27-Hour Public Hearing"
"County supervisors in northern Virginia approved one of the world’s largest data center projects after a public hearing that ran through the night and lasted more than 24 hours."
Source: AP, 12/14/2023COP28 Delegates Agree To ‘Transition Away’ From Planet-Warming Fossil Fuels
"United Nations climate negotiators directed the world on Wednesday to transition away from planet-warming fossil fuels in a move the talks chief called historic, despite critics’ worries about loopholes."
Source: AP, 12/13/2023"Americans Like Home Electrification — But Also Still Love Their Gas Stoves"
"Most Americans would prefer to live in a home where almost all major appliances run on electricity — but only if they can keep their gas stoves. Just 31 percent want to go fully electric."
Source: Grist, 12/13/2023"Countries Most at Risk Call Proposed Climate Agreement a ‘Death Warrant’"
"Environmental groups and negotiators from countries that are most vulnerable to climate disasters assailed a draft of a final agreement, made public at the United Nations climate talks on Monday, that fell short of calling for a phaseout of fossil fuels."
Source: NYTimes, 12/12/2023"Specter Of Second Trump Term Looms Over Global Climate Talks"
"Donald Trump casts a long shadow over the U.N. climate summit in Dubai. If elected, he will likely again pull the United States from the Paris climate accord."
Source: Washington Post, 12/12/2023Newsom Advances Delta Tunnel Project Despite Environmental Opposition
"In the face of heavy opposition from environmental groups, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his administration are pushing forward with a controversial plan to build a 45-mile water tunnel beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta—a project the governor says is vital to modernizing the state's aging water system."
Source: LA Times, 12/12/2023"‘A Scam All Around’: Navajo Nation Groups Oppose Hydropower Projects"
"Navajo Nation environmentalists are opposing a “self-described jet setter” and French millionaire’s plans for a massive hydropower project they claim will adversely affect the land, water, wildlife, plants and cultural resources of the largest land area held by Indigenous American peoples in the US."
Source: Guardian, 12/12/2023"Big Divisions Loom Over Fossil Fuels As COP28 Talks Head Into Final Phase"
"The president of the COP28 climate summit on Sunday urged negotiators to work harder to find consensus on a proposed first-of-its-kind deal to phase out the world's use of fossil fuels, as the two-week conference entered its final stage."
Source: Reuters, 12/11/2023"Azerbaijan Is Expected to Host the U.N. Climate Summit in 2024"
"The next United Nations climate change summit appears set to take place in Azerbaijan, a spokesman for the country said Saturday, resolving a bitter, monthslong political standoff over which nation should host the talks in 2024."
Source: NYTimes, 12/11/2023
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