"The Weatherman Who Tried to Bring Climate Science to a Red State"
"Chris Gloninger said he was hired to talk about global warming in his forecasts. That’s when things heated up."
Source: NYTimes, 06/24/2024
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"SEC Urged to Probe JBS Claims on Environment, Animal Welfare"
"Animal rights organizations have asked the SEC to investigate meatpacking giant JBS SA for allegedly misleading investors about its animal welfare and environmental practices in paperwork submitted to list the company on the New York Stock Exchange."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 06/21/2024Biden USFS Old-Growth Forest Proposal Doesn’t Completely Ban Logging
"The Biden administration is advancing its plan to restrict logging within old-growth forests that are increasingly threatened by climate change, with exceptions that include cutting trees to make forests less susceptible to wildfires, according to a U.S. government analysis obtained by The Associated Press."
Source: AP, 06/21/2024"Four In Five People Want Stronger Climate Action, Says UNDP Survey"
"Four in five people want their governments to take stronger action to tackle climate change, according to a United Nations survey. The UN Development Programme (UNDP), which published the poll on Thursday, said that 72 per cent of people across the 77 countries surveyed said they supported a quick transition from fossil fuels to clean energy."
Source: Business Standard, 06/21/2024Enviros Want Florida Freshwater In The Everglades, Not Dumped At Coasts
"Environmental groups want to use engineered wetlands to help replenish the river of grass and address toxic algae. The state’s politically powerful sugar growers say those wetlands are for their own polluted water."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/20/2024Developing Countries Complain Of Access Difficulties At Bonn Climate Talks
"Growing fossil-fueled authoritarianism in Azerbaijan and other COP host nations undermines climate action and human rights, researchers and policy experts report."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/20/2024"Senate Sends Package Bolstering Nuclear Power Sector To Biden’s Desk"
"The Senate on Tuesday passed a package aimed at bolstering the nation’s nuclear power sector, sending it to President Biden’s desk."
Source: The Hill, 06/20/2024"A Key Court Ruling Could Weaken U.S. Environmental Protections"
"The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on whether to overturn the Chevron doctrine, a landmark precedent that has stood for 40 years. Scrapping the doctrine could have major impacts on regulation in such areas as pollution, climate change, and endangered species."
Source: YaleE360, 06/20/2024Rep. Castor Urges OSHA To Speed Federal Heat Protections For Outdoor Workers
"Two months after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation preventing local governments from requiring heat protections for outdoors workers, Tampa Bay-area Democratic U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor is calling on the Biden administration to finalize federal workplace protections against heat-related injury and illness."
Source: States Newsroom, 06/18/2024"EU Countries Approve Landmark Nature Law After Delays"
"European Union countries approved a flagship policy to restore damaged nature on Monday, after months of delay, making it the first green law to pass since European Parliament elections this month."
Source: Reuters, 06/18/2024"This Coal-Heavy Rural Co-Op Utility Is Buying Its First Solar Plants"
"Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, one of the largest rural cooperative utilities in the U.S., is bringing the energy transition home to its massive western service territory. It’s acquiring its first large-scale solar power plants as it prepares to shift away from its current dependence on coal power."
Source: Canary Media, 06/18/2024"Trump Once Promised to Revive Coal. Now, He Rarely Mentions It."
"The first time Donald J. Trump ran for president, he slapped on a miner’s helmet and told coal workers they would be “winning, winning, winning” when he entered the White House. Now, as Mr. Trump campaigns for another chance at the presidency, he rarely mentions America’s coal miners and has stopped making grand promises about their future."
Source: NYTimes, 06/18/2024"The Annual Sugarcane Burning in Florida Involves Stark Injustices"
"Black communities are disproportionately impacted by Big Sugar's agricultural practices".
Source: Sierra, 06/18/2024Trump Rallies GOPers Against Biden Energy Policies, But Sidesteps IRA
"Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump delivered a campaign-style energy address during a day of meetings with congressional Republicans on Thursday, hitting on trademark themes like “drill baby drill” and pledging to reverse Biden administration policies he said hamper fossil fuel development and favor electric vehicles."
Source: Politico, 06/17/2024"Trump-Era EPA Meddled in PFAS Science, Agency Watchdog Finds"
"In the final days of the Trump administration, a political appointee at the EPA ordered a last-minute review of the hazards of a “forever chemical,” triggering delay, confusion, and significant changes to a nearly final work product, the agency’s inspector general found in a Friday report."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 06/17/2024
