"Agency Ruling Delivers Big Setback To Okefenokee Mining Plan"
"A federal agency has delivered a big setback to a company’s controversial plan to mine near the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp and its vast wildlife refuge."
Source: AP, 06/07/2022
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"EPA Recommends Army Corps Not Reissue PolyMet Permit"
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recommended the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers not reissue a key permit for the proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine over concerns that it could violate Fond du Lac Reservation’s water quality standards."
Source: Duluth News Tribune, 05/05/2022
Calif. Bill Could Require 'Blue Carbon' To Offset Coastal Development
"Public developments on the California coast would be required to capture carbon in wetlands or other natural systems under an Assembly bill that calls for projects to add “blue carbon” measures to their mitigation plans."
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune, 05/04/2022
"Why Are Nature-Based Solutions on Climate Being Overlooked?"
"Nature-based initiatives, such as planting mangroves and revitalizing wetlands, have proven effective in making communities more resilient to climate change. But international funding has shortchanged such solutions in favor of more costly and less efficient engineering projects."
Source: YaleE360, 04/21/2022
"Battle Over Carbon Capture As Tool To Fight Climate Change"
"Polly Glover realized her son had asthma when he was nine months old. Now 26, he carries an inhaler in his pocket whenever he’s out and about in Prairieville, Louisiana, part of Ascension Parish."
Source: AP, 04/14/2022
"A ‘Silent Victim’: How Nature Becomes a Casualty of War"
"The Black Sea Biosphere Reserve, on the southern coast of Ukraine, is a haven for migrating birds. More than 120,000 birds spend the winter flitting about its shores, and a multicolored spectrum of rare species — the white-tailed eagle, red-breasted merganser and black-winged stilt, to name just a few — nest among its protected waters and wetlands."
Source: NYTimes, 04/13/2022
"Turning Cities Into Sponges to Save Lives and Property"
"Engineers, architects, urban planners and officials around the world are seeking ways to retrofit or reconstruct cities to better deal with water — basically, to act more like sponges."
Source: NYTimes, 03/29/2022
Beavers Are Flooding the Warming Alaskan Arctic, Threatening Fish
"A thawing of permafrost in beaver-built wetlands can release vast stores of greenhouse gases to warm the climate, but Native peoples are already feeling the rodent’s impacts." "When the beavers came to streams near the Alaskan village of Venetie, the fish disappeared."
Source: Inside Climate News, 02/01/2022
"High Court Drops ‘Earthquake’ on Federal Water Protections"
"The U.S. Supreme Court is likely to deal federal wetland and waterway safeguards a near-fatal blow by hearing arguments to limit the scope of the EPA’s power under the Clean Water Act, attorneys say."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 01/25/2022
"Tightened Federal Water Protections Won’t Slow Some Projects"
"The Biden administration is moving to tighten oversight of projects that benefitted from Trump-era loosened water protections, but some projects including a controversial Georgia mine will likely be able to escape new scrutiny."
Source: AP, 01/19/2022
