"The Rural Americans Too Poor for Federal Flood Protections"
"On the day he would become homeless, Wesley Bryant was awoken by his wife, Alexis. “Get up,” she told him. “There’s a flood outside.”"
Source: Daily Yonder/Climate Central, 09/03/2024
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Navajo Nation Strengthens Law On Transportation Of Uranium Across Its Land
"The Navajo Nation has approved emergency legislation meant to strengthen a tribal law that regulates the transportation of radioactive material across the largest Native American reservation in the U.S."
Source: AP, 09/03/2024Kennedy Says Trump Will ‘Make Americans Healthy.’ The Record Disagrees.
"As president, Donald J. Trump slashed protections for clean air and water and weakened school nutrition standards."
Source: NYTimes, 08/30/2024"Climate-Friendly Meat? Regulators Tighten Scrutiny of Label Buzzwords."
"The new guidelines from the Agriculture Department encourage third-party assessments of environment-related claims, which have come under fire."
Source: NYTimes, 08/30/2024Industry Scientists Back EPA Finding That Pesticide Is Not a Cancer Risk
"The consultants, who worked for Dow, the pesticide’s manufacturer, help corporate interests defend their products against environmental and health regulations."
Source: Inside Climate News, 08/29/2024EPA Watchdog Says Air Chief Had ‘Disqualifying Financial Interest’
"An internal watchdog criticized the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) top air official for participating in the development of a rule that regulates an industry in which he reportedly had financial holdings."
Source: The Hill, 08/29/2024"They’re Knocking On Doors For Harris. But They Still Won’t Endorse Her."
"The Sunrise Movement plans to contact 1.5 million Americans about voting for Kamala Harris. But it is waiting to decide about endorsing her until her climate plans are clearer."
Source: Washington Post, 08/29/2024After Protests, DeSantis Says Plan To Develop State Parks Is On Hold
"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that a controversial proposal by his administration to develop golf courses, pickleball courts and hotels at state parks is “going back to the drawing board.”"
Source: AP, 08/29/2024"Nonprofit Law Center Asks EPA to Take Over Water Permitting in N.C."
"The unprecedented move highlights regulatory tensions between Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, and an environmental rule-making commission controlled by appointees of Republican state legislative leaders."
Source: Inside Climate News, 08/29/2024Chemical Industry Scientists Plan To Derail PFAS Rule On Drinking Water
"Scientists with financial ties to industry and histories of producing controversial research to derail chemical regulations are mobilizing to attack strict new federal drinking water limits for toxic PFAS, or “forever chemicals”, documents reviewed by the Guardian reveal."
Source: HuffPost, 08/28/2024"As Seen on TV: Big Oil’s Dystopian View of California’s Climate Agenda"
"A $5 million prime-time ad campaign is aimed at climate policies the industry claims make life miserable for Californians."
Source: Capital & Main, 08/28/2024Newsom Axes Funding To Enforce California Oil Well Protection Law
"Gavin Newsom’s late session proposal to extend deadlines — by more than four years in one case — for oil companies to comply with a new law fizzled and died late this week."
Source: CalMatters, 08/28/2024"The Big Lie In The Montana Senate Race"
"Montana GOP Senate hopeful Tim Sheehy has spent the last several months defending himself against accusations that he poses a threat to America’s federal public lands — a mess that the multimillionaire businessman and former Navy SEAL created when, shortly after launching his campaign, he explicitly called for federal lands to be “turned over to state agencies, or even counties.”
Source: HuffPost, 08/28/2024RFK Jr Faces Call For Probe Into Claim He Chainsawed Whale’s Head Off
"An environmental group is calling for a federal investigation into the former presidential candidate for an episode in which he allegedly severed the head of a washed-up whale with a chainsaw – and drove home with it strapped to his car’s roof."
Source: Guardian, 08/28/2024"Tanzania's Maasai Protest Eviction In The Name Of Conservation"
"For a week, the green hills around Tanzania's famous Ngorongoro crater have been chequered with the blood red shuka cloths of tens of thousands of Maasai herdsman protesting their eviction from their land - all in the name of conservation."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 08/27/2024
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