"Arctic Sea Ice Winter Peak In 2025 Is Smallest In 47-Year Record"
"Arctic sea ice has recorded its smallest winter peak extent since satellite records began 47 years ago, new data reveals."
Source: Carbon Brief, 03/31/2025
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Trump Fires Green TVA Board Member Without Publicly Providing a Reason
"Michelle Moore was widely seen as the most progressive member of the body, which oversees the nation’s largest public power company."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/31/2025Plastics Seeping Into Fields, Food And Human Bodies. Can They Be Stopped?
"In Uganda’s Mbale district, famous for its production of arabica coffee, a plague of plastic bags locally known as buveera is creeping beyond the city."
Source: AP, 03/31/2025Some L.A. Homes Are Being Built To Resist Wildfires — And Some Aren't
"Homeowners in Los Angeles have started the long process of rebuilding after the destructive wildfires in January. Some are constructing homes that are much less likely to burn when the next wildfire hits." "Still, thousands of other homeowners in the urban center of Altadena are about to rebuild without wildfire-resistant materials, because they live outside a state-designated wildfire zone."
Source: NPR, 03/31/2025"Blue Ridge Parkway: Will "Take Years" For Some Areas To Be Repaired"
"While repairs to storm-battered sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway are underway, it will "take years" to repair some of the damage, according to the National Park Service."
Source: National Parks Traveler, 03/31/2025"Fossil Fuel Companies Get Direct Email Line To Trump For Exemption Requests"
"Donald Trump’s administration has offered fossil fuel companies an extraordinary opportunity to evade air pollution rules by simply emailing the US president to ask him to exempt them."
Source: Guardian, 03/28/2025"Musk Targeted FEMA. Storm-Battered Communities Are Paying a Price."
"A North Carolina college, ravaged by Hurricane Helene, can’t rebuild unless federal money starts flowing. A nonprofit in Florida that helped Hayley Riotto and her children after Hurricane Ian may have to start cutting staff. A Hawaii group that helps survivors of the Lahaina fire says it can only go another month or two before eliminating workers."
Source: NYTimes, 03/28/2025"Secret Energy Department "Hit List" Targets Renewable Energy Industry"
"During his confirmation hearing, Energy Secretary Chris Wright tried to convince senators he wasn’t your typical fracking executive. ... But, after his confirmation, Wright walked back that promise, claiming renewable technologies are inherently unreliable. “There is simply no physical way that wind, solar and batteries could replace the myriad uses of natural gas,” he claimed at a fossil fuel industry conference this month."
Source: HEATED, 03/28/2025"Earth’s Land Masses Are Drying Out Fast, Scientists Warn"
"Earth has lost enough soil moisture in the last 40 years to change the planet’s spin and shift the location of the North Pole, according to a new study published today in Science that tracks how human activities have disrupted the global water cycle. The persistent loss of water from land to oceans has dried out huge portions of every continent and may be irreversible, scientists describing the new research said this week."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/28/2025"The Oil Industry Takes Its Critics To Court"
"At the White House last week, the nation’s top oil executives asked President Donald Trump for help fighting state laws that seek billions of dollars from fossil fuel companies."
Source: Washington Post, 03/28/2025"New Mexico Set To Become Third State To Implement Full PFAS Product Ban"
"New Mexico is poised to become the third state to institute a full-fledged ban on products that contain toxic “forever chemicals,” as two key bills head to the governor’s desk."
Source: The Hill, 03/28/2025"Trump’s ‘Energy Emergency’ Means Green Light For Enbridge Line 5"
"Six Michigan tribes have withdrawn from federal discussions over the controversial Enbridge Line 5 project after learning that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are fast-tracking approval for the massive oil tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac."
Source: ICT, 03/28/2025Toxic Fumigant Could Be Seeping Into These California Communities
"Long Beach residents near companies that use methyl bromide are angry that air quality officials didn’t notify them for years and haven’t assessed their health risks. Now officials say more facilities are operating in San Pedro and Compton."
Source: CalMatters, 03/28/2025"Can This Former Game Warden Save America’s Endangered Species?"
"On Wednesday, lawmakers on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held the first hearing on President Trump’s nomination to lead the US Fish and Wildlife Service. If confirmed, Brian Nesvik, a former game warden turned Wyoming Game and Fish director, would lead the federal agency whose primary charge is to protect the plants and animals most in need of conservation."
Source: Sierra, 03/28/2025"Unearthed: The Mining Issue"
"The world needs massive amounts of critical minerals to power the transition to clean energy. But as countries and industries explore new mining opportunities, a major question looms: Can all of this extraction be done without the same environmental and human costs associated with fossil fuels?"
Source: Grist, 03/28/2025
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