"Empire Of The Ants: What Insect Supercolonies Can Teach Us"
"People have long drawn comparisons between ant societies and human ones – but in fact they are a reminder of how limited our influence on the world really is"
Source: Guardian, 03/20/2024
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EPA Bans Asbestos, A Carcinogen Still In Use Decades After A Partial Ban
"The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced a comprehensive ban on asbestos, a carcinogen that is still used in some chlorine bleach, brake pads and other products and that kills tens of thousands of Americans every year."
Source: AP, 03/19/2024"U.S. Approves $500 Million for Bahrain Oil Project, Despite Opposition"
"A federal bank that finances projects overseas voted Thursday to put $500 million toward an oil and gas project in Bahrain, a transaction that critics said was out of step with President Biden’s climate commitments."
Source: NYTimes, 03/19/2024"FBI Sent Several Informants To Standing Rock Protests, Court Documents Show"
"Up to 10 informants managed by the FBI were embedded in anti-pipeline resistance camps near the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation at the height of mass protests against the Dakota Access pipeline in 2016."
Source: Grist, 03/19/2024"How You Should Think About Those Google Flights Pollution Numbers"
"Flight booking platforms are giving customers a new number to think about when they buy a plane ticket: the expected greenhouse gas emissions of their trip."
Source: Washington Post, 03/19/2024"5th Circuit Denies Biden Request To Review Nuclear Waste Ruling"
"An appeals court with a famously conservative bent narrowly rejected the Biden administration’s request to reconsider its August ruling that stripped the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of authority to license private nuclear waste storage facilities not located at a reactor site."
Source: E&E News, 03/19/2024"Trump’s Violent Language Toward EVs"
"The former president has deployed increasingly aggressive talk about electric vehicles and their effect on the American economy."
Source: NYTimes, 03/19/2024"An Oregon Bill to Cut Millions in Timber Taxes Is Dead, Despite Backing"
"The legislation aimed to reformulate how Oregon funds the rising costs of fighting wildfires. It sparked debate within the Democratic-controlled Legislature about who should pay: taxpayers or big timber owners, who won steep tax cuts in the 1990s."
Source: ProPublica, 03/19/2024"You Can Start Applying For The American Climate Corps Next Month"
"The long-awaited jobs board for the American Climate Corps, promised early in the Biden administration, will open next month, according to details shared exclusively with Grist."
Source: Grist, 03/19/2024The U.S. Needs Wildland Firefighters More Than Ever, but Is Losing Them
"Black Butte is an inactive volcano that rises from the high desert in eastern Oregon. In May 2022, a turboprop plane approached its pine-blanketed slopes, carrying about 10 men wearing bulky Kevlar outfits. They were smokejumpers with the United States Forest Service, the agency that directs the majority of the nation’s efforts to manage wildfires."
Source: ProPublica, 03/19/2024"Using AI To Spot Edible Mushrooms Could Kill You"
"AI tools are good for some things, but don’t trust your health to apps that make frequent mistakes".
Source: Washington Post, 03/19/2024Zombies of the Tax Code: Why Fossil Fuels Subsidies Seem Impossible to Kill
"For the fourth year in a row, President Biden is trying to eliminate federal tax breaks for coal, oil and gas companies. But fossil fuel subsidies have proven difficult to stop."
Source: NYTimes, 03/18/2024"Federal Court Halts SEC Climate Reporting Rule"
"Federal judges have temporarily halted a landmark new climate reporting rule, sidelining efforts by Wall Street’s top regulator to uncover the risks U.S. corporations and their investors face from rising global temperatures."
Source: E&E News, 03/18/2024"Pebble Sues EPA To Revive Southwest Alaska Copper And Gold Mine Prospect"
"The company behind the giant Pebble copper and gold mine project in Southwest Alaska filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday to overturn its decision last year to halt the mine."
Source: Anchorage Daily News, 03/18/2024"Your Tax Dollars May Be Funding The Expansion Of The Plastics Industry"
"Plastic manufacturers have received $9 billion in subsidies for new or bigger facilities since 2012."
Source: Grist, 03/18/2024
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