"Storms Recharge California Snowpack, Easing Drought Fears"
"The snowstorms were a ‘tremendous boon’ to the state’s water supply, officials said".
Source: Washington Post, 03/07/2024
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"Scientists Say They’re Closer To Reviving Mammoths. What Could Go Wrong?"
"The plan to bring back the woolly mammoth — or at least a version of it — is ambitious but raises hairy questions".
Source: Washington Post, 03/07/2024"Many Homes Burned In The Texas Wildfires Weren’t Insured"
"Many Panhandle residents whose dwellings and possessions burned in the region’s ongoing wildfires may never financially recover for one simple reason: Their homes weren’t insured."
Source: Texas Tribune, 03/06/2024"Gas Industry Loses Bid To Block Green Building Codes"
"The natural gas industry lost its initial bid to strip key climate-friendly measures out of national homebuilding guidelines, HuffPost has learned. The rules in the model building code will require new homes to come equipped with the circuitry to hook up induction stoves and electric car chargers, and will be used as a benchmark in almost every state."
Source: HuffPost, 03/06/2024Trillions Of Gallons Leak From Aging Drinking Water Systems In US Cities
"For generations, the water infrastructure beneath this southern Alabama city was corroding, cracking and failing — out of sight and seemingly out of mind — as the population shrank and poverty rose. Until it became impossible to ignore."
Source: AP, 03/06/2024Plastic Food Packaging Contains 1000s Of Hormone-Mimicking Chemicals: Study
"Plastic food packaging contains chemicals that disrupt the endocrine system — and that can leach into food, a new study has found."
Source: The Hill, 03/06/2024Mining Company Can’t Tap Water Needed For Okefenokee Wildlife Refuge: USFWS
"A federal agency is asserting legal rights to waters that feed the Okefenokee Swamp and its vast wildlife refuge, setting up a new battle with a mining company seeking permits to withdraw more than 1.4 million gallons daily for a project that critics say could irreparably harm one of America’s natural treasures."
Source: AP, 03/06/2024With A Million Cases Of Dengue So Far This Year, Brazil Declares Emergency
"The generator powering the medical facility had blown and the 29 members of the Brazilian Air Force in charge had to change it before they could see patients again. Medical professionals who'd been trained to care for dengue patients, they expected to attend to up to 600 people with suspected cases per day. In the first 24 hours after the doors opened on Feb. 5, they saw 1,300. The generator couldn't keep up."
Source: NPR, 03/06/2024"EPA Watchdog Warns About Data ‘Vulnerabilities’"
"EPA’s internal watchdog is warning the agency is at risk of cyberattacks because of lax controls for its data."
Source: E&E News, 03/06/2024Lawmakers Across US Seek To Curb Utility Spending On Politics, Ads And More
"After a string of scandals and amid rising bills, lawmakers in statehouses across the country, including in Maryland, have been pushing legislation to curb utilities spending ratepayer money on lobbying, expert testimony in rate cases, goodwill advertising, charitable giving, trade association membership and other costs."
Source: States Newsroom, 03/06/2024First Man Charged With Smuggling Greenhouse Gases From Mexico Into US
"A California man was arrested and charged Monday with allegedly smuggling potent, planet-heating greenhouse gases from Mexico, marking the first such prosecution in the US, according to a statement from the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California."
Source: CNN, 03/06/2024"A Top Pipeline For Local Journalists Is Saying No To Hedge Funds"
"Report for America subsidizes salaries for journalists-in-training at hundreds of newspapers. Its leaders no longer want to help media investors they say are undermining the news business."
Source: Washington Post, 03/06/2024"SEC To Vote On Adopting Contentious Climate Disclosure Rule Wednesday"
"The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will vote this week on whether to adopt a contentious rule that would require publicly traded companies to disclose climate change-related information to investors — though the rule could be significantly scaled back compared with what the agency proposed in 2022."
Source: The Hill, 03/05/2024"Fury After Exxon Chief Says Public To Blame For Climate Failures"
"The world is off track to meet its climate goals and the public is to blame, Darren Woods, chief executive of oil giant ExxonMobil, has claimed – prompting a backlash from climate experts."
Source: Guardian, 03/05/2024"Tracking an Invisible Climate Menace From 360 Miles Above"
"There will soon be a new eye in the sky that’s designed to detect emissions of methane, an invisible yet potent gas that is dangerously heating the world."
Source: NYTimes, 03/05/2024
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