"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, 03/19/2024
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Zombies 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, 03/18/2024DOE Conditionally Approves $2.26 Billion Loan For Huge Nevada Lithium Mine
"President Joe Biden’s administration has conditionally agreed to loan more than $2 billion to the company building a controversial lithium mine in Nevada with the largest known U.S. deposit of the metal critical to making batteries for electric vehicles key to his renewable energy agenda."
Source: AP, 03/18/2024"Navajos Worry Uranium Superfund Addition Is a False EPA Promise"
"Trust is in short supply that the EPA will follow through on promises to clean up uranium mine contamination that has sickened generations of Navajo people, tribal members told agency officials visiting a contaminated mining area on Friday in Arizona."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 03/18/2024United States Has Its First Large Offshore Wind Farm, With More To Come
"America’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm is officially open, a long-awaited moment that helps pave the way for a succession of large wind farms."
Source: NPR, 03/18/2024Neighbors Sick. Should Developers Dig Up Toxic Soil In Florida Suburb?
"Residents already hit with disease are fighting the multibillion-dollar corporation DR Horton, America’s largest homebuilder".
Source: Guardian, 03/18/2024Clean Electricity? These Are The Overlooked Elected Officials Who Decide.
"On a Tuesday morning in January, college student Aurora Gray stepped up to the podium in a windowless room in Atlanta, around the corner from the state capitol building. In front of her sat a five-member panel of elected officials that oversees how and where nearly every Georgia resident gets their power."
Source: Yale Climate Connections, 03/18/2024Fishers Who Catch Baby Eels For $2,000 A Pound Hope For Years Of Fishing
"Baby eels, also called elvers, are likely the most valuable fish in the United States on a per-pound basis - worth orders of magnitude more money at the docks than lobsters, scallops or salmon."
Source: AP, 03/18/2024"BLM Releases Long-Awaited Sage Grouse Protections"
"The Biden administration released its proposal Thursday to protect the greater sage grouse across the West, incorporating tough restrictions on oil and gas drilling and other land uses near the bird’s habitat."
Source: E&E News, 03/15/2024"EPA Cracks Down On Carcinogenic Pollution From Medical Plants"
"EPA on Thursday announced new regulations to slash releases of a cancer-causing compound used by dozens of medical equipment sterilization plants, often located in heavily populated and marginalized communities." "The rule would cut ethylene oxide releases at sterilization facilities by more than 90 percent."
Source: E&E News, 03/15/2024Toxic Air Lingers In Texas Latino Community, As Air Monitoring Fails
"Public data from a network of state air monitors around the Houston Ship Channel is hard to interpret and is often inadequate, leaving Latino-majority neighborhoods like Cloverleaf unaware of whether the air they breathe is safe."
Source: EHN, 03/15/2024Gulf Petrochemical Buildout Draws Tax Breaks Despite Pollution Violations
"A booming petrochemical buildout on the Gulf Coast has drawn billions of dollars in public subsidies from state tax abatement programs despite regular violations of pollution permits, according to a new report released Thursday."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/15/2024
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