"Can the U.S. Make Solar Panels? This Company Thinks So."
"First Solar kept producing them in Ohio after most of the industry moved to China. President Biden wants many more domestic manufacturers."
Source: NYTimes, 09/27/2023
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After Summer’s Extreme Weather, More Americans See Climate Change As Culprit
"New polling from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research indicates that extreme weather, including a summer that brought dangerous heat for much of the United States, is bolstering Americans’ belief that they’ve personally felt the impact of climate change."
Source: AP, 09/27/2023"Cars Are A Major Predator For Wildlife. How Is Nature Adapting To Our Roads?"
"In his new book, Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet, Goldfarb explains how roads and cars are changing the lives of wildlife all over the world — and how roadkill has created a "crisis for biodiversity.""
Source: NPR, 09/27/2023"How Carbon Stored Underground Could Find Its Way Back Into the Atmosphere"
"Generous federal tax credits are driving the onrush of carbon capture and storage projects being proposed in the U.S. But like a game of whack-a-mole, there’s a chance the planet-warming emissions could seep back up into the atmosphere after they are injected underground."
Source: Floodlight, 09/27/2023"Indigenous Brazilians Celebrate Land Claims Win - But Fight Goes On"
"A few days ago, hundreds of Xokleng Indigenous people gathered around a screen in Ibirama-La Klãnõ territory in southern Brazil to watch the Supreme Court vote on Indigenous land rights."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 09/27/2023WA Prisoners Struggle With Wildfire Smoke As Ventilation Upgrades Go Unfunded
"When the wildfire smoke arrives, Harry Whitman has nowhere to go. “When there’s smoke or there’s a fire, they lock you in,” Whitman said. Whitman, president of the advocacy group Black Prisoners’ Caucus, is incarcerated at Airway Heights Corrections Center."
Source: Washington State Standard, 09/27/2023"Thinking Long-Term: Why We Should Bring Back Redwood Forests"
"Only 5 percent of the redwood forests that once stretched across coastal Northern California have never been logged. An initiative to restore these forests is gaining momentum, aided by research showing that redwoods store more aboveground carbon than any forest on Earth."
Source: YaleE360, 09/27/2023Biden Tells Pacific Islands Leaders That He Will Act On Climate
"President Joe Biden on Monday told leaders from the 18-member Pacific Islands Forum that he has heard their warnings about the impact of climate change on their region and that his administration is committed to helping them meet the challenge."
Source: AP, 09/26/2023"Trump Blasted For Threats Against Comcast, NBC"
"Former President Trump is coming under intense criticism for a social media post late Sunday in which he threatened to investigate Comcast, the parent company of NBCUniversal, NBC News and MSNBC, over the outlet’s coverage of him should he be elected president again."
Source: The Hill, 09/26/2023"‘Monster Fracks’ Are Getting Far Bigger. And Far Thirstier."
"Giant new oil and gas wells that require astonishing volumes of water to fracture bedrock are threatening America’s fragile aquifers."
Source: NYTimes, 09/26/2023"‘False Promise’: DOE’s Carbon Removal Plans Rankle Community Advocates"
"The Biden administration has championed carbon removal projects as better neighbors than the pollution-spewing industries of the past. But the Department of Energy’s first two candidates for its $3.5 billion direct air capture program have conducted an opaque early outreach process in the disadvantaged Louisiana and Texas communities where the projects would be built."
Source: E&E News, 09/26/2023"The Human Limit: The Inequality Of Heat"
"After the third day without power, the residents of Kasia Bagan had had enough. Their city of Kolkata was in the midst of a blistering heat wave, with temperatures rising to 105 degrees, making life in the narrow lanes and in their tiny one-room homes nearly unbearable."
Source: Washington Post, 09/26/2023"Court Rejects Utah’s Request To Block EPA Smog Rule"
"A federal appeals court on Monday sided with the Biden administration against the state of Utah in a lawsuit over the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “good neighbor” rule, which regulates the flow of air pollution across state lines."
Source: The Hill, 09/26/2023"The Climate Ambition Summit Was Notably Unambitious, Advocates Say"
"For a conference aimed at inspiring world leaders to dramatically ramp up their efforts to combat climate change, the United Nations’ Climate Ambition Summit was anything but ambitious."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/26/2023Judge Blocks US Plan To Scale Back Gulf Lease Sale To Protect Whale Species
"A federal judge has ordered the Interior Department to expand next week’s scheduled sale of of Gulf of Mexico oil and gas leases by millions of acres, rejecting a scaled-back plan announced last month by the Biden administration as part of an effort to protect an endangered whale species."
Source: AP, 09/26/2023
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