"Truck Stops Upgrade to Recharge Electric Vehicles (and Their Drivers)"
"Highway travel centers are adding amenities like restaurants and dog parks to accommodate the expanded dwell time of electric vehicle owners."
Source: NYTimes, 10/03/2023
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"Fat Bear Week 2023 Is Upon Us. Here’s What You Need To Know."
"It’s the most wonderful time of the year — Fat Bear Week 2023 is here. The annual competition, hosted by the Katmai National Park and Preserve, pits brown bears against each other in a virtual bracket as they stock up for hibernation."
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, 10/03/2023Climate Change Means New York City's Flooding Is 'New Normal,' Governor Says
"Torrential downpours that caused flash flooding in New York City on Friday reflect a "new normal" due to the effects of climate change, New York Governor Kathy Hochul warned on Saturday, as the city began drying out after one of its wettest days ever."
Source: Reuters, 10/02/2023Illinois: "5 Dead After Crash, Chemical Leak In Downstate Teutopolis"
"Five people were killed in a multi-vehicle crash that included a tanker truck carrying a toxic chemical that spilled Friday night, triggering a large temporary evacuation near downstate Effingham. The truck was holding 7,500 gallons of anhydrous ammonia, of which about 4,000 gallons spilled, according to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency."
Source: Chicago Sun-Times, 10/02/2023"Mosquitoes Are a Growing Public Health Threat, Reversing Years of Progress"
"Climate change and the rapid evolution of the insect have helped drive up malaria deaths and brought dengue and other mosquito-borne viruses to places that never had to worry about them."
Source: NYTimes, 10/02/2023Things To Know About Klamath River Dam Removal, Largest In US History
"The largest dam removal project in United States history is underway along the California-Oregon border. The project will remove four dams on the Klamath River. Work has already begun on removing the smallest of the four dams."
Source: AP, 10/02/2023"‘My Body Was Poisoned’: Biden’s Lead Pipe Removal Plan Faces Hurdles"
"A string of unexpected impediments could delay the administration’s timeline on an issue that is central to its effort to address racial disparities."
Source: NYTimes, 10/02/2023Onondaga Nation Take Centuries-Old Land Rights Case To International Panel
"The Onondaga Nation has protested for centuries that illegal land grabs shrank its territory from what was once thousands of square miles in upstate New York to a relatively paltry patch of land south of Syracuse. ... So now the nation is presenting its case to an international panel."
Source: AP, 10/02/2023When Kula Needed Water To Stop Wildfire, It Got A Trickle. Same Elsewhere.
"Hours before devastating fires scorched the historic town of Lahaina on Maui, Kyle Ellison labored to save his rental house in Kula, a rural mountain town 24 miles away, from a different blaze."
Source: AP, 10/02/2023"Warmer Mediterranean Threatens Spain's Mussel Farms"
"Rising sea temperatures are killing mussels in Spain's Ebro delta and shellfish output is also suffering from Greece to Canada".
"EBRO DELTA, Spain - Mussel farmer Xavier Cabrera held out a handful of dry, dead mussels from his shellfish farm on the coast of the Ebro Delta, 100 miles (160 km) south of Barcelona. "Let's hope this isn't our future," he said ruefully.
A summer heatwave in the Mediterranean region killed off about 80% of the seed mussels - the tiny young that were going to be next year's harvest - and the little that was left of this year's production.
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 10/02/2023"Libya Flood Deaths Expose Climate Chasm In Conflict-Hit States"
"'Adaptation apartheid' is preventing fragile states from accessing finance to protect their people from global warming".
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 10/02/2023"In the Ambitious Bid to Reinvent South Baltimore, Justice Concerns Remain"
"Parks, trails, housing, commercial development, flood resiliency efforts and new community amenities are supposed to turn the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River into the next Inner Harbor. But some activists worry about gentrification and more injustice."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/02/2023"Biden to Offer Smallest-Ever Offshore Oil Rights Sale Plan"
"The Biden administration is charting plans to sell offshore oil-drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico over the next five years, while trimming the program to its smallest level ever.
The oil leasing plan being released by the Interior Department on Friday will contain only a low number of sales, according to people familiar with the deliberations who declined to be named because the blueprint isn’t yet public. That’s far from the 11 sales the agency proposed last year, and it would be the lowest in history.
Source: Bloomberg, 09/29/2023Trump Administration Forced Joshua Tree To Stay Open During Last US Shutdown
"Emails show David Bernhardt of interior department overrode superintendent of California park, causing ‘chaos and destruction’"
Source: Guardian, 09/29/2023"Republicans Fight Over Who Loves Fossil Fuels The Most At Second GOP Debate"
"After dodging surprisingly pointed questions about climate change at the first debate Fox News hosted last month, the contenders hoping to take on President Joe Biden next November battled each other over who would do most to ramp up production of the fossil fuels destabilizing the planet’s weather systems."
Source: HuffPost, 09/29/2023
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