"The Problem with Boating’s High-Fiberglass Diet"
"Fiberglass revolutionized boating, but decades later, discarded and degraded vessels are adding to marine pollution."
Source: Hakai, 07/17/2023
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"Bringing Back Monarchs One Ranch at a Time"
"When he was growing up in the coastal California village of Bolinas in the 1980s, Ole Schell remembers, the monarchs that returned each fall to their overwintering sites seemed 'endless.'"
Source: Sierra, 07/17/2023Southwest's Enduring Heat Wave Is Expected To Intensify Over The Weekend
"An expansive heatwave that's been baking the southern United States for nearly two weeks is only expected to intensify as the weekend approaches, forecasters say. Heat advisories and warnings are still in place from Florida to Arizona, impacting more than 111 million people, according to a count from the Associated Press."
Source: NPR, 07/14/2023"Republicans Assail Kerry’s Climate Strategy as He Prepares for China Talks"
"Republicans on Thursday accused John Kerry, President Biden’s special envoy for climate, of being soft on China as he prepared to travel to Beijing to restart discussions between the world’s top two polluting countries."
Source: NYTimes, 07/14/2023"Leaks Can Make Natural Gas as Bad for the Climate as Coal, a Study Says"
"Natural gas, long seen as a cleaner alternative to coal and an important tool in the fight to slow global warming, can be just as harmful to the climate, a new study has concluded, unless companies can all but eliminate the leaks that plague its use."
Source: NYTimes, 07/14/2023WHO Lists Sweetener Aspartame As Possible Cancer Cause. Some Say It’s Safe
"The World Health Organization’s cancer agency has deemed the sweetener aspartame — found in diet soda and countless other foods — as a “possible” cause of cancer, while a separate expert group looking at the same evidence said it still considers the sugar substitute safe in limited quantities.
The differing results of the coordinated reviews were released early Friday. One came from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a special branch of the WHO. The other report was from an expert panel selected by WHO and another U.N. group, the Food and Agriculture Organization.
Source: AP, 07/14/2023Houston To Relocate People Living Near Polluted Union Pacific Rail Yard
"Houston plans to spend millions of dollars to relocate residents from neighborhoods located near a rail yard polluted by a cancer-linked wood preservative that has been blamed for an increase in cancer cases, the city’s mayor announced Thursday."
Source: AP, 07/14/2023EPA Finalizes Rule Furthering 40 Percent Phasedown Of Planet-Warming HFCs
"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Tuesday took another step toward reducing the use of planet-warming gasses called hydrofluorocarbons, issuing a rule moving toward a 40 percent phasedown of the substances."
Source: The Hill, 07/14/2023Oil And Gas Responsible For $77 Billion In Annual US Health Damages: Study
"Proposed EPA methane limits may help curtail 7,500 yearly deaths from oil and gas production sites."
Source: EHN, 07/14/2023Industry Wants New Pipeline on Navajo Land Scarred by Decades of Drilling
"For the last several months, one of the nation’s largest pipeline operators has gone from one local government meeting on the Navajo Nation to another, outlining plans for what could end up being the country’s longest hydrogen pipeline."
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/14/2023"European Union Approves Ambitious Nature Restoration Law"
"The European Union strengthened its environmental policies this week with adoption of a nature restoration law that member countries hope will help them meet climate and biodiversity targets set under the 2015 Paris Agreement and a global biodiversity agreement reached late last year."
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/14/2023"Cement Warms The Planet. This Green Version Just Got A Key Nod Of Approval."
"Companies are finding more environmentally friendly ways to make cement, which accounts for about a twelfth of global carbon dioxide emissions, making it worse for the climate than flying. Now they have to convince builders that their climate-friendly cement will hold just as well as the conventional stuff."
Source: Washington Post, 07/14/2023"Excessive Heat Is Baking US Southwest And Expected To Get Worse"
"A prolonged heat wave blanketed a swath of the U.S. stretching from California to South Florida on Wednesday, with forecasters expecting temperatures that could shatter records in parts of the Southwest in the coming days."
Source: Reuters, 07/13/2023EPA Proposes Tighter Limits on Lead Dust in Homes and Child Care Facilities
"The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed to strengthen requirements for the removal of lead-based paint dust in homes and child care facilities built before 1978, an effort to eliminate exposure to lead that could require millions of property owners to pay for abatement."
Source: NYTimes, 07/13/2023"Farmers Insurance Pulls Out of Florida, Affecting 100,000 Policyholders"
"Farmers Insurance will stop offering its policies in Florida, including home, auto and umbrella policies, in a change that will force thousands of people to change their insurance provider."
Source: CNN, 07/13/2023
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