"US Lagging on Ocean Plastic Litter, OECD Says in Critical Report"
"An international organization of democracies chastised the US on Thursday for its outsize contribution to marine plastic litter."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 06/23/2023
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"Oregon County Sues Fossil Fuel Companies Over 2021 Heat Dome"
"The Oregon county that includes Portland on Thursday filed a lawsuit against several fossil fuel companies and their business partners in an effort to hold them responsible for a deadly heat wave in 2021."
Source: NYTimes, 06/23/2023"Meteorologist Who Was Threatened Over Climate Coverage to Leave Job"
"The chief meteorologist of a television news station in Iowa said this week that he was leaving his job to start a career in science, citing in large part the post-traumatic stress disorder that he said he had suffered after he was threatened last year over his on-air coverage of climate change."
Source: NYTimes, 06/23/2023"Beijing Soars Above 41 Degrees Celsius, Smashes June Record"
"The temperature in Beijing breached 41 degrees Celsius on Thursday and shattered the record for the hottest day in June as heatwaves that had seared northern China a week earlier returned to the Chinese capital."
Source: Reuters, 06/23/2023EPA Hearing: "Can Louisiana Properly Regulate Carbon Capture Wells?
"Louisiana’s ability to regulate carbon capture injection wells went before the court of public opinion Wednesday as proponents and critics of the burgeoning industry sparred at the first day of a three-day public comment marathon on the state’s bid to wrest control of the wells from the federal government."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 06/23/2023"Twelve New Kids’ Beach Reads to Inspire Action and Adventure"
"Young readers can become archaeologists, seaweed harvesters, and Arctic explorers, all through the pages of books."
Source: Hakai, 06/23/2023Just Two People – But Millions Of Inhabitants On Tiny Cornish Island
"Looe Island is a case study in how to boost biodiversity, a place where the wardens, Claire Lewis and her partner, Jon Ross, are the only residents, alongside gulls, godwits and comma butterflies".
Source: Guardian, 06/23/2023"Biden Admin To Strengthen Endangered Species Protections"
"The Biden administration rolled out a package Wednesday to fortify protections for plants and animals at risk of going extinct, restoring Endangered Species Act provisions that were curtailed during the Trump administration."
Source: E&E News, 06/22/2023"Texas Cities Set Temperature Records in Unremitting Heat Wave"
"A searing heat wave has pushed temperatures to record highs in recent days in several cities in South and West Texas, prompting health advisories and pleas for energy conservation."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/22/2023Enviros Petition Biden To Crack Down On Methane Emissions From Landfills
"More than a dozen environmental groups are asking the Biden administration to crack down on methane emissions from landfills."
Source: The Hill, 06/22/2023Tribal Voices Left Out of Key Nuclear Cleanup on Ancestral Land
"Three federally recognized tribes have devoted decades to restoring the condition of their ancestral lands in southeastern Washington state to what they were before those lands became the most radioactively contaminated site in the nation’s nuclear weapons complex, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation."
Source: AP, 06/22/2023"Ruling Clouds EPA Pebble Veto, but Mine Remains Unlikely"
"The EPA will likely need to revise its rationale for protecting Alaska’s Bristol Bay from the proposed Pebble Mine following the Supreme Court’s June ruling in a pivotal Clean Water Act case, but the mine is still unlikely to proceed, legal experts say."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 06/22/2023"First ‘Lab-Grown’ Meat Approved By Regulators In US"
"Regulators have approved “lab-grown” meat to be sold in the United States for the first time at restaurants and eventually in supermarkets."
Source: The Hill, 06/22/2023Lenders Continue Pouring Money Into Meat and Dairy, Despite Climate Promises
"The world’s biggest development banks have agreed that they will funnel their financial support to businesses that promise to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But a new analysis published Wednesday by animal and environmental advocacy groups says those banks have given billions to big livestock and grain companies expanding greenhouse gas-intensive agricultural systems."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/22/2023In ‘Cancer Alley,’ Carbon Capture Push Draws Fire From Environmentalists
"EPA proposes handing regulation of carbon storage to state officials in Louisiana. Activists fear the risks, and the chance it could perpetuate the fossil fuel industry."
Source: Washington Post, 06/22/2023
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