"Charles Is Not Your Climate King"
"When Queen Elizabeth II died September 2022, her son Charles III became the new king of England. Immediately, headlines advised on how he could brand himself as the climate king."
Source: Earther, 05/09/2023
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"Wanted: Lost Crab Traps. Reward: $5"
"Crab traps work a bit like Roach Motels: crabs crawl in, but they don’t crawl out. That’s good news for crab fishers’ chances of pulling in a good catch, but when traps get lost at sea, they become a menace to all sorts of animals."
Source: Hakai, 05/09/2023Almost 30,000 People Displaced As Alberta Continues Battling Wildfires
"A change in weather conditions has helped firefighters fight the wildfires that have forced thousands of Albertans to flee their homes this past week, officials from the Alberta Emergency Management Agency and Alberta Wildfire said Sunday."
Source: CBC News, 05/08/2023"Fire Burns For Third Day At Shell Texas Chemical Plant"
"A fire burned for a third day on Sunday at Shell Plc's chemical plant in the Houston suburb of Deer Park, Texas, a company spokesperson said."
Source: Reuters, 05/08/2023"Federal Pipeline Agency Rolls Out Methane Proposal"
"Federal pipeline regulators Friday formally proposed their first regulations to crack down on natural gas leaks from pipelines to reduce pollution and the effects of climate change."
Source: E&E News, 05/08/2023"West Oakland Faces A Test: Undoing Decades Of Environmental Injustice"
"Highway and city planners saddled a once-proud Black community with freeways and diesel fumes, while more affluent white neighborhoods were spared the traffic and toxics."
Source: Washington Post, 05/08/2023"Oil Boom Transforms Guyana, Prompting A Scramble For Spoils"
"ANN’S GROVE, Guyana — Villagers in this tiny coastal community lined up on the soggy grass, leaned into the microphone and shared their grievances as someone in the crowd yelled, “Speak the truth!”"
Source: AP, 05/08/2023"Circuit Panel’s Halt of EPA Ozone Rule Threatens National Limits"
"A divided Fifth Circuit panel ruling to halt an EPA decision to disapprove key ozone plans in Texas and Louisiana foreshadows similar decisions across regional circuit courts that threaten to upend established precedent."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 05/08/2023Florida Black Community’s Progress Is Threatened by Proposed LNG Plant
"Leaders in North Port St. Joe had big plans for tourism, real estate, even a Black history museum. Then they found out, almost by accident, that elected officials had been pushing the LNG terminal for years without telling them."
Source: Inside Climate News, 05/08/2023Tribe Was Barred From Cultural Burning — Then A Fire Hit Their Community
"The land near Yosemite National Park had been tended by Irene Vasquez’s family for decades. They took care of their seven acres by setting small fires to thin vegetation and help some plants to grow. But the steep, chaparral-studded slopes surrounding the property hadn’t seen fire since Vasquez and fellow members of the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation were barred from practicing cultural burning on a wider scale some 100 years before."
Source: LA Times, 05/08/2023"Some Farmers Resent Ethanol Industry’s Push For Carbon Pipelines"
"Craig Schaunaman, who farms thousands of acres, has been invested in the ethanol industry since its early days and even served on the board of an ethanol plant. But a carbon-capture pipeline supported by dozens of ethanol plants would cross his land, and he’s against it, even though ethanol officials say the pipeline is crucial to the future viability of the industry.
Source: States Newsroom, 05/08/2023"Radar, Cameras Show Sea Birds Avoid Wind Turbines"
"Offshore wind energy critics often cite the risk of collision with birds as an argument against the use of wind power. But a new study conducted by European energy company Vattenfall shows that offshore wind turbines at one UK wind farm are much less dangerous to birds than previously thought, a step towards debunking common claims that turbines are a major contributor to bird mortality."
Source: Climate Denial Crock, 05/08/2023Black Alabamians Endured Poor Sewage For Decades. Now They May See Justice.
"Officials in Alabama discriminated against Black residents in a rural county by denying them access to adequate sanitation systems, imposing burdensome fines and liens and ignoring the serious health risks plaguing the community, according to a landmark environmental justice agreement announced Thursday by the Biden administration."
Source: Washington Post, 05/05/2023Texas’ Water Infrastructure Is Broken, Jeopardizing Quality And Supply
"On a daily basis, water managers in cities across the state move from crisis to crisis hoping to keep the water flowing to residents."
Source: Texas Tribune, 05/05/2023"Living and Breathing on the Front Line of a Toxic Chemical Zone"
"As the Biden administration moves to curb health threats caused by toxic chemicals, the debate hits home for families living near petrochemical plants."
Source: NYTimes, 05/05/2023
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