Reversing Trump, White House Moves To Weigh Climate In Infrastructure
"Federal regulators have been instructed to consider planet-warming pollution before approving large projects like pipelines and airports."
Source: HuffPost, 01/11/2023
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"U.S. Sets Up Office To Oversee Abandoned Oil Well Cleanup"
"U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland on Tuesday issued an order to establish an office to ensure efficient use of the Biden administration's $4.7 billion investment in the cleanup of abandoned oil and gas wells."
Source: Reuters, 01/11/2023"Climate Deniers Try to 'Fact Check' Real Reporting"
"A prominent group of deniers with a history of dark money benefactors is now trying to claim media is biased, thanks to new funding."
Source: Earther, 01/11/2023"Critic Of Fossil Fuels To Lead Key Offshore Oil Agency For Biden"
"The Biden administration is using a new opening at a powerful offshore energy agency to elevate a critic of fossil fuels who previously was blocked from a top Interior Department job because of opposition from oil industry allies in the Senate."
Source: Washington Post, 01/11/2023"EPA Urges Groups to Apply for Record Environmental Equity Grants"
"The EPA invited environmental justice advocates, communities, and other groups on Tuesday to apply for $100 million in environmental justice grants, a record amount provided under last year’s climate law."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 01/11/2023"Extreme Weather Caused 18 Disasters In US Last Year, Costing $165Bn"
"The US endured a particularly painful year as communities wrestled with the growing impacts of the climate crisis, with 18 major disasters wreaking havoc across the country as planet-heating emissions continued to climb."
Source: Guardian, 01/11/2023The New Soldiers in Propane’s Fight Against Climate Action: TV Stars
"For D.I.Y. enthusiasts, Matt Blashaw is a familiar face, judging bathroom remodels or planning surprise home makeovers on popular cable television shows. Mr. Blashaw also has an unusually strong opinion about how Americans should heat their homes: by burning propane, or liquid petroleum gas."
Source: NYTimes, 01/11/2023"UN Says Ozone Layer Slowly Healing, Hole To Mend By 2066"
"Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says."
Source: AP, 01/10/2023Grijalva Blasts House Rules Package For Making Public Land Transfers Easier
"The top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee blasted a provision in the proposed House rules package that would make it easier to transfer public lands, calling it an indication the new GOP majority intends to pursue a broadly pro-industry agenda."
Source: The Hill, 01/10/2023"EPA, Pipeline Operator Reach Deal To Clean Up Kansas Spill"
"The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it has reached an agreement with a pipeline operator to clean up a spill that dumped 14,000 bathtubs’ worth of crude oil into a rural Kansas creek."
Source: AP, 01/10/2023Low Salt Marsh Habitats Release More Carbon in Response to Warming: Study
"Salt marshes, excellent reservoirs of carbon, are living ecosystems with vegetation and microscopic organisms that live, breathe, poop and die in the marsh mud."
Source: Inside Climate News, 01/10/2023"India Expects Utilities' Annual Coal Demand To Surge About 8%"
"India expects its power plants to burn about 8% more coal in the fiscal year ending March 2024, according to a senior government official and a power ministry presentation, after the country missed its 2022 renewable energy goal by more than 30%."
Source: Reuters, 01/10/2023"The Last 8 Years Were the Hottest on Record"
"The world remained firmly in warming’s grip last year, with extreme summer temperatures in Europe, China and elsewhere contributing to 2022 being the fifth-hottest year on record, European climate researchers said on Tuesday."
Source: NYTimes, 01/10/2023"U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rose 1.3% In 2022 - Rhodium"
"Greenhouse gas emissions increased slightly from the previous year in 2022 by 1.3%, keeping the U.S. just 15.5% below 2005 levels and off track to meet its global pledge to slash emissions 50-52% by 2030, according to estimates published on Tuesday by research group Rhodium."
Source: Reuters, 01/10/2023"Global Pollinator Losses Causing 500,000 Early Deaths A Year – Study"
"The global loss of pollinators is already causing about 500,000 early deaths a year by reducing the supply of healthy foods, a study has estimated."
Source: Guardian, 01/10/2023
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