Secretive Court Has Awarded Over $100bn Public Money To Fossil Firms: Study
"Fossil fuel firms are biggest beneficiaries of investor-state dispute settlement courts which have awarded $114bn of public money".
Source: Guardian, 06/07/2024
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Lawsuits from Citizens and States Targeting Plastic Pollution Pile Up
"New litigation from state AG offices raises the stakes in court battles focused on fighting greenwashing and misleading claims about recycling."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/07/2024
Grassy Narrows First Nation Sues Ontario, Canada Over Mercury
"A First Nation in northwestern Ontario that has faced decades of mercury poisoning is suing the provincial and federal governments, arguing they've failed to protect its treaty rights."
Source: CBC News, 06/07/2024
"EPA Balked At TVA’s Fossil Fuel Plant, Then Stepped Aside"
"Top EPA officials supported a rebuke of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s environmental review of a gas-fueled power plant this spring, but they backed off when the electric utility ignored their criticism."
Source: E&E News, 06/07/2024
Mich. Bottled Water Company Is Still Extracting Millions of Gallons Free
"Gov. Gretchen Whitmer had pledged to crack down on bottled water companies taking water at the same time Flint, Michigan, faced a water crisis. Six years later and in her second term, little has changed."
Source: ProPublica, 06/07/2024
Calif. Oil Town Chose Oil-Tied Firm to Review Impacts of a Drilling Permit
"Signal Hill Petroleum spent millions to overturn California’s landmark law protecting neighborhoods from oil drilling. Now it wants to drill dozens of new wells in a city established a century ago to avoid taxes on oil development."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/07/2024
"IEA Expects Global Clean Energy Investment To Hit $2 Trillion In 2024"
"Global investment in clean energy technology and infrastructure is set to hit $2 trillion this year, twice the amount going into fossil fuels, an International Energy Agency report showed."
Source: Reuters, 06/07/2024
"Man In Mexico Dies In First Known Human Case Of H5N2 Bird Flu Variant"
"A 59-year-old male resident of Mexico died after being infected with a bird flu subtype never before confirmed to have spread to humans, the World Health Organization said Wednesday."
Source: Washington Post, 06/07/2024
27th IAVE World Volunteer Conference
With difficult progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, hundreds of volunteer representatives will make the case at this International Association for Volunteer Effort event in Busan, South Korea that volunteer action is essential, and has untapped potential, to help the world achieve a sustainable future.
"In Washington, D.C., The City’s ‘Forgotten River’ Cleans Up, Slowly"
"Bruce Holmes, 65, grew up fishing on the Anacostia River, a 9-mile (14-kilometer) urban waterway that flows through Washington, D.C. and parts of Maryland, and has long been defined by pollution and neglect."
Source: AP, 06/06/2024
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