"A River in Flux"
"Extreme flooding and droughts may be the new norm for the Amazon, challenging its people and ecosystems."
Source: Inside Climate News, 04/01/2024
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#SEJ2024 Opening Program: Welcome to Philly!
Join the livestream of the #SEJ2024 opening program! We'll preview UPenn’s environmental-related research and efforts; showcase Philly, its foods and sports craziness; hear from the Philly Youth Poet Laureate and take a virtual artistic tour through the city’s amazing street murals and environmental justice history. We’ll also hear from our UPenn hosts and disinformation warriors — Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Michael Mann — who together have quite a story to tell about disinformation overwhelming our world and what we might be able to do about it. 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. ET.
Last Coal-Burning Power Plant In New England Set To Close. Enviros Win.
"The last coal-fired power plant in New England, which had been the focus of a lawsuit and protests, is set to close in a victory for environmentalists."
Source: AP, 04/01/2024
"Mining Fight on the Okefenokee Swamp’s Edge May Have Only Just Begun"
"Legislation to protect critical wetlands faces uncertainty as titanium mine moves closer to permitting."
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 04/01/2024
"Chocolate Prices To Keep Rising As West Africa’s Cocoa Crisis Deepens"
"Surveying the stripped landscape of her farm - dotted with pools of cyanide-tainted, tea coloured waste water left by illegal gold miners - is enough to make Janet Gyamfi break down. Only last year, the 27-hectare plot in western Ghana was covered with nearly 6,000 cocoa trees. Today, less than a dozen remain."
Source: Reuters, 04/01/2024
EV Charging Stations Key To Biden Climate Agenda, Yet Only 4 States Have Them
"LONDON, Ohio — Within 24 hours of buying his red Ford Mustang Mach-E, Liam Sawyer set off on a camping trip.
Sawyer, who bought the electric SUV “because I think the technology is cool and the range is just long enough,” searched ahead of time for convenient charging stations between his home in Indianapolis and Allegheny National Forest in western Pennsylvania.
Source: AP, 04/01/2024
"Iowa Official Finds Dead Fish In 50 Miles Of Fertilizer-Contaminated River"
"State conservation officials have found no living fish in the East Nishnabotna River south of Red Oak — the result of a massive fertilizer spill at a farmers cooperative."
Source: Iowa Capital Dispatch, 04/01/2024
Uranium Being Mined Near Grand Canyon As Prices Soar, US Pushes Nuclear Power
"The largest uranium producer in the United States is ramping up work just south of Grand Canyon National Park on a long-contested project that largely has sat dormant since the 1980s."
Source: AP, 04/01/2024
Study Says Since 1979 Climate Change Has Made Heat Waves Longer, Hotter
"Climate change is making giant heat waves crawl slower across the globe and they are baking more people for a longer time with higher temperatures over larger areas, a new study finds."
Source: AP, 04/01/2024
"EPA Cracks Down On Truck Emissions"
"The Biden administration rolled out another rulemaking central to its climate agenda with a regulation slashing pollution from heavy-duty trucks."
Source: E&E News, 04/01/2024
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