When Native Rights, Conservation, and a Very Lucrative Fishery Collide
"In the fast-changing Bering Sea, a small tribe makes a big push to save their island".
Source: Sierra, 03/29/2023
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"EPA Cites 2 Oil And Gas Firms Over Permian Basin Pollution"
"Two Texas companies have resolved Clean Air Act violations with the Environmental Protection Agency by agreeing to reduce emissions of planet-warming methane and other harmful pollutants wafting from the nation’s largest oil and gas producing region."
Source: AP, 03/29/2023
"8th Circuit Delivers Climate Blow To Big Oil"
"Oil and gas companies on Thursday lost what may have been their best shot at creating disagreement between federal appeals courts — a key consideration for Supreme Court review — on a jurisdictional issue that has the potential to quash a broad set of climate challenges launched by local governments that want industry to pay up for the impacts of a warming planet."
Source: E&E News, 03/29/2023
"Texas Officials Target Climate Science In Textbooks"
"The Texas State Board of Education altered its internal guidance to schools last month to emphasize the “positive” aspects of fossil fuels in science textbooks."
Source: E&E News, 03/29/2023
Baltimore Blocks Treatment Of Contaminated Water From Ohio Train Derailment
"An environmental company abandoned a plan Tuesday to treat contaminated runoff water from East Palestine, Ohio, in Baltimore after city officials blocked it from using the sewer system, the latest challenge to cleaning the train derailment site amid opposition from communities unwilling to accept waste."
Source: Washington Post, 03/29/2023
Plastics Cause Health Issues From Cancer To Birth Defects: Study
"Plastics are responsible for wide-ranging health impacts including cancers, lung disease and birth defects, according to the first analysis of the health hazards of plastics across their entire life cycle – from extraction for manufacturing, through to dumping into landfill and oceans."
Source: Guardian, 03/29/2023
Judge Rules BNSF Intentionally Violated Agreement With Swinomish Tribe
"BNSF intentionally violated the terms of an easement agreement with the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community when the railway company ran 100-car trains carrying crude oil over the reservation, a federal judge ruled Monday."
Source: Seattle Times, 03/29/2023
"Congressional Democrats Call on EPA To Tighten Proposed Soot Standards"
"More than 80 congressional Democrats, led by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), urged the Biden administration to strengthen proposed rules on soot pollution in a letter Tuesday."
Source: The Hill, 03/29/2023
"He Wanted to Unclog Cities. Now He’s ‘Public Enemy No. 1.’"
"Researchers like Carlos Moreno, the professor behind a popular urban planning concept, are struggling with conspiracy theories and death threats."
Source: NYTimes, 03/29/2023
New Flu Spilling Over From Cows To People In U.S. Should We Worry?
"In 2011, a farmer in Oklahoma had a bunch of sick pigs. The animals had what looked like the flu."
Source: NPR, 03/29/2023
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