"Appeals Court Rules Two Trump Administration Gulf Lease Sales Unlawful"
"A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled two Trump-era Interior Department oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico were unlawful."
Source: The Hill, 08/31/2022
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"California’s 2035 Ban On New Gas-Powered Cars Set To Apply To Virginia"
"California’s decision to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars beginning in 2035 will also halt the sale of such vehicles in Virginia due to a 2021 law linking the commonwealth to the western state’s vehicle emissions standards, state attorneys have concluded."
Source: Virginia Mercury, 08/31/2022
"Here Are the Challenges Ahead for California’s Ban on Gas Cars"
"Enforcement could be complex and legal challenges are likely. But ultimately, experts say, success or failure will depend on steady supply and buyers’ appetite."
Source: NYTimes, 08/31/2022
"Explainer: Pakistan Fatal Flooding Has Hallmarks Of Warming"
"The familiar ingredients of a warming world were in place: searing temperatures, hotter air holding more moisture, extreme weather getting wilder, melting glaciers, people living in harm’s way, and poverty. They combined in vulnerable Pakistan to create unrelenting rain and deadly flooding."
Source: AP, 08/31/2022
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"Brazil’s ‘Man Of The Hole’ Dies, And An Amazonian Tribe Is No More"
"The last surviving member of an isolated Amazonian tribe died this month, Brazil’s national Indigenous agency, FUNAI, has announced."
Source: Washington Post, 08/30/2022
"Mississippi’s Largest City In Water Crisis As Treatment Plant Fails"
"The governor of Mississippi urged residents of Jackson, the state’s capital and largest city, not to drink the water there — if they still had access to it — warning that running water would soon be unavailable as the city’s long-struggling treatment plant failed."
Source: Washington Post, 08/30/2022
"Over Caves and Over Budget, Mexico’s Train Project Barrels Toward Disaster"
"Pitched as a way to develop the country’s poorest region, the Maya Train is threatened by a ballooning budget and rushed construction over fragile terrain. But Mexico’s president has refused to slow it down."
Source: NYTimes, 08/30/2022
Remote Mine Could Foretell the Future of America’s Electric Car Industry
"TAMARACK, Minn. — In this isolated town of about 100 people, dozens of employees are at work for Talon Metals, drawing long cylinders of rock from deep in the earth and analyzing their contents. They liken their work to a game of Battleship — each hole drilled allows them to better map out where a massive and long-hidden mineral deposit is lurking below."
Source: NYTimes, 08/30/2022
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