"Indigenous Anti-Dam Activist Killed In Honduras"
"A Honduran Indigenous activist who helped led a fight against the construction of a dam has been killed, authorities said Monday."
Source: AP, 03/23/2021
Military
Can DOE Store 50 Tons Of Weapons-Grade Plutonium For 10,000 Years?
"The nuclear age is undergoing a paradigm shift. During much of the latter half of the past century, the nuclear enterprise was ascendant; now, it has entered a period of decline and uncertain long-term custodianship. This reversal of fortune is especially apparent in the United States’ efforts to rid itself of its unwanted reserves of plutonium."
Source: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 03/11/2021
Trump-Emboldened Extremists Could Spell Trouble For Biden Interior Dept.
"Experts worry it’s only a matter of time before Biden’s environmental agenda collides with anti-government militias."
Source: HuffPost, 03/08/2021
"States Clash With Pentagon on PFAS Water Limits, Polluted Sites"
"Six states with drinking water standards for so-called “forever chemicals” are now wrestling with what those limits mean when water contamination from Department of Defense sites seep into their communities."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 02/09/2021
"How Biden’s Climate Ambitions Could Shift America’s Global Footprint"
"President Joseph R. Biden on Wednesday said climate change should be regarded as “an essential element of U.S. foreign policy and national security.” That is likely to bring big changes for America’s role in the world."
Source: NYTimes, 01/28/2021
“Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of the Anthropocene”
A case study in how journalists can center environmental news around social justice is at the heart of a new volume of scholarly essays reviewed in the latest BookShelf. While its tale of rural residents poisoned by contaminants is decades old, its lesson of what happens when power players bank on media acquiescence holds for stories of today.
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"Inside the C.I.A., She Became a Spy for Planet Earth"
"Linda Zall is disclosing how she toiled anonymously within the intelligence agency to help scientists intensify their studies of a changing planet."
Source: NYTimes, 01/11/2021
"Colombian Environmental Official Assassinated"
"Javier Francisco Parra, 47, was shot on December 3, 2020 in the municipality of La Macarena, in Colombia’s south near the department of Meta." "Between January 1 and December 6, 2020, a jaw-dropping 284 environmental leaders and defenders have been assassinated in Colombia."
Source: Mongabay, 12/09/2020
Climate Change Policy Likely To Permeate Executive Under Biden
What will climate change policy look like under a Biden administration? If nothing else, it appears it will be broadly based across a wide range of executive branch operations. This week’s TipSheet walks you through the top 10 federal departments, agencies and spending centers and how they will pivot to focus on global warming.
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For Waste Industry, PFAS Disposal Leads to Controversy, Regulation, Mounting Costs
The toxic compounds known as PFAS are causing a crisis in the waste and recycling industry, which faces mounting regulation and litigation over handling its presence in the waste stream. One reporter on the PFAS front lines explains the industry’s dilemma, as well as the challenges of covering the story and how a financial prism led to important insights into industry’s response.
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