"Why Farmers Use Harmful Insecticides They May Not Need"
"Neonicotinoids coat nearly all the corn and soybean seeds available for planting. Agrichemical companies have designed it that way."
Source: Civil Eats, 10/31/2024
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"Disaster Misinformation Is Part of the US Political Landscape Now"
"In September 2018, I was in North Carolina riding out Hurricane Florence and reporting on its impacts. For a few days, I embedded with a FEMA rescue team stationed at Hope Mills Recreation Center near Fayetteville, accompanying emergency responders as they evacuated a senior center in the middle of the night and touring flooded neighborhoods by day."
Source: Bloomberg, 10/31/2024"The American Climate Corps Faces an Uncertain Future If Trump Wins"
"President Biden’s New Deal-inspired green jobs program has been a target of Republican criticism."
Source: Bloomberg Green, 10/31/2024"Army Of Bots Promotes Petrostate Hosting Global Climate Talks"
"At least 1,800 bots on the social media site X are promoting the controversial choice of Azerbaijan, a major oil and gas producer, to host next month’s U.N. Climate Change Conference known as COP29, according to a new analysis shared exclusively with The Washington Post."
Source: Washington Post, 10/30/2024"10 State AG Races To Watch On Climate And Energy"
"Ten states are gearing up to elect the legal officials who will duke it out in court on their behalf on issues such as the nation’s response to climate change and the transition to renewable fuels."
Source: E&E News, 10/30/2024"How Elon Musk Might Use His Pull With Trump to Help Tesla"
"Although Donald Trump has opposed policies that favor electric cars, if he becomes president he could ease regulatory scrutiny of Tesla or protect lucrative credits and subsidies."
Source: NYTimes, 10/30/2024"E.P.A., Just Rebounding From Trump Years, Faces an Uncertain Future"
"Perhaps more than any other federal agency, the one responsible for protecting air, water and public health is a target for Donald Trump and his allies."
Source: NYTimes, 10/30/2024New Reports Ahead of COP29 Show World Spinning Its Wheels on Climate Action
"A trio of reports released ahead of next month’s COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan all show that the existing national policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions under the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement will heat the planet by close to 3 degrees Celsius by 2100, as warming has accelerated in the past few years."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/29/2024"New Survey Puts Human Face On Pollution Caused By U.S. Wood Pellet Mills"
"A new groundbreaking survey highlights the human toll from pollution and other quality of life impacts connected to those living near the forest biomass industry’s wood pellet mills in the U.S Southeast. Door-to-door interviews were conducted by a coalition of NGOs, with 312 households surveyed in five mostly poor, rural and minority communities located near pellet mills"
Source: Mongabay, 10/29/2024Albania Turns Away Ship Suspected Of Carrying Toxic Waste
"Albania prevented Monday a ship suspected of transferring a huge amount of hazardous waste from docking at Tirana’s main port, officials said, after a watchdog group alerted authorities."
Source: AP, 10/29/2024Biden Apologizes For The ‘Sin’ Of A 150-Year Indian Boarding School Policy
"President Joe Biden on Friday formally apologized to Native Americans for the “sin” of a government-run boarding school system that for decades forcibly separated children from their parents, calling it a “blot on American history” in his first presidential visit to Indian Country."
Source: AP, 10/28/2024Jailed Reporters, Silenced Networks: What Trump Says He'd Do To The Media
"On the campaign trail and in interviews, Trump has suggested that if he regains the White House, he will exact vengeance on news outlets that anger him. More specifically, Trump has pledged to toss reporters in jail and strip major television networks of their broadcast licenses as retribution for coverage he didn't like."
Source: NPR, 10/28/2024"A Pivotal Choice: Trump vs. Harris on Climate Change"
"Kamala Harris calls global warming an “existential threat.” Donald Trump dismisses it as a “scam.”"
Source: NYTimes, 10/28/2024Water Firms In England ‘Passed’ Pollution Tests That Were Never Carried Out
"Water firms “passed” thousands of pollution tests under a self-monitoring regime … yet the tests were never even conducted, the Observer can reveal. The water firms’ own operational data for sewage plants across the country reveals how outflows of effluent had stopped – in some cases for just a few hours – on days that samples were supposed to be taken."
Source: Guardian, 10/28/2024Nevada Lithium Mine Wins Final Permit Despite Risk To Endangered Wildflower
"For the first time under President Joe Biden, a federal permit for a new lithium mine has been approved for a Nevada project essential to his clean energy agenda, despite conservationists’ vows to sue over the plan, which they say will drive an endangered wildflower to extinction."
Source: AP, 10/25/2024
