"The Instagram Wellness Influencers Spreading Climate Misinformation"
"A new report details a growing fad among a certain sect of conspiracy-minded health and lifestyle influencers on Instagram: climate denial".
Source: HEATED, 11/21/2023
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Negotiations For Treaty To End Plastic Pollution Close Amid Disagreements
"The latest round of negotiations to craft a treaty to end global plastic pollution closed late on Sunday after strained talks in Nairobi, Kenya, where delegates failed to reach a consensus on how to advance a draft of the treaty after a week of negotiations."
Source: AP, 11/20/2023"Texas Board Rejects Many Science Textbooks Over Climate Change Messaging"
"A Republican-controlled Texas State Board of Education on Friday rejected seven of 12 proposed science textbooks for eighth graders that for the first time will require them to include information on climate change."
Source: Texas Tribune, 11/20/2023Residents and Enviros Slam New Dominion Gas Power Plant As ‘Slap In the Face’
"Virginia’s largest utility provider has faced a backlash from the state’s environmental community since it announced plans to build a new, large fossil fuel facility in Chesterfield."
Source: Inside Climate News, 11/20/2023"Top Companies' Lobbying Undermines Their Climate Pledges, Study Finds"
"Glencore, ExxonMobil and Stellantis are among companies lobbying for policies that conflict with their own pledges to cut carbon emissions, a study published by non-profit think tank InfluenceMap on Thursday found."
Source: Reuters, 11/17/2023"FTC Cracks Down On Food Industry For Paid Dietitian ‘Influencer’ Posts"
"Federal regulators announced warnings against two major food and beverage industry groups and a dozen nutrition influencers Wednesday, as part of a broad action to enforce stricter standards for how companies and social media creators disclose paid advertising."
Source: Washington Post, 11/17/20232 Enviros Targeted By A Hacking Network Say The Public Is The Real Victim
"Two environmentalists told a federal judge Thursday that the public was the real victim of a global computer hacking campaign that targeted those fighting big oil companies to get the truth out about global warming."
Source: AP, 11/17/2023"U.S. and China Agree to Displace Fossil Fuels by Ramping Up Renewables"
"The United States and China, the world’s two largest climate polluters, have agreed to jointly tackle global warming by ramping up wind, solar and other renewable energy with the goal of displacing fossil fuels."
Source: NYTimes, 11/16/2023COP28 Host UAE Has World’s Biggest Climate-Busting Oil Plans, Data Show
"The state oil company of the United Arab Emirates, whose CEO will preside over imminent UN climate negotiations, has the largest net-zero-busting expansion plans of any company in the world, according to new data."
Source: Guardian, 11/16/20232 Grim Reports On Global Climate Highlight Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Ill Health
"Humanity’s fight to curb climate change is failing in dozens of ways with people getting sicker and dying as the world warms and the fossil fuels causing it get more subsidies, according to two global reports issued Tuesday."
Source: AP, 11/15/2023"The Coming Senate Energy, Environment Committee Shuffle"
"There will be fresh Democratic faces at the top of two Senate committees that deal predominantly with energy and environmental issues next Congress, and observers hope those leaders can build on recent legislative wins."
Source: E&E News, 11/15/2023"Scientists Say Health Should Be The Core Of Global Plastic Treaty"
"More than 20 international scientists put forth a plan today to encourage world leaders to put human health at the center of global plastic treaty negotiations taking place this week in Nairobi, Kenya."
Source: EHN, 11/15/2023"Over 60 Countries Back Deal To Triple Renewable Energy This Decade"
"More than 60 countries have said they back a deal spearheaded by the European Union, United States and United Arab Emirates to triple renewable energy this decade and shift away from coal, two officials familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday."
Source: Reuters, 11/14/2023"Don’t Offend Monarchs, UAE Tells Reporters Ahead Of Climate Talks"
"The United Arab Emirates quietly established sweeping restrictions on the hundreds of journalists expected to visit the country for international climate talks later this month. Now, the UAE says it was a mistake."
Source: Politico, 11/14/2023Desperate For Water, Desert City Hopes To Build Pipeline To Calif. Aqueduct
"After decades of unrestricted pumping in the rain-starved northwestern corner of the Mojave Desert, the Indian Wells Valley Groundwater Basin Authority has the distinction of managing one of the most critically overdrawn aquifers in California."
Source: LA Times, 11/14/2023
