Meat, Dairy And Rice Production Will Bust 1.5C Climate Target: Study
"Emissions from the food system alone will drive the world past 1.5C of global heating, unless high-methane foods are tackled."
Source: Guardian, 03/07/2023
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"Billion-Dollar Power Lines Finally Inching Ahead to Help US Grids"
"The biggest impediment to the US achieving a cleaner power grid isn't climate deniers or fossil-fuel lobbies; it’s a lack of transmission lines. The country badly needs more conduits to cart wind and solar energy and hydropower to cities." "Suddenly several big power-line projects in the US are moving ahead, bringing with them a flood of potential wind and solar power."
Source: Bloomberg Green, 03/07/2023"Colorado Lawmakers Seek Suspension Of Utah Oil Train Project"
"U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse of Colorado on Monday wrote a letter to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack urging him to formally suspend federal authorization of a Utah rail project that will send up to five, two-mile-long oil trains a day along the Colorado River, under the Continental Divide at Winter Park, and through downtown Denver."
Source: Colorado Newsline, 03/07/2023"EPA Fires Back Against Texas Challenge of Biden’s Waters Rule"
"The EPA hit back against Texas and other states suing to vacate the agency’s new waters of the US rule, saying the states have sued to halt a rule that isn’t much different from the status quo."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 03/07/2023"What To Know About The 'Red Tide' Hitting Florida Beaches"
"The harmful "red tide," which has been known to discolor coastal waters and kill marine life off the coast of Florida, has returned for another year.
The toxic organism that paints the waters red was detected in February and was found at higher-than-normal levels in several Southwest Florida counties in recent days, state officials said.
Since it returned, grisly photos of dead fish washing up on Florida beaches have proliferated, and federal authorities are warning people of the possibility of respiratory irritation from contaminated air."
Source: NPR, 03/07/2023"Environmentalists: Maine Dam Operator Not Protecting Salmon"
"Environmental groups and a Native American tribe accused the operator of a Maine dam on Monday of not fulfilling its obligation to protect the country’s last remaining Atlantic salmon river run."
Source: AP, 03/07/2023"UAE's Jaber Urges Big Oil To Join Fight Against Climate Change"
"A top oil executive from the United Arab Emirates on Monday urged the energy industry to join the fight against climate change, borrowing a famous line from a U.S. astronaut aboard a damaged spacecraft during the Apollo 13 mission in 1970."
Source: Reuters, 03/07/2023Norfolk Southern To Pay For Temporary Relocation During Soil Cleanup
"Norfolk Southern Railway will pay for temporary relocation for people who live within a mile of the site of a train derailment that spilled hazardous chemicals, amid ongoing cleanup efforts."
Source: The Hill, 03/07/2023"Mapping California’s ‘Zombie’ Forests"
"A warming climate has left a fifth of the conifer forests that blanket California's Sierra Nevada stranded in habitats that no longer suit them, according to a study published last week by researchers at Stanford University."
Source: NYTimes, 03/07/2023"Nations Reach Accord To Protect Marine Life On High Seas"
"For the first time, United Nations members have agreed on a unified treaty to protect biodiversity in the high seas, representing a turning point in a yearslong effort to bestow order on vast stretches of the planet where conservation has previously been hampered by a confusing patchwork of laws."
Source: AP, 03/06/2023Canada Environment Minister Concerned About Imperial Oil Tailings Leak
"Canada's environment minister on Friday said he was "deeply concerned" about a leak of toxic tailings water from Imperial Oil's Kearl oil sands mine in northern Alberta that has been going on for months."
Source: , 03/06/2023Plan To Incinerate Soil From Ohio Derailment Is ‘Horrifying’ - Expert
"Contaminated soil from the site around the East Palestine train wreck in Ohio is being sent to a nearby incinerator with a history of clean air violations, raising fears that the chemicals being removed from the ground will be redistributed across the region."
Source: Guardian, 03/06/2023"Storms Bolster California Snowpack, Ease Drought"
"Record rain and snowfall in recent weeks has eased half of California out of a persistent drought and bolstered the store of mountain snow that the state relies on to provide water during the warm, dry spring and summer."
Source: Reuters, 03/06/2023"EPA Mandates States Report On Cyber Threats To Water Systems"
"The Biden administration on Friday said it would require states to report on cybersecurity threats in their audits of public water systems, a day after it released a broader plan to protect critical infrastructure against cyberattacks."
Source: AP, 03/06/2023Kentucky Residents Angered by USFS Logging Plan That Targets Mature Trees
"Brandon Bowlin learned of the U.S. government’s plan for clear-cutting in the southernmost mountains of Daniel Boone National Forest only a few weeks after the hard summer rains of 2022, when the earth slid off a mountain beneath a slope he had once logged."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/06/2023
