"EPA Chief Seeks To Reassure Employees As Specter Of Trump Looms"
"In a speech to staff, Michael Regan rebuked the Trump administration’s efforts to sideline climate scientists."
Source: Washington Post, 06/28/2024
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"Another Chemical Recycling Plant Closure Offers ‘Flashing Red Light’"
"For the second time this year, a chemical recycling plant built to turn waste into usable products has closed, casting further doubt on the viability of an upstart industry that has been plagued by financial and technical challenges in its effort to scale up."
Source: EHN, 06/28/2024"Study Finds Small Streams, Recently Stripped of Protections, Are a Big Deal"
"Last year, the Supreme Court sharply restricted the federal government’s ability to limit pollution in small streams that sit dry for much of the year and fill up only after rainfall or snowmelt. Now, a new study finds that those bodies, so-called ephemeral streams, are significantly more important to the nation’s waterways than often appreciated."
Source: NYTimes, 06/28/2024"US Regulators Approve Louisiana LNG Plant Over Climate Objections"
"Federal regulators on Thursday approved a Louisiana liquefied natural gas project that has been a lightning rod for environmental activists and an energy policy litmus test for President Joe Biden's administration."
Source: Reuters, 06/28/2024Red List Of Threatened Species Grows By 1,000, But Hope For Some Animals
"Over 45,000 species are now threatened with extinction — 1,000 more than last year — according to an international conservation organization that blames pressures from climate change, invasive species and human activity such as illicit trade and infrastructural expansion."
Source: AP, 06/28/2024"Arctic Wildfire Emissions Rise As Blazes Sweep Russia's North"
"Wildfires above the Arctic Circle in June have unleashed carbon emissions that are the third highest for the time of year in two decades of monitoring, European scientists said on Thursday."
Source: Reuters, 06/28/2024"Water-Rich Gila River Tribe Near Phoenix Flexes Its Political Muscles"
"Stephen Roe Lewis grew up seeing stacks of legal briefs at the dinner table — often, about his tribe’s water. His father, the late Rodney Lewis, was general counsel for the Gila River Indian Community and fought for the tribe’s rights to water in the Southwest, eventually securing in 2004 the largest Native American water settlement in U.S. history."
Source: AP, 06/28/2024"Environmental Rulings To Watch At The Supreme Court"
"As the Supreme Court gets ready to issue the final rulings of the term, the justices are still sitting on a handful of cases that could deal a blow to environmental protections and agency powers."
Source: E&E News, 06/27/2024"Trump Says Clean Energy Is a Scam. That Could Benefit China, Experts Say."
"President Biden’s landmark climate law could be repealed in a Trump administration. Economists said that would jeopardize $488 billion in American investments."
Source: NYTimes, 06/27/2024"Summer Heat Brings New Misery To Palestinians In Israel's Gaza Campaign"
"Sweltering summer weather is worsening conditions in Gaza where nearly all the 2.3 million inhabitants have been driven from their homes by Israel's military campaign and where there is almost no electricity and little clean water."
Source: Reuters, 06/27/2024"US Rep. John Curtis Wins Utah GOP Primary For Romney’s Open Seat"
"A pair of moderate Utah Republicans won primary elections Tuesday for U.S. Senate and governor over far-right candidates who are loyalists to former President Donald Trump, the latest example of how Utah is a rare Republican state that doesn’t fully embrace Trump’s stranglehold on the GOP."
Source: AP, 06/27/2024"The Vanishing Islands That Failed to Vanish"
"Low-lying tropical island nations were expected to be early victims of rising seas. But research tells a surprising story: Many islands are stable. Some have even grown."
Source: NYTimes, 06/27/2024"He Monitors Solar Flares. Here’s What Keeps Him Up at Night."
"Mike Bettwy, a government meteorologist who focuses on potential threats from space weather, says that we are more prepared than ever — and that forecasting is only getting better."
Source: NYTimes, 06/27/2024U.S. Acknowledged the Harm Dams Have Caused Tribes. Here’s What It Left Out
"The Biden administration said officials historically gave “little, if any, consideration” to impacts on tribal fishing. But some sought deliberately to upend the harvest, according to documents obtained by ProPublica and Oregon Public Broadcasting."
Source: OPB/ProPublica, 06/27/2024"Protecting 1.2% of Earth Would Prevent Most Extinctions, Study Says"
"Setting aside an additional 1.2% of the world's land as nature preserves would prevent the majority of predicted plant and animal extinctions and cost about $263 billion, according to a study published on Tuesday."
Source: Reuters, 06/27/2024
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