"EPA To Undo Trump-Era Rollback Of Air Toxics Policy"
"In a long-anticipated move, EPA is poised to target the Trump-era rollback of a venerable industrial air pollution policy."
Source: E&E News, 09/13/2023
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"Mosquito-Borne Dengue Grows Deadlier In South Asia As Planet Warms"
"Mosquito-borne dengue fever is taking a heavy toll on South Asian nations this year as Bangladesh grapples with record deaths and Nepal faces cases in new areas, with disease experts linking worsening outbreaks to the impacts of climate change."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 09/13/2023"‘Zombie Trout’ Unsettle Montana, Long a Fly-Fishing Mecca"
"Since the Fellin family founded the Big Hole Lodge in the 1980s to take people fly fishing on the Big Hole River, they have seen significant changes to the cobble-and-boulder-studded freestone trout stream."
Source: NYTimes, 09/13/2023"Trying To Kill Mosquitoes? Don’t Buy A Bug Zapper."
"Every night, a mass murderer stalks the darkness of America’s suburbs. An eerie blue glow lures hapless victims from their homes. The doomed souls, mesmerized by the light, throng to their deaths in sizzling blasts of electricity."
Source: Washington Post, 09/13/2023"Congress Enters Pivotal Week On Spending"
"How to prevent a looming potential government shutdown will dominate the conversation on Capitol Hill this week, with the House and Senate considering divergent strategies for keeping agencies running."
Source: E&E News, 09/12/20232023 Had More Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Than Any Year On Record
"New government data released Monday revealed that the U.S. has already experienced more billion-dollar weather disasters in 2023 than in any other year since authorities started tracking such data 40-plus years ago." "The staggering tally comes with four months of the year still remaining."
Source: HuffPost, 09/12/2023"Climate Change Is Causing an Insurance Crisis in Louisiana"
"A little over a year ago, Peter Gardner, a Louisiana developer, completed rehabbing an apartment building with 144 units and got a surprise so ugly it made him decide to move his business out of town."
Source: Bloomberg Green, 09/12/2023"Island Nations Hope for Court’s Help on Climate’s Effects"
"A tribunal is expected to issue an advisory opinion on behalf of Pacific and Caribbean countries on whether greenhouse gases are pollutants that violate international law."
Source: NYTimes, 09/12/2023"How the Land Back Movement is Unraveling Manifest Destiny"
"Across Indian Country, tribal nations are buying back their land one parcel at a time".
Source: Sierra, 09/12/2023Laurel Peltier Took On Utilities Scamming Baltimore’s Low-Income Households
"Policymakers hoped deregulated energy markets would lower utility bills through open competition. Energy advocates found the opposite: retail energy companies are fleecing low-income communities of color in cities like Baltimore."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/12/2023Red Fire Ant Colonies Found In Italy Could Spread Across Europe: Study
"An invasive non-native ant species has become established in Italy and could rapidly spread through Europe to the UK with global heating, a study warns."
Source: Guardian, 09/12/2023"Companies Are Claiming To Be ‘Plastic Neutral.’ Is It Greenwashing?"
"Plastic credits can help fund waste cleanup, but they can also justify making more plastic."
Source: Grist, 09/12/2023"In Its Push To Build Houses, Ontario Says Energy Efficiency Has To Wait"
"Rules to ensure new homes use less energy could reduce homeowners’ bills. But at a meeting between the province and federal government, Ontario said it’s focused on building fast and cheap".
Source: The Narwhal, 09/12/2023"NASA Satellites Reveal Restoration Power Of Beavers"
"A new partnership between NASA and researchers is measuring the impact of beavers reintroduced to landscapes in Idaho."
Source: Mongabay, 09/12/2023"U.N. Says More Needed 'On All Fronts' To Meet Climate Goals"
"The world is not on target to curb global warming and more action is needed on all fronts, the United Nations warned on Friday, in the run-up to crucial international talks aimed at stemming the climate crisis."
Source: Reuters, 09/11/2023
