Big Ag, Pharma, Pesticides, Industries Hope to Sway COP16 Biodiversity Talks
"Corporations have found ways to be heard during negotiations on reversing the drastic global decline in plant and animal life."
Source: DeSmog, 10/31/2024
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"Clean Energy Is Booming in the U.S. The Election Could Change That."
"Trump has suggested he would dismantle the Inflation Reduction Act, which has reshaped America’s energy landscape. It won’t be easy."
Source: NYTimes, 10/31/2024"Geothermal Energy Promises to Help Some Communities Get Off Fossil Gas"
"In a leafy neighborhood in Framingham, Massachusetts, cars traverse a freshly capped trench conveying a newly implanted pipe below the roadbed. From the jet-black strip of tar at the surface, one could imagine that the local gas company just replaced another of New England’s leaky gas mains. In fact, the infrastructure buried this year in Framingham marks a clean break from fossil-fueled business-as-usual. Rather than delivering combustible methane gas, Framingham's newest piping carries tepid water that’s the lifeblood of a geothermal energy system—technology that could help put gas pipes out of business across the United States."
Source: Sierra, 10/31/2024Paxton Sues Biden FWS Over Listing Freshwater Mussels As Endangered
"Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Tuesday that his office is suing the U.S. Department of the Interior, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Biden administration officials for declaring six freshwater mussel species endangered and another threatened earlier this year."
Source: Texas Tribune, 10/31/2024"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"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"Greening Concrete: A Major Emitter Inches Toward Carbon Neutrality"
"Concrete is the most ubiquitous man-made building material on the planet, but making it generates massive amounts of CO2 emissions. Companies are experimenting with ways to green the process, from slashing the use of limestone to capturing the carbon generated when it’s burned."
Source: YaleE360, 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, 10/30/2024Russia, China and Cuba Are Amplifying Hurricane Misinformation, US Says
"Russian and Chinese-linked influence actors and the Cuban government have been amplifying misinformation following two deadly U.S. hurricanes, including false claims that the U.S. was denying disaster relief claims, a U.S. official said on Monday."
Source: Reuters, 10/30/2024Slight Progress In Biodiversity Protection But Some Species Decline: Reports
"Global efforts to protect the world’s plants and animals have made slight progress and some species remain in serious decline, according to two reports released Monday at a major United Nations biodiversity summit in Colombia."
Source: AP, 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"Supreme Court Ignites Wave Of Lawsuits Against Federal Regulations"
"Major businesses and their lobbying groups have seized on a set of recent Supreme Court decisions that sharply limit the government’s regulatory powers, aiming to advance dozens of lawsuits that could invalidate a vast array of federal climate, education, health and labor rules."
Source: Washington Post, 10/30/2024"Water Quality Advocates Ask Virginia For More Aggressive PFAS Policies"
"In Virginia, laws passed so far require agencies to find and address specific sources of PFAS pollution when they have contaminated a public drinking water system. But clean water advocates want the state to require more monitoring now at facilities known to be possible sources of PFAS so that action can be taken more quickly when additional federal limits are finalized."
Source: Bay Journal, 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
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