"The Amazon Rainforest's Fossil Fuel Rush"
"South America's vulnerable Amazon rainforest region is a rising frontier for oil and gas drilling."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 10/29/2025
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"Critics Decry Company Created To Rush Power To Indiana Data Centers"
"Northern Indiana Public Service Co. says the spinoff is needed to meet surging power demand. Others say it’s an excuse to bypass regulations that protect consumers."
Source: Canary Media, 10/29/2025"China Moves To Supercharge Green Hydrogen As US Pulls Back"
"A new policy in China could ramp up the nation’s production of green hydrogen for use in airplanes, ships, and other heavy industries, potentially eclipsing output of the fuel in the United States and Europe."
Source: Canary Media, 10/29/2025EPA Pushes Asheboro, N.C., To Control Toxic Discharges Into Drinking Supply
"The EPA wants the city of 28,000 to rein in an industrial solvent, 1,4-Dioxane, from its wastewater discharges. So far, Asheboro has refused."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/29/2025"Cemeteries: How the Dead Protect the Wild"
"From wildly popular to nearly forgotten, some of our cemeteries play an unexpected role in fostering biodiversity — and may provide climate solutions, too."
Source: The Revelator, 10/29/2025As Atlantic Warms, Climate Change Is Fueling Hurricane Melissa’s Ferocity
"The warming of the world’s oceans caused by climate change helped double Hurricane Melissa’s wind speed in less than 24 hours over the weekend, climate scientists said Monday. Melissa is currently a Category 5 storm, the highest category, with sustained wind speeds of over 157 mph (252 kph). Melissa is forecast to make landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday before crossing Cuba and the Bahamas through Wednesday."
Source: AP, 10/28/2025"An E.P.A. Plan to Kill a Major Climate Rule Is Worrying Business Leaders"
"The Environmental Protection Agency is promising to erase a scientific finding that underpins climate regulations nationwide. But some business leaders said they are wary that the move could lead to a costly legal quagmire." "Some carmakers and energy executives say the plan would trigger costly litigation and spur individual states to create a patchwork of tighter rules."
Source: NYTimes, 10/28/2025"Trump Offshore Drilling Plan Faces Fierce Opposition In Congress"
"Lawmakers are girding for a fight against President Donald Trump’s apparent plans to open up the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines to offshore drilling." "Most coastal Republicans and Democrats said they wouldn’t back drilling off their states’ shores."
Source: E&E News, 10/28/2025"Green Groups Gird For Life In Trump’s Crosshairs"
"The administration’s pursuit of its perceived enemies has compelled environmental groups to take new precautions." "Bring burner phones on overseas trips. Use encrypted apps for communication. Don’t cross international borders with laptops. Beef up office security. Hire more lawyers."
Source: E&E News, 10/28/2025"Ranchers Agreed To Leave A National Park. Then RFK Jr. Got Involved."
"POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE, California — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a wellness influencer and a pioneering dairy farmer joined forces earlier this year to upend a landmark deal that stopped most cattle operations at this park north of San Francisco."
Source: E&E News, 10/28/2025"Exxon Sues California Over New Climate Disclosure Laws"
"The oil giant said requirements that companies calculate new details about greenhouse gas emissions and climate risks violate Exxon’s free speech rights."
Source: NYTimes, 10/28/2025Trump, GOP Join Big Oil’s All-Out Push to Shut Down Climate Liability Efforts
"Republican attorneys general, GOP lawmakers, industry groups and the president himself are all maneuvering to foreclose the ability of cities and states to hold the fossil fuel industry liable for damages linked to climate change."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/28/2025"Cranberry Farmers Consider Turning Bogs Into Wetlands as Temperatures Rise"
"Massachusetts is helping to transform cranberry bogs into habitats that broaden conservation and climate change resilience."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/28/2025Uncontacted Indigenous Groups Could Vanish Within A Decade Without Help
"From the depths of Brazil’s Amazon to Indonesia’s rainforests, some of the world’s most isolated peoples are being squeezed by roads, miners and drug traffickers — a crisis unfolding far from public view or effective state protection."
Source: AP, 10/28/2025"At This Texas Pecan Orchard, Bats Handle Most Of The Bug Control"
"Bats love to munch on insects like stink bugs and moths. Some farmers are now relying on the mammals for pest control – and ditching chemicals."
Source: KCUR/Harvest Public Media, 10/28/2025
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