"Texas Officials Target Climate Science In Textbooks"
"The Texas State Board of Education altered its internal guidance to schools last month to emphasize the “positive” aspects of fossil fuels in science textbooks."
Source: E&E News, 03/29/2023
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"8th Circuit Delivers Climate Blow To Big Oil"
"Oil and gas companies on Thursday lost what may have been their best shot at creating disagreement between federal appeals courts — a key consideration for Supreme Court review — on a jurisdictional issue that has the potential to quash a broad set of climate challenges launched by local governments that want industry to pay up for the impacts of a warming planet."
Source: E&E News, 03/29/2023"EPA Cites 2 Oil And Gas Firms Over Permian Basin Pollution"
"Two Texas companies have resolved Clean Air Act violations with the Environmental Protection Agency by agreeing to reduce emissions of planet-warming methane and other harmful pollutants wafting from the nation’s largest oil and gas producing region."
Source: AP, 03/29/2023When Native Rights, Conservation, and a Very Lucrative Fishery Collide
"In the fast-changing Bering Sea, a small tribe makes a big push to save their island".
Source: Sierra, 03/29/2023"Electricity Generated by Renewables Surpasses Coal for First Time in US"
"Electricity generated from renewables surpassed coal in the United States for the first time in 2022, the U.S. Energy Information Administration announced Monday."
Source: AP, 03/28/2023Lethal Supercell Storms To Hit South More Often As World Warms: New Study
"America will probably get more killer tornado- and hail-spawning supercells as the world warms, according to a new study that also warns the lethal storms will edge eastward to strike more frequently in the more populous Southern states, like Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee."
Source: AP, 03/28/2023"EU Countries Approve 2035 Phaseout of CO2-Emitting Cars"
"European Union countries gave final approval on Tuesday to a landmark law to end sales of new CO2-emitting cars in 2035, after Germany won an exemption for cars running on e-fuels."
Source: Reuters, 03/28/2023"White House Threatens Veto For Republican Energy Package"
"The White House on Monday threatened a veto of a House Republicans’ energy package, known as H.R. 1, if it makes it to President Biden’s desk."
Source: The Hill, 03/28/2023"Train Derails In Rural North Dakota, Causes Chemical Spill"
"A Canadian Pacific train derailed in rural North Dakota Sunday night and spilled hazardous materials. But local authorities and the railroad said there is no threat to public safety."
Source: AP, 03/28/2023"What to Know About Philly's Tap Water After Chemical Spill"
"More than 8,000 gallons of a latex chemical solution spilled into the Delaware River on Friday. So far, officials have said tap water remains safe to drink."
Source: Earther, 03/28/2023Bill Aiming To Preserve Kentucky’s Coal Power Plants Becomes Law
"A bill that would make it harder for Kentucky’s utility regulator to allow utilities to retire coal plants on the state’s electricity grid became law Friday without Gov. Andy Beshear’s signature."
Source: States Newsroom, 03/28/2023Thousands of Pounds of PFAS Chemicals” Have Been Injected Into Texas Wells
"A new report from a public health watchdog found that more than 40,000 pounds of PFAS has been injected into more than 1,000 wells across Texas — and warned that the chemicals could pose a risk to public health".
Source: Floodlight, 03/28/2023"California Lawmakers OK Potential Fines For High Gas Prices"
"California lawmakers on Monday approved the nation’s first penalty for price gouging at the pump, voting to give regulators the power to punish oil companies for profiting from the type of gas price spikes that plagued the nation’s most populous state last summer."
Source: AP, 03/28/2023Opinion: "I Am Haunted by What I Have Seen at Great Salt Lake"
"From a distance, it is hard to tell whether the three figures walking the salt playa are human, bird or some other animal. Through binoculars, I see they are pelicans, juveniles, gaunt and emaciated without water or food. In feathered robes, they walk with the focus of fasting monks toward enlightenment or death."
Source: NYTimes, 03/28/2023"Tornado Tears Across Mississippi, More Than Two Dozen Dead"
"Rescuers combed through rubble on Saturday after a powerful storm tore across Mississippi late on Friday, killing at least 25 people there and one person in Alabama as it leveled hundreds of buildings and spawned at least one devastating tornado."
Source: Reuters, 03/27/2023
