"America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow"
"Overuse is draining and damaging aquifers nationwide, a New York Times data investigation revealed."
Source: NYTimes, 08/30/2023
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How Industry Is Fighting Stricter Controls For Manganese In Drinking Water
"High levels of manganese in drinking water could harm infants and children, research shows. But industries that use or produce the metal are downplaying the risks in a battle with the EPA."
Source: Grist, 08/30/2023"Offshore Wind Auction for the Gulf of Mexico Gets a Tepid Response"
"The first auction of leases for wind farms in the Gulf of Mexico, which the Biden administration had heralded as part of its effort to expand clean energy, ended on Tuesday with just one of three available tracts sold."
Source: NYTimes, 08/30/2023"Why Climate Denial Could Still Be Taught At Texas Schools"
"PragerU doesn’t need official approval to spread climate denial in public schools, a Texas State Teachers Association representative tells HEATED."
Source: HEATED, 08/30/2023"3M's $10.3 Billion PFAS Settlement Gets Preliminary Approval"
"3M on Tuesday secured preliminary approval for a $10.3 billion deal resolving claims by U.S. public water providers that the company polluted drinking water with toxic chemicals, less than a day after a group of 22 U.S. states and territories dropped their objections to the deal."
Source: Reuters, 08/30/2023Study: Damage Would Cost Corporations 44% If They Paid For Their Emissions
"The world’s corporations produce so much climate change pollution, it could eat up about 44% of their profits if they had to pay damages for it, according to a study by economists of nearly 15,000 public companies."
Source: AP, 08/30/2023"A Deadly Tick-Borne Epidemic Is Raging"
"The boy came home from school weakened by fever, his ears burning-hot. ... Then, the telltale red spots appeared on his hands. But none of the doctors in this rural community along Mexico’s Pacific coast recognized the warning sign for one of the most lethal infectious diseases in the Americas — Rocky Mountain spotted fever. A week later, the boy was dead."
Source: Washington Post, 08/30/2023"For Migrating Birds, It’s the Flight of Their Lives"
"America’s birds are in trouble. Since 1970, nearly 3 billion birds have vanished from the skies over North America. Most of those losses have been in migratory species, which may breed in the United States or Canada in the summer before heading elsewhere for the winter."
Source: NYTimes, 08/30/2023"Storm Idalia To Intensify Into Major Hurricane Ahead Of Florida Landfall"
"Tropical Storm Idalia was expected to strengthen into a major hurricane on Monday as it crawled toward Florida’s Gulf Coast as officials issued evacuation orders and urged residents to make preparations ahead of an expected Wednesday morning landfall."
Source: Reuters, 08/29/2023"How Fossil Fuel Subsidies Are Hurting The Energy Transition"
"After agreeing in 2009 to phase out dirty energy subsidies, G20 nations pumped $1.4 trillion into supporting fossil fuel use in 2022 - money that should be redeployed to support a shift into renewables, analysts say".
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 08/29/2023Geothermal: The Race To Tap a Vast Source of Clean Energy Beneath Our Feet
"The United States has enough geothermal energy to power the entire country. Some are trying to unlock it by using techniques from the fracking boom."
Source: NYTimes, 08/29/2023"Children Have a Right to Sue Nations Over Climate, U.N. Panel Says"
"The finding doesn’t have the force of law, but is notable because it is based on one of the most widely accepted international treaties."
Source: NYTimes, 08/29/2023"Environmental Groups Sue To Stop Biden Administration Oil Leases In Gulf"
"A coalition of environmental groups sued the Biden administration over its upcoming oil and gas lease sale, which will auction off 67 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico."
Source: The Hill, 08/29/2023"Texas Nuclear Waste Storage Permit Invalidated By US Appeals Court"
"A U.S. appeals court on Friday canceled a license granted by a federal agency to a company to build a temporary nuclear waste storage facility in western Texas, which the Republican-led state has argued would be dangerous to build in one of the nation's largest oil basins.
A three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission lacked the authority under federal law to issue permits for private, temporary nuclear waste storage sites.
Source: Reuters, 08/29/2023How an Oil Giant Took Over Biden's Billion-Dollar Bet on Carbon Capture
"When Occidental Petroleum Corp.’s Vicki Hollub introduced the idea of “net zero oil” two years ago, few outside the chief executive officer’s inner circle knew what she meant."
Source: Bloomberg Green, 08/29/2023
