"Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Reached $7 Trillion in 2022, an All-Time High"
"Global subsidies for fossil fuels reached $7 trillion in 2022, an all-time high, according to the International Monetary Fund."
Source: YaleE360, 09/01/2023
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Trump Rule Allowing Rail Shipments Of LNG Will Be Put On Hold For Safety
"OMAHA, Neb. — A Trump-era rule allowing railroads to haul highly flammable liquefied natural gas will now be formally put on hold to allow more time to study the safety concerns related to transporting that fuel and other substances like hydrogen that must be kept at extremely low temperatures when they are shipped, regulators announced Thursday.
Source: AP, 09/01/2023Mindblowing: California Allows More Gas Storage At Aliso Canyon Leak Site
"State officials voted Thursday to let Southern California Gas Co. store far more fuel at the Aliso Canyon gas storage field, eight years after a record-breaking leak spewed more than 100,000 metric tons of planet-warming methane into the atmosphere and prompted thousands of San Fernando Valley residents to evacuate their homes for months."
Source: LA Times, 09/01/2023After Decades Of Oil Drilling, Ecuador's Indigenous Waorani Fight More
"Their efforts follow a historic vote to end drilling in parts of Yasuni National Park, but uncontacted families and other Indigenous groups remain at risk from oil exploration."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/01/2023African Climate Summit Seeks To Shift Focus To Finance From Floods, Famine
"How to finance environmental priorities and shift the focus from Africa as victim of floods and famine will be central to the debate at the continent's first climate summit next week, while activists resist plans to expand carbon markets for funding."
Source: Reuters, 09/01/2023Biden Administration Offers $12B To Convert Auto Factories Into EV Plants
"The Biden administration will put up to $12 billion into converting auto manufacturing facilities into plants for hybrid and electric vehicles, it announced Thursday."
Source: The Hill, 09/01/2023"There’s One Nasty Wildfire Pollutant We’ve Been Ignoring"
"A newly identified particle in smoke, dark brown carbon, can warm the atmosphere by absorbing sunlight."
Source: Popular Science, 09/01/2023Burning Tires: PA Residents ‘Shocked’ By Firm’s Bitcoin-Mining Plan
"A crypto-mining company in Pennsylvania is seeking to burn tires to produce bitcoin, prompting an outcry from residents and environmental groups."
Source: Guardian, 09/01/2023"In Florida, Python Hunters Stalk Their Targets In The Dark Of Night"
"Donna Kalil was creeping toward the end of the levee, heading out of the swampy wilderness and back to civilization, when she spotted it. There along the canal, nearly invisible amid the brush, was the elusive tan and brown pattern she’d been after all night. “Right there is one — python!” cried Kalil, 61, her voice rising above the honking frogs and chirping crickets of the Glades."
Source: Washington Post, 09/01/2023"Hurricane Idalia: How Climate Change Is Fueling Hurricanes"
"Hurricane Idalia's arrival on Florida's Gulf Coast on Wednesday signaled activity in the Atlantic's hurricane alley might not be as quiet this year as meteorologists had once predicted."
Source: Reuters, 08/31/2023"Falsehoods Follow Close Behind This Summer’s Natural Disasters"
"Misattributed videos, recycled lies and warped fears are fueling unfounded claims about the recent record-breaking heat, floods and wildfires."
Source: NYTimes, 08/31/2023Reporter Sues Marion Police Chief, Alleging Retaliation In Newsroom Raid
''Police Chief Gideon Cody arrived at the Marion County Record and handed a copy of a search warrant to Deb Gruver, the veteran reporter who had questioned him about alleged misconduct at his previous job."
Source: States Newsroom, 08/31/2023"Invasive Species Have Created A Cycle Of Wildfire In Hawaiʻi"
"Planting native flora could help prevent the island's next wildfire."
Source: Grist, 08/31/2023"Exxon Says Global Climate Goals Are Destined To Fail"
"The company’s researchers predict that an expanding population and worldwide economy will drive up energy demand for fossil fuels."
"Exxon Mobil projected that greenhouse-gas emissions and the efforts to keep the planet’s temperature from rising beyond an increase of 2 degrees Celsius by 2050 is destined to fail in a report released by the oil giant on Monday.
Source: Grist, 08/31/2023Scrapping Housebuilder Pollution Rules Is A Regression: UK Watchdog
"Office for Environmental Protection chair tells ministers plan will degrade England’s rivers and demands that they explain it to MPs".
Source: Guardian, 08/31/2023
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