"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, 10/28/2025
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Trump, 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"Melissa Strengthens To A Category 5 Hurricane As It Nears Jamaica"
"Hurricane Melissa intensified to Category 5 strength Monday as it neared Jamaica with up to 30 inches (76 centimeters) of rain and a life-threatening storm surge."
Source: AP, 10/27/2025"Six Ways the COP30 Climate Summit Can Succeed or Fail"
"In a month’s time, nearly 200 countries will gather at the gates of the Amazon rainforest for a new round of United Nations-sponsored climate talks. But there is still intense discussion about what the main outcome ought to be."
Source: Bloomberg, 10/27/2025"Trump Makes Laura Swett FERC Chair. What Will Be Her Focus?"
"President Donald Trump on Thursday designated Laura Swett chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, marking the agency’s third leadership change in nine months."
Source: E&E News, 10/27/2025"Trump Administration Moves to Accelerate AI Power Hookups"
"The Trump administration is pushing regulators to dramatically accelerate the process of allowing the booming data-center sector to connect to power grids."
Source: Bloomberg, 10/27/2025Stormy Seas: Can The Deadliest Catch Crab Fishery Survive Warming Seas?
"Warmer waters in the Bering Sea caused snow crabs to crash. Now, scientists are racing to predict the future of the lucrative fishery"
Source: Science, 10/27/2025"Trump Claims ‘Wind Mills’ Kill Whales But Quietly Torpedoes The Science"
"The Trump administration has repeatedly blamed offshore wind farms for whale deaths, contrary to scientific evidence. Now the administration is quietly abandoning key research programs meant to protect marine mammals living in an increasingly busy ocean."
Source: Canary Media, 10/27/2025"Attorneys Allege Chemours Hid Emission Data From Public"
"Chemours’ air permit application to expand production at its Fayetteville Works plant excludes emissions data that should be disclosed to the public, environmental lawyers say."
Source: Coastal Review, 10/27/2025Russia Arrests Ukraine Biologist For Backing Curbs On Antarctic Krill Fishing
"A diplomatic row has erupted over the “illegal” detention of one of Ukraine’s scientists, who has been accused by the Kremlin of undermining Russia’s industrial trawling for krill in Antarctica."
Source: Guardian, 10/27/2025Where Appalachian Brook Trout Vanish, Something Human Goes Missing, Too
"As climate change reshapes the Blue Ridge, Appalachia’s native trout are losing ground — but dedicated anglers and scientists are racing to save them."
Source: Grist, 10/27/2025"Tarantula Mating Season Is In Full Swing. Not Everyone Comes Out Alive"
"Tarantula mating season runs from about July to November, skewing toward October in California. Female tarantulas sometimes eat their suitors."
Source: LA Times, 10/27/2025
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