"Americans May Add Five Times More Plastic to the Oceans Than Thought"
"The United States is using more plastic than ever, and waste exported for recycling is often mishandled, according to a new study."
Source: NYTimes, 11/02/2020
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"FirstEnergy Fires CEO Jones in Wake of Ohio Bribery Scandal"
"FirstEnergy Corp. fired Chief Executive Officer Charles Jones and two other senior executives after a board review set up in the wake of a federal corruption scandal found they violated the company’s policies and its code of conduct."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 11/02/2020"Trump Signs Bipartisan Bill Funding Conservation Grants"
"President Trump on Friday approved a bipartisan bill that funds several popular conservation grants."
Source: The Hill, 11/02/2020"These Zombies Threaten the Whole Planet"
"Canada's oil patch has nearly 100,000 suspended wells, neither active nor capped, and they're a worrying source of planet-warming methane."
Source: NYTimes, 11/02/2020"Wolves to Lose Protection"
"As expected the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today issued a rule that would remove gray wolves (Canis lupus) from the protection of the Endangered Species Act."
Source: The Revelator, 10/30/2020Top DOI Official Used White Supremacist Website To Support Racial Views
"Weeks after the Interior Department halted diversity training to comply with an executive order from President Trump, a top assistant at the agency is under scrutiny for defending Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager accused of fatally shooting two people and injuring a third during a Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wis."
Source: Washington Post, 10/30/2020Trump’s USGS Chief Violated Whistleblower Protection Law, Watchdog Says
"The head of the U.S. Geological Survey violated the federal whistleblower protection law when he retaliated against an agency employee who had filed a complaint about his conduct, according to a new report from the Interior Department’s internal watchdog."
Source: HuffPost, 10/30/2020"Dozens of Chlorpyrifos Lawsuits Coming Over Children’s Health"
"The recent lawsuits filed against Corteva Inc. and Dow Chemical Co. in California are the beginning of an expected wave of toxic tort cases in the Golden State that take aim at the widely-used insecticide chlorpyrifos."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 10/30/2020Protect Nature Or Face Deadlier Pandemics Than COVID, Scientists Warn
"Pandemics will emerge more often, spread faster, cost more and kill more people than COVID-19 without bold action to halt the habitat destruction that helps viruses hop from wildlife to humans, according to a study published on Thursday."
Source: Reuters, 10/30/2020"EPA Limits Enforcement Of Pesticide Application Boundaries"
"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday finalized a rule that narrows the areas where farmers are required to limit human presence during the application of pesticides."
Source: The Hill, 10/30/2020As Biotech Crops Lose Their Power, Scientists Push For New Restrictions
"Some of the most popular products of biotechnology — corn and cotton plants that have been genetically modified to fend off insects — are no longer offering the same protection from those bugs. Scientists say that the problem results from farmers overusing the crops, and are pushing for new regulations.
These crops were the original genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. They weren't the first ones invented, but they were the first to be widely embraced by farmers, starting in the late 1990s.
Source: NPR, 10/30/2020In ND, Money Meant To Clean Up Old Wells Goes To Frack New Ones
"North Dakota, where Covid-19 rates are surging, is redirecting the federal relief money, turning it into grants that will go directly to oil companies."
Source: InsideClimate News, 10/30/2020"Make Science Great Again: U.S. Researchers Dream Of Life After Trump"
"From his lab in Toulouse, France, Benjamin Sanderson models the range of extreme risks to humans from climate change, research he hopes can inform policymakers planning for worsening wildfires and floods. It is the kind of work he once performed in the United States - and hopes to again soon."
Source: Reuters, 10/30/2020"2020 Fires Endangering Uncontacted Amazon Indigenous Groups"
"Amazon fires this year are seriously threatening Indigenous territories in which isolated uncontacted Indigenous groups make their homes. Brazil has an estimated 100+ isolated Indigenous groups living within its borders, more than any other Amazonian nation."
Source: Mongabay, 10/30/2020Zeta Knocks Out Power to 2 Million, Kills 3 People, Races Across South
"Zeta, which came ashore Wednesday in Louisiana as a strong Category 2 hurricane, is still wreaking havoc as it races across the Southern U.S. Thursday morning."
Source: Weather Channel, 10/29/2020
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