Supply Chain: "Empty Grocery Shelves and Rotting, Wasted Vegetables"
"Covid-19 and climate change are testing a food system that critics say has lost its resilience."
Source: InsideClimate News, 04/20/2020
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"For Sick Coal Miners COVID-19 Is A Death Sentence"
"Miners with black lung struggle during the pandemic with layoffs, benefit cuts and the threat of a virus that would almost certainly kill them".
Source: Guardian, 04/20/2020'Media Bashing' From Trump Rallies Creeping Into Coronavirus Briefings
Video: "The Post’s Margaret Sullivan explained March 31 how President Trump’s coronavirus task force briefings can veer away from newsworthiness."
Source: Washington Post, 04/20/2020Analysis: "The Trump Administration Is Muzzling Government Scientists"
"Kathryn Foxhall remembers a time when reporters could call up any doctor or researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and ask them questions on the record. A journalist might even get them to open up for a “background” interview, offering candid information on the condition the expert’s name would not be used."
Source: Washington Post, 04/20/2020"E.P.A. Weakens Controls on Mercury"
"The Trump administration on Thursday weakened regulations on the release of mercury and other toxic metals from oil and coal-fired power plants, another step toward rolling back health protections in the middle of a pandemic."
Source: NY Times, 04/17/2020Western U.S. Locked In Grip Of First Human-Caused Megadrought: Study
"A vast region of the western United States, extending from California, Arizona and New Mexico north to Oregon and Idaho, is in the grips of the first climate change-induced megadrought observed in the past 1,200 years, a study shows. The finding means the phenomenon is no longer a threat for millions to worry about in the future, but is already here."
Source: Washington Post, 04/17/2020Redwoods: Logging And Tree Sitting Continue, As Pandemic Shuts Mills
"The coronavirus has shut down most of Humboldt County, as it has the rest of the state, but some traditions of northwest California endure: Loggers keep felling redwoods, and eco-activists keep putting their bodies on the limbs to stop them."
Source: LA Times, 04/17/2020"Reviving The Gulf: 'It Could All Go To Hell Pretty Quickly'"
"Ten years after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig on April 20, 2010, Louisiana is one of five states reaping the benefits of a $20.8 billion settlement with BP PLC, the largest in U.S. history. If all goes as planned, the $200 million project will not only revive the Maurepas Swamp but provide a natural buffer from deadly hurricanes."
Source: Greenwire, 04/17/2020"Interior: Ethics Chief Found A 'Bit Of The Wild West' — Transcript"
"Interior Department ethics honcho Scott de la Vega needed to restore order when he took office in April 2018. Entering what he called the "land of Zinke," after the freewheeling then-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, de la Vega told investigators last year he quickly identified the importance of "dramatically" improving the office meant to steer officials straight."
Source: Greenwire, 04/17/2020US To Have Major Floods Daily Unless Sea-Level Rise Is Curbed – Study
"Flooding events that now occur in America once in a lifetime could become a daily occurrence along the vast majority of the US coastline if sea level rise is not curbed, according to a new study that warns the advancing tides will “radically redefine the coastline of the 21st century”.
Source: Guardian, 04/17/2020"Tribes Press Judge To Halt US-Canada Pipeline As Work Starts"
"Native American tribes and environmental groups pressured a federal judge on Thursday to shut down work on the disputed Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to Nebraska, citing fears that workers could spread the coronavirus and construction could damage land."
Source: AP, 04/17/2020Greens Sue After EPA Suspends Enforcement Due To Coronavirus
"Environmental groups are suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over a March memo signaling that the agency would not seek penalties against companies that do not monitor their pollution during the coronavirus outbreak."
Source: The Hill, 04/17/2020"U.S. Weighs Paying Drillers to Leave Oil in Ground Amid Glut"
"The Trump administration is considering paying U.S. oil producers to leave crude in the ground to help alleviate a glut that has caused prices to plummet and pushed some drillers into bankruptcy."
Source: Bloomberg, 04/17/2020Unique B.C. Trout Population Crashes Downstream Of Teck Coal Mines
"Environment Canada was told that selenium pollution emanating from a string of coal mines in B.C.’s southeast corner could lead to reproductive failure and ‘a total population collapse’ of sensitive species like the westslope cutthroat trout". "The adult population of genetically unique westslope cutthroat trout in a river in B.C.’s Kootenay region dropped by 93 per cent this past fall compared with 2017 levels, according to a monitoring report from Teck Resources."
Source: The Narwhal, 04/17/2020"Pipelines: Judge Axes Keystone XL Permit Over Endangered Species Act"
"A federal judge yesterday [Wednesday] blocked a key federal approval process that allowed Keystone XL and other pipelines to cross waterways, just as developers are beginning construction on the controversial oil project."
Source: EnergyWire, 04/16/2020
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