"Climate-Change Risks Get the Attention of Real Estate Investors"
"They are thinking more seriously about flooding, but a lack of established standards for assessing development projects is challenging their efforts."
Source: NYTimes, 04/20/2022
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Zombie Kentucky Strip Mines Produce Safety, Environmental Violations
"As the coal industry has collapsed in Kentucky, companies have racked up a rising number of violations at surface mines, and state regulators have failed to bring a record number of them into compliance, internal documents show."
Source: Inside Climate News, 04/20/2022
"Environmentalists Target Mountains of Fertilizer Waste"
"The U.S. houses hundreds of millions of tons of phosphogypsum in open-air stacks, but regulation is inconsistent."
Source: Undark, 04/20/2022
"New CDC Team: A ‘Weather Service’ To Forecast What’s Next In Pandemic"
"A new team of federal health scientists officially embarked Tuesday on a mission to provide what has often been absent from the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic: better, faster information about what is likely to happen next in this public health emergency and in future outbreaks."
Source: Washington Post, 04/20/2022
"Supreme Court Denies Penobscot Indian Nation Appeal"
"The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined an appeal by the Penobscot Indian Nation in its fight with Maine over ownership and regulation of the tribe’s namesake river."
Source: AP, 04/20/2022
Deep Sea Gold Rush Raises Questions About Protection Authority
"The startup’s pitch was simple and cinematic: The mining company would send large robots to explore the bottom of the ocean and harvest minerals millions of years old that could be used to make electric car batteries."
Source: LA Times, 04/20/2022
"Biden Launches $6Bn Effort To Save America’s Distressed Nuclear Plants"
"The Biden administration is launching a $6 billion effort to rescue nuclear power plants at risk of closing, citing the need to continue nuclear energy as a carbon-free source of power that helps to combat climate change."
Source: AP, 04/20/2022
"Biden Restores Climate to Landmark Environmental Law, Reversing Trump"
"The Biden administration announced Tuesday that it is restoring parts of a bedrock environmental law, once again requiring that climate impacts be considered and local communities have input before federal agencies approve highways, pipelines and other major projects."
Source: NYTimes, 04/20/2022
DEADLINE: IJA - AAJA Pacific Islander Journalism Scholarship
This funding from the Indigenous Journalists Association and the Asian American Journalists Association aims to help Indigenous peoples of the Pacific pursue careers in journalism. The goal is to improve Oceania representation and storytelling in the news media industry. Two scholarships of $5,000. Deadline: Jun 30, 2025.
Blue Corn And Melons: The Seed Keepers Reviving Ancient, Resilient Crops
"In north-western New Mexico, traditional Indigenous farming methods are being passed down to protect against the effects of climate crisis".
Source: Guardian, 04/19/2022
