"New Mexico Adopts Rules To Curb Emissions From Oil Industry"
"New Mexico oil and gas regulators on Thursday adopted new rules to limit most venting and flaring in the oilfield as a way to reduce methane emissions."
Source: AP, 03/26/2021
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"Midwest Transmission Morass: A 100% Clean Power Warning?"
"A first-of-its-kind transmission line proposed to help move Midwest wind energy east to the nation's largest electricity market was designed to avoid pitfalls that dog similar projects."
Source: E&E News, 03/26/2021
"13 States Challenge Biden Oil Leasing Plan"
"More than a dozen Republican-led states filed lawsuits against the Biden administration yesterday over its moratorium on new oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters."
Source: E&E News, 03/26/2021
Riders Abandoning Buses and Trains. It’s a Problem for Climate Change.
"Public transit offers a simple way for cities to lower greenhouse gas emissions, but the pandemic has pushed ridership, and revenue, off a cliff in many big systems."
Source: NYTimes, 03/26/2021
"'Dimming The Sun': $100M Geoengineering Research Programme Proposed"
"The US should establish a multimillion-dollar research programme on solar geoengineering, according to the country’s national science academy."
Source: Guardian, 03/26/2021
Biden EPA Yanks Permit for St. Croix Refinery over Environmental Justice
"The Biden administration handed environmental justice advocates a major victory on Thursday when it announced it was withdrawing a key pollution permit for an oil refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands that locals say has long fouled their air and water and endangered their health."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/26/2021
Florida Lead Smelter Exposes Hundreds of Workers to Dangerous Neurotoxin
"Hundreds of workers at a Tampa lead smelter have been exposed to dangerous levels of the neurotoxin. The consequences have been profound."
Source: Tampa Bay Times, 03/26/2021
Reporting on Tropical Forest Carbon
Join the the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting for a Noon - 1pm ET conversation with three journalists (including SEJ members Daniel Grossman and Dado Galdieri) who have reported on the promise and perils of tropical forest carbon projects.
SEJ Calls on President Biden To Hold Saudi Government Accountable for Khashoggi Murder
March 24, 2021 — The Society of Environmental Journalists wrote to President Biden, calling on him to keep his campaign promise to speak out publicly against the murder of the Saudi Arabian journalist and Washington Post columnist, Jamal Khashoggi. Full text of the letter.
In Conservation Success Story, Bald Eagle Numbers Have Soared
"The number of bald eagles — a species that once came dangerously close to extinction in the United States — has more than quadrupled over the last dozen years despite massive declines in overall bird populations, government scientists announced Tuesday."
Source: LA Times, 03/25/2021
