Interior Nears OK For First US Commercial-Scale Offshore Wind Project
"The Interior Department moved one step closer Monday to allowing for the construction of the country’s first commercial-scale offshore wind project."
Source: The Hill, 03/09/2021
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Biden Reverses Trump-Era Gutting of Migratory Bird Protections
"The Biden administration voided a Trump-era legal opinion Monday regarding migratory birds and protections that have been in place for over a century."
Source: Courthouse News Service, 03/09/2021
#SEJ2022 Annual Conference, Houston, TX, March 30-April 3
SEJ's 31st annual conference was hosted by Rice University in Houston. Here's the agenda. There are video recordings of the plenaries and audio recordings of most concurrent sessions. Find it all on our conference coverage page.
"US States Look To Step Up Wolf Kills, Pushed By Republicans"
"Payments for dead wolves. Unlimited hunting of the animals. Shooting wolves from the air. Wolf hunting policies in some states are taking an aggressive turn, as Republican lawmakers and conservative hunting groups push to curb their numbers and propose tactics shunned by many wildlife managers."
Source: AP, 03/08/2021
As Biden Woos Both Labor And Greens On Climate, Pipelines May Divide Them
"The president is trying to square environmentalists’ demands to stop burning fossil fuels with labor leaders’ desire for union jobs linked to oil and gas".
Source: Washington Post, 03/08/2021
"PFAS In Pesticides: 'A Problem Of Epic Proportions'"
"'Forever chemicals' are present in multiple common pesticides, according to new testing conducted by an environmental watchdog group and released exclusively to E&E News."
Source: E&E News, 03/08/2021
"Big Banks Make a Dangerous Bet on the World’s Growing Demand for Food"
"As global banking giants and investment firms vow to divest from polluting energy companies, they’re continuing to bankroll another major driver of the climate crisis: food and farming corporations that are responsible, directly or indirectly, for cutting down vast carbon-storing forests and spewing greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/08/2021
Civilian Climate Corps Is a Government Plan That All Americans Can Back
"It was a rare case of Presidential understatement in the unveiling of a program: the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior, according to a paragraph buried in Joe Biden’s long executive order on climate change, had been directed to make plans for a Civilian Climate Corps, modelled on the Civilian Conservation Corps—the C.C.C.—of the nineteen-thirties."
Source: New Yorker, 03/08/2021
"Huge Louisiana Coastal Project Receives Positive Report From The Corps"
"One of the most expensive, ambitious and controversial proposals in Louisiana’s 50-year, $50 billion bid to save the southern third of the state from disappearing like a modern-day Atlantis passed a major milestone Thursday night with the release of a mostly positive assessment from the Army Corps of Engineers."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 03/08/2021
Study Finds Wildfire Smoke Harms Humans More Than Pollution From Cars
"Tens of millions of Americans experienced at least a day last year shrouded in wildfire smoke. Entire cities were blanketed, in some cases for weeks, as unprecedented wildfires tore across the Western U.S., causing increases in hospitalizations for respiratory emergencies and concerns about people's longer-term health."
Source: NPR, 03/08/2021
