"Economic Toll Endangers Key Climate Goal: Cleaner Cars"
"The economic downturn triggered by the novel coronavirus pandemic threatens to stall multistate goals to put more clean cars on the road."
Source: ClimateWire, 04/21/2020
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"The ‘Profoundly Radical’ Message of Earth Day’s First Organizer"
"One day in the fall of 1969, Denis Hayes, a graduate student at Harvard, snagged a 10-minute meeting with Gaylord Nelson, a United States senator from Wisconsin who had been talking up his idea for a national teach-in about environmentalism."
Source: NY Times, 04/21/2020
"Biden Floats Expansion Of Climate Platform"
"Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said Monday that he would expand his environmental platform amid calls from some environmental groups aligned with former primary challenger Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)."
Source: The Hill, 04/21/2020
"Foes Of Pebble Mine Lose A Round In Court"
"Opponents of the Pebble Mine lost one of their lawsuits Friday, when a federal court judge ruled against them."
Source: Alaska Public Media, 04/21/2020
"EPA: 'All-Out Assault.' Trump Critics Open Fight Against CO2 Rule"
"Critics of the Trump administration fired their opening shots last week in a legal brawl over EPA's rollback of power plant emissions standards."
Source: ClimateWire, 04/21/2020
"EPA Faces Court Over Backing Of Monsanto's Controversial Crop System"
"The US Environmental Protection Agency is due in federal court on Tuesday to answer allegations that it broke the law to support a Monsanto system that has triggered “widespread” crop damage over the last few summers and continues to threaten farms across the country."
Source: Guardian, 04/21/2020
"Oil Spirals Below Zero in ‘Devastating Day’ for Global Industry"
"The day started like any other gloomy Monday in the oil market’s worst crisis in a generation. It ended with prices falling below zero, thrusting markets into a parallel universe where traders were willing to pay $40 a barrel just to get somebody to take crude off their hands."
Source: Bloomberg, 04/21/2020
Turmoil in World Oil Markets Tips Environmental Scales Too
The dramatic drop in demand for oil, driven by the shutdown of world economies by coronavirus, has meant a corresponding fall in prices. And that has profound environmental implications. But it’s a complicated dynamic to assess. Our Issue Backgrounder provides a look under the hood of Big Oil, and explains what it means for environment reporters. Plus, a Reporter’s Toolbox for tracking the data.
Climate Change and Coronavirus Panel
The Princeton Environmental Activism Coalition's Zoom panel will ask tough questions and feature speakers Stephen Pacala, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology professor, Princeton University and co-director, Carbon Mitigation Initiative; Kian Mintz-Woo, Princeton's University Center for Human Values and the Princeton Environmental Institute; and SEJ president Meera Subramanian, independent journalist and Princeton's Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities.
When the Crisis Was Immense, SEJ Award-Winner Went Narrow
How do you gain perspective on a widespread public health disaster? Award-winning reporter Apoorva Mandavilli shares valuable lessons on using a small lens to cover a big story — no, not COVID-19, but the deadly 1984 gas leak in Bhopal, India. And as she explains in this Inside Story Q&A, this decades-old story never really went away in the first place.
