Trump Puts Severe Restrictions on Long-Delayed Puerto Rico Disaster Aid
"Days after the island was hit by a 5.9-magnitude earthquake, the White House released billions in aid but placed limits on how it can be spent."
Source: NY Times, 01/17/2020
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"California Governor Restarts Giant Water Tunnel Project"
"California’s governor has restarted a project to build a giant, underground tunnel that would pump billions of gallons of water from the San Joaquin Delta to the southern part of the state."
Source: AP, 01/16/2020
Green Goo: "Cleanup of Contaminated Site Is Expected To Cost Millions"
"The cleanup of an industrial site in suburban Detroit from which contaminated water leaked last month will likely cost millions of dollars, officials of Michigan’s environmental agency said Wednesday."
Source: AP, 01/16/2020
"Environmental Groups Challenge Plastics Complex Permit"
"Conservation and community groups sued the Trump administration Wednesday, challenging environmental permits for a Taiwan company’s planned $9.4 billion plastics complex in Louisiana."
Source: AP, 01/16/2020
"Energy Transitions: Renewables Primed To Pass Coal Power"
"For American coal, 2019 was bad, 2020 will be worse, and in 2021, renewables will surpass coal in electricity generation for the first time ever, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration."
Source: Greenwire, 01/16/2020
Florida Plans To Buy, Protect Everglades Land Targeted For Oil Drilling
"A swath of land in the Everglades at the center of a fight between a family determined to drill for oil and a constellation of parties urging them not to might finally have a new future. The state intends to buy the 20,000-acre tract outright and halt the threat of oil drilling on the protected lands near Broward County’s western suburbs, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Wednesday."
Source: Miami Herald, 01/16/2020
"Fines for Killing Migratory Birds Imposed in Bill Sent to House"
"A House committee rebuked the Trump administration’s 2017 conclusion that the century-old Migratory Bird Act doesn’t criminalize the accidental killing of migratory birds by industry."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 01/16/2020
"Racist Housing Policies In US Linked To Deadly Heatwave Exposure"
"Deadly urban heatwaves disproportionately affect underserved neighbourhoods because of the legacy of racist housing policies which have denied African Americans home ownership and basic public services, a landmark new study has found."
Source: Guardian, 01/16/2020
"World’s Biggest Long-Term Risks Are Environmental, WEF Says"
"The World Economic Forum is sounding alarm bells on climate change, with environmental risks occupying the group’s top five long-term concerns for the first time on record."
Source: Bloomberg, 01/16/2020
"2019 Was the Second-Hottest Year Ever, Closing Out the Warmest Decade"
"The past decade was the hottest on record, government researchers announced on Wednesday, the latest sign of global warming’s grip on the planet. And 2019 was the second-warmest year ever, they said, just shy of the record set in 2016."
Source: NY Times, 01/16/2020
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