Reckoning Day: US Cities Burn Recyclables After China Bans Imports
"Residents of cities like Chester, outside Philadelphia, fear a rise in pollution from incinerators after China’s recycling ban".
Source: Guardian, 02/21/2019
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"Chinese 'Ivory Queen' Smuggler Sentenced To 15 Years Jail In Tanzania"
"A prominent Chinese businesswoman dubbed the “Ivory Queen” was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a Tanzanian court on Tuesday for smuggling the tusks of more than 350 elephants, weighing nearly 2 tonnes, to Asia."
Source: Reuters, 02/21/2019
"Dems Face Tough Vote On Green New Deal"
"Democrats are facing a defining Senate vote this week on the Green New Deal climate change plan — which Republicans hope will bolster their argument that the party is too far left for the country."
Source: The Hill, 02/21/2019
"Thousands of Protests Submitted Against New Mexico Oil Sale"
"Thousands of protests have been lodged with U.S. land managers in opposition of next month’s oil and natural gas lease sale despite a decision to remove from the offering several parcels near a national park in northwestern New Mexico."
Source: AP, 02/21/2019
How Wehrum’s Law Firm Profited From The Fight To Roll Back Air Rules
"The nation’s biggest coal-burning power companies paid a top lobbying firm millions of dollars to fight a wide range of Obama-era environmental rules, documents obtained by POLITICO reveal — shortly before one of the firm’s partners became President Donald Trump’s top air pollution regulator."
Source: Politico, 02/21/2019
Complaint: Interior Filled With Ex-Lobbyists Cozy with Former Employers
"Only a few short weeks after President Donald Trump nominated David Bernhardt, a former oil and agriculture industry lobbyist, to run the Interior Department, the agency is facing a slew of new allegations that top officials violated federal ethics rules by keeping cozy ties to their former employers."
Source: The Intercept, 02/21/2019
"To Catch A Cactus Thief: National Parks Fight A Thorny Problem"
"Hipster tastes have fueled a spike in succulent poaching. Now conservationists are finding creative ways to rescue them".
Source: Guardian, 02/20/2019
"Pollution Casts Shadow Over New Mexico’s Booming Dairy Industry"
"For months, Clovis, New Mexico, dairy farmer Art Schaap has been watching his life go down the drain. Instead of selling milk, he is dumping 15,000 gallons a day – enough to provide a carton at lunch to 240,000 children. Instead of working 24/7 to keep his animals healthy, he’s planning to exterminate all 4,000 of his cows, one of the best herds in his county’s booming dairy industry."
Source: Guardian, 02/20/2019
Renewables: Shell Is Buying Clean-Tech Companies. What's Going On?
"Royal Dutch Shell PLC, one of the world's largest oil companies, gave fresh signals last week that it intends to be a purveyor of low-carbon electricity. It bought a battery company that will compete with Tesla Inc. and struck a partnership with Google to test an exotic wind generator."
Source: EnergyWire, 02/20/2019
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