"How Biden’s Promise To Coal Country Became A Warning For Democrats"
"A fading coal town in Pennsylvania is struggling to replace the jobs and money that the fossil fuel industry once offered."
Source: Washington Post, 06/25/2024
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"Joe Biden’s Climate Law Has Created More Than 300,000 Clean Energy Jobs"
"U.S. companies have created more than 300,000 clean energy jobs since President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law in August 2022, according to a detailed new analysis from an environmental advocacy group."
Source: HuffPost, 06/25/2024
Pulling Back the Curtain on the Plunder of the Planet
“Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places,” a new work by investigative journalist Christopher Pollon, offers a sweeping global view of how the mining industry profits, despite causing vast environmental losses and failing to acknowledge Indigenous ownership or rights to the land it mines. BookShelf’s Melody Kemp lauds Pollon’s searing observations and investigations. Read her review.
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"SEC Urged to Probe JBS Claims on Environment, Animal Welfare"
"Animal rights organizations have asked the SEC to investigate meatpacking giant JBS SA for allegedly misleading investors about its animal welfare and environmental practices in paperwork submitted to list the company on the New York Stock Exchange."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 06/21/2024
"This Coal-Heavy Rural Co-Op Utility Is Buying Its First Solar Plants"
"Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, one of the largest rural cooperative utilities in the U.S., is bringing the energy transition home to its massive western service territory. It’s acquiring its first large-scale solar power plants as it prepares to shift away from its current dependence on coal power."
Source: Canary Media, 06/18/2024
Rethinking Rural Reporting — How To Get Past the Cliches
When covering rural America, mainstream media often defaults to stereotypes steeped in politics and ignores the diversity that actually exists there, as expanding news deserts exacerbate the problem. Reporter Claire Carlson on why this matters — including in discouraging investment around climate change or resource industries urban dwellers depend on. Here’s how journalists can report richer, more nuanced stories about rural people and places.
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"Climate Change Funding Talks Stuck Ahead Of COP29 Summit"
"With just five months to go before this year's U.N. climate summit, countries cannot agree on the size of a global funding bill to help the developing world fight climate change - let alone how to split it."
Source: Reuters, 06/14/2024
"World’s Top Banks ‘Greenwashing Their Role In Destruction Of The Amazon’"
"Five of the world’s biggest banks are “greenwashing” their role in the destruction of the Amazon, according to a report that indicates that their environmental and social guidelines fail to cover more than 70% of the rainforest."
Source: Guardian, 06/13/2024
Water, Chemical Industries Challenge Biden’s PFAS Drinking Water Rule
"Lobby groups representing water utilities, as well as the chemical and manufacturing industries, have filed court challenges to a Biden administration rule that seeks to limit the presence of toxic chemicals in drinking water."
Source: The Hill, 06/11/2024
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