"How China, The World’s Top Polluter, Avoids Paying For Climate Damage"
"United Nations still considers China, now the world’s second-largest economy and biggest annual polluter, a developing country".
Source: Washington Post, 11/23/2022
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"Uncertainties About Climate Compensation Fund Trigger Skepticism"
"A newly agreed “loss and damage” fund in which developed countries would pay for climate damages suffered by vulnerable developing counterparts lacks both details and actual funding, raising question about whether it’s merely a symbolic breakthrough."
Source: The Hill, 11/23/2022"UN Climate Boss Settles For No Cuts On Emissions"
"Given an energy crisis in Europe and progress made in helping climate victims, the new climate chief for the United Nations said he’ll settle for a lack of new emissions-cutting action coming out of the now-concluded climate talks in Egypt.."
Source: AP, 11/23/2022BLM Announces New Proposed Oil And Gas Lease Sales In Nevada, Utah
"The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on Monday announced two proposed oil and gas lease sales for nearly 100,000 acres of land in Nevada and Utah."
Source: The Hill, 11/23/2022"How Vulnerable Countries Finally Got A Fund For Climate Damage"
"The world’s most climate-threatened countries won an historic first at climate talks here Sunday — securing a fund that would pay them for the damage wrought by global warming. But the victory came at a price."
Source: E&E News, 11/22/2022"EPA, Watchdog Clash Over Water Cyberthreats"
"EPA and the agency’s inspector general are at odds over whether federal oversight is sufficient to ensure U.S. water operators are protected against hackers and other saboteurs."
Source: E&E News, 11/22/2022"In a First, Rich Countries Agree to Pay for Climate Damages in Poor Nations"
"After 30 years of deadlock, a new U.N. climate agreement aims to pay developing countries for loss and damage caused by global warming. But huge questions remain about how it would work."
Source: NYTimes, 11/21/2022Investigations Of Chemical Incidents Hampered By Board's Staff Shortages: IG
"Staffing shortages and infighting among a dwindling number of decision-makers are hampering investigations of chemical fires, explosions and other petrochemical industry accidents in Louisiana and across the country, according to a new federal inspector’s report."
Source: Nola.com, 11/21/2022Monterey Bay Desalination Plant OKd Despite Environmental Injustice Concerns
"In a decision that sheds harsh light on the state’s commitment to environmental justice amid growing drought anxiety, the California Coastal Commission has granted conditional approval to a controversial Monterey Bay desalination project that even the commission’s own staff said would unfairly burden a historically underserved community."
Source: LA Times, 11/21/2022"Confusion, Finger-Pointing, Opposing Views At Egypt’s COP27"
"A day before UN climate talks were supposed to wrap up, negotiators appeared to be far apart on all the major issues being discussed."
Source: AP, 11/18/2022"What the Unusual Midterm Elections Mean for Climate Action"
"The Democrats’ strong showing in the midterm elections — both their defense of their Senate majority and their gains in important state races — essentially ensures that President Biden’s signature climate change law, passed in August, will be fully implemented despite threats from some Republicans to block or undo it."
Source: NYTimes, 11/18/2022"A Clash Over Degrees: How Hot Should Nations Allow the Earth to Get?"
"The mantra has been: Limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius or risk climate catastrophe. But at COP27, there are hints of backsliding."
Source: NYTimes, 11/17/2022"Lula Lays Out A Vision For Brazil And The Planet At COP 27"
"Brazil’s incoming president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, laid out his vision for the world’s largest rainforest and the future of a warming planet before hundreds of supporters at annual climate talks here Wednesday."
Source: E&E News, 11/17/2022"US Regulators To Vote On Largest Dam Demolition In History"
"The largest dam demolition and river restoration plan in the world could be close to reality Thursday as U.S. regulators vote on a plan to remove four aging hydro-electric structures, reopening hundreds of miles of California river habitat to imperiled salmon."
Source: AP, 11/17/2022Maine Lobster Losing ‘Sustainable’ Label Over Gear Risk To Whales
"A major seafood guide announced Wednesday it no longer considers Maine’s famed lobsters sustainable, given that whales on the brink of extinction are dying after becoming entangled in fishing gear."
Source: Washington Post, 11/17/2022
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