"The Yellowstone to Yukon Initiative Hopes to Give Wildlife Room to Roam"
"It's a big, inspiring vision of wildlife connectivity. But could it work?"
Source: Sierra, 03/15/2024
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"Nine More States Sue SEC Over Climate Disclosure Rule"
"Nine states this week sued the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over a rule that requires publicly traded companies to disclose some climate-related information to potential investors."
Source: The Hill, 03/14/2024US Energy Industry Methane Emissions Are Triple What Government Thought
"American oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and compressors are spewing three times the amount of the potent heat-trapping gas methane as the government thinks, causing $9.3 billion in yearly climate damage, a new comprehensive study calculates."
Source: AP, 03/14/2024"Miss. Senate Votes To Change Control Of Jackson’s Troubled Water System"
"For the second year in a row, the Mississippi Senate has passed a bill that would transfer control of the state capital city’s troubled water system to a regional board."
Source: AP, 03/14/2024Judge Finds Flint In Civil Contempt For Failures In Lead Pipe Replacement
"The city of Flint has been found in civil contempt by a federal judge for its handling of its lead pipe replacement program."
Source: Michigan Public, 03/14/2024County Confirms 645 Heat-Associated Deaths In Metro Phoenix Last Year
"Public health officials in Arizona’s most populous county on Wednesday reported they confirmed a staggering 645 heat-associated deaths last year — more than 50% higher than 2022 and another consecutive annual record in arid metro Phoenix."
Source: AP, 03/14/2024Mass. Town Spent $600K On Sand. A Winter Storm Washed It Away Days Later.
"A Massachusetts beach community is scrambling after a weekend storm washed away $600,000 in sand that was trucked in to protect homes, roads and other infrastructure."
Source: AP, 03/14/2024Planting Trees May Not Be as Good for the Climate as Previously Believed
"The climate benefits of trees storing carbon dioxide is partially offset by dark forests’ absorption of more heat from the sun, and compounds they release that slow the destruction of methane in the atmosphere, the research shows."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/14/2024"Spring Is Getting Earlier. Find Out How It’s Changed In Your Town."
"As global warming nudges temperatures higher, memories of the past offer an informal account of how the seasons have changed. A formal account comes from the USA National Phenology Network — phenology is the study of seasonal change — which reports the annual appearance of spring’s first leaves in the contiguous United States since 1981."
Source: Washington Post, 03/14/2024South American Lithium Mines Threaten Native Water, Culture And Wealth
"In the “lithium triangle” – a region spanning Argentina, Chile and Bolivia – native communities sit upon a treasure trove of the stuff: an estimated trillion dollars in lithium."
Source: AP, 03/14/2024"Giant Redwoods: World’s Largest Trees 'Thriving In UK'"
"Giant redwoods - the world's largest trees - are flourishing in the UK and now even outnumber those found in their native range in California."
Source: BBC News, 03/14/2024Climate-Science Deniers Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition
"Last July, a small group of rabble-rousers boarded a trio of powerboats, banners and bullhorns in hand. They were headed for the massive floating construction site of an offshore wind farm 35 miles from the eastern tip of Long Island, New York."
Source: Sierra, 03/13/2024"Legal Action Could End Use Of Toxic Sewage Sludge On US Crops As Fertilizer"
"New legal action could put an end to the practice of spreading toxic sewage sludge on US cropland as a cheap alternative to fertilizer, and force America to rethink how it disposes of its industrial and human waste."
Source: Guardian, 03/13/2024Maryland Lawmakers Balk at Ending Subsidies for Trash Incineration
"Within a year of moving to Cherry Hill, a majority Black neighborhood on Baltimore’s southern tip, Shanae Thomas noticed her asthma—a health problem she was born with—had gradually worsened."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/13/2024"Across the Nation, Lawmakers Aim to Ban Lab-Grown Meat"
"Restricting the sale of protein cultured from animal cells, developed as a way to raise meat without the climate impacts of livestock, has become a trendy right-wing legislative focus in states from Arizona to Florida."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/13/2024
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