Pumped Storage Hydro Is The Greenest Renewable Energy Technology: Study
"Pumped storage hydropower is the greenest renewable energy technology for large-scale energy storage, a new study suggests."
Source: OPB, 09/14/2023
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"Washington Is Full Of Rats. These Dogs Are Happy To Help With That."
"On certain nights, behind some of your favorite restaurants, roving groups of dog owners set their posse of pooches loose on urban rodents".
Source: Washington Post, 09/14/2023"For a Pittance, Miners Can Work Public Land. There’s a Push to Make Them Pay."
"The Biden administration is asking Congress to change the law so companies pay federal royalties when they extract metals."
Source: NYTimes, 09/13/20235,300 Are Feared Dead, More Are Missing As Libya Is Devastated By Floods
"Emergency workers uncovered more than 1,500 bodies in the wreckage of Libya’s eastern city of Derna on Tuesday, and it was feared the toll could spiral with 10,000 people reported still missing after floodwaters smashed through dams and washed away entire neighborhoods of the city."
Source: AP, 09/13/2023"Colombia Was Deadliest Country For Environmentalists In 2022 - Group"
"Colombia was the deadliest country for environmentalists in 2022, with at least 60 environmental and land rights defenders killed there, British advocacy group Global Witness said in a report on Tuesday."
Source: Reuters, 09/13/2023"China Sows Disinformation About Hawaii Fires Using New Techniques"
"Beijing’s influence campaign using artificial intelligence is a rapid change in tactics, researchers from Microsoft and other organizations say."
"When wildfires swept across Maui last month with destructive fury, China’s increasingly resourceful information warriors pounced.
Source: NYTimes, 09/13/2023UK Govt. May Have Broken Environmental Law On Sewage Overflows: Watchdog
"Britain's government and water regulator may have failed to comply with environmental law over the regulation of untreated sewage releases, the country's environmental protection watchdog said on Tuesday."
Source: Reuters, 09/13/2023Hurricane Lee Swirls Through Open Waters On A Path Toward Atlantic Canada
"Hurricane Lee whirled north of Puerto Rico on Tuesday as a very large Category 3 storm, with forecasters noting it would remain in open waters through this week while on a path toward Atlantic Canada."
Source: AP, 09/13/2023"EPA To Undo Trump-Era Rollback Of Air Toxics Policy"
"In a long-anticipated move, EPA is poised to target the Trump-era rollback of a venerable industrial air pollution policy."
Source: E&E News, 09/13/2023"Mosquito-Borne Dengue Grows Deadlier In South Asia As Planet Warms"
"Mosquito-borne dengue fever is taking a heavy toll on South Asian nations this year as Bangladesh grapples with record deaths and Nepal faces cases in new areas, with disease experts linking worsening outbreaks to the impacts of climate change."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 09/13/2023"‘Zombie Trout’ Unsettle Montana, Long a Fly-Fishing Mecca"
"Since the Fellin family founded the Big Hole Lodge in the 1980s to take people fly fishing on the Big Hole River, they have seen significant changes to the cobble-and-boulder-studded freestone trout stream."
Source: NYTimes, 09/13/2023"Trying To Kill Mosquitoes? Don’t Buy A Bug Zapper."
"Every night, a mass murderer stalks the darkness of America’s suburbs. An eerie blue glow lures hapless victims from their homes. The doomed souls, mesmerized by the light, throng to their deaths in sizzling blasts of electricity."
Source: Washington Post, 09/13/2023"Congress Enters Pivotal Week On Spending"
"How to prevent a looming potential government shutdown will dominate the conversation on Capitol Hill this week, with the House and Senate considering divergent strategies for keeping agencies running."
Source: E&E News, 09/12/20232023 Had More Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Than Any Year On Record
"New government data released Monday revealed that the U.S. has already experienced more billion-dollar weather disasters in 2023 than in any other year since authorities started tracking such data 40-plus years ago." "The staggering tally comes with four months of the year still remaining."
Source: HuffPost, 09/12/2023"Climate Change Is Causing an Insurance Crisis in Louisiana"
"A little over a year ago, Peter Gardner, a Louisiana developer, completed rehabbing an apartment building with 144 units and got a surprise so ugly it made him decide to move his business out of town."
Source: Bloomberg Green, 09/12/2023
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