"How Trump’s War On The Media Is Expected To Ramp Up In His Second Term"
"Donald Trump’s second term promises to deliver historic threats to US press freedom – directly from the Oval Office."
Source: The Conversation, 11/21/2024
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"China’s Soaring Emissions Are Upending Climate Politics"
"For many years, wealthy places like the United States and Europe have had the biggest historical responsibility for global warming and have been tasked with taking the lead in stopping it. China’s astonishing rise is upending that dynamic."
Source: NYTimes, 11/21/2024"A Call For EPA Action On Climate Risks To Hazardous Waste Facilities"
"The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should be doing more to help address potential climate change-related risks to hundreds of hazardous waste facilities across the country, according to a recent government watchdog report."
Source: The New Lede, 11/21/2024"More Than 50 Countries Sign UN Sustainable Tourism Declaration"
"More than 50 governments have signed a U.N. declaration to make tourism around the globe more climate friendly, the United Nations said on Wednesday, in what it hailed as a major achievement of the climate summit in Azerbaijan."
Source: Reuters, 11/21/2024Giraffes Are Up Next On The Endangered Species List: US Wildlife Officials
"Giraffe populations are declining at such an alarming rate — from habitat loss, poaching, urbanization and climate change-fueled drought — that US wildlife officials announced a proposal on Wednesday to help protect several of the species."
Source: CNN, 11/21/2024"Climate Finance Outcome at COP29 Still in Doubt"
"Countries are wrangling over who gets money, who will pay and whether debt relief will be part of the package."
Source: Inside Climate News, 11/21/2024Human-Caused Warming Intensified All 11 Atlantic Hurricanes In 2024
"Human-caused climate change boosted the wind speeds of recent Atlantic hurricanes, making them more damaging and costly, according to a pair of scientific reports released today."
Source: Yale Climate Connections, 11/21/2024"Huge Gas Plant Eyed To Power Mystery $5B Louisiana Data Center"
"Entergy proposes a new $3.2 billion natural gas plant to run a ‘game changing’ data center in northeast Louisiana; critics question the move"
Source: Floodlight, 11/21/2024Five Firms In Alliance ‘Made 1,000 Times More Plastic Than They Cleaned Up’
"Oil and chemical companies who created a high-profile alliance to end plastic pollution have produced 1,000 times more new plastic in five years than the waste they diverted from the environment, according to new data obtained by Greenpeace."
Source: Guardian, 11/21/2024"Protect This Place: Ladakh, the Planet’s ‘Third Pole’"
"Home to glaciers, snow leopards, and rich human cultures, Ladakh suffers from a lack of political representation, which has inspired recent protests."
Source: The Revelator, 11/21/2024"Biden Administration Requesting Roughly $100 Billion For Disaster Relief"
"The Biden administration is sending a roughly $100 billion request to Congress to help Americans impacted by a series of major and record-breaking natural disasters in 2023 and 2024, including Hurricanes Helene and Milton, calling on lawmakers to pass the needed relief with “bipartisan and bicameral support.”"
Source: CNN, 11/20/2024‘Bomb Cyclone’ Kills 1 And Knocks Out Power Across The Northwest US
"A major storm swept across the northwest U.S., battering the region with strong winds and rain, causing widespread power outages and downing trees that killed at least one person."
Source: AP, 11/20/2024"Trump Threatens New York Times, Penguin Random House over Critical Coverage"
"The letter, addressed to lawyers at the New York Times and Penguin Random House, arrived a week before the election. Attached was a discursive ten-page legal threat from an attorney for Donald Trump that demanded $10 billion in damages over “false and defamatory statements” contained in articles by Peter Baker, Michael S. Schmidt, Susanne Craig, and Russ Buettner."
Source: Columbia Journalism Review, 11/20/2024"The US No Longer Supports Capping Plastic Production In UN Treaty"
"The Biden administration has backtracked from supporting a cap on plastic production as part of the United Nations’ global plastics treaty."
Source: Grist, 11/20/2024Canada Helped Fossil Companies Improve Global ‘Perception’ Of Oilsands
"As this year’s United Nations climate summit hits the halfway mark, newly obtained documents show how the Liberal government gave Canada’s oil and gas lobbyists a platform to polish the sector’s reputation at the same event in 2022. Days later, the same government began a process of cracking down on misleading environmental messaging."
Source: The Narwhal, 11/20/2024
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