"Idaho Officials Copy-Pasted A Fossil Fuel Industry Letter"
"TC Energy asked Idaho Republicans to support a gas infrastructure project. The Republicans simply slapped their names on the company’s draft letter."
Source: HuffPost, 12/20/2022
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"Biden Rule Proposes Phasing Out Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs"
"Compact fluorescent light bulbs would effectively be phased out under a new Biden administration proposal designed to further the transition to more energy-efficient options."
Source: Bloomberg Green, 12/20/2022"EPA Overhauls Chemical Reviews To Boost Transparency"
"EPA is taking steps to heighten transparency around its review process for new chemicals, amid an outpouring of criticism from advocates and watchdog groups who have called on the Biden administration to prioritize targeting toxic substances."
Source: E&E News, 12/20/2022Midwest Soil Eroding Faster Than Ever. Modern Farming Could Be To Blame.
"Midwest soil is eroding at an alarming rate according to new, first-of-its-kind research."
Source: Grist, 12/20/2022"Global Study Reveals Widespread Salt Marsh Decline"
"The world lost 1,453 square kilometers (561 square miles) of salt marsh between 2000 and 2019, an area twice the size of Singapore, according to a new study based on satellite imagery."
Source: Mongabay, 12/20/2022Corps Grants Louisiana Permits To Build $2.5 Billion Sediment Diversion
"Louisiana's proposed $2.5 billion Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion, designed to reconnect the Mississippi River with the Barataria Basin to create as much as 21 square miles of wetlands by 2070, was awarded key permits by the Army Corps of Engineers on Monday that could allow construction to begin in March 2023."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 12/20/2022"This Bird Is Extinct, The Government Says. Not Everyone Is So Sure."
"A bevy of amateur birders and professional ornithologists is racing to prove the ivory-billed woodpecker still exists, before federal officials remove it from the endangered species list".
Source: Washington Post, 12/20/2022"Cop15: Historic Deal Struck To Halt Biodiversity Loss By 2030"
"Governments appear to have signed a once-in-a-decade deal to halt the destruction of Earth’s ecosystems, but the agreement seems to have been forced through by the Chinese president, ignoring the objections of some African states."
Source: Guardian, 12/19/2022"Report: World’s Coal Use Creeps To New High In 2022"
"Coal use across the world is set to reach a new record this year amid persistently high demand for the heavily polluting fossil fuel, the International Energy Agency said Friday."
Source: AP, 12/19/2022"Conservationists Hail US Plan To Ban Shark Fin Trade"
"As US faces criticism at Cop15 biodiversity conference over failure to sign 30-year-old pact to protect nature, Biden poised to sign shark fin measure into law".
Source: Guardian, 12/19/2022Fears Of ‘Dead Pool’ On Colorado River Grow As Drought Threatens Hoover Dam
"The Colorado River’s largest reservoirs stand nearly three-quarters empty, and federal officials now say there is a real danger the reservoirs could drop so low that water would no longer flow past Hoover Dam in two years."
Source: LA Times, 12/19/2022Illinois Failed To Act on PFAS in Mississippi River For Over a Decade
"Alarmed by the threats to public health, Minnesota officials pressured 3M to dramatically reduce pollution released into the Mississippi River at its manufacturing plant southeast of Minneapolis-St. Paul, where the global conglomerate pioneered the highly toxic, almost indestructible chemicals after World War II."
Source: Chicago Tribune, 12/19/2022"UK Government Blocks Release of CO2 Figures Behind Transport Plan"
"The UK government is refusing to release the carbon emission figures behind its transport decarbonisation plan, which campaigners say could make proposed road schemes financially unviable."
Source: Guardian, 12/19/2022Tribes Accuse Calif. Water Board Of Discrimination And Urge EPA Oversight
"A coalition of California tribes and environmental justice groups filed a civil rights complaint Friday against the State Water Resources Control Board, charging it with discriminatory water management practices that it says have led to the ecological decline of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta."
Source: LA Times, 12/19/2022AK Gov. Dunleavy Names Former Oil And Gas Lobbyist As DNR Commissioner
"Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy [R] named former oil and gas lobbyist John Boyle to serve as commissioner of the agency in charge of oil and gas development in the state."
Source: States Newsroom, 12/19/2022
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