‘A Miracle’: Gran Abuelo In Chile Could Be World’s Oldest Living Tree
"100ft alerce has estimated age of 5,484, more than 600 years older than Methuselah in California".
Source: Guardian, 09/27/2022
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"E.P.A. Will Make Racial Equality a Bigger Factor in Environmental Rules"
"The Environmental Protection Agency will establish a new national office of environmental justice, the Biden administration’s latest effort to rectify the disproportionate harm caused by pollution and climate change in communities of color and in low-income cities, towns and counties."
Source: New York Times, 09/26/2022"Hundreds Of Thousands Without Power In Atlantic Canada After Fiona"
"The storm named Fiona slammed into Canada's eastern seaboard with hurricane-force winds and torrential rainfall Saturday, pulling buildings into the ocean, collapsing homes, toppling trees and knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of people."
Source: CNN, 09/26/2022Ian Strengthens To Hurricane, Will Rapidly Intensify, Hitting Florida
"Hurricane watches were issued for a stretch of Florida's western coast Monday morning as Ian strengthened into the fourth hurricane of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season. AccuWeather forecasters warn that the storm will only grow stronger in the coming days and is forecast to become a Category 4 behemoth in the Gulf of Mexico later this week."
Source: AccuWeather, 09/26/2022"Mega-Polluting Coal Plans Clash With Australia’s Climate Goals"
"A proposed pipeline of coal mine projects in Australia, the world’s second-biggest exporter of the fuel, are threatening to lock in decades of new carbon emissions and challenge the country’s promises of bolder climate action."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 09/26/2022New Anti-SLAPP Bill Would Protect Activists From Abusive Lawsuits
"The bill introduced last week follows efforts in 32 states to dissuade companies and individuals from filing lawsuits that aren’t intended to prevail in court, but to be so costly for defendants that they discourage criticism."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/26/2022Exxon’s Houston Carbon Capture Just Got Massive Support from Congress
"Imagine a clean energy future, and you might picture giant turbines twisting in the wind, or electric vehicles zipping quietly down the highway. Fossil fuels become relics, or disappear altogether. ExxonMobil has a different vision. In this story of the future, oil refineries continue to distill crude. Fossil fuel-burning power plants churn away, too."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/26/2022"Why Climate-Change 'Loss And Damage' Will Be A Hot Topic At COP27"
"As large parts of the planet struggle with climate-inflicted woes, from floods in Pakistan to forest fires in the United States, the thorny issue of how to address "loss and damage" driven by global warming has risen up the political agenda."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 09/26/2022"Civil Rights Law Targets ‘Cancer Alley’ Discrimination"
"Sprawling industrial complexes line the drive east along the Mississippi River to the majority-Black town of Reserve, Louisiana. In the last seven miles the road passes a massive, rust-colored aluminum-oxide refinery, then the Evonik chemical plant, then rows of white tanks at the Marathon oil refinery."
Source: AP, 09/26/2022"Climate Perils Mount For America’s Water Utilities"
"Drinking water disasters across the United States in recent weeks are magnifying vulnerabilities in the nation’s water grid as operators grapple with record-setting drought and floods that can knock out aging systems for weeks."
Source: E&E News, 09/26/2022"‘Eco-Warrior’ And Earth First! Co-Founder Dave Foreman Dies"
"Dave Foreman, a self-proclaimed eco-warrior who was a prominent member of the radical environmentalism movement and a co-founder of Earth First!, has died. He was 74."
Source: AP, 09/26/2022"Embattled World Bank Leader ‘Slow-Walking’ Climate Initiatives"
"World Bank chief David Malpass tried desperately Thursday to convince global leaders that he knows climate change is caused by burning oil, gas and coal. But, by then, the bank itself was under scrutiny for propping up fossil fuel production."
Source: E&E News, 09/23/2022"California Should Expect A ‘Fourth Dry Year’ As Drought Persists"
"California’s reservoirs will enter fall in a slightly better position than last year, but the Golden State should prepare for more dryness, extreme weather events and water quality hazards in 2023, officials say.
Source: LA Times, 09/23/2022"White House Launches ‘Generational’ $7 Billion Hydrogen Plan"
"The Energy Department has opened up applications for $7 billion to establish up to 10 regional hydrogen hubs, part of a broader road map unveiled Thursday that officials described as essential to lowering emissions in industrial sectors such as energy, transportation, steel, and cement."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 09/23/2022"Wildfire Smoke Is Erasing Progress on Clean Air"
"Smoke from wildfires has worsened over the past decade, potentially reversing decades of improvements in Western air quality made under the Clean Air Act, according to research published Thursday from Stanford University."
Source: NYTimes, 09/23/2022
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