"How Climate Change Is Reshaping The World"
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Source: Washington Post, 04/21/2022
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"Biden Restores Climate to Landmark Environmental Law, Reversing Trump"
"The Biden administration announced Tuesday that it is restoring parts of a bedrock environmental law, once again requiring that climate impacts be considered and local communities have input before federal agencies approve highways, pipelines and other major projects."
Source: NYTimes, 04/20/2022"Biden Launches $6Bn Effort To Save America’s Distressed Nuclear Plants"
"The Biden administration is launching a $6 billion effort to rescue nuclear power plants at risk of closing, citing the need to continue nuclear energy as a carbon-free source of power that helps to combat climate change."
Source: AP, 04/20/2022Deep Sea Gold Rush Raises Questions About Protection Authority
"The startup’s pitch was simple and cinematic: The mining company would send large robots to explore the bottom of the ocean and harvest minerals millions of years old that could be used to make electric car batteries."
Source: LA Times, 04/20/2022"Supreme Court Denies Penobscot Indian Nation Appeal"
"The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined an appeal by the Penobscot Indian Nation in its fight with Maine over ownership and regulation of the tribe’s namesake river."
Source: AP, 04/20/2022"New CDC Team: A ‘Weather Service’ To Forecast What’s Next In Pandemic"
"A new team of federal health scientists officially embarked Tuesday on a mission to provide what has often been absent from the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic: better, faster information about what is likely to happen next in this public health emergency and in future outbreaks."
Source: Washington Post, 04/20/2022"Environmentalists Target Mountains of Fertilizer Waste"
"The U.S. houses hundreds of millions of tons of phosphogypsum in open-air stacks, but regulation is inconsistent."
Source: Undark, 04/20/2022Zombie Kentucky Strip Mines Produce Safety, Environmental Violations
"As the coal industry has collapsed in Kentucky, companies have racked up a rising number of violations at surface mines, and state regulators have failed to bring a record number of them into compliance, internal documents show."
Source: Inside Climate News, 04/20/2022"Climate-Change Risks Get the Attention of Real Estate Investors"
"They are thinking more seriously about flooding, but a lack of established standards for assessing development projects is challenging their efforts."
Source: NYTimes, 04/20/2022"California Leads Effort To Let Rivers Roam, Lower Flood Risk"
"Between vast almond orchards and dairy pastures in the heart of California’s farm country sits a property being redesigned to look like it did 150 years ago, before levees restricted the flow of rivers that weave across the landscape."
Source: AP, 04/20/2022"Parks Coalition Presses Biden To Establish 6 New Protected Monuments"
"An organization representing current and former National Park Service employees is calling for President Joe Biden to use his executive power to establish several new national monuments around the country and advance his goal of conserving 30% of the nation’s lands and waters by 2030."
Source: HuffPost, 04/20/2022Colorado R. Tops 10 Most Endangered Rivers In America
"The Colorado River — which provides drinking water, irrigation and electricity for more than 40 million people in the West — is the most endangered river in the United States this year, according to the nonprofit conservation group American Rivers."
Source: CNN, 04/19/2022"Biden To Tout Climate Policies For Earth Day"
"The Biden administration says it plans to highlight several of its climate change accomplishments ahead of and on Earth Day this Friday."
Source: The Hill, 04/19/2022"People Of Color More Likely To Be Harmed By Pesticides, Study Finds"
"People of color and low-income communities are at disproportionate risk of pesticide exposure, a new study has found." "Hispanic and Latino farmworkers at high risk from pesticide use in agriculture, while people in lower-income housing also affected".
Source: Guardian, 04/19/2022Conference Comes Up With $16 Billion In Pledges To Safeguard Ocean Health
"International delegates representing governments, businesses, academic and research institutions, civil society, youth leaders and philanthropic organizations announced major commitments worth more than $16 billion to protect ocean health at the seventh Our Ocean Conference in Koror, Palau, on April 13 and 14."
Source: Mongabay, 04/19/2022
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