"These Birds Aren’t Lost. They’re Adapting."
"Bird-watchers love to see vagrants, or birds that have traveled far outside their range. But scientists say they have a lot to teach us in a world facing ecological change."
Source: NYTimes, 04/08/2022
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"Supreme Court Revives Trump-Era Environmental Regulation"
"The Supreme Court on Wednesday reinstated an environmental regulation from the Trump administration that restricted the role states play in enforcing the Clean Water Act."
Source: NYTimes, 04/07/2022Blamed For High Gas Prices, Oil Execs Defend Themselves At House Hearing
"Amid a swirl of partisan finger-pointing on who is responsible for rising energy prices, executives of six large oil and gas companies defended themselves on Wednesday against criticisms that they are seeking to boost corporate profits by refusing to produce more oil and gas."
Source: NYTimes, 04/07/2022"Storms Batter Aging Power Grid As Climate Disasters Spread"
"Power outages from severe weather have doubled over the past two decades across the U.S., as a warming climate stirs more destructive storms that cripple broad segments of the nation’s aging electrical grid, according to an Associated Press analysis of government data."
Source: AP, 04/07/2022A First: Researchers Find Microplastics Deep In Lungs Of Living People
"Researchers say they have found microplastics — tiny pieces of plastic debris that come as a result of the disposal of industrial waste — deep in the lungs of living humans for the first time."
Source: NPR, 04/07/2022"US To Boost Water Supplies Hit By Climate Change"
"The Interior announced that $420 million will be spent on projects in New Mexico, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa".
Source: AP, 04/07/2022"Zoos Hiding Birds As Avian Flu Spreads In North America"
"Zoos across North America are moving their birds indoors and away from people and wildlife as they try to protect them from the highly contagious and potentially deadly avian influenza."
Source: AP, 04/07/2022"New Power Plant Rule Awaits Supreme Court Ruling, EPA Chief Says"
"The EPA will have a new standard to limit carbon emissions “ready to go as soon as the Supreme Court rules” on its authority to regulate in that space, agency head Michael Regan told lawmakers on Wednesday."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 04/07/2022"Trade Secret Protection Strategy for Chemicals to Get EPA Revamp"
"The EPA will soon propose a rule to clarify what chemical manufacturers must do when they seek to keep details such as the company’s name, location, or identity of a chemical confidential."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 04/07/2022"How The War In Ukraine Could Speed Up Europe's Climate Plans"
"The war in Ukraine has made getting more fossil fuels to Europe a top priority of the Biden Administration, in order to wean European Union members off Russian energy. But this comes as both Europe and the U.S. are behind on their goals to quickly reduce carbon emissions to avoid the worst consequences of climate change."
Source: NPR, 04/07/2022"The Razor's Edge of A Warming World"
"As we hurtle toward an ever-hotter future, GQ spotlights eight places whose very identities depend on a simple calculation: If we limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, these places could be saved. In a 2-degree scenario, they would be irredeemably lost."
Source: GQ, 04/07/2022"EPA Rule Would Finally Ban Asbestos, Carcinogen Still In Use"
"The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed a rule to finally ban asbestos, a carcinogen that is still used in some chlorine bleach, brake pads and other products and kills thousands of Americans every year."
Source: AP, 04/06/2022"House Dems Tell USPS To Pump The Brakes On Gas-Guzzling Truck Contract"
"A top House Democrat told senior U.S. Postal Service officials Tuesday that the agency “needs to go back to the drawing board” on an $11.3 billion plan to replace its aging delivery vehicles with up to 148,000 gas-guzzling trucks despite directives from the Biden administration to make the federal fleet more “green” and opposition from environmental regulators."
Source: Washington Post, 04/06/2022Food, Farming, Forestry Must Change To Curb Global Warming, U.N. Says
"Protecting forests, changing diets, and altering farming methods could contribute around a quarter of the greenhouse gas cuts needed to avert the worst impacts of climate change, according to the United Nations' climate panel."
Source: Reuters, 04/06/2022"Native American Tribe Reacquires Hundreds Of Acres in Virginia"
"The Department of the Interior (DOI) announced on Friday the return of more than 400 acres of land to an indigenous tribe in Virginia."
Source: The Hill, 04/06/2022
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