"Harris Offered A ‘Blueprint’ For Environmental Justice. Can She Grow It?"
"The vice president could double down on President Joe Biden’s focus on communities burdened by pollution if she is elected president."
Source: E&E News, 07/26/2024
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"Surge In Electricity Demand Boosts Coal Use — IEA"
"Coal remains the largest source of power globally despite its decline in the U.S."
Source: E&E News, 07/26/2024"How Pennsylvania’s Oil Industry Quietly Dumped Waste Across The State"
"Spreading fracking wastewater on roads is banned. Oil and gas companies do it anyway."
Source: Grist, 07/26/2024Recycled Bottle Tops And Tables From Shuttlecocks - Greenest Olympics?"
"The organising committee of Paris 2024 has vowed to make it the greenest Games in Olympic history, with half the carbon footprint of London 2012 and Rio 2016."
Source: BBC Sport, 07/26/2024"Red States Ask Supreme Court To Halt Biden Climate Rule For Power Plants"
"Republican-led states on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to block the Biden administration’s effort to cut planet-warming emissions from the power sector."
Source: The Hill, 07/26/2024"Not a B Movie: Sharks Are Ingesting Cocaine In The Ocean, Scientists Find"
"Scientists in Brazil have come up with the first evidence that sharks are being exposed to cocaine."
Source: NPR, 07/26/2024"Wildfires Across Western U.S. And Canada Force Thousands To Evacuate"
"Wildfires are blazing across western U.S. and Canada, prompting thousands to evacuate, shutting down highways and fouling the air quality over several states."
Source: NBC News, 07/25/2024"Meet Kamala Harris’ Go-To Guy On Climate"
"Vice President Kamala Harris’ longtime climate adviser is a 37-year-old Colorado native who has a Ph.D. in marine science, a penchant for electric buses and a miniature poodle named Newton who’s a member of the KHive."
Source: E&E News, 07/25/2024"PFAS Widely Added To US Pesticides Despite EPA Denial, Study Finds"
"Toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” are widely added to pesticides, and are increasingly used in the products in recent years, new research finds, a practice that creates a health threat by spreading the dangerous compounds directly into the US’s food and water supply."
Source: Guardian, 07/25/2024EPA Takes Next Step Toward Banning Vinyl Chloride
"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday proposed designating one of the toxic substances spilled by a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, as a high-priority chemical under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the next step to a full ban."
Source: The Hill, 07/25/2024California Isn’t Enforcing Its Strongest-in-the-Nation Oil Well Cleanup Law
"State regulators could have asked oil companies California Resources Corp. and Aera Energy for an estimated $2.4 billion to guarantee wells are plugged but decided they didn’t have the authority to do so."
Source: ProPublica, 07/25/2024"Revealed: Wealthy Western Countries Lead In Global Oil And Gas Expansion"
"A surge in new oil and gas exploration in 2024 threatens to unleash nearly 12bn tonnes of planet-heating emissions, with the world’s wealthiest countries – such as the US and the UK – leading a stampede of fossil fuel expansion in spite of their climate commitments, new data shared exclusively with the Guardian reveals."
Source: Guardian, 07/25/2024"What Project 2025 Would Do To Climate Policy In The US"
"As delegates arrived at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee earlier this week to officially nominate former president Donald Trump as their 2024 candidate, a right-wing policy think tank held an all-day event nearby. The Heritage Foundation, a key sponsor of the convention and a group that has been influencing Republican presidential policy since the 1980s, gathered its supporters to tout Project 2025, a 900-plus-page policy blueprint that seeks to fundamentally restructure the federal government."
Source: Grist, 07/25/2024"How Israel’s War On Gaza Unraveled A Landmark Mideast Climate Deal"
"Project Prosperity, a water-for-energy deal between Israel and Jordan, promised major climate adaption in a drought-stricken region. Then October 7 happened."
Source: Grist, 07/25/2024Enviros Challenge New Rules on Toxic Air Plastic and Chemical Pollution
"Environmental groups are teeing up a legal challenge to new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules on pollution from chemical and plastics plants, citing concerns the EPA relied too heavily on lowball industry estimates as it sized up the risks to people’s health posed by ethylene oxide (EtO), chloroprene, and other toxic air pollution."
Source: DeSmog, 07/25/2024
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