Designed For Disaster: These Homes Can Withstand A Category 5 Hurricane
"As climate change fuels more intense storms, Deltec and other companies build hurricane-proof homes".
Source: Washington Post, 05/17/2021
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"Hurricane Season Spurs Hog Waste Worries In North Carolina"
"As experts predict an active storm season, critics say the hog industry has done little to change after recent hurricanes overwhelmed waste lagoons."
Source: EHN, 05/17/2021DFO Altered Report To Downplay Risks To Imperilled Steelhead: Docs
"Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) watered down a scientific report to downplay threats to endangered Thompson and Chilcotin steelhead, documents obtained by the B.C. Wildlife Federation through access to information legislation reveal."
Source: The Narwhal, 05/17/2021$2 Billion Project Would Help Save Louisiana Coast - And Stoke Flooding
"In lower Plaquemines Parish, some fear they are river diversion's 'collateral damage'".
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 05/17/2021"Chainsaw Massacre: Tree Poaching Hits Canada Amid Lumber Shortage"
"Officials on Vancouver Island say at least 100 trees have been illegally cut down, leaving one stump with a face carved into it".
Source: Guardian, 05/17/2021Australia Unveils Weapons Of Mouse Destruction To Tackle Rodent ‘Plague’
"Farmers and rural residents say they’re at their wits end battling the growing tide of mice."
"The Australian state of New South Wales will spend $38.5 million to send a plague of mice eating their way across farms and invading homes “into oblivion,” a move hailed by farmers and rural residents who say they’re at their wits end with a growing tide of rodents.
Source: HuffPost, 05/17/2021EPA Watchdog Calls For Improved Enforcement After Decade-Long Decline
"The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Inspector General identified a decline in enforcement activity within the agency from fiscal 2007 through fiscal 2018 in a report released Thursday."
Source: The Hill, 05/14/2021"EPA Revokes Trump-Era Policy That Loosened Clean-Air Rules"
"The Environmental Protection Agency is revoking a Trump-era rule that overhauled how the agency evaluates air pollutants, a move the Biden administration says will make it easier to enact limits on dangerous and climate-changing emissions."
Source: AP, 05/14/2021Emails Show Mining Industry, Home-Builders Shaped Arizona Water Bill
"Newly released emails reveal that lawyers and lobbyists for mining companies, developers and the agriculture industry had a hand behind the scenes in shaping Arizona’s newly adopted law on clean-water rules for rivers and streams."
Source: Arizona Republic, 05/14/2021OSHA Failed to Protect Food Workers. Can a New Director Keep Them Safe?
"The federal agency largely failed people on farms, in restaurants, and in meat-processing facilities during the pandemic. Labor leaders hope Cal/OSHA’s Doug Parker will steer the ship right."
Source: Civil Eats, 05/14/2021"As the Climate Warms, Could the U.S. Face Another Dust Bowl?"
"Improved agricultural practices and widespread irrigation may stave off another agricultural calamity in the Great Plains. But scientists are now warning that two inescapable realities — rising temperatures and worsening drought — could still spawn a modern-day Dust Bowl."
Source: YaleE360, 05/14/2021"Chemical Giants Hid Dangers Of ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Food Packaging"
"Chemical giants DuPont and Daikin knew the dangers of a PFAS compound widely used in food packaging since 2010, but hid them from the public and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), company studies obtained by the Guardian reveal."
Source: Guardian, 05/14/2021Solar Pushback: How Power Firms Try To Make People Pay For Going Green
"In states like Kansas, energy companies want to impose charges on people who produce their own power with rooftop arrays".
Source: Guardian, 05/14/2021"Biden Advisory Group Lays Out Environmental Justice Roadmap"
"President Joe Biden should take major steps to fulfill his environmental justice pledge and avoid the types of incremental initiatives that will lead to little progress, a White House advisory council said Thursday."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 05/14/2021"CMP Can Begin Construction On New Segment Of Corridor, Court Rules"
"New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) can begin construction on the one segment of the power transmission line that doesn't run along the existing Central Maine Power (CMP) corridor. This comes after a federal judge lifted an injunction blocking construction on that segment Thursday."
Source: News Center Maine, 05/14/2021
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