Film Studio Aims To Stir Up ‘Populist Anger’ Over Climate Crisis
"Yellow Dot Studios produces short-form videos to inform with ‘genuine, righteous anger’ and ‘laugh-out-loud comedy’".
Source: Guardian, 03/11/2024
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"Oil Industry Has Sought To Block State Backing For Green Tech Since 1960s"
"The oil industry has fought against government support for clean technologies for more than half a century, the Guardian can reveal, even as vast subsidies have propped up its polluting business model."
Source: Guardian, 03/11/2024
Big Oil Faces Flood Of Climate Lawsuits — And They’re Moving Closer To Trial
"A quarter of Americans now live in cities and states taking companies to court over lying to the public."
Source: Grist, 03/11/2024
Secrecy Around Gas Export Terminals Leaves Public In The Dark On Dangers
"During a summer’s afternoon in 2022, a 450-foot fireball exploded at a liquefied natural gas terminal south of Houston, rocking sunbathers on Quintana Beach, adjacent to the Freeport LNG terminal, and rattling homes for miles around. Eighteen months later, residents around the plant have yet to receive any information directly from Freeport LNG about what caused the explosion, or what to do if it were to happen again ... ."
Source: Floodlight, 03/08/2024
"Where Electric Vehicles Are (and Aren’t) Taking Off Across the U.S."
"Last year, Americans bought more than one million fully electric cars, trucks and SUVs, a record and a milestone for the country’s transition away from gas-powered vehicles."
Source: NYTimes, 03/08/2024
Norway And Sami People End Dispute Over Europe’s Largest Onshore Wind Farm
"Norway on Wednesday reached an agreement with the Sami people, ending a nearly three-year dispute over Europe’s largest onshore wind farm and the Indigenous right to raise reindeer."
Source: AP, 03/07/2024
Record Heat, Rising Sea Levels: High Stakes For Climate In 2024 Elections
"From Biden vs. Trump to an oil well referendum in California, climate change debate is all over the ballot in federal, state and local contests." "In the wake of the hottest year on record, with fossil fuel production increasing and sea levels rising, the stakes for the climate couldn’t be higher in this year’s elections."
Source: Yale Climate Connections, 03/07/2024
Lawmakers Across US Seek To Curb Utility Spending On Politics, Ads And More
"After a string of scandals and amid rising bills, lawmakers in statehouses across the country, including in Maryland, have been pushing legislation to curb utilities spending ratepayer money on lobbying, expert testimony in rate cases, goodwill advertising, charitable giving, trade association membership and other costs."
Source: States Newsroom, 03/06/2024
Plastic Food Packaging Contains 1000s Of Hormone-Mimicking Chemicals: Study
"Plastic food packaging contains chemicals that disrupt the endocrine system — and that can leach into food, a new study has found."
Source: The Hill, 03/06/2024
"Gas Industry Loses Bid To Block Green Building Codes"
"The natural gas industry lost its initial bid to strip key climate-friendly measures out of national homebuilding guidelines, HuffPost has learned. The rules in the model building code will require new homes to come equipped with the circuitry to hook up induction stoves and electric car chargers, and will be used as a benchmark in almost every state."
Source: HuffPost, 03/06/2024
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