Burning Tires: PA Residents ‘Shocked’ By Firm’s Bitcoin-Mining Plan
"A crypto-mining company in Pennsylvania is seeking to burn tires to produce bitcoin, prompting an outcry from residents and environmental groups."
Source: Guardian, 09/01/2023
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"There’s One Nasty Wildfire Pollutant We’ve Been Ignoring"
"A newly identified particle in smoke, dark brown carbon, can warm the atmosphere by absorbing sunlight."
Source: Popular Science, 09/01/2023
Biden Administration Offers $12B To Convert Auto Factories Into EV Plants
"The Biden administration will put up to $12 billion into converting auto manufacturing facilities into plants for hybrid and electric vehicles, it announced Thursday."
Source: The Hill, 09/01/2023
African Climate Summit Seeks To Shift Focus To Finance From Floods, Famine
"How to finance environmental priorities and shift the focus from Africa as victim of floods and famine will be central to the debate at the continent's first climate summit next week, while activists resist plans to expand carbon markets for funding."
Source: Reuters, 09/01/2023
After Decades Of Oil Drilling, Ecuador's Indigenous Waorani Fight More
"Their efforts follow a historic vote to end drilling in parts of Yasuni National Park, but uncontacted families and other Indigenous groups remain at risk from oil exploration."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/01/2023
Mindblowing: California Allows More Gas Storage At Aliso Canyon Leak Site
"State officials voted Thursday to let Southern California Gas Co. store far more fuel at the Aliso Canyon gas storage field, eight years after a record-breaking leak spewed more than 100,000 metric tons of planet-warming methane into the atmosphere and prompted thousands of San Fernando Valley residents to evacuate their homes for months."
Source: LA Times, 09/01/2023
Trump Rule Allowing Rail Shipments Of LNG Will Be Put On Hold For Safety
"OMAHA, Neb. — A Trump-era rule allowing railroads to haul highly flammable liquefied natural gas will now be formally put on hold to allow more time to study the safety concerns related to transporting that fuel and other substances like hydrogen that must be kept at extremely low temperatures when they are shipped, regulators announced Thursday.
Source: AP, 09/01/2023
"Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Reached $7 Trillion in 2022, an All-Time High"
"Global subsidies for fossil fuels reached $7 trillion in 2022, an all-time high, according to the International Monetary Fund."
Source: YaleE360, 09/01/2023
Hurricane Idalia Could Become 2023’s Costliest Climate Disaster For US
"Hurricane Idalia could become the costliest climate disaster to hit the US this year, analysts say, with massive implications for the insurance and risk management industries."
Source: Guardian, 09/01/2023
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