"The Tennessee Valley Authority is coming under fire from energy experts and environmentalists for building gas plants instead of renewables."
"Nonprofit environment watchdogs put their stamps of approval on countless wood products that get touted as responsibly produced. But Reuters found that the timber firms these groups certify are harvesting large swaths of Canada’s older forests, which are critical to containing global warming."
"Tropical Storm Francine formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday and was expected to drench the Texas coast with rain before coming ashore in Louisiana as a hurricane on Wednesday night."
Meet SEJ member Virginia Gewin! Virginia is an independent science journalist based in Portland, Oregon. Her reporting now explores the impacts of wildfires, dust storms, and oil and gas development on public health, often in environmental justice communities. Virginia is currently developing a series of stories from sacrifice zones, those on the frontlines of hazardous pollution.
"The island is struggling to build a more stable electrical grid. What’s taking so long?"
"Environmental advocates, landowners, and fishers filed two petitions with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Wednesday, challenging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) recent authorization for the construction of a massive liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. FERC approved the Calcasieu Pass (CP2) LNG terminal proposed by Venture Global in a 2-1 vote in late June."
"Project 2025 plans to increase commercial logging to fight wildfires. Ecologists and fire experts say this will make fires worse."
"North Atlantic populations are at a historic low, and this year 33 of the country’s rivers were closed during the fishing season as salmon farming and the climate crisis threaten the fish’s future"
"A company proposing an $8 billion carbon dioxide pipeline through eastern South Dakota says the project would be good for the environment. ... While that’s true, participating ethanol plants could still emit about 7 million metric tons of additional carbon dioxide annually. That’s because the pipeline would only capture some — not all — of the CO2 emitted by the plants."
"At least 19 people contracted valley fever, a fungal infection that in rare cases can be fatal, after attending an outdoor music festival in southern California in May, public health officials have reported."
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