"The Huge US Toxic Fire Shrouded In Secrecy: ‘I Taste Oil In My Mouth’"
"Louisianans say a major accident at a sprawling Marathon refinery caused health issues. The company insists there were ‘no offsite impacts’"
Source: Guardian, 09/11/2024
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"Top Lawmaker Wants COP Host Country To Free Prisoners"
"Senate Foreign Relations Chair Ben Cardin of Maryland is calling on Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev and his government to release multiple political prisoners before COP29 gets underway this November in the city of Baku."
Source: E&E News, 09/11/2024Most US Voters Want Plastics Industry Held Responsible For Recycling Claims
"Concern about the fossil fuel and plastics industries’ alleged deception about recycling is growing, with new polling showing a majority of American voters, including 54% of Republicans, support legal efforts to hold the sectors accountable."
Source: Guardian, 09/11/2024Brazilian President Flies Into Amazon Amid Alarm Over Droughts And Wildfires
"Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has flown into the Amazon amid growing alarm over the droughts and wildfires sweeping the rainforest region and others parts of Brazil."
Source: Guardian, 09/11/2024"TVA Helped Electrify The South — But Now Its Plans Are Sparking Backlash"
"The Tennessee Valley Authority is coming under fire from energy experts and environmentalists for building gas plants instead of renewables."
Source: Washington Post, 09/10/2024"Trump Vows To Pull Back Climate Law’s Unspent Dollars"
"Donald Trump pledged Thursday to rescind any “unspent” funds under the Inflation Reduction Act should he be elected in November — potentially upending key parts of the Democrats’ climate law and its benefits to Republican-led communities."
Source: Politico, 09/09/2024"How Oil Companies Could Tap The Climate Law To Pump More Crude"
"President Joe Biden’s landmark climate law could help the fossil fuel industry pump more oil out of existing wells."
Source: E&E News, 09/09/2024"Biden Administration Backs Plastic as Coal Replacement to Make Steel"
"Jane Williams read the announcement with dismay. A Pennsylvania company was getting tens of millions of dollars in federal loan guarantees to turn plastic waste into a fuel for steelmaking, claiming the climate would benefit."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/09/2024"The MAGA Plan To Stop Forest Fires: Remove The Forest"
"Project 2025 plans to increase commercial logging to fight wildfires. Ecologists and fire experts say this will make fires worse."
Source: HEATED, 09/09/2024"What Would It Take to Bring Renewable, Reliable Power to Puerto Rico?"
"The island is struggling to build a more stable electrical grid. What’s taking so long?"
Source: Sierra, 09/09/2024Colleges With Fossil Fuel Funding Can Become 'Vehicle Of Climate Obstruction'
"For decades, oil and gas companies have donated tens to hundreds of millions of dollars to colleges and universities, sat on governing boards, sponsored scholarships and built pro-fossil fuel programming and curriculum — resulting in real or apparent conflicts of interest for universities and their researchers."
Source: Floodlight, 09/06/2024"Opinion: How The Quiet War Against Press Freedom Could Come To America"
"Some foreign leaders have ruthlessly curtailed journalism. U.S. politicians could draw from their playbook."
Source: Washington Post, 09/06/2024"Biden Administration Approves Natural Gas Exports After Pause Is Halted"
"The Biden administration on Tuesday granted a gas export terminal the authority to ship fuel abroad after a court blocked its efforts to delay such permissions."
Source: The Hill, 09/05/2024"Biden’s Top Climate Negotiator to Visit China This Week"
"John Podesta, President Biden’s top climate diplomat, is traveling to Beijing on Tuesday where he is expected to press Chinese leaders to make more ambitious plans to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving climate change."
Source: NYTimes, 09/04/2024Congress Members Want U.S. To Do More To Stop Record Tijuana Pollution
"San Diego Congress members are calling on the U.S. State Department to press Mexico to address unprecedented levels of sewage pollution spilling over from Tijuana, causing unbearable rotten-egg odors for residents in the region."
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune, 09/04/2024
