"The Electric Utility Screwing Over Texans"
"CenterPoint wants customers to pay to climate-proof the grid—all while pouring millions of customer dollars into climate delay."
Source: HEATED, 07/19/2024
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"'It's Unbearable': Heat Waves Scorch Southern And Eastern Europe"
"Unrelenting heat is blanketing swathes of southern and eastern Europe, with dozens of cities on red alert as scorching temperatures fuel wildfires, strain power grids, and make daily life unbearable."
Source: AFP, 07/19/2024"Top Ag Republican Offers Bleak Prognosis For Farm Bill"
"Congress might be better off leaving an already overdue five-year farm bill unfinished in 2024, Arkansas Republican Sen. John Boozman said Tuesday."
Source: E&E News, 07/19/2024"New York City Bill Would Mandate Air-Conditioning for Tenants"
"As New York City endures its third heat wave of the year, a city councilman plans to introduce a bill this week that would require landlords to buy, install and maintain air-conditioning units or cooling systems for tenants during the summer, with fines of up to $1,250 per day for noncompliance."
Source: NYTimes, 07/19/2024"US Court Overturns Alaska Oil Lease Sale In A Win For Environmentalists"
"A federal court in Alaska overturned on Tuesday night an oil and gas lease sale that had been mandated by the Biden administration's signature climate law as part of a political compromise, on grounds that the U.S. government violated the law when holding the sale."
Source: Reuters, 07/19/2024Hawaiian Electric, Others Agree To Proposed $4B Maui Wildfire Deal: Report
"Hawaiian Electric Industries and other defendants in lawsuits over the Maui wildfires in Hawaii have tentatively agreed to pay more than $4 billion in settlement amount, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter."
Source: Reuters, 07/19/2024"Maryland Wants Invasive Fish Out Of The Water — And On Your Dinner Table"
"As northern snakehead and blue catfish continue to proliferate, the state is trying to get more people to eat them."
Source: Washington Post, 07/19/2024How Geothermal Fracking Could Unlock A Clean Energy Future
"Technology pioneered by the oil and gas industry is fueling a new type of carbon-free power plant."
Source: Washington Post, 07/19/2024DOI Names Former Site Of Texas ‘Mexican School’ As Newest National Park
"The Biden administration has named the site of the Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas, a segregated school for Mexican American children, as the country’s newest national park, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Wednesday."
Source: The Hill, 07/19/2024"The People Who Feed America Are Going Hungry"
"Climate change is escalating a national crisis, leaving farmworkers with empty plates and mounting costs."
Source: Grist, 07/18/2024"With Sewage Gushing Into Sea, US and Mexican Border Towns Plead For Help"
"Each day, millions of gallons of sewage cascade through a canyon and into the Pacific Ocean just south of the U.S.-Mexican border. As any surfer in San Diego knows, summer swells that come from the south will push the toxic brew north."
Source: Reuters, 07/18/2024"Prisoners Are Uniquely Vulnerable to Extreme Heat and Flooding"
"Why were two prisons built in a lakebed in the first place?"
Source: Sierra, 07/18/2024UK: "Meet the Labour Government’s New Climate Team"
"Introducing the key politicians tasked with delivering the government’s energy transformation plans – and the jobs at the top of their intrays."
Source: DeSmog, 07/18/2024Biden BLM To Add Protections Against Drilling In Alaska Petroleum Reserve
"Federal officials are proposing a new set of protections in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. If approved, they could come atop the rules that Bureau of Land Management finalized this spring to limit oil and gas drilling on more than half of the giant petroleum reserve."
Source: Anchorage Daily News, 07/18/2024"Record Salmon Migration Runs Into Hot Water"
"Rising water temperatures in the Columbia River Basin are raising questions about whether fishery managers must take new steps to save the imperiled fish."
Source: E&E News, 07/18/2024
