Oil And Gas Responsible For $77 Billion In Annual US Health Damages: Study
"Proposed EPA methane limits may help curtail 7,500 yearly deaths from oil and gas production sites."
Source: EHN, 07/14/2023
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Industry Wants New Pipeline on Navajo Land Scarred by Decades of Drilling
"For the last several months, one of the nation’s largest pipeline operators has gone from one local government meeting on the Navajo Nation to another, outlining plans for what could end up being the country’s longest hydrogen pipeline."
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/14/2023"European Union Approves Ambitious Nature Restoration Law"
"The European Union strengthened its environmental policies this week with adoption of a nature restoration law that member countries hope will help them meet climate and biodiversity targets set under the 2015 Paris Agreement and a global biodiversity agreement reached late last year."
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/14/2023"Cement Warms The Planet. This Green Version Just Got A Key Nod Of Approval."
"Companies are finding more environmentally friendly ways to make cement, which accounts for about a twelfth of global carbon dioxide emissions, making it worse for the climate than flying. Now they have to convince builders that their climate-friendly cement will hold just as well as the conventional stuff."
Source: Washington Post, 07/14/2023"Excessive Heat Is Baking US Southwest And Expected To Get Worse"
"A prolonged heat wave blanketed a swath of the U.S. stretching from California to South Florida on Wednesday, with forecasters expecting temperatures that could shatter records in parts of the Southwest in the coming days."
Source: Reuters, 07/13/2023EPA Proposes Tighter Limits on Lead Dust in Homes and Child Care Facilities
"The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed to strengthen requirements for the removal of lead-based paint dust in homes and child care facilities built before 1978, an effort to eliminate exposure to lead that could require millions of property owners to pay for abatement."
Source: NYTimes, 07/13/2023"Farmers Insurance Pulls Out of Florida, Affecting 100,000 Policyholders"
"Farmers Insurance will stop offering its policies in Florida, including home, auto and umbrella policies, in a change that will force thousands of people to change their insurance provider."
Source: CNN, 07/13/2023"Agriculture Dept. To Invest $300 Million To Measure Greenhouse Emissions"
"The Agriculture Department said on Wednesday that it would establish a monitoring and data collection network to measure greenhouse gas emissions and determine how much carbon can be captured using certain farming practices."
Source: NYTimes, 07/13/2023"Mountain Valley Pipeline Halted as Legal Wrangling Heats Up"
"A federal court in Richmond has held up construction, despite a law passed by Congress last month that says it no longer has jurisdiction over the pipeline."
Source: NYTimes, 07/13/2023"UAE's COP28 President Lays Out Plan For 'Brutally Honest' Climate Summit"
"Countries at this year's U.N. climate summit must face up to how far behind they are lagging on climate change targets and agree a plan to get on track, the United Arab Emirates' incoming president of the event said on Thursday."
Source: Reuters, 07/13/2023As Budget Talks Heat Up, Republicans Ramp Up Attacks on Climate Spending
"Republicans are doubling down on their attacks on clean energy and climate spending, kicking off their return to Congress this week with a slew of bills and amendments that would block key funding pools established under the Inflation Reduction Act and prohibit the federal government from advancing policies aimed at reducing the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to new reports."
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/13/2023"House Republicans Propose Deep Cuts For Interior, EPA"
"House Republicans would take a budgetary buzzsaw to energy and environmental agencies the Biden administration and Democrats had buttressed after years of stagnant funding."
Source: E&E News, 07/13/2023"FEMA Stretched Beyond Climate Response as Disasters Balloon"
"Atmospheric rivers drenched California and deadly storms crept toward Mississippi as Deanne Criswell sat in her corner office in Washington, D.C., and tackled a loaded question: Is it all too much for FEMA?"
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 07/13/2023"Birds Get Revenge By Using Anti-Bird Spikes In Nests"
"In cities around the world, anti-bird spikes are used to protect statues and balconies from unwanted birds - but now, it appears the birds are getting their own back. Dutch researchers have found that some birds use the spikes as weapons around their nests - using them to keep pests away in the same way that humans do."
Source: BBC News, 07/13/2023Vermont Floods Show Limits of America’s Efforts to Adapt to Climate Change
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"This week’s flooding in Vermont, in which heavy rainfall caused destruction even miles from any river, is evidence of an especially dangerous climate threat: Catastrophic flooding can increasingly happen anywhere, with almost no warning. And the United States, experts warn, is nowhere close to ready for that threat."
Source: NYTimes, 07/12/2023
