"How The Plastic Industry Undermines Democracy By Blocking Bans"
"Companies that profit from plastics are pushing forward laws to keep Americans hooked on disposable plastic products"
Source: EHN, 12/06/2024
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"This Chart Will Cheer You Up"
"Renewable energy in the U.S. has grown steadily over the last 20 years. Look at this chart of wind and solar expansion — you’d be hard-pressed to pick out where a Democratic administration ends and a Republican administration begins."
Source: Canary Media, 12/06/2024"Splash Pads Are Fun But Can Spark Waterborne-Disease Outbreaks, CDC Finds"
"Splash pads found in public parks across the United States are linked to thousands of cases of waterborne diseases that leave a calling card of diarrhea, fever and vomiting, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported this week."
Source: Washington Post, 12/06/2024"One Woman’s Mission to Shine a Light on the Ornamental Fish Trade"
"Marine biologist Monica Biondo has spent more than a decade studying the multibillion-dollar market for these colorful fish, which pulls thousands of species from the ocean each year."
Source: The Revelator, 12/06/2024"Fury As US Argues Against Climate Obligations At Top UN Court"
"Climate justice campaigners have condemned the US after the world’s largest historic greenhouse gas emitter argued against countries being legally obliged to combat the climate crisis."
Source: Guardian, 12/05/2024"Trump Energy Pick Misinterprets Studies To Support Claims, Scientists Say"
"Chris Wright cites data to back his claim there is no climate crisis. Authors of the papers he cites say he is misinterpreting their work."
Source: Washington Post, 12/05/2024"Trump Picks Musk Ally Jared Isaacman To Head NASA"
"President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday tapped Jared Isaacman to lead NASA, selecting a billionaire private astronaut and close associate of Elon Musk to oversee an agency closely linked to the SpaceX founder’s business."
Source: Reuters, 12/05/2024"Duke Energy To Knock Down Coal Plant And Build Its Biggest Battery Yet"
"Mega-utility Duke Energy is about to knock down a coal plant that has run west of Charlotte, North Carolina, since 1957. Soon the company will build its largest grid battery on that spot, part of an unprecedented energy-storage construction spree."
Source: Canary Media, 12/05/2024To Save Dying Swamp, Louisiana Aims To Restore Mississippi River Flow
"Louisiana has long relied on a vast levee system to rein in the Mississippi River and protect surrounding communities from flooding. But cutting off the natural flow of the river with man made barriers has been slowly killing one of the nation’s largest forested wetlands."
Source: AP, 12/05/2024"Small North Carolina Town Sues Energy ‘Goliath’ In Historic Climate Action"
"Carrboro officials say Duke Energy broke state laws waging decades-long ‘deception campaign’ about fossil fuels"
Source: Guardian, 12/05/2024Not Everyone Is Convinced Newly Funded Midwest Hydrogen Hub Is ‘Clean.’
"Policymakers and industry say the Midwest Hydrogen Hub will create green jobs and slash emissions, but environmentalists see a ploy to keep fossil fuels in use."
Source: Grist/WBEZ, 12/05/2024"Lawmakers Reach Final Deal On WRDA Bill"
"The Senate and House reached a final agreement Tuesday on a major bipartisan water infrastructure bill, which authorizes a range of federal projects to reduce flooding, improve ports and restore ecosystems."
Source: E&E News, 12/05/2024Experts Study Whale Species So Rare It’s Never Been Seen Alive
"It is the world’s rarest whale, with only seven of its kind ever spotted. Almost nothing is known about the enigmatic species. But on Monday a small group of scientists and cultural experts in New Zealand clustered around a near-perfectly preserved spade-toothed whale hoping to decode decades of mystery."
Source: AP, 12/05/2024"Mammoth: It’s What Was for Dinner"
"For millions of years, North America was home to a zoo of giants: mammoths and mastodons, camels and dire wolves, sloths the size of elephants and beavers as big as bears. And then, at the end of the Pleistocene Epoch about 12,000 years ago, most of them vanished."
Source: NYTimes, 12/05/2024"What Trump’s Cabinet Picks Say About Climate Change"
"President-elect Donald J. Trump’s cabinet choices run the gamut from people who acknowledge the threat of climate change to those who deny the scientific consensus that emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are dangerously heating the planet."
Source: NYTimes, 12/04/2024
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