"More EPA Buildings Face Bacteria Outbreak"
"Bacteria linked to severe lung infections recently found in EPA’s Chicago office has also cropped up in three more EPA buildings, internal emails show."
Source: E&E News, 09/05/2024
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Haaland Announces Restoration Of Once-Endangered Apache Trout In Arizona
"U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Wednesday that the Apache trout — Arizona’s state fish — has been removed from the federal list of endangered and threatened wildlife following more than five decades of recovery efforts."
Source: AP, 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, 09/04/2024"Focus: Canada's Insurance Sector Faces Climate Catastrophe Claim Deluge"
"Hotter summers in Canada that have sparked wildfires in tourist areas, intense hailstorms and thunderstorms with severe flooding in major cities, all likely linked to climate change, are leading to personnel shortages and potentially claims adjustment delays, according to insurance sector insiders."
Source: Reuters, 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"Dark Money Group Aiding Cornel West Has Ties To Utility Operative"
"A lawyer tied to secret funding of spoiler candidates in Florida is more evidence West’s biggest backers are people who want Trump to win".
Source: Floodlight, 09/04/2024Florida State Parks Whistleblower Fired After Exposing Ron DeSantis’ Plans
"Florida’s department of environmental protection has fired a whistleblower who exposed and sank governor Ron DeSantis’s secretive plan to pave over environmentally sensitive state parks and build lucrative hotels, golf courses and pickleball courts."
Source: Guardian, 09/04/2024"Business Group Sues Texas Officials Over Law That Shields Oil Industry"
"A liberal business group sued Texas officials this week in a major challenge to a 2021 law that bars state entities from doing business with investment firms that the state comptroller says are boycotting energy companies."
Source: NYTimes, 09/04/20242 States Ban PFAS From Firefighter Gear. Advocates Hope More Will Follow
"Massachusetts and Connecticut are the first two states in the nation to ban PFAS from firefighter gear, citing health hazards."
Source: USA TODAY, 09/04/2024"Electric Big Rigs Are Poised to Revolutionize the Trucking Industry"
"The charging yard for electric trucks at the Port of Long Beach is bright and sunny and full of semitrailer tractors—the truncated front ends of big rigs without their big-box loads. It’s also quiet. Elsewhere at the port, wherever there are trucks, there’s the near-deafening rumble of diesel engines. But the trucks here aren’t combusting; they’re filling up with electrons to power their next trip to Southern California’s Inland Empire, the constellation of cities to the east with one of the heaviest concentrations of warehouses in the world."
Source: Sierra, 09/04/2024"The Country’s Biggest Electric School-Bus Fleet Will Also Feed The Grid"
"San Francisco-based startup Zum wants to turn electric school-bus fleets into grid batteries. This 74-bus depot in Oakland is testing the idea at large scale."
Source: Canary Media, 09/04/2024Runners Are Used To Toughing It Out. Warming Climate Can Make That Deadly
"Carolyn Baker, clad in a neon pink top and matching sunglasses, smiled as she ran the Falmouth Road Race on the shore of Cape Cod, looking around for friends as she neared the end of a race she’d completed more than a dozen times before. Suddenly, Baker collapsed, as her exertion on a sunny August day sent her internal temperature soaring. As medical volunteers rushed to her aid by plunging her into a tub filled with ice water, they measured it at nearly 107 degrees (41.6 Celsius)."
Source: AP, 09/04/2024Carbon Credits: How One Company’s Plan To Help The Planet Went Off The Rails
"C-Quest Capital claimed it could improve people’s lives in Africa with cleaner cookstoves. But an investigation by The Post shows it promised more than it could deliver."
Source: Washington Post, 09/03/2024"Something’s Poisoning America’s Land. Farmers Fear ‘Forever’ Chemicals."
"Fertilizer made from city sewage has been spread on millions of acres of farmland for decades. Scientists say it can contain high levels of the toxic substance."
Source: NYTimes, 09/03/2024Pa. Will Monitor Private Wells Near The East Palestine Site For 10 Years
"A year and a half after a catastrophic Norfolk Southern train derailment and chemical fire in East Palestine, Ohio, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has announced plans to monitor private drinking water wells for Pennsylvania residents living within one mile of the accident site for the next decade."
Source: EHN, 09/03/2024
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