"The Merchants of Thirst"
"In Nepal and many other countries, private tanker operators profit from growing water scarcity."
Source: NY Times, 01/13/2020
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"Trump Aims to Reel in Climate Reviews While Courts Say Otherwise"
"The Trump administration’s plan to speed up project reviews for pipelines, mines, highways, and other infrastructure would scale back how agencies consider climate change in the process—running counter to a stack of legal precedent that’s been growing for years."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 01/10/2020"Pesticides: Report Slams EPA For Approving 'Worst Of The Worst'"
"EPA continues to approve pesticides that have been banned in other countries or identified by its own scientists as possibly causing cancer, a group critical of farm chemicals said."
Source: Greenwire, 01/10/2020Trump Water Rollback Leaves New Mexico Fearing Pollution, Health Risks
"TAOS, N.M. — Twice a day, every day, Vicente Fernandez walks along the banks of the Rio Fernando, inspecting the river that has shaped his valley’s fortunes for generations."
Source: LA Times, 01/10/2020A Billion Animals Caught In Australia’s Fires. Some May Go Extinct
"The mouse-size dunnart is not as iconic as the koalas or platypuses that draw tourists, but it is arguably the most special mammal on Australia’s Kangaroo Island. Now the Kangaroo Island dunnart’s days may be numbered."
Source: Washington Post, 01/10/2020"Sunrise Movement Endorses Bernie Sanders"
"Sunrise Movement, the influential Green New Deal campaigners, endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for president on Thursday, boosting the progressive’s credentials as the 2020 race’s leading candidate on climate change."
Source: HuffPost, 01/10/2020Clear Warnings Needed: "Hair Dye Cancer Risk Stokes Fear In Black Women"
"Priscilla Graves is a hairstylist with 15 years’ experience straightening and coloring black women’s hair. She has endured bouts of dizziness, nausea and difficulty breathing from applying potent chemical straighteners, and regularly deals with distraught clients suffering alopecia and painful blisters after using dyes and lotions specifically marketed to African Americans."
Source: Guardian, 01/10/2020Scientists, Tribes Team Up To Revive Purebred Bison Population
"Purebred bison – direct descendants of the animals that blanketed North America before colonization – are scant, protected and short on genetic diversity."
Source: Toronto Globe and Mail, 01/10/2020Md. Gov. Hogan To Sue Pa., EPA Over Lagging Chesapeake Bay Cleanup
"Amid signs that the Environmental Protection Agency might not step in and force Pennsylvania to reduce the pollution it sends downstream to the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan demanded Wednesday that the state attorney general file lawsuits against the agency and the commonwealth."
Source: Baltimore Sun, 01/10/2020Arson Misinformation Undermines Link Between Oz Fires And Climate Change
"Multiple Australian state police agencies have found limited evidence to suggest the major destructive wildfires in their states were ignited by arsonists, contradicting the international onslaught of misinformation suggesting otherwise."
Source: HuffPost, 01/10/2020"Kenya Warns Locust Swarm Is Spreading, Threatening Food Security"
"Swarms of desert locusts have spread from Ethiopia and Somalia into eastern and northern Kenya, posing a threat to food production and grazing land, its agriculture minister said on Friday."
Source: Reuters, 01/10/2020Analysis: "How Rupert Murdoch Is Influencing Australia’s Bushfire Debate"
"Critics see a concerted effort to shift blame, protect conservative leaders and divert attention from climate change."
Source: NY Times, 01/09/2020"Politics: Trump's NEPA Ambitions Hinge On His Reelection"
"President Trump is trying to curtail environmental reviews, but he'll need to win reelection first."
Source: ClimateWire, 01/09/2020"U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Doubled In Last Decade: Report"
"The number of billion-dollar climate- and weather-related disasters in the United States more than doubled in the last decade, with costs soaring above $800 billion, according to a U.S. government report released on Wednesday."
Source: Reuters, 01/09/2020"‘Multiheaded Hydra’ of PFAS Products Under California Scrutiny"
"California has its eye on “forever chemicals,” and is taking a closer look at safer alternatives in common consumer products, including stain-resistant coatings for boots and food packaging items."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 01/09/2020
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