Grim Heat And Stressed Grids Make Dangerous Outages Increasingly Likely
"Power grids are dangerously strained, and resulting blackouts could take a deadly toll."
Source: HuffPost, 07/27/2022
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"Federal Government Fires Up Website All About Heat"
"The Biden administration unveiled a website on Tuesday to help Americans stay safe from extreme heat, as scorching temperatures continued to grip portions of the country."
Source: NYTimes, 07/27/2022"Documents Show BLM Wild Horses Sold To Slaughter, Advocates Say"
"The American Wild Horse Campaign today released a report the group says shows that since 2019 at least 840 animals removed from federal rangelands, placed into holding pens and corrals, and adopted into private care were later sold at livestock auctions that included known buyers from slaughterhouses in Canada and Mexico."
Source: E&E News, 07/27/2022175+ Green Groups Urge Buttigieg To Reinstate State Emission Rule
"More than 175 environmental organizations sent a letter Tuesday to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg urging him to adopt a federal rule that requires state and city transportation departments to measure and set standards for their greenhouse gas emissions."
Source: The Hill, 07/27/2022"MISO Approves Large Grid Expansion, Paving Way For Renewables"
"The Midwest grid operator approved 18 new high-voltage transmission lines yesterday, setting the stage for adding 53 gigawatts of renewable energy to the grid. The decision marks the most U.S. power lines ever approved at once and was hailed by climate advocates as a model for the nation."
Source: E&E News, 07/27/2022"Audit: California Too Slow To Fix Contaminated Water Systems"
"The water that comes out of the tap for more than 900,000 Californians is unsafe to drink and the state isn’t acting fast enough to help clean it up, state auditors said in a report released Tuesday."
Source: AP, 07/27/2022"Climate Disinformation Leaves Lasting Mark As World Heats"
"In 1998, as nations around the world agreed to cut carbon emissions through the Kyoto Protocol, America’s fossil fuel companies plotted their response, including an aggressive strategy to inject doubt into the public debate."
Source: AP, 07/27/2022"US Could Require Steps For Dams To Save Last Atlantic Salmon"
"The federal government is conducting a review of four dams on a Maine river that could result in a lifeline for the last wild Atlantic salmon in the U.S."
Source: AP, 07/27/2022Oak Fire Tops 18,000 Acres, Destroys 41 Structures As Crews Battle Blaze
"Since Friday, the Oak fire has consumed more than 18,000 acres of the sparsely populated mountain community. And by Tuesday morning, the blaze, located near Yosemite National Park, had destroyed 41 structures and forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes."
Source: LA Times, 07/27/2022"The Barbados Rebellion"
"Caribbean nations are trapped between the global financial system and a looming climate disaster. One country’s leaders have been fighting to find a way out."
Source: NYTimes Magazine, 07/27/2022"Papal Visit: 'It's Going To Take A Long Time'"
"The Pope’s apology brings renewed calls for reconciliation, reparations".
Source: ICT, 07/26/2022FPL Secretly Took Over A Florida News Site And Used It To Bash Critics
"When Florida Power & Light faced a spate of bad publicity and political blowback, a small but ambitious news website called the Capitolist sprang to the public utility’s defense."
Source: McClatchy, 07/26/2022Is Calif. Carbon Capture Play a Climate Solution or a Ruse?
"[As Californians] prepare to finalize a state climate plan that relies on CCS technology, some environmentalists are urging officials to abandon the idea. Instead of helping to wean California off fossil fuels, they say CCS will actually increase oil production."
Source: LA Times, 07/26/2022"US To Plant 1 Billion Trees As Climate Change Kills Forests"
"The Biden administration on Monday said the government will plant more than one billion trees across millions of acres of burned and dead woodlands in the U.S. West, as officials struggle to counter the increasing toll on the nation’s forests from wildfires, insects and other manifestations of climate change."
Source: AP, 07/26/2022"Air Conditioning Will Not Save Us"
"It keeps happening. Every summer, unprecedented heat surges through cities across the United States—in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho; in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio; and in Maryland, Virginia, and New Jersey. Last week, a heat wave melted records in Texas with unrelenting highs well into the 100s for days."
Source: TIME, 07/26/2022
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