"Judge Blocks Logging In The Tongass, For Now"
"A federal judge ordered a preliminary injunction Monday halting the sale of nearly 1,200 acres of old-growth trees in the Tongass National Forest."
Source: Juneau Empire, 09/25/2019
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McConnell Record on Coal Has Become a Hot Topic in His Senate Campaign
"Mitch McConnell staked his last Senate campaign, five years ago, in large part on his support for the coal industry and coal miners. But McConnell's unwillingness to shore up the fund that supports miners with black lung disease or their pension fund, even after dozens of his constituents traveled 10 hours by bus this summer to his Washington office, has allowed a well-funded opponent to seize on what should be McConnell's strength: coal."
Source: InsideClimate News, 09/25/2019China Denounces UN Aviation Emissions Plan In Blow To Industry Efforts
"China has denounced a landmark U.N. deal that caps emissions from international flights, in a setback for an industry eager to placate the growing international movement to curb air travel’s impact on the environment."
Source: Reuters, 09/25/2019Senate Unveils Interior-EPA Appropriation, Rejects Money For BLM Move
"Senate appropriators approved by voice vote this morning a $35.8 billion fiscal 2020 spending bill for EPA, the Interior Department and related agencies, with bipartisan consensus and without any new 'poison pill riders.' But the bill does seek to limit Interior's ability to relocate hundreds of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) jobs out of Washington, D.C."
Source: Greenwire, 09/25/2019Wetlands: Calif. Sues EPA For Nixing Protection Of S.F. Bay Salt Ponds
"California sued the Trump administration today over EPA's refusal to extend Clean Water Act protections to salt ponds in San Francisco Bay."
Source: Greenwire, 09/25/2019Greta Thunberg Had One Question At U.N. Climate Summit: ‘How Dare You?’
"Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg had one question for the global leaders assembled at the United Nations: “How dare you?”"
Source: Washington Post, 09/24/2019"At U.N. Climate Summit, Few Commitments and U.S. Silence"
"UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Climate Action Summit on Monday was meant to highlight concrete promises by presidents, prime ministers and corporate executives to wean the global economy from fossil fuels to avoid the worst effects of global warming. But despite the protests in the streets, China on Monday made no new promises to take stronger climate action. The United States, having vowed to pull out of the Paris Agreement, the pact among nations to jointly fight climate change, said nothing at all. A host of countries made only incremental promises."
Source: NY Times, 09/24/2019Oil Giants, Under Fire From Climate Activists, Investors, Mount Defense
"From the deck of a boat in New York harbor, the chief executive of Equinor squinted toward a stretch of sea where his oil company will soon build a giant wind farm. “We are doing all we can” to fight climate change, said the executive, Eldar Saetre."
Source: NY Times, 09/24/2019"Most of World's Biggest Firms 'Unlikely' To Meet Paris Climate Targets"
"More than four fifths of the world’s largest companies are unlikely to meet the targets set out in the Paris climate agreement by 2050, according to fresh analysis of their climate disclosures."
Source: Guardian, 09/24/2019"Trump’s EPA Threatens California With Highway Funding Cuts"
"The Trump administration is ratcheting up its threats against California with a letter warning the state faces sanctions – including cuts in federal highway funding – over its “failure” to submit complete reports on its implementation of the Clean Air Act."
Source: Sacramento Bee, 09/24/2019Ethiopia's Somali Region Faces Chronic Drought Linked To Climate Change
"This year the 'belg' rainy season once again failed to bring much needed relief to the drought-striken region. Pastoral communities say they fear for the future of their livelihoods as experts blame climate change."
Source: Deutsche Welle, 09/24/2019"To Prevent the Next Dust Bowl, Give Soil a Chance"
"Hugh Hammond Bennett, the father of the modern conservation movementeffort that became today’s Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), once wrote, “Take care of the land and the land will take care of you.” Perhaps it would have been more accurate to say, “Take care of the soil and the soil will take care of you.”"
Source: Civil Eats, 09/24/2019"Scared Central Banks Face Up to Threats From Climate Change"
"Bank of England Governor Mark Carney was in no mood for laughter as he stood in his tuxedo before the great and good of the British insurance industry. “I’m going to give you a speech without a joke, I’m afraid,” Carney began his remarks on the night of Sept. 29, 2015, at Lloyd’s of London."
Source: Bloomberg, 09/24/2019WMO Urges Drastic Action As Global Average Temperature Set To Rise Again
"The global average temperature is set to rise to at least 1.2 to 1.3 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels over the next five years, a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) official said on Monday, close to a limit adopted in a global treaty."
Source: Reuters, 09/24/2019"Without Brazil, Donors Unlock $500 Million To Preserve Rainforests"
"International donors agreed on Monday to free up more than $500 million in aid to protect tropical rainforests, including the Amazon where wildfires are raging, France’s president said on Monday at a U.N. meeting shunned by Brazil."
Source: Reuters, 09/24/2019
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