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  • "Giant Redwoods: World’s Largest Trees 'Thriving In UK'" [9]

    "Giant redwoods - the world's largest trees - are flourishing in the UK and now even outnumber those found in their native range in California."

    Forests [10]
    Natural Resources [11]
    Public [12]
    California [13]
    Europe [14]
    Source: BBC News [15], 03/14/2024
    • Read more about "Giant Redwoods: World’s Largest Trees 'Thriving In UK'" [9]
  • Climate-Science Deniers Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition [16]

    "Last July, a small group of rabble-rousers boarded a trio of powerboats, banners and bullhorns in hand. They were headed for the massive floating construction site of an offshore wind farm 35 miles from the eastern tip of Long Island, New York."

    Climate Change [17]
    Energy & Fuel [18]
    Environmental Politics [19]
    Journalism & Media [20]
    Science [21]
    Water & Oceans [22]
    Public [12]
    National (U.S.) [23]
    Source: Sierra [24], 03/13/2024
    • Read more about Climate-Science Deniers Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition [16]
  • "Legal Action Could End Use Of Toxic Sewage Sludge On US Crops As Fertilizer" [25]

    "New legal action could put an end to the practice of spreading toxic sewage sludge on US cropland as a cheap alternative to fertilizer, and force America to rethink how it disposes of its industrial and human waste."

    Agriculture [26]
    Chemicals [27]
    Environmental Health [28]
    Laws & Regulations [29]
    Pollution [30]
    Waste [31]
    Public [12]
    National (U.S.) [23]
    Source: Guardian [32], 03/13/2024
    • Read more about "Legal Action Could End Use Of Toxic Sewage Sludge On US Crops As Fertilizer" [25]
  • Maryland Lawmakers Balk at Ending Subsidies for Trash Incineration [33]

    "Within a year of moving to Cherry Hill, a majority Black neighborhood on Baltimore’s southern tip, Shanae Thomas noticed her asthma—a health problem she was born with—had gradually worsened."

    Air [34]
    Chemicals [27]
    Energy & Fuel [18]
    Environmental Health [28]
    Environmental Justice [35]
    Environmental Politics [19]
    Laws & Regulations [29]
    Pollution [30]
    Waste [31]
    Public [12]
    National (U.S.) [23]
    Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [36]
    Source: Inside Climate News [37], 03/13/2024
    • Read more about Maryland Lawmakers Balk at Ending Subsidies for Trash Incineration [33]
  • "Across the Nation, Lawmakers Aim to Ban Lab-Grown Meat" [38]

    "Restricting the sale of protein cultured from animal cells, developed as a way to raise meat without the climate impacts of livestock, has become a trendy right-wing legislative focus in states from Arizona to Florida."

    Agriculture [26]
    Climate Change [17]
    Consumer [39]
    Environmental Politics [19]
    Food [40]
    Laws & Regulations [29]
    Public [12]
    National (U.S.) [23]
    Source: Inside Climate News [41], 03/13/2024
    • Read more about "Across the Nation, Lawmakers Aim to Ban Lab-Grown Meat" [38]
  • Corals at Risk as Great Barrier Reef Faces Its Latest Bleaching Event [42]

    "Increasingly frequent marine heat waves are hammering away at the world’s coral reefs, scientists say."

    Biodiversity [43]
    Climate Change [17]
    Fish & Fisheries [44]
    Natural Resources [11]
    Water & Oceans [22]
    Public [12]
    International [45]
    Australia & Oceania [46]
    Source: Inside Climate News [47], 03/13/2024
    • Read more about Corals at Risk as Great Barrier Reef Faces Its Latest Bleaching Event [42]
  • "EPA Rule Tees Up Legal Battle Over Federal Climate Authority" [48]

    "EPA’s rule to limit methane emissions from the oil and gas sector may be the latest battleground over whether the agency is exceeding its authority to regulate planet-warming emissions."

    Chemicals [27]
    Climate Change [17]
    Energy & Fuel [18]
    Environmental Politics [19]
    Laws & Regulations [29]
    Pollution [30]
    Public [12]
    National (U.S.) [23]
    Source: E&E News [49], 03/13/2024
    • Read more about "EPA Rule Tees Up Legal Battle Over Federal Climate Authority" [48]
  • "How Trump Could Exit The Paris Climate Deal — And Thwart Reentry" [50]

    "Allies of former President Donald Trump have a plan to leave the Paris climate agreement and make it much harder for a future Democratic president to rejoin it."

    Climate Change [17]
    Environmental Politics [19]
    Laws & Regulations [29]
    Public [12]
    National (U.S.) [23]
    Source: E&E News [51], 03/13/2024
    • Read more about "How Trump Could Exit The Paris Climate Deal — And Thwart Reentry" [50]
  • "EU Parliament Passes Weakened Pollution Limits For Livestock Farms" [52]

    "The EU Parliament on Tuesday gave its final approval to new rules to cut pollution from livestock farms, but only after agreeing with EU countries to make the law far weaker than initially planned."

    Agriculture [26]
    Climate Change [17]
    Environmental Politics [19]
    Laws & Regulations [29]
    Pollution [30]
    Public [12]
    Europe [14]
    Source: Reuters [53], 03/13/2024
    • Read more about "EU Parliament Passes Weakened Pollution Limits For Livestock Farms" [52]
  • "The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I." [54]

    "How can the world reach net zero if it keeps inventing new ways to consume energy?"

    Climate Change [17]
    Economy & Business [55]
    Energy & Fuel [18]
    Technology [56]
    Public [12]
    National (U.S.) [23]
    International [45]
    Source: New Yorker [57], 03/13/2024
    • Read more about "The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I." [54]
  • "Bats of the Midnight Sun" [58]

    "Active in daylight during the Arctic summer and hibernating during the long winter nights, Alaska’s little brown bats are a unique population. Can their niche lives help them avoid white-nose syndrome?"

    Biodiversity [43]
    Natural Resources [11]
    Wildlife [59]
    Public [12]
    Alaska and Hawaii [60]
    Antarctica & Arctic [61]
    Source: Hakai [62], 03/13/2024
    • Read more about "Bats of the Midnight Sun" [58]
  • "Biden Seeks $1.8B Budget Boost For EPA" [63]

    "The president’s fiscal 2025 blueprint would increase the agency’s funding over its current level but is not as ambitious as previous plans."

    Climate Change [17]
    Environmental Health [28]
    Environmental Politics [19]
    Laws & Regulations [29]
    Pollution [30]
    Public [12]
    National (U.S.) [23]
    Source: E&E News [64], 03/12/2024
    • Read more about "Biden Seeks $1.8B Budget Boost For EPA" [63]
  • "Colorado Could Bring Back Wolverines In An Unprecedented Rewilding Effort" [65]

    "A bipartisan group of Colorado lawmakers are proposing legislation to reintroduce wolverines, one of the country’s rarest carnivores, into a state primed with deep snow and high mountains. The unprecedented move would be the first wolverine reintroduction in North America, and is part of an ongoing effort by Coloradans to restore the state’s native species."

    Biodiversity [43]
    Laws & Regulations [29]
    Natural Resources [11]
    Wildlife [59]
    Public [12]
    National (U.S.) [23]
    California [13]
    Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [66]
    Source: Guardian [67], 03/12/2024
    • Read more about "Colorado Could Bring Back Wolverines In An Unprecedented Rewilding Effort" [65]
  • "Florida Passes ‘Cruel’ Bill Curbing Water And Shade Protections For Workers" [68]

    "The Florida legislature passed a bill on Friday that prevents any city, county, or municipality in the state from adopting legislation aimed at protecting outdoor workers from extreme heat, prompting many to call out lawmakers for being “cruel” to the “most vulnerable workers”."

    Agriculture [26]
    Climate Change [17]
    Environmental Health [28]
    Environmental Justice [35]
    Environmental Politics [19]
    Laws & Regulations [29]
    People & Population [69]
    Public [12]
    SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [70]
    Source: Guardian [71], 03/12/2024
    • Read more about "Florida Passes ‘Cruel’ Bill Curbing Water And Shade Protections For Workers" [68]
  • "Canada, U.S. Launch Intl. Inquiry Into Southeast B.C. Mine Pollution" [72]

    "Nearly 12 years after Ktunaxa Nation first urged the Canadian and U.S. governments to task an international body with investigating the mine pollution coursing through its territory, the two countries have agreed to a step the nation says is key to addressing contamination from B.C.’s Elk Valley coal mines."

    Environmental Health [28]
    Environmental Justice [35]
    Environmental Politics [19]
    Environmental Studies [73]
    Natural Resources [11]
    Pollution [30]
    Public [12]
    National (U.S.) [23]
    Northwest (OR WA) [74]
    Canada [75]
    Source: The Narwhal [76], 03/12/2024
    • Read more about "Canada, U.S. Launch Intl. Inquiry Into Southeast B.C. Mine Pollution" [72]

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