Human Rights Group: Egypt Stifles Environmental Work Ahead of COP [1]
"Egyptian campaigners told Human Rights Watch they faced harassment by authorities, as the country prepares to host Cop27 climate talks in November".
Source: AP [2], 09/13/2022
"Egyptian campaigners told Human Rights Watch they faced harassment by authorities, as the country prepares to host Cop27 climate talks in November".
"Southwest of Sacramento, California, the branching arms of waterways reach into a patchwork of farm fields and pastures. Canals and wetlands fringed with reeds meet a sunbaked expanse of dry meadows."
"The Federal Emergency Management Agency has removed publicly available records from its website that showed hundreds of thousands of people had dropped their federal flood insurance policies in recent months."
"The U.S. Department of the Interior said Monday that it wants to reverse some Trump administration rollbacks of offshore safety rules to prevent blowouts like the BP catastrophe that killed 11 people and fouled the Gulf of Mexico in 2010."
"White House officials are growing increasingly alarmed about Europe’s energy crisis and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threats to force a bleak winter on the continent." "Biden aides have redoubled efforts to increase natural gas exports across the Atlantic but see few obvious solutions".
"Polls indicate that Brazil’s presidential election in October will go to a runoff between incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in a duel likely to decide the fate of the Amazon Rainforest."
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"The U.S. House is considering a bill that would put lynching sites in western Tennessee on track to become part of the National Park Service, part of a trend this year of Congress using the agency to advance discussions of the nation’s troubled and often violent racial history."
"Wildfires and droughts ravaging agricultural land around the world have raised the stakes for cannabis farmers, who must decide whether to cultivate their plants in greenhouses or out in fields."
"The electricity industry knew about the dangers of climate change 40 years ago. It denied them anyway."
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/human-rights-group-egypt-stifles-environmental-work-ahead-cop
[2] https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-africa-egypt-lebanon-united-nations-622fc693222f3e2104c806ac4bbf1681
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/tidal-marsh-or-fake-habitat-calif-environmental-project-draws-critics
[4] https://phys.org/news/2022-09-tidal-marsh-fake-habitat-california.html
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/fema-removes-data-showing-drop-flood-insurance-policies
[6] https://www.eenews.net/articles/fema-removes-data-showing-drop-in-flood-insurance-policies/
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-takes-aim-some-trump-offshore-safety-rule-rollbacks
[8] https://apnews.com/article/gulf-of-mexico-oceans-us-department-the-interior-climate-and-environment-10d7e9de7c1db4bffb6783f39f1b40fc
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/white-house-alarm-rises-over-europe-putin-threatens-energy-supply
[10] https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/09/11/europe-energy-crisis-white-house/
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[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/it-wasn-t-just-oil-companies-spreading-climate-denial
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