"China and India have missed a U.N. deadline to submit fresh plans for cutting their greenhouse gas emissions in time for the global body to include their pledges in a report for governments at this year’s global climate summit, officials said Saturday."
"U.S. senators introduced a sweeping $1-trillion bipartisan plan to invest in roads, bridges, ports, high-speed internet and other infrastructure, with some predicting the chamber could pass this week the largest public works legislation in decades."
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"Douglas James stood Thursday on the Mall in front of the 25-foot totem pole he and a team had spent three months hand-carving and painting from a 400-year-old red cedar tree. James, a member of the Lummi Nation in Washington state, and a group of supporters and volunteers from his tribe hauled the pole on a flatbed truck more than 20,000 miles along the West Coast and across the Midwest before arriving in the other Washington, where the pole will stay as part of a campaign to protect sacred tribal lands."
"Gulf Coast researchers are raising alarms about a $1.4 billion coastal restoration project’s potential to kill and injure bottlenose dolphins. Now, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries employee whose job it was to count dolphin deaths in the state says she was fired in 2019 because her work reaffirmed the potential of the project to devastate a dolphin population."
"Ahead of a likely federal election, the Liberals committed to covering the vast majority of cost overruns for the controversial $13.1 billion megaproject, which has faced staunch opposition from local Indigenous communities and environmental organizations".
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/china-india-miss-un-deadline-update-emissions-targets
[2] https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-china-environment-and-nature-india-united-nations-396d3d2ae7b2ff77fb99264d097bc594
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/after-months-work-senators-unveil-1-trillion-infrastructure-bill
[4] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senators-move-forward-with-infrastructure-bill-sunday-2021-08-01/
[5] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-neal-peirce-foundation-journalism-travel-grants
[6] https://www.sej.org/calendar/advanced-echo-webinar-water
[7] https://www.sej.org/calendar/drought-american-west-everything-disaster
[8] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-npf-fellowship-biomass-climate-change-ahead-cop26-conference
[9] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-business-sustainability-initiative-solutions-journalism-network
[10] https://www.sej.org/headlines/25-foot-lummi-totem-pole-arrives-dc-after-journey-across-us
[11] https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/07/29/totem-pole-dc-native-american/
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/la-researcher-says-she-was-fired-raising-alarm-about-dolphin-deaths
[13] http://lailluminator.com/2021/07/29/louisiana-government-researcher-says-she-was-fired-for-raising-alarm-about-dolphin-deaths/
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/trudeau-adds-52-billion-bailout-beleaguered-muskrat-falls-hydro-dam
[15] https://thenarwhal.ca/muskrat-falls-hydro-dam-trudeau-bailout/
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