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Study Finds Lyme-Carrying Ticks Next To Beaches And Almost Everywhere [1]

"Disease-carrying ticks, commonly associated with wooded areas, are also abundant near beaches in Northern California, according to a study. They weren’t found on beaches themselves, but in the brush and vegetation beachgoers may walk through to get to the sand."

Source: Washington Post [2], 04/26/2021

"Diminishing Ice Cover On Maine’s Lakes Could Impact Fish Populations" [3]

"AUBURN, Me. — In September 2012, local and state officials noticed something odd at Lake Auburn. Fish were dying for no discernible reason."

Source: Portland Press Herald [4], 04/26/2021

"Why Scientists Are Sounding The Alarm On Canada’s Melting Permafrost" [5]

"Nearly half of Canada’s land mass lies above permafrost. As it thaws, greenhouse gases stored for centuries in the frozen ground are released and once-stable land is susceptible to collapse".

Source: The Narwhal [6], 04/26/2021

Chemical Industry Lobbying And Cash Defeated Regulation In Trump Era [7]

"Industry’s congressional allies defeated nearly all PFAS legislation while the Trump EPA killed, watered down or slowalked new rules".

Source: Guardian [8], 04/26/2021

WH Warns That U.S. Lags Behind China On Developing Clean Technologies [9]

"A report published by the Biden administration on Friday made the case that a failure to adopt clean energy technologies and reduce carbon emissions will contribute to rising economic costs, and warns that the United States has fallen behind in its efforts to develop strategies to combat the effects of climate change."

Source: NYTimes [10], 04/26/2021

EPA, Virgin Islands Launch Probe After 2nd St. Croix Refinery Incident [11]

"Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Virgin Islands officials are investigating a second accident at a controversial refinery in St. Croix after it emitted noxious fumes that prompted some schools and a vaccination site on the island to close Friday."

Source: Washington Post [12], 04/26/2021

"Biden Exploring Border Adjustment Tax to Fight Climate Change" [13]

"President Joe Biden is exploring the idea of a border adjustment tax that would slap a levy on imports from countries with weaker climate policies, John Kerry, the White House’s special envoy for climate said Friday."

Source: Bloomberg [14], 04/26/2021

"Former Ojibwe Chairman Tapped For Interior's Indian Affairs" [15]

"President Joe Biden nominated former tribal chairman Bryan Newland for assistant secretary for Indian Affairs of the Interior Thursday."

Source: Indian Country Today [16], 04/26/2021

Endangered Humpback Whales Get Extra Habitat Protection Along West Coast [17]

"Endangered populations of humpback whales received extra protection Tuesday when the Biden administration issued a final rule designating critical habitat for the huge marine mammals across more than 116,098 square nautical miles of the Pacific Ocean, including most of the California coast."

Source: San Francisco Chronicle [18], 04/23/2021

After a Century, Dispossessed Black Farmers Fight to Get Back to the Land [19]

"In the decades before the Civil War, one of the South’s largest slave enterprises held sway on the northern outskirts of Durham, North Carolina. At its peak, about 900 enslaved people were compelled to grow tobacco, corn, and other crops on the Stagville Plantation, 30,000 acres of rolling piedmont that had been taken from the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation. Today, the area has a transitional feel: Old farmhouses, open fields, and pine forests cede ground to subdivisions, as one of America’s hottest real estate markets sprawls outward."

Source: Mother Jones [20], 04/23/2021

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