"Conservatives have long argued against regulating fossil fuel production for the climate’s sake, claiming that doing so would interfere with the holy free market. A new study shows that’s a total fairy tale because the invisible hand isn’t responsible for dirty fuels’ market dominance—implicit government subsidies are. The findings show those subsidies total in the billions each year."
"Texas is crisscrossed by thousands of miles of freeways, but a Houston-area county is suing the state to stop one of them being expanded, arguing the air pollution and displacement will primarily harm minority communities."
"Wildfire smoke was associated with a far greater number of pediatric respiratory care visits than other sources of airborne fine particles, according to a new study, even when wildfires were less severe."
"President Biden’s next big thing would fuse the rebuilding of America’s creaky infrastructure with record spending to fight climate change, a combination that, in scale and scope, represents a huge political shift, even for Democrats who have been in the climate trenches for decades."
"Hotter summers in Iraq are blasting soldiers sitting inside armored vehicles. Flooding is threatening the world’s largest navy base. Russian submarines are prowling the melting Arctic. Now NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg wants to make global warming a major focus of the military alliance’s strategy and planning, pushing environmental issues to the center as a security threat."
"The EPA will review and evaluate its scientific advisory committees to ensure they include “top-tier experts,” agency chief Michael Regan said in a Tuesday email to employees."
ASSOC. EDITOR: SEJournal [14], the weekly environmental news magazine for the Society of Environmental Journalists, is seeking an independent contractor to serve as associate editor. The associate editor would work with the editor to conceive, solicit and edit an array of SEJournal content. The contract would also involve light writing and social media duties, as well as occasional back-up for the editor and copy/production team.
This webinar, hosted by Brooklyn Public Library from 7:00-8:30 p.m. ET, will feature former NYT journalist Andrew Revkin, Dharna Noor of Earther and Gizmodo, and Rachel Ramirez of Vox discussing common flaws in climate reporting and how the media can do better.
"In Houston’s poorest neighborhoods, an unfamiliar winter storm stoked a familiar anguish, one fueled by recurring floods and what residents see as a pattern of neglect."
"Environmentalists say Trump’s EPA bent rules to speed its restart. Now, they want President Biden to address what they call a textbook case of environmental injustice."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/fossil-fuel-industry-couldnt-survive-without-federal-aid-propping-it
[2] https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-fossil-fuel-industry-would-be-screwed-without-the-u-1846527447
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/plan-expand-texas-highway-stalled-over-environmental-racism-concerns
[4] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/23/plan-to-expand-texas-highway-stalled-over-environmental-racism-concerns
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/wildfire-smoke-particularly-harmful-kids-respiratory-health-study
[6] https://www.statnews.com/2021/03/23/wildfire-smoke-is-particularly-harmful-to-kids-respiratory-health-study-finds/
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/biden-s-recovery-plan-bets-big-clean-energy
[8] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/23/climate/biden-infrastructure-stimulus-climate-change.html
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/sweltering-soldiers-and-flooded-ports-focus-nato-climate-change
[10] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/nato-climate-change-stoltenberg/2021/03/23/3884fe52-8aa7-11eb-a33e-da28941cb9ac_story.html
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/regan-says-epa-will-look-again-science-advisory-committees
[12] https://bnanews.bna.com/environment-and-energy/regan-says-epa-will-look-again-at-science-advisory-committees
[13] https://www.sej.org/job-opening-associate-editor-sejournal
[14] https://www.sej.org/publications/sejournal/overview
[15] https://www.sej.org/calendar/covering-climate-what-media-missing
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/old-american-dream-trap-floods-keep-coming
[17] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/23/us/texas-winter-storm-hurricane-harvey-houston.html
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/trump-s-parting-gift-st-croix-one-america-s-largest-refineries
[19] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21032021/trump-st-croix-virgin-island-oil-refinery/
[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1537
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1534
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1535
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1536
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1539
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1540
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1541
[28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1542
[29] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=5070