Join SEJ at the CSU Denver Center, 3:30-6:30 p.m. MT, for this robust journalists' panel and public discussion on Colorado's challenges and opportunities regarding droughts, wildfires, climate change, energy production, decarbonization and more, including an interview with Will Toor, executive director of the Colorado Energy Office.
"Ludovic Burns Tuki first felt the chill of climate change while diving in the waters around his home on Easter Island, locally known as Rapa Nui, a remote land mass in the South Pacific famed for its distinctive ancient stone statues."
"U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry has approved six secret authorizations by companies to sell nuclear power technology and assistance to Saudi Arabia, according to a copy of a document seen by Reuters on Wednesday."
"Something is killing apple trees across the American countryside, and the epidemic is reaching plague-like levels. Worst yet, scientists are completely clueless as to what is causing the mysterious pestilence."
"The catastrophic flooding in the Midwest is forcing more farmers to consider a stark choice: quit or consolidate."
"The U.S. Air Force said Wednesday that it needs $350 million in emergency funds this year to cover cleanup and basic repair costs after this month’s devastating floods at Offutt Air Force Base."
"When Hurricane Maria shattered Puerto Rico's power grid in 2017, it set off the longest major blackout in U.S. history. The island territory's political leaders faced a choice: rebuild the long-troubled centralized electric grid, which had been powered largely by imported diesel fuel and coal, or ditch the costly fuel imports and start over by building a more resilient grid powered by clean energy."
"On Thursday, 41 scientists published the first worldwide analysis of a fungal outbreak that’s been wiping out frogs for decades. The devastation turns out to be far worse than anyone had previously realized."
"U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told governments to come to a September summit with concrete plans to boost climate action, as he released a flagship report on global warming by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Thursday."
"New York State lawmakers have agreed to impose a statewide ban on most types of single-use plastic bags from retail sales, changing a way of life for millions of New Yorkers as legislators seek to curb an unsightly and omnipresent source of litter."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/calendar/straddling-climate-and-policy-divide-colorado-journalists-roundtable
[2] https://www.sej.org/headlines/chill-waters-arid-land-climate-change-arrives-easter-island
[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chile-environment-easter-island/chill-waters-arid-land-climate-change-arrives-on-easter-island-idUSKCN1R812M
[4] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-approved-secret-nuclear-power-work-saudi-arabia
[5] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-saudi-nuclear/u-s-approved-secret-nuclear-power-work-for-saudi-arabia-idUSKCN1R82MG?il=0
[6] https://www.sej.org/headlines/apple-trees-mysteriously-dying-all-across-america-and-nobody-knows-why
[7] https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/apple-trees-are-mysteriously-dying-all-across-america-and-nobody-knows-why
[8] https://www.sej.org/headlines/climate-change-and-death-small-farm
[9] https://newrepublic.com/article/153390/climate-change-death-small-farm
[10] https://www.sej.org/headlines/air-force-seeks-49-billion-storm-ravaged-offutt-tyndall
[11] https://www.omaha.com/news/military/air-force-seeks-billion-in-emergency-funds-for-storm-ravaged/article_0f70d1ea-1206-5291-9d19-1a981b45608a.html
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/puerto-rico-passes-100-clean-energy-bill
[13] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26032019/puerto-rico-clean-energy-100-percent-hurricane-recovery-solar-natural-gas-prepa
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/plague-killing-frogs-everywhere-far-worse-scientists-thought
[15] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/science/frogs-fungus-bd.html
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/come-plan-un-chief-tells-states-ahead-climate-summit
[17] https://uk.reuters.com/article/un-climatechange-politics/come-with-a-plan-un-chief-tells-states-ahead-of-climate-summit-idUKL1N21F1EI
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/plastic-bags-be-banned-new-york-state
[19] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/nyregion/plastic-bag-ban-.html
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