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"Exxon Mobil Plans to Produce Lithium in Arkansas" [1]

"Exxon Mobil said on Monday that it planned to set up a facility in Arkansas to produce lithium, a critical raw material for electric vehicles, which pose one of the biggest challenges to the company’s oil business."

Source: NYTimes [2], 11/14/2023

Desperate For Water, Desert City Hopes To Build Pipeline To Calif. Aqueduct [3]

"After decades of unrestricted pumping in the rain-starved northwestern corner of the Mojave Desert, the Indian Wells Valley Groundwater Basin Authority has the distinction of managing one of the most critically overdrawn aquifers in California."

Source: LA Times [4], 11/14/2023

"Wood Pellet Giant Enviva Discloses a Financial Crisis" [5]

"A financial crisis has enveloped Enviva, the Maryland-based company that’s been harvesting large swaths of forest in the Southeast United States to make wood pellets for electricity production in the United Kingdom and Europe." "The company’s stock price plunged as its new interim CEO announced financial losses. Environmentalists had long questioned a business model they said was based on greenwashing."

Source: Inside Climate News [6], 11/14/2023

Harvest Of Horseshoe Crabs, For Medicine And Bait, Limited To Protect Bird [7]

"Interstate fishing regulators are limiting the harvest of a primordial species of invertebrate to try to help rebuild its population and aid a threatened species of bird."

Source: AP [8], 11/14/2023

"Giant Sequoias Are in Big Trouble. How Best to Save Them?" [9]

"California’s ancient sequoias — some of which have stood more than 1,000 years — are facing an existential threat from increasingly intense wildfires linked to climate change. But federal efforts to thin forests to reduce fire risks are drawing pushback from conservation groups."

Source: YaleE360 [10], 11/14/2023

How Much Can Trees Fight Climate Change? Massively, but Not Alone: Study [11]

"Restoring global forests where they occur naturally could potentially capture an additional 226 gigatons of planet-warming carbon, equivalent to about a third of the amount that humans have released since the beginning of the Industrial Era, according to a new study published on Monday in the journal Nature."

Source: NYTimes [12], 11/14/2023

"Don’t Offend Monarchs, UAE Tells Reporters Ahead Of Climate Talks" [13]

"The United Arab Emirates quietly established sweeping restrictions on the hundreds of journalists expected to visit the country for international climate talks later this month. Now, the UAE says it was a mistake."

Source: Politico [14], 11/14/2023

"Over 60 Countries Back Deal To Triple Renewable Energy This Decade" [15]

"More than 60 countries have said they back a deal spearheaded by the European Union, United States and United Arab Emirates to triple renewable energy this decade and shift away from coal, two officials familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday."

Source: Reuters [16], 11/14/2023

‘The Science Is Irrefutable’: US Warming Faster Than Global Average: Report [17]

"The US is warming faster than the global average and its people are suffering “far-reaching and worsening” consequences from the climate crisis, with worse to come, according to an authoritative report issued by the US government."

Source: Guardian [18], 11/14/2023

Floods, Fires, Dysfunction — Another Year Ahead of Faltering Steps on Environment, Energy [19]

In our annual look-ahead on the environment and energy beat in 2024, we see a bumpy ride on global climate change talks coupled with more climate-driven disasters, even amid the evolving energy transition. And we see possible risks to ocean life from deep sea mining and continuing risks to human life from pollution of air, water and land. Insights in our overview [19] and our full “2024 Journalists’ Guide to Environment & Energy [20]” special report.

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