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"FWS Helps Create Bank Of Endangered Species DNA" [1]

"Deep-frozen wildlife cell samples could enable the future cloning of at-risk species under a technically adventurous initiative by the Fish and Wildlife Service and its private partners."

Source: E&E News [2], 10/18/2023

"How Gas Utilities Used Tobacco Tactics To Avoid Gas Stove Regulations" [3]

"In the late 1960s, natural gas utilities launched "Operation Attack," a bold marketing campaign to bring lots more gas stoves into people's kitchens."

Source: NPR [4], 10/18/2023

"Home Energy Devices Hold Untapped Potential for Strained Grids" [5]

"This summer, as a historic heat wave strained Texas’ electrical grid and hiked power prices, Scott Stambush’s electricity bill went negative."

Source: Bloomberg Environment [6], 10/17/2023

New York's Gas Stove Ban an 'Existential Threat,' Trade Group Lawsuit Says [7]

"Construction and gas trade groups have filed a lawsuit to block a law passed by New York officials that would ban furnaces and gas stoves in newly constructed buildings."

Source: Earther [8], 10/17/2023

Georgia Slave Descendants Sue Over Zoning Threatenening Island Homes [9]

"Black residents of a tiny island enclave founded by their enslaved ancestors off the Georgia coast have filed suit seeking to halt a new zoning law that they say will raise taxes and force them to sell their homes in one of the South’s last surviving Gullah-Geechee communities."

Source: AP [10], 10/17/2023

Lake Erie Is Full Of Algae Again Amid SW Ontario’s Exploding Greenhouse Sector [11]

"Experts say nutrient-rich water from greenhouse farms could be harming Lake Erie, but Ontario’s Environment Ministry has issued very few fines for potential algae-causing infractions since 2019".

Source: The Narwhal [12], 10/17/2023

Enviros Warn Of Intent To Sue Over Snail Species Near Nev. Lithium Mine [13]

"In an ongoing legal battle with the Biden administration over a Nevada lithium mine, environmentalists are poised to return to court with a new approach accusing U.S. wildlife officials of dragging their feet on a year-old petition seeking endangered species status for a tiny snail that lives nearby."

Source: AP [14], 10/17/2023

Texas Quietly Sets Weak Cancer Risk Standard For Industrial Air Pollution [15]

"The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has quietly proposed maintaining a target cancer-risk level for air pollution permits that scientists and public health officials consider inadequate to protect public health, especially for communities like those east of Houston that are exposed simultaneously to many sources of industrial emissions."

Source: Inside Climate News [16], 10/17/2023

"In Brazil’s Amazon, Rivers Fall To Record Low Levels During Drought" [17]

"The Negro River, the Amazon’s second largest tributary, on Monday reached its lowest level since official measurements began near Manaus 121 years ago. The record confirms that this part of the world´s largest rainforest is suffering its worst drought, just a little over two years after its most significant flooding."

Source: AP [18], 10/17/2023

Factory Fishing In Antarctica For Krill Threatens A Fragile Ecosystem [19]

"The Antarctic Endeavour glides across the water’s silky surface as dozens of fin whales spray rainbows from their blowholes into a fairy tale icescape of massive glaciers. But as a patrol of environmentalists approaches the Chilean super trawler in an inflatable boat, the cruder realities of modern industrial fishing come into view."

Source: AP [20], 10/17/2023

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