"David woke suddenly in the mid-afternoon. The 56-year-old chef could hear commotion outside and scrambled up from his nap, finding his roommates on the roof of their shared home, holding garden hoses and spraying water on a raging inferno licking closer by the minute."
"After days of urgent warnings and preparations, Tropical Storm Hilary made landfall in Baja California on Sunday, turning roads into rivers and imperiling homes before barreling north toward Southern California."
Meet SEJ member Gwendolyn Craig! Gwen has covered public policy and environmental regulation for the Adirondack Explorer magazine since January 2020. She takes photos and videos for the Explorer's magazine and website and shares her content with the Times Union in Albany.
"This summer a Tribal ceremony celebrated the return of sacred fish, lost for generations."
"When habitat loss is one of the biggest issues facing wild animals, why has Alaska given an uninhabited, remote island to feral cattle?"
"More than 95 percent of the gas the utility delivers to customers is derived from fossil fuels."
"The United Arab Emirates, which will run the crucial Cop28 UN climate summit in December, has failed to report its emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane to the UN for almost a decade, the Guardian can reveal."
Join a guided bus tour of auto and steelmaking sites around the Detroit-Dearborn area that aims to shed light on opportunities to pave the way toward a cleaner and more sustainable future for steel and automaking in Michigan. 10 a.m.-12:00 p.m. ET. Free registration required.
"Under President Biden, the Environmental Protection Agency has closed fewer civil cases against polluters than any administration in the last two decades and has overseen a drop in criminal investigations of environmental crimes. David M. Uhlmann hopes to change that."
"Researchers are still studying the chemical makeup of produced water from the Permian Basin. But regulators say they’re ready to issue permits to discharge the water into rivers and creeks."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/locals-have-been-sounding-alarm-years-about-lahaina-wildfire-risk
[2] https://grist.org/wildfires/maui-fire-risk-drought-grass-sound-alarm-lahaina-hawaii/
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/fierce-hilary-rolls-southern-california-bringing-heavy-rain-flooding
[4] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-20/southern-california-braces-for-tropical-storm-hilary
[5] https://www.sej.org/sejspotlight-gwendolyn-craig-reporter-adirondack-explorer
[6] https://www.sej.org/headlines/time-dance-salmon-home
[7] https://therevelator.org/dance-salmon-home/
[8] https://www.sej.org/headlines/republic-cows
[9] https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-republic-of-cows/
[10] https://www.sej.org/headlines/socalgas-said-its-natural-gas-was-renewable-now-it-s-paying-penalties
[11] https://grist.org/accountability/socalgas-said-its-natural-gas-was-renewable-now-its-paying-penalties/
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/un-climate-summit-host-uae-failed-report-methane-emissions-un
[13] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/17/un-climate-summit-host-uae-failed-report-methane-emissions
[14] https://www.sej.org/calendar/guided-tour-sustainable-future-steel-cars-detroit-dearborn
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/new-top-cop-epa-aims-get-enforcement-back-track
[16] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/climate/david-uhlmann-epa.html
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/standards-still-murky-disposing-oilfield-wastewater-texas-rivers
[18] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17082023/texas-permitting-produced-water-disposal/
[19] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=779
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=776
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=777
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=778
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=781
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=782
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=783
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=784
[28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=5004