"Senate Republicans are threatening to sink Sen. Joe Manchin’s side deal on permitting reform, partly because they are still angry over the West Virginia Democrat’s flip-flop on the sweeping climate, health and tax bill that Congress passed last month."
"Competitive Power Ventures Inc. announced plans Friday to build a multibillion-dollar natural gas power plant in West Virginia with carbon capture technology, saying the project would not be possible without the new climate and energy law."
"The hurricane winds that knocked out power to the entire island of Puerto Rico over the weekend encountered an electrical grid that experts liken to a house of cards: a fragile, decrepit, patchwork system running on old equipment that has failed to substantially modernize since the U.S. territory’s deadliest storm, Hurricane Maria, swept through five years before."
"The world’s most vulnerable countries are preparing to take on the richest economies with a demand for urgent finance – potentially including new taxes on fossil fuels or flying – for the irrecoverable losses they are suffering from the climate crisis, leaked documents show."
"Hurricane Fiona barreled toward the Turks and Caicos Islands on Tuesday as a Category 3 storm, prompting the government to impose a curfew."
How water moves through the global ecosystem and shapes our landscapes is the subject of a must-read new book by writer Erica Gies, according to BookShelf editor Tom Henry. A significant part of water’s story is how humanity invariably fails when trying to manipulate it. But hope may reside with Gies’ various “water detectives,” who explore how to “let water go where it wants to go.”
Carbon dioxide may get more attention, but the second-most damaging greenhouse gas, methane, is now the focus of a global pledge to cut emissions 30% by 2030. As part of a Society of Environmental Journalists publishing project focused on covering climate solutions, we take a closer look at methane with energy reporter Nushin Huq. A primer on the climate-related problems of methane and the promise of methane-based solutions. Plus, watch a recent SEJ methane solutions webinar [13] and see our Methane and Climate Change Toolbox [14].
A Biden administration move to force states to submit cleanup plans for regional haze offers opportunities to report air pollution news in your area, writes the latest TipSheet. The Clean Air Act regulatory program, focused on parks and wilderness areas, is not just about the scenery, but human health too. The backstory and the list of states, plus reporting resources and story ideas.
More than 45 organizations will come together in Pittsburgh to stand in solidarity with people around the world working to advance truly clean energy justice. CEJ will spotlight Indigenous leaders from the Lummi Nation and frontline community activists from SW Pennsylvania, the Pacific Northwest and the Gulf Coast.
Watch the recording of Dale Willman (Columbia Climate School’s Resilience Media Project) having a discussion with graphics editor Mira Rojanasakul of the New York Times, who designed the Aug 12, 2022 article "The Coming California Megastorm." 1:00 p.m. ET.
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[2] https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3651078-gops-bad-blood-threatens-manchin-side-deal/
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/climate-law-spurs-ccs-new-west-virginia-gas-plant
[4] https://www.eenews.net/articles/climate-law-spurs-ccs-at-new-west-virginia-gas-plant/
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/even-fiona-puerto-rico-s-power-grid-was-poised-failure
[6] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/09/19/puerto-rico-blackout-hurricane-fiona/
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/vulnerable-nations-demand-global-tax-pay-climate-loss-and-damage
[8] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/19/vulnerable-countries-demand-global-tax-to-pay-for-climate-led-loss-and-damage
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/fiona-barrels-toward-turks-and-caicos-cat-3-hurricane
[10] https://apnews.com/article/storms-entertainment-hurricanes-royalty-dominican-republic-73e1cfe498d50a4e85fb8de51723ee46
[11] https://www.sej.org/publications/bookshelf/author-shares-unorthodox-look-ways-water
[12] https://www.sej.org/publications/special-reports/climate-solutions/methane-key-global-warming-source-targeted-nations
[13] https://www.sej.org/calendar/sej-webinar-covering-climate-solutions-containing-monitoring-methane
[14] https://www.sej.org/publications/special-reports/climate-solutions/methane-and-climate-change-toolbox
[15] https://www.sej.org/publications/tipsheet/epa-mandated-regional-haze-plans-open-horizons-local-state-stories
[16] https://www.sej.org/calendar/clean-energy-justice-cej-convergence
[17] https://www.sej.org/calendar/sustain-what-telling-stories-graphics
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