"For Sick Coal Miners COVID-19 Is A Death Sentence"
"Miners with black lung struggle during the pandemic with layoffs, benefit cuts and the threat of a virus that would almost certainly kill them".
Source: Guardian, 04/20/2020
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Supply Chain: "Empty Grocery Shelves and Rotting, Wasted Vegetables"
"Covid-19 and climate change are testing a food system that critics say has lost its resilience."
Source: InsideClimate News, 04/20/2020
Analysis: "For Oil and Its Dependents, It’s Code Blue"
"The great price collapse of 2020 will topple companies and transform states."
Source: The Tyee, 04/20/2020
"With Fishing Fleets Tied Up, Marine Life Has a Chance to Recover"
"Plummeting global demand for fish and seafood as a result of the coronavirus crisis is likely to create an effect similar to the halt of commercial fishing during World Wars I and II, when the idling of fleets led to the rebound of fish stocks."
Source: Bloomberg Green, 04/20/2020
"S. California Mountain Lions Get Temporary Endangered Species Status"
"The state Fish and Game Commission on Thursday set the stage for a fierce environmental battle by granting temporary endangered species status to the several hundred cougars still roaming Southern California and the Central Coast."
Source: LA Times, 04/20/2020
"Warmest Oceans on Record Could Set Off a Year of Extreme Weather"
"The world’s seas are simmering, with record high temperatures spurring worry among forecasters that the global warming effect may generate a chaotic year of extreme weather ahead."
Source: Bloomberg Green, 04/20/2020
"A Decade Later, Gulf Residents Suffer From BP’s Toxic Legacy"
"The people who cleaned up the 200 million-gallon Deepwater Horizon oil spill say they are still dealing with the health and economic fallout."
Source: HuffPost, 04/20/2020
"White House Moves To Weaken EPA Rule On Toxic Compounds"
"The Trump White House has intervened to weaken one of the few public health protections pursued by its own administration, a rule to limit the use of a toxic industrial compound in consumer products, according to communications between the White House and Environmental Protection Agency."
Source: AP, 04/20/2020
Unique B.C. Trout Population Crashes Downstream Of Teck Coal Mines
"Environment Canada was told that selenium pollution emanating from a string of coal mines in B.C.’s southeast corner could lead to reproductive failure and ‘a total population collapse’ of sensitive species like the westslope cutthroat trout". "The adult population of genetically unique westslope cutthroat trout in a river in B.C.’s Kootenay region dropped by 93 per cent this past fall compared with 2017 levels, according to a monitoring report from Teck Resources."
Source: The Narwhal, 04/17/2020
"U.S. Weighs Paying Drillers to Leave Oil in Ground Amid Glut"
"The Trump administration is considering paying U.S. oil producers to leave crude in the ground to help alleviate a glut that has caused prices to plummet and pushed some drillers into bankruptcy."
Source: Bloomberg, 04/17/2020
