Climate Change Is Shrinking Winter Snow In The South, Report Shows
"During the 1970s, Nashville averaged just under a foot of snowfall each winter. Nowadays, Music City is lucky to see half that in a season."
Source: Washington Post, 02/06/2020
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"Sea-Level Rise: Dozens Of Airports Could Go Underwater — Analysis"
"Add airports to the list of climate change victims. Eighty airports around the world could be underwater by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions continue on their current trajectory and sea levels rise by 1 meter, according to a new analysis by the World Resources Institute."
Source: ClimateWire, 02/06/2020
"Canadian Court Clears The Way For Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion"
"Canada's Federal Court of Appeal has cleared the way for a major expansion to the Trans Mountain Pipeline by ruling against four different challenges from First Nations groups concerned about the environmental impacts of the project."
Source: NPR, 02/06/2020
"BLM Struggles To Fill Top Positions In New Western HQ"
"When the Bureau of Land Management moves its Washington-based headquarters to Grand Junction, Colo., this year, more than half of the senior leaders may be as new as the office itself."
Source: Greenwire, 02/06/2020
"Trump’s Regional EPA Chief In Calif. Is Suddenly Removed From His Job"
"The Environmental Protection Agency’s top official in California was abruptly removed from office Wednesday. No reason has yet been given for Mike Stoker’s dismissal."
Source: LA Times, 02/06/2020
"Yellow Cedar Is Dying. Can Southeast Alaska Sawmills Profit?"
"Yellow cedar is a commercially valuable tree species for the timber industry. It grows from California all the way to Southeast Alaska, but there are fewer living trees growing across the range because of climate change."
Source: Alaska's Energy Desk, 02/05/2020
"The U.S. May Soon Have the World's Oldest Nuclear Power Plants"
"Neighbors and scientists are worried, but operators argue there’s no better way to provide carbon-free energy."
Source: Bloomberg Green, 02/05/2020
"Democrats’ Fracking War Heats Up As 2020 Voting Begins"
"As Bernie Sanders pushes a fracking ban and Joe Biden warns against abandoning it, the industry faces its own problems."
"Democrats are drilling down on opposite sides of the fracking divide, widening a schism between the party’s climate-concerned progressive wing and centrists who fear a hard-line stance against fossil fuels risks ceding critical swing states to President Donald Trump.
Source: HuffPost, 02/05/2020
Could Ohio R Have Legal Rights? Movement Tests Power of Local Control
"Can you imagine if the Ohio River and its tributaries had legal rights? While speculative, the idea isn't necessarily far-fetched. This month marks the one-year anniversary of residents in Toledo, Ohio, bestowing Lake Erie with its own bill of rights."
Source: EHN, 02/05/2020
Kinzua Dam on Allegheny River Changed Life For The Seneca People
"The Kinzua Dam, which protects Pittsburgh from flooding and pollution, came at a steep price for the Seneca Nation of Indians."
Source: EHN, 02/05/2020
