"No Carbon Market Deal Is Better Than a Bad Deal, Spain Says"
"Spain would rather have envoys from almost 200 countries come back empty-handed after two weeks of climate change talks than push through a bad deal."
Source: Bloomberg, 12/05/2019
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Fla. Keys Deliver Hard Message: As Seas Rise, Some Places Can’t Be Saved
"Officials in the Florida Keys announced what many coastal governments nationwide have long feared, but few have been willing to admit: As seas rise and flooding gets worse, not everyone can be saved."
Source: NY Times, 12/05/2019
DEADLINE: MBARI Science Communication Fellowship
This newly created two-year position will be part of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s Editorial Team and will also work with the Video Lab and the Monterey Bay Aquarium (MBA) video and social media teams. Apply by February 3, 2020.
"Activist Thunberg Channels Youth Fury To U.N. Climate Summit"
"Teen activist Greta Thunberg reached Europe on Tuesday after a 21-day catamaran dash across the Atlantic for a United Nations summit where she will invoke the fury of global youth at politicians’ foot-dragging over climate change."
Source: Reuters, 12/04/2019
Study Links Particulate Air Pollution Growing List of Health Problems
"A new Harvard University study for the first time links hospitalizations for common blood, skin and kidney ailments to short-term exposure to fine particulate matter from fossil fuel combustion and wildfires."
Source: InsideClimate News, 12/04/2019
"Analysis: Trump Solar Tariffs Cost 62K US Jobs"
"Tariffs on solar panels implemented under President Trump have significantly harmed the U.S. solar industry, according to a new analysis released Tuesday."
Source: The Hill, 12/04/2019
"Supreme Court Wary of Disrupting Superfund Cleanup"
"A debate over Montana landowners’ potential liability for toxic metals in their backyards, deposited over decades of smelting operations, dominated oral arguments involving the landowners, the U.S. EPA, and Atlantic Richfield Co. before the Supreme Court Dec. 3."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 12/04/2019
"Trump Deploys 'Surge' Of Park Rangers To Patrol Mexican Border"
"The Trump administration is sending a new “surge” of rangers from US national parks such as Zion, Yosemite and the National Mall to patrol the southern border for crossings by illegal immigrants."
Source: Guardian, 12/04/2019
Climate Impacts: Insurers Cherry-Pick Homes, Leave Flooded Ones For Feds
"Taxpayers could be forced to spend billions of dollars to bail out the federal government's flood program as private-sector insurers begin covering homes with little risk of flooding while clustering peril-prone properties in the indebted public program."
Source: ClimateWire, 12/04/2019
"Interior: BLM To Suffer Major Staff Losses In Move West"
"The Bureau of Land Management appears poised to lose the majority of its Washington, D.C.-based staff as part of its plans to relocate out West next year, numerous sources both within and outside the bureau have told E&E News."
Source: Greenwire, 12/04/2019
