"Microsoft: ‘Carbon-Negative’ By 2030 Even For Supply Chain
"Microsoft is pledging to become 100% “carbon-negative” by 2030 by removing more carbon from the environment than it emits."
Source: AP, 01/17/2020
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"Oil And Gas: Toxic Refinery Leaks Imperiled Philadelphia Residents"
"Last May, an air monitor on the border of the East Coast's largest oil refinery recorded a level of cancer-causing gas more than 21 times the federal limit. In June, an explosive early-morning fire rocked the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery, terrifying nearby residents."
Source: Greenwire, 01/17/2020
Energy Firms Have Friend At Trump’s Interior: Their Former Lobbyist
"David Bernhardt, the man in charge of the nation’s public lands, has come through the revolving door of Washington, D.C. lobbying and back out again. Before becoming secretary of the Department of the Interior, he collected nearly $5 million for his firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck as a lobbyist and lawyer from energy clients. Since he took the new post in July 2017, Bernhardt’s former clients have spent a lot of money trying to influence the Department of Interior."
Source: Mother Jones, 01/17/2020
Trump Puts Severe Restrictions on Long-Delayed Puerto Rico Disaster Aid
"Days after the island was hit by a 5.9-magnitude earthquake, the White House released billions in aid but placed limits on how it can be spent."
Source: NY Times, 01/17/2020
"California Governor Restarts Giant Water Tunnel Project"
"California’s governor has restarted a project to build a giant, underground tunnel that would pump billions of gallons of water from the San Joaquin Delta to the southern part of the state."
Source: AP, 01/16/2020
Green Goo: "Cleanup of Contaminated Site Is Expected To Cost Millions"
"The cleanup of an industrial site in suburban Detroit from which contaminated water leaked last month will likely cost millions of dollars, officials of Michigan’s environmental agency said Wednesday."
Source: AP, 01/16/2020
"Environmental Groups Challenge Plastics Complex Permit"
"Conservation and community groups sued the Trump administration Wednesday, challenging environmental permits for a Taiwan company’s planned $9.4 billion plastics complex in Louisiana."
Source: AP, 01/16/2020
"Energy Transitions: Renewables Primed To Pass Coal Power"
"For American coal, 2019 was bad, 2020 will be worse, and in 2021, renewables will surpass coal in electricity generation for the first time ever, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration."
Source: Greenwire, 01/16/2020
Florida Plans To Buy, Protect Everglades Land Targeted For Oil Drilling
"A swath of land in the Everglades at the center of a fight between a family determined to drill for oil and a constellation of parties urging them not to might finally have a new future. The state intends to buy the 20,000-acre tract outright and halt the threat of oil drilling on the protected lands near Broward County’s western suburbs, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Wednesday."
Source: Miami Herald, 01/16/2020
"Fines for Killing Migratory Birds Imposed in Bill Sent to House"
"A House committee rebuked the Trump administration’s 2017 conclusion that the century-old Migratory Bird Act doesn’t criminalize the accidental killing of migratory birds by industry."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 01/16/2020
