"Judge Blocks Logging In The Tongass, For Now"
"A federal judge ordered a preliminary injunction Monday halting the sale of nearly 1,200 acres of old-growth trees in the Tongass National Forest."
Source: Juneau Empire, 09/25/2019
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"Senate Confirms Top Interior Lawyer Accused Of Lying To Congress"
"The Senate voted to confirm a top lawyer for the Department of the Interior who was accused of lying to Congress. Daniel Jorjani, already the de facto top lawyer for the department, was confirmed with a 51-43 vote. He is the subject of an ongoing review by the Interior Department’s Office of the Inspector General."
Source: The Hill, 09/25/2019
Summit: Dozens of Countries Commit to Cut Short-Lived Climate Pollutants
"Environment ministers from dozens of countries agreed this week to hasten their efforts to reduce a class of greenhouse gases that, until now, has been largely overlooked in international climate agreements but could play a crucial role in limiting the worst effects of climate change."
Source: InsideClimate News, 09/25/2019
FBI Targeted Environmental Activists In Domestic Terror Investigations
"Protesters were characterized as a threat to national security in what one calls an attempt to criminalize their actions".
Source: Guardian, 09/25/2019
Trump Administration Threatens to Cut U.S. Highway Funds To California
"The political war between California and the Trump administration escalated Monday with a letter from Andrew Wheeler, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, warning that Washington would withhold federal highway funds from the state if it did not rapidly address a decades-long backlog of state-level pollution control plans."
Source: NY Times, 09/25/2019
New IPCC Report: Massive Change For World’s Oceans And Frozen Regions
"Climate change is already causing staggering impacts on the oceans and ice-filled regions that encompass 80 percent of the Earth, and future damage from rising seas and melting glaciers is now all but certain, according to a sobering new report from the United Nations."
Source: Washington Post, 09/25/2019
"Without Brazil, Donors Unlock $500 Million To Preserve Rainforests"
"International donors agreed on Monday to free up more than $500 million in aid to protect tropical rainforests, including the Amazon where wildfires are raging, France’s president said on Monday at a U.N. meeting shunned by Brazil."
Source: Reuters, 09/24/2019
WMO Urges Drastic Action As Global Average Temperature Set To Rise Again
"The global average temperature is set to rise to at least 1.2 to 1.3 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels over the next five years, a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) official said on Monday, close to a limit adopted in a global treaty."
Source: Reuters, 09/24/2019
"Scared Central Banks Face Up to Threats From Climate Change"
"Bank of England Governor Mark Carney was in no mood for laughter as he stood in his tuxedo before the great and good of the British insurance industry. “I’m going to give you a speech without a joke, I’m afraid,” Carney began his remarks on the night of Sept. 29, 2015, at Lloyd’s of London."
Source: Bloomberg, 09/24/2019
"To Prevent the Next Dust Bowl, Give Soil a Chance"
"Hugh Hammond Bennett, the father of the modern conservation movementeffort that became today’s Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), once wrote, “Take care of the land and the land will take care of you.” Perhaps it would have been more accurate to say, “Take care of the soil and the soil will take care of you.”"
Source: Civil Eats, 09/24/2019
