"The Warming Climate Is Making Baby Sea Turtles Almost All Girls"
"BOA VISTA, Cape Verde — She emerged from the ocean just before midnight, clambering up the shore as her ancestors have for 200 million years."
Source: Washington Post, 10/22/2019
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Feds Won’t Test Black Mold Growing In California Prisons
"Hundreds of correctional officers across the U.S. are working in prisons – including two in California – with mold growing in areas constantly populated by both officers and inmates."
Source: Sacramento Bee, 10/22/2019
Public Lands: Federal Employees See Threats, Assault As 'Part Of Job'
"Federal land-management agencies tallied at least 360 incidents of threats and assaults against their employees in the four-year period ending in 2017, according to a government watchdog."
Source: Greenwire, 10/22/2019
"A New Target For Federal Action: PFAS-Tainted Food"
"A class of toxic chemicals known to have contaminated drinking water in many areas across the country is also presenting human health risks via another exposure method — our food supply."
Source: Greenwire, 10/22/2019
"Big EPA Spending Boost to Get Senate Vote This Week"
"The Senate is taking steps this week to hand the EPA its largest budget in a decade, offering the agency nearly $3 billion more than the White House’s request."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 10/22/2019
"Ozone Hole Shrinks To Smallest Size On Record"
"Thanks to unusually warm temperatures high above Antarctica this month, the ozone hole shrank to its smallest size on record, scientists reported Monday."
Source: USA TODAY, 10/22/2019
Weather Channel To Host Its Own Climate Forum for 2020 Democrats, GOPers
"First it was CNN. Then MSNBC. Now even the Weather Channel wants to ask presidential candidates about climate change."
Source: Washington Post, 10/22/2019
"Canada Election: Trudeau's Liberals Win But Lose Majority"
"Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party has retained power in a narrow Canadian election win but he will now be prime minister of a minority government."
Source: BBC News, 10/22/2019
Report Details How Exxon Sowed Seeds Of Doubt On Climate Change
"Two days before ExxonMobil goes to court Wednesday, facing New York state accusations the oil company misled investors about climate change, a team of researchers released a report Monday outlining the company and the broader fossil fuel industry’s decades-long campaign of deception, and its success at confusing the American public."
Source: LA Times, 10/22/2019
Farms and Ranches, Possible Cause, Cure of Climate Change
The links between agriculture and climate are as old as the Indus Valley Civilization and as current as this year’s Mississippi Basin floods. And stories about how each influences the other will likely unfold at an ever faster rate, according to this week’s TipSheet. The backstory, with an outline of the interactions between ag and global warming, plus story ideas and reporting resources.
