"Senators Introduce New Bipartisan Energy Bill"
"The leading senators overseeing energy policy introduced a new version of their broad energy reform bill Thursday."
Source: The Hill, 06/30/2017
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"Angela Merkel Predicts Showdown With U.S. Over Climate at G-20"
"In forceful remarks before Germany’s Parliament on Thursday, Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed to defend the international climate agreement spurned by the Trump administration, anticipating a difficult meeting of the leaders of the world’s major economies next week in Hamburg."
Source: Washington Post, 06/30/2017
"Pesticides Damage Survival Of Bee Colonies, Landmark Study Shows"
"The world’s largest ever field trial demonstrates widely used insecticides harm both honeybees and wild bees, increasing calls for a ban".
Source: Guardian, 06/30/2017
"Oregon, Washington Threaten To Sue EPA Over Methane Rules"
"Fourteen states — including Oregon and Washington — are threatening to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for violating the Clean Air Act. In a letter to the EPA sent Thursday, the group argues Director Scott Pruitt broke the law when he ordered his agency to halt part of the rule-making process for regulating methane and other air pollution from oil and gas facilities."
Source: KUOW/EarthFix, 06/30/2017
"Hundreds of Abandoned Wells Leaking Methane in Alberta Communities"
"About 10 per cent of Alberta’s 1,500 abandoned oil and gas wells in urban areas are leaking methane, in some cases at levels that create the risk of health damage and explosions, according to an unreleased 2016 report."
Source: The Tyee, 06/30/2017
"Trump’s ‘Energy Dominance’ Push Ignores Some Important Realities"
"Mainstream experts in energy policy and finance reacted skeptically to the White House's carefully orchestrated energy policy hootenanny this week, as President Donald Trump and his Cabinet declared what he called 'a golden age of American energy dominance.'"
Source: InsideClimate News, 06/30/2017
"EPA Wins U.S. Court Reversal Over Coal Jobs Study"
"A federal appeals court said the Environmental Protection Agency should not have been ordered by a lower court judge to assess how its air regulations affect coal industry jobs, in a defeat for Murray Energy Corp, a large coal miner."
Source: Reuters, 06/30/2017
"In the American South, an Inequity of Diseases"
"In Alabama, climate change and poor infrastructure provide hospitable conditions for diseases typically found in the developing world."
Source: Undark, 06/30/2017
Climate Change Will Hit Southern Poor Hardest, Economic Analysis Shows
"Without effective action to bend the upward curve of greenhouse gas emissions, parts of the American South could experience more than a 20 percent drop in economic activity due to global warming by the end of the century, according to a new analysis of the regional economic risks of climate change."
Source: InsideClimate News, 06/30/2017
Wildscreen Manchester
Wildscreen is all about bringing together wildlife filmmakers, photographers and conservationists, so we are doing exactly that at a one-day pop-up festival in Manchester, UK. The theme is symbiosis. It’s for those who have stories that need to be told, and those who recognise their lens as one of the most powerful tools to tell them.
