"House Slated To Take Up Major Energy Package Next Week"
"Next week, the House is expected to take up a major energy package that Republicans in the chamber are putting forward as the party’s top priority."
Source: The Hill, 03/27/2023
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Scientists Uncover Startling Amounts of DDT Along Seafloor Off LA Coast
"First it was the eerie images of barrels leaking on the seafloor not far from Catalina Island. Then the shocking realization that the nation's largest manufacturer of DDT had once used the ocean as a huge dumping ground—and that as many as half a million barrels of its acid waste had been poured straight into the water."
Source: LA Times, 03/27/2023
"Canada Pledges Great Lakes Funding After Trudeau-Biden Talks"
"Canada has pledged a significant increase in spending to improve water quality in the Great Lakes following Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden, whose administration also has boosted funding for the shared waters."
Source: AP, 03/27/2023
"Much Of West Coast Faces Ban To Fish Salmon Amid Low Stocks"
"As drought dried up rivers that carry California’s newly hatched Chinook salmon to the ocean, state officials in recent years resorted to loading up the fish by the millions onto trucks and barges to take them to the Pacific."
Source: AP, 03/27/2023
Ohio Bill Would Require Teaching Of ‘Both Sides’ On Climate Change
"Climate science is among a wide range of “controversial matters” included in the Higher Education Enhancement Act, which seeks to police classroom speech on abortion, immigration, diversity, and other issues."
"Ohio college and university instructors could be barred from teaching climate science without also including false or misleading counterpoints under a sprawling higher education bill that received its first hearing Wednesday.
Source: Midwest Energy News, 03/27/2023
"Tornado Tears Across Mississippi, More Than Two Dozen Dead"
"Rescuers combed through rubble on Saturday after a powerful storm tore across Mississippi late on Friday, killing at least 25 people there and one person in Alabama as it leveled hundreds of buildings and spawned at least one devastating tornado."
Source: Reuters, 03/27/2023
"The Surfer, The Scientist And The Big-Wave Beach At A Breaking Point"
"A big-wave surfer at Mavericks is essentially an ocean sensor. Grant Washburn can tell you the approximate depth of the seafloor beneath him, the size of a 40-foot wave and the wind speed blowing foam off the peak, all based on the crescendo in his nervous system."
Source: Washington Post, 03/24/2023
"Scientists Say Mine Plan Claiming No Swamp Harm Has Errors"
"Scientists for the federal government say documents that Georgia state regulators relied upon to conclude a proposed mine won’t harm the nearby Okefenokee Swamp and its vast wildlife refuge contain technical errors and “critical shortcomings” that render them unreliable."
Source: AP, 03/24/2023
"Radioactive Water Leaks At Minn. Nuclear Plant For 2nd Time"
"Water containing a radioactive material has leaked for a second time from a nuclear plant near Minneapolis and the plant will be shut down, but there is no danger to the public, the plant’s owner said Thursday."
Source: AP, 03/24/2023
"Oil Spills And Near Misses: More Ghost Tankers Ship Sanctioned Fuel"
"An oil tanker runs aground off eastern China, leaking fuel into the water. Another is caught in a collision near Cuba. A third is seized in Spain for drifting out of control. These vessels were part of a "shadow" fleet of tankers carrying oil last year from countries hit by Western sanctions, according to a Reuters analysis of ship tracking and accident data and interviews with more than a dozen industry specialists."
Source: Reuters, 03/24/2023
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