"Despite Climate Promises, Insurance Companies Are Still Covering Coal"
"A new report finds that five major global insurers are still backing U.S. coal mines, even when they've promised not to."
Source: Grist, 09/29/2023
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Swiss Glaciers Have Lost 10% Of Their Volume In The Past 2 Years: Experts
"A Swiss Academy of Sciences panel is reporting a dramatic acceleration of glacier melt in the Alpine country, which has lost 10% of its ice volume in just two years after high summer heat and low snow volumes in winter."
Source: AP, 09/29/2023
"Republicans Fight Over Who Loves Fossil Fuels The Most At Second GOP Debate"
"After dodging surprisingly pointed questions about climate change at the first debate Fox News hosted last month, the contenders hoping to take on President Joe Biden next November battled each other over who would do most to ramp up production of the fossil fuels destabilizing the planet’s weather systems."
Source: HuffPost, 09/29/2023
Trump Administration Forced Joshua Tree To Stay Open During Last US Shutdown
"Emails show David Bernhardt of interior department overrode superintendent of California park, causing ‘chaos and destruction’"
Source: Guardian, 09/29/2023
"Biden to Offer Smallest-Ever Offshore Oil Rights Sale Plan"
"The Biden administration is charting plans to sell offshore oil-drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico over the next five years, while trimming the program to its smallest level ever.
The oil leasing plan being released by the Interior Department on Friday will contain only a low number of sales, according to people familiar with the deliberations who declined to be named because the blueprint isn’t yet public. That’s far from the 11 sales the agency proposed last year, and it would be the lowest in history.
Source: Bloomberg, 09/29/2023
"Barely Making It: A Conversation With ‘Eight Bears’ Author Gloria Dickie"
"Despite the conservation gains made by iconic bear species like the giant panda and the brown bear, most bear species remain at risk." "Gloria Dickie is an award-winning journalist who has documented the state of the world’s eight remaining bear species in a compelling new book, “Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future.”
Source: Mongabay, 09/28/2023
"PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Harming Wildlife The World Over: Study"
"While the health impacts of toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals, or PFAS, are well known in humans, a new study reports how they affect a wide range of wildlife species."
Source: Mongabay, 09/28/2023
"Industrial Air Pollution Battle Set to Move Beyond Smokestacks"
"Advocates and communities pushing for increased air pollution monitoring at industrial facilities are stretching the limits of long-standing emission control requirements that have largely stopped at smokestacks."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 09/28/2023
"Houston OKs $5M To Relocate Residents Near Polluted Union Pacific Yard
"Houston officials on Wednesday approved $5 million for a fund to help relocate residents from neighborhoods located near a rail yard polluted by a cancer-linked wood preservative that has been blamed for an increase in cancer cases."
Source: AP, 09/28/2023
Biden Declares Emergency, Pipeline Planned As Salt Threatens Drinking Water
"The White House declared an emergency Wednesday for four Louisiana parishes threatened by salt intrusion in drinking water and officials warned that barges would be insufficient to deal with the problem on the east bank of New Orleans and Jefferson, prompting an urgent plan to build a pipeline."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 09/28/2023
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