"Lawmakers Seek Ethics Probe Into Top Offshore Oil Regulator"
"Citing a Public Domain exposé, House Democrats ask Interior’s watchdog to investigate potential ethics violations by acting BOEM director Matt Giacona"
Source: Public Domain, 10/10/2025
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Women In Mexico Protect Ancient Aztec Farms And Save A Vanishing Ecosystem
"Jasmín Ordóñez looks out from a wooden boat at the water as she crosses a narrow channel that connects a labyrinth of chinampas, island farms that were built by the Aztecs thousands of years ago."
Source: AP, 10/09/2025
"Fla. County Battered By 2024 Hurricanes Spends $125M On Beach Restoration"
"The white sandy beaches along a swath of Florida’s Gulf Coast were battered by three hurricanes last year, leading to a multimillion-dollar effort to repair a coastline that is the region’s economic engine."
Source: AP, 10/09/2025
"Progress on Africa’s ‘Great Green Wall’ Stalls as Seedlings Die Off"
"Countries in the Sahel region of Africa have made little progress on the “Great Green Wall,” a 5,000-mile-long band of trees planned for the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. Even where communities are planting new trees, few seedlings actually survive, new research shows."
Source: YaleE360, 10/09/2025
Louisianans Fume as Insurers Hike Rates and Invest in Fossil Fuel Projects
"Locals face a perfect storm — they can’t afford insurance and climate change threatens their livelihood."
Source: Capital & Main, 10/09/2025
Growing ‘Continuous Corn’ Doesn't Have To Emit Powerful Greenhouse Gas
"Corn monocropping emits higher levels of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas which traps heat in the atmosphere more than 300 times as effectively as carbon dioxide. Simple interventions could drastically reduce emissions, experts say."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/09/2025
"UN Plastics Treaty Chair To Step Down With Process In Turmoil"
"The chair of stalled UN plastics treaty talks, Luis Vayas Valdivieso, is preparing to step down, after accounts of behind-the-scenes pressure from the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep)." "In August, global talks at the UN headquarters in Geneva to agree on a treaty to deal with accelerating plastic pollution collapsed after three years of negotiations. There is currently no deal and the future of the agreement is unclear."
Source: Guardian, 10/09/2025
"EU To Ban Use Of PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' In Firefighting Foam"
"The European Commission on Friday announced restrictions on the use of so-called "forever chemicals" in firefighting foams."
Source: dpa, 10/09/2025
"Illegal Gold Mining Clears 140,000 Hectares Of Peruvian Amazon"
"An illegal gold rush has cleared 140,000 hectares of rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon and is accelerating as foreign, armed groups move into the region to profit from record gold prices, according to a report."
Source: Guardian, 10/09/2025
"White House Offers ‘Concierge’ Service To Fossil Fuel Firms, Official Says"
"The White House is offering “concierge, white glove service” to oil, coal and other fossil fuel companies that are seeking to gain fast approval for their projects, according to an energy official, while simultaneously slowing down or blocking solar and wind projects."
Source: Washington Post, 10/09/2025
