"Harris Offered A ‘Blueprint’ For Environmental Justice. Can She Grow It?"
"The vice president could double down on President Joe Biden’s focus on communities burdened by pollution if she is elected president."
Source: E&E News, 07/26/2024
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Recycled Bottle Tops And Tables From Shuttlecocks - Greenest Olympics?"
"The organising committee of Paris 2024 has vowed to make it the greenest Games in Olympic history, with half the carbon footprint of London 2012 and Rio 2016."
Source: BBC Sport, 07/26/2024"Red States Ask Supreme Court To Halt Biden Climate Rule For Power Plants"
"Republican-led states on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to block the Biden administration’s effort to cut planet-warming emissions from the power sector."
Source: The Hill, 07/26/2024"Meet Kamala Harris’ Go-To Guy On Climate"
"Vice President Kamala Harris’ longtime climate adviser is a 37-year-old Colorado native who has a Ph.D. in marine science, a penchant for electric buses and a miniature poodle named Newton who’s a member of the KHive."
Source: E&E News, 07/25/2024"PFAS Widely Added To US Pesticides Despite EPA Denial, Study Finds"
"Toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” are widely added to pesticides, and are increasingly used in the products in recent years, new research finds, a practice that creates a health threat by spreading the dangerous compounds directly into the US’s food and water supply."
Source: Guardian, 07/25/2024"What Project 2025 Would Do To Climate Policy In The US"
"As delegates arrived at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee earlier this week to officially nominate former president Donald Trump as their 2024 candidate, a right-wing policy think tank held an all-day event nearby. The Heritage Foundation, a key sponsor of the convention and a group that has been influencing Republican presidential policy since the 1980s, gathered its supporters to tout Project 2025, a 900-plus-page policy blueprint that seeks to fundamentally restructure the federal government."
Source: Grist, 07/25/2024"When Kamala Harris Sued Obama Over Fracking"
"A 2016 lawsuit illustrates why some activists believe Harris will be more aggressive on climate than Biden."
Source: HEATED, 07/24/2024"Between Attacks on Electric Cars, Trump Says They’re ‘Incredible’"
"The former president’s comments on E.V.s have shifted since he has grown more friendly with Elon Musk, the billionaire head of Tesla."
Source: NYTimes, 07/24/2024‘Dark Oxygen’ In Pacific Depths Could Force Rethink About Origins Of Life
"In the total darkness of the depths of the Pacific Ocean, scientists have discovered oxygen being produced not by living organisms but by strange potato-shaped metallic lumps that give off almost as much electricity as AA batteries."
Source: AFP, 07/24/2024"House Approves Bipartisan Water Projects Bill"
"The House passed a sweeping water infrastructure bill Monday that could help curb flooding, slow coastal erosion and restore struggling ecosystems, in a rare show of bipartisanship as election season heats up."
Source: E&E News, 07/24/2024"Here’s Where Kamala Harris Stands on Climate"
"Vice President Kamala Harris has for years made the environment a top concern, from prosecuting polluters as California’s attorney general to sponsoring the Green New Deal as a senator to casting the tiebreaking vote as vice president for the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, the largest climate investment in United States history."
Source: NYTimes, 07/23/2024"123 House And Senate Republicans Deny Climate Science: Analysis"
"A total of 123 members of the House and Senate deny the scientific consensus that climate change is occurring as a result of human activity, according to an analysis from the liberal Center for American Progress."
Source: The Hill, 07/23/2024"Lawmakers Take Up $5B Colorado River Settlement"
"A House Natural Resources subcommittee will review a $5 billion deal to ensure tribal water rights in northeastern Arizona, including funds for a new pipeline connecting Lake Powell to tribal reservation in the Colorado River Basin."
Source: E&E News, 07/23/2024Big Meat, Dairy Companies Spend More on Ads than Cutting Emissions: Report
"Global meat and dairy giants are investing just a fraction of their revenues into cutting emissions despite being among the world’s largest polluters, according to new estimates."
Source: DeSmog, 07/23/2024Anti-Whaling Campaigner Paul Watson Arrested In Greenland, Faces Extradition
"Greenland police said they apprehended veteran environmental activist and anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson on an international arrest warrant issued by Japan."
Source: AP, 07/23/2024
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