"Swimming With Spinner Dolphins to End in Hawai´i Over New NOAA Rule"
"Beginning next month, swimming with spinner dolphins in Hawai´i will become a thing of the past."
Source: Big Island Now, 09/30/2021
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"Gas Blowout Near Los Angeles Leads To Up To $1.8B Settlement"
"Thousands of families sickened and forced from their Los Angeles homes after the nation’s largest-known natural gas leak have reached a settlement of up to $1.8 billion with a utility, attorneys said Monday."
Source: AP, 09/29/2021Report Alleges Conflicts Of Interest Among Texas Oil And Gas Regulators
"Texas oil and gas regulators make big bucks from the industries they oversee and fail to recuse themselves when arbitrating conflicts or determining penalties for companies they’ve invested in, according to a new report."
Source: Texas Public Radio, 09/29/2021Canadian Dam Owner Sues Maine Over Effort To Remove 4 Kennebec Dams
"The Canadian conglomerate that owns most of the dams in Maine has sued the state over the high-stakes battle over the future of four dams on the lower section of the Kennebec River and the survival of Atlantic salmon in the United States."
Source: Portland Press Herald, 09/29/2021Energy Firms See ‘Lithium Valley’ Riches in S. California's Salton Sea
"Firms say what’s underneath the Salton Sea could fuel a green-energy boom. But struggling residents have heard such claims before".
Source: Guardian, 09/29/2021"Nuclear Power: Downward Trend Ahead Of Climate Summit"
"Ten years since the Fukushima disaster, expensive nuclear energy plants are being shut down across the world as renewable power prices plummet."
Source: DW, 09/29/2021DOI Axes Trump Rule That Would Have Made Public Lands Drilling Cheaper
"The Interior Department on Tuesday withdrew a Trump-era rule that was expected to make it cheaper for industry to drill on federally owned lands and in public waters."
Source: The Hill, 09/29/2021"Carbon Offsets Are Growing Fast, But Climate Benefits Remain Murky"
"Over the past couple of years, hundreds of corporations from Amazon to Visa have announced plans to move toward “net-zero” greenhouse gas emissions. Look more closely, though, and the promises also reflect something else: the growing prominence of a controversial environmental accounting tool generally known as “carbon offsets,” or “carbon credits.”"
Source: Christian Science Monitor, 09/29/2021"US Says Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, 22 Other Species Extinct"
"Death’s come knocking a last time for the splendid ivory-billed woodpecker and 22 more birds, fish and other species: The U.S. government is declaring them extinct."
Source: AP, 09/29/2021"Dangerous Air: As California Burns, America Breathes Toxic Smoke"
"Western wildfires pose a much broader threat to human health than to just those forced to evacuate the path of the blazes."
Source: NPR, 09/29/2021"Ahead Of Winter Hibernation, Alaska Celebrates Fat Bear Week"
"In Alaska, leaves are falling, daylight is dwindling and salmon-devouring brown bears are racing the clock to pack on the pounds they need to survive their winter hibernation. Unbeknownst to the enormous bruins, some of them are also competing in Katmai National Park and Preserve's Fat Bear Week, Alaska's annual celebration of gluttony and nature's abundance."
Source: Reuters, 09/29/2021"Climate Plans In Flux As Democrats Eye Reconciliation Deal"
"House Democratic leaders continued to project outward confidence last night they’ll be able to reach an agreement with the Senate by Thursday on a massive spending package, despite a litany of outstanding policy differences related to climate and continued clashes over the current $3.5 trillion top-line number."
Source: E&E News, 09/28/2021"Ford Unveils Record $11B Bet On Sprawling EV Factories"
"Ford Motor Co. said it would go big on electric vehicles and last night explained what that means: two new factories in the Southeast to make legions of batteries and up to a million electric pickup trucks a year."
Source: E&E News, 09/28/2021"PennEast Becomes The Latest To Scuttle A Natural Gas Pipeline Project"
"PennEast Pipeline said on Monday it would stop developing a proposed pipeline from Pennsylvania to New Jersey, the latest in a series of natural gas lines to run aground due to legal and regulatory challenges."
Source: Reuters, 09/28/202121 States Urge EPA To Toughen Vehicle Emissions Rewrite
"A group of 21 state attorneys general, the District of Columbia, and several major U.S. cities urged the Biden administration to finalize significantly stricter vehicle emissions rules than it has proposed."
Source: Reuters, 09/28/2021
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