"California’s Disappearing Salmon"
"The drought, along with man-made impediments, has placed the state’s wild Chinook population at grave risk."
Source: Washington Post, 09/14/2021
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"Biden To Survey Wildfire Damage, Make Case For Spending Plan"
"President Joe Biden will promote his administration’s use of the Defense Production Act to aid in wildfire preparedness during a western swing in which he’ll survey wildfire damage in Idaho and California."
Source: AP, 09/13/2021Manchin and Sanders Clash Over $3.5T Reconciliation Package
"Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., reiterated Sunday that he opposed the Democrats' $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package as the party pushes to pass it and a bipartisan infrastructure bill amid packed September negotiations."
Source: USA TODAY, 09/13/2021Federal Government Sells Flood-Prone Homes To Often Unsuspecting Buyers
"The first thing Larry McCanney fell in love with was the tree in the front yard. It cast shade on the porch of a house that, if he were honest, needed some work. But McCanney is handy, the price was right and the location was perfect, just a couple of miles from his childhood home in Burlington, N.J."
Source: NPR, 09/13/2021"Record Number of Environmental Activists Murdered"
"A record number of activists working to protect the environment and land rights were murdered last year, according to a report by a campaign group."
Source: BBC News, 09/13/2021"Tropical Storm Nicholas to Bring Heavy Rain to Texas and Louisiana"
"Tropical Storm Nicholas was expected to dump more than a foot of rain on parts of coastal Texas starting Monday, with warnings of a dangerous storm surge extending east to Louisiana, the National Hurricane Center said."
Source: NYTimes, 09/13/2021"Big Oil’s ‘Wokewashing’ Is The New Climate Science Denialism"
"Academic researchers say the fossil fuel industry has a new tool to delay efforts to curb emissions – a social justice strategy".
Source: Guardian, 09/13/2021"Ruth Etzel Speaks Out Ahead of EPA Whistleblower Hearing"
"The US Environmental Protection Agency is failing to protect children by ignoring poisons in the environment and focusing on corporate interests, according to a top children’s health official who will testify this week that the agency tried to silence her because of her insistence on stronger preventions against lead poisoning."
Source: Guardian, 09/13/2021"Iran and I.A.E.A. Reach Last-Minute Deal on Nuclear Monitoring"
"The temporary agreement should keep Tehran from censure for noncompliance by the nuclear agency, a move that could have derailed already suspended nuclear talks."
Source: NYTimes, 09/13/2021"Conservation Body Calls For Global Moratorium On Deep-Sea Mining"
"Environment officials and campaigners have called for a global moratorium on deep-sea mining and on issuing new exploration contracts unless marine ecosystems can be effectively protected."
Source: Reuters, 09/13/2021"Mangrove Restoration Frustration"
"These coastal ecosystems are carbon sinks and coastline protectors, and we know how to restore them. Why have we been doing it the wrong way?"
Source: Hakai, 09/13/2021House Panel Bans Drilling in ANWR With Reconciliation Measure
"The House Natural Resources Committee late on Thursday passed legislation that will go into a wider budget reconciliation package that includes restoring protections for a pristine Arctic wildlife refuge from oil and gas drilling."
Source: Reuters, 09/10/2021"EPA To Protect Alaska’s Bristol Bay, Blocking Major Gold Mine"
"The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that it would restore protections for Alaska’s Bristol Bay, blocking the construction of a massive and controversial gold mine near the world’s largest sockeye salmon run."
Source: Washington Post, 09/10/2021"Democrats Unveil Details of Sweeping Climate Change Spending Plan"
"In Congress, details are emerging of the climate and clean energy policies in a sweeping $3.5 trillion budget package that Democrats are drafting and hope to send to Mr. Biden’s desk by year’s end."
Source: NYTimes, 09/10/2021Democrats Want a ‘Climate Corps.’ They Just Can’t Agree How to Create It
"Democrats aim to pour tens of billions of dollars into a New Deal-style program that would hire young people to work on projects to protect communities and the environment from disasters that are growing more destructive due to climate change."
Source: NYTimes, 09/10/2021
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