"Farm Pesticides Killing More Bees - Study"
"Agricultural pesticides sold to farmers ready-mixed into "cocktails" can kill twice as many bees, according to an analysis of 90 studies."
Source: BBC News, 08/06/2021
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Address Risky Human Activities Now Or Face New Pandemics: Scientists
"Globally, numerous infectious diseases are being transmitted between wildlife, livestock and humans at escalating rates, including outbreaks of COVID-19, Ebola, dengue, HIV and others, as the threat of new emergent zoonotic diseases grows ever greater. The cost is huge in lives lost and ruined economies. The driver: human activities, particularly intrusion into wild landscapes and eating and trading wild animals."
Source: Mongabay, 08/06/2021DC Plans To Add More Industrial Pollution To Black Community
"The D.C. government is preparing to build a sprawling school-bus terminal in the historically Black enclave of Brentwood, where residents have long lived amid industrial sites that discharge pollution into their community."
Source: Washington Post, 08/06/2021Abandoned Oil Gear Blocks Sand Needed To Rebuild Louisiana Coast
"A Houston-based energy company is asking a federal bankruptcy court for permission to walk away from its aging infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico. Fieldwood Energy is attempting to shift responsibility for removing 1,715 wells, 276 platforms and 281 pipelines to oil and gas companies that previously held leases for the same area, according to court documents."
Source: Washington Post, 08/06/2021"Biden Announces Record Amount of Climate Resilience Funding"
"The Federal Emergency Management Agency will give states $3.5 billion to prepare for disasters, as wildfires and other calamities pummel the country."
Source: NYTimes, 08/06/2021"Life On The Houston Fifth Ward’s Plume"
"There's a certain smell that reminds Dianna Cormier-Jackson of her childhood on Leila Street in Houston's Fifth Ward. When she was young in the early 1960s, she recalls the air there feeling "heavy," as if it was thick with oil and gasoline. Some days, the heavy smell would be so strong that her parents would make her and her siblings stay in the house. But on school days, they marched out into the rank air."
Source: Scalawag/EHN, 08/06/2021White House To Roll Out Car Rules Today — Sources
"The Biden administration is planning to unveil new emissions rules for cars tomorrow [Thursday] during an event at the White House featuring industry officials and electric vehicles, according to three sources."
Source: E&E News, 08/05/2021"Raging Wildfire Destroys Much Of California Gold Rush Town"
"A wind-driven wildfire tore through a Northern California mountain town, leaving much of the downtown in ashes as crews braced for another explosive run of flames in the midst of dangerous weather."
Source: AP, 08/05/2021"California Resorts To Water Cutoffs As Drought Worsens"
"California water regulators took unprecedented action this week, passing an emergency regulation that will bar thousands of Californians from diverting stream and river water as the drought worsens."
Source: LA Times, 08/05/2021Tens Of Millions Of People Have Been Moving Into Flood Zones: Satellites
"Tens of millions of people have been moving into flood zones around the world. The influx is as much as 10 times more than previously thought, and if the trend continues on its current trajectory millions more could suffer the impacts of flooding, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature."
Source: Washington Post, 08/05/2021"Forecasters: Hurricane Season To Be Busier Than 1st Thought"
"After a record start, followed by a near-silent July, the Atlantic hurricane season looks like it will be busier than meteorologists predicted a few months ago."
Source: AP, 08/05/2021MATS: "White House Reviewing Revamp To Trump’s Power Plant Rule"
"Under orders from President Biden, EPA has taken its first overt step to revisit one of the Trump administration’s most bitterly contested air quality rollbacks."
Source: E&E News, 08/05/2021"Wildfire Put Out At Turkish Power Plant"
"Flames that threatened a coal-fired power station in Turkey’s fire-ravaged southwest have been extinguished, local authorities said on Thursday after workers and residents were evacuated overnight by ship when fire broke out in the plant’s grounds."
Source: Reuters, 08/05/2021FEMA Not Pushing Homeowners Hard Enough to Buy Flood Insurance: GAO
"The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been collecting a lot of information about flood risks across America, including the increased risk of flooding linked to climate change. But the agency has not effectively used that new knowledge to persuade more Americans to buy flood insurance, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office."
Source: Inside Climate News, 08/05/2021"Infrastructure Bill Boosts Equity Focus for Urban Tree Plantings"
"U.S. cities that have been forced to rely on nonprofit groups and corporations to drive tree-planting efforts and boosting their urban “canopy” could soon get a new ally—the federal government."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 08/05/2021
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