"Invasive Species Spell Trouble for New York’s Beloved Tap Water"
"Zebra mussels, hydrilla and now a waterflea have made their homes in New Croton Reservoir."
Source: Inside Climate News, 11/05/2024
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Pesticide PAC Money Surges Into States As Firms Seek To Limit Damage Awards
"As pesticide companies struggle to cap legal payouts to plaintiffs who claim they were injured by Roundup and other products, money from two political committees affiliated with major pesticide manufacturers has surged into state-level politics."
Source: U.S. RTK, 11/05/2024"Proposed Factory Farm Ban Divides California County"
"When voters head to the polls on Tuesday to decide the next US president, residents of Sonoma County, California, will be asked to decide another contentious issue – they will be voting on a measure that would make their county the first in the nation to ban factory farms."
Source: The New Lede, 11/05/2024"New York City Tests A Solar-Powered Electric-School-Bus Microgrid"
"Utility Con Edison and school-bus operator First Student see bus-charging depots equipped with solar and batteries as a win-win that supports the power grid."
Source: Canary Media, 11/05/2024Threatened: Mexico City’s Floating Gardens Have Fed People For Centuries
"Cassandra Garduño squinted in the sunlight, her pink boots smudged by dirt as she gazed out over her family’s chinampa — one of the islands first built up by the Aztecs with fertile mud from the bottom of a lake that, later drained, would one day become Mexico City."
Source: AP, 11/05/2024"What Trump’s Environmental Record Says About a Second Term"
"Mr. Trump and his allies envision a second term that would try to permanently eliminate protections for air, water and climate."
Source: NYTimes, 11/04/2024"Trump Says He Doesn’t ‘Mind’ If Someone Has To ‘Shoot Through’ The Media"
"Donald Trump said Sunday that he wouldn’t “mind” if someone had to “shoot through the fake news” to get to him, a further escalation of his violent rhetoric."
Source: Politico, 11/04/2024"Trump 2.0 Would Bring Whiplash To Interior Department"
"Former President Donald Trump has promised on the campaign trail to take a sledgehammer to the Biden administration’s energy and environmental policies. That means the Interior Department — a vast agency that oversees public lands, the national parks, Western water conservation and endangered species protections — is sure to witness drastic policy shifts if Trump reclaims the White House in January."
Source: E&E News, 11/04/2024Campaign Cash: Louisiana Regulators’ Ties To The Utilities They Oversee
"The state is tied for dead last in renewable energy adoption. Little surprise, with so much fossil fuel money flowing to its commissioners."
Source: Floodlight, 11/04/2024"Conservative Outfits Are Scouring Feds’ Emails"
"Right-leaning groups have filed tens of thousands of information requests as Donald Trump plans a scorched-earth reign over civil servants."
Source: E&E News, 11/04/2024"Cop16 Ends In Disarray And Indecision Despite Biodiversity Breakthroughs"
"A global summit on halting the destruction of nature ended in disarray on Saturday, with some breakthroughs but key issues left unresolved."
Source: Guardian, 11/04/2024"Why Is China Upping Coal Power Despite Green Energy Boom?"
"The world has pledged to wean itself off 'dirty' coal to slow the pace of climate change, so why is China - already the world's top producer and consumer of coal - upping its output?"
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 11/04/2024Colorado Ballot Measure To Ban Big Cat Hunting Raises Clashing Concerns
"Colorado wildlife experts are at odds over whether a ballot measure to ban the hunting of certain wildcats would help or hurt the formidable felines that have long been intrinsic to Rocky Mountain ecosystems."
Source: The Hill, 11/04/2024"London Protesters Demand Water Companies Clean Up Sewage-Tainted Rivers"
"Holding signs with slogans including “stop the plop” and “species not feces,” thousands of people marched in London on Sunday to demand a cleanup of Britain’s sewage-clogged waterways."
Source: AP, 11/04/2024"Trump Will Push To Get Fluoride Out Of Drinking Water, RFK Jr. Says"
"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged Saturday that a future Trump administration would seek to remove fluoride from drinking water as a Day 1 goal, reversing a decades-old intervention widely credited for boosting public health."
Source: Washington Post, 11/04/2024
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