"Biden Administration Supports Removal of Four Dams on the Snake River"
"Decommissioning the dams is the first step toward restoring salmon runs and respecting Native treaties".
Source: Sierra, 12/15/2023
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"Virginia County Approves Data Center Project After 27-Hour Public Hearing"
"County supervisors in northern Virginia approved one of the world’s largest data center projects after a public hearing that ran through the night and lasted more than 24 hours."
Source: AP, 12/14/2023
"US EPA Must Do More To Ensure Captured Carbon Stays Underground -Report"
"The U.S. environment regulator does not sufficiently verify that carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects keep emissions trapped underground and should boost its requirements to ensure companies receiving CCS tax credits provide an actual environmental benefit, a watchdog group said on Thursday."
Source: Reuters, 12/14/2023
We Went to the First EV Charging Station Funded by Infrastructure Law
"On the western outskirts of Columbus, Ohio, two doors down from a Waffle House, is a truck stop that, as of last Friday, has the first electric vehicle charging station in the country to be financed in part by the 2021 federal infrastructure law."
Source: Inside Climate News, 12/14/2023
"COP28 Does Not Deliver Clear Path to Fossil Fuel Phase Out"
"Going into overtime under the cover of a dark winter night in Dubai, climate negotiators at COP28 cooked up a weak sauce of climate half-measures that fail to adequately address the existential risk of global warming to millions of people around the globe, according to leading climate experts at the conference."
Source: Inside Climate News, 12/14/2023
"The Biden Administration Has A Chance To Do Clean Hydrogen Right"
"Forthcoming rules for clean hydrogen tax credits need to be built on “three pillars” to ensure that hydrogen actually fights climate change instead of making it worse."
Source: Canary Media, 12/13/2023
Wildfires Could Be Transforming Natural Metals Into Cancer-Causing Compounds
"Wildfires in parts of the U.S. West may be transforming a benign form of chromium into its cancer-causing counterpart — potentially endangering first responders and surrounding communities, a new study has found."
Source: The Hill, 12/13/2023
"Americans Like Home Electrification — But Also Still Love Their Gas Stoves"
"Most Americans would prefer to live in a home where almost all major appliances run on electricity — but only if they can keep their gas stoves. Just 31 percent want to go fully electric."
Source: Grist, 12/13/2023
COP28 Delegates Agree To ‘Transition Away’ From Planet-Warming Fossil Fuels
"United Nations climate negotiators directed the world on Wednesday to transition away from planet-warming fossil fuels in a move the talks chief called historic, despite critics’ worries about loopholes."
Source: AP, 12/13/2023
"‘A Scam All Around’: Navajo Nation Groups Oppose Hydropower Projects"
"Navajo Nation environmentalists are opposing a “self-described jet setter” and French millionaire’s plans for a massive hydropower project they claim will adversely affect the land, water, wildlife, plants and cultural resources of the largest land area held by Indigenous American peoples in the US."
Source: Guardian, 12/12/2023
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