Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Ecology and Pollution and Climate Change related links 070422

 

Mining Companies Strike Gold by Destroying Public Lands: Indigenous tribes sound the alarm about a mining boom

https://inthesetimes.com/article/native-american-indigenous-peoples-mining-mine-cleanup-environmental-justice-epa-bureau-of-land-management

 

North Carolina Republicans Want to Ban Free EV Chargers Unless Offered With Free Gas and Diesel: A bill would address problems with...it would protect...well, hmm.

https://jalopnik.com/north-carolina-republicans-want-to-ban-free-ev-chargers-1849057951

 

U.S. energy policy is 'stumbling around in the dark,' says Paul Sankey - Jun 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdCPh7bYoqw

 

How to Fight Climate “Delay”—Denial’s Hipper, More Dangerous Cousin: We need to ground climate discourse in the present, not the future.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166821/climate-delay-discourse-denial

 

Reclamation official tells Colorado River states to conserve up to 4 million acre-feet of water

https://www.coloradopolitics.com/energy-and-environment/reclamation-official-tells-colorado-river-states-to-conserve-up-to-4-million-acre-feet-of/article_376a907a-ece6-11ec-b0ba-6b2e72447497.html

 

Flooding Chaos in Yellowstone, a Sign of Crises to Come: Record rainfall and mudslides forced closures just as tourism season ramped up. Virtually none of America’s national parks are untouched by extreme weather and climate change.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/15/us/yellowstone-national-park-floods.html

 

'Forever Chemicals' Linked to Hundreds of Military Bases Are Unsafe at Any Level, EPA Warns

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/06/15/forever-chemicals-linked-hundreds-of-military-bases-are-unsafe-any-level-epa-warns.html

 

EPA: ‘Forever chemicals’ more toxic than first thought; at least 87 FL sites deemed contaminated

https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/epa-forever-chemicals-more-toxic-first-thought-least-87-fl-sites-deemed-contaminated

 

Federal Court Rejects Trump EPA Glyphosate Decision Because Agency Ignored Cancer and Endangered Species Risks

https://factkeepers.com/federal-court-rejects-trump-epa-glyphosate-decision-because-agency-ignored-cancer-and-endangered-species-risks/

 

From dry to deluge, how heavy snow, rain flooded Yellowstone

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-deluge-heavy-yellowstone.html

 

Time is running out for Africa to profit from its gas, IEA says

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/time-is-running-out-africa-profit-its-gas-iea-says-2022-06-20/

 

Clean Energy Tax Credits Are Broken—and That’s How Joe Manchin Likes It: “Direct pay” would make more efficient use of public money and speed up renewable energy investment. But Manchin doesn’t want that.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166856/joe-manchins-quest-keep-clean-energy-tax-credits-broken

 

Joe Biden urges world leader to increase efforts on climate change | WION Originals - Jun 17, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOoH3h6b8vs

 

Dear President Biden, Our Climate Can't Wait: A Virtual Film Premiere & Conversation - Started streaming Jun 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G1dtps2mG0

 

Afghanistan earthquake death toll rises above 1,000

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/earthquake-magnitude-61-shakes-afghanistan-pakistan-usgs-2022-06-21/

 

Rap, Pop, and Clean Energy: Fighting for Rapid Change in a Slow Congress

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2022/05/rap-pop-and-clean-energy-fighting-for-rapid-change-in-a-slow-congress/

 

E.O. Wilson: A Life in Nature, Citizen of the Biosphere

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2022/05/e-o-wilson-a-life-in-nature-citizen-of-the-biosphere/

 

Three Tributes to E.O. Wilson: Was He Our Modern-Day Darwin?

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2022/05/three-tributes-to-e-o-wilson-was-he-our-modern-day-darwin-2/

 

The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2022/05/the-failures-of-mathematical-anti-evolutionism/

 

Can the International Community Avert Disaster in the Red Sea?  U.N. negotiators have found a solution to the F.S.O. Safer, a rotting tanker off the coast of Yemen, which threatens to spill more than a million barrels of oil, but funding for the operation has come up short.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/can-the-international-community-avert-disaster-in-the-red-sea

 

Without Sylvia Earle, We’d Be Living on Google Dirt: The marine biologist and aquanaut evokes a Bond girl with a Ph.D. To save a species, she says, you have to know it.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/27/without-sylvia-earle-wed-be-living-on-google-dirt

 

Ukraine War’s Latest Victim? The Fight Against Climate Change.  As leaders of the Group of 7 gather in Germany, the scramble to replace Russian fossil fuels is raising concerns that hard-won climate targets will be missed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/26/world/europe/g7-summit-ukraine-war-climate-change.html

 

Fact Check-Death of Kansas cattle in June 2022 caused by extreme temperatures, officials and industry say

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-kansas-cattle-idUSL1N2Y71GK

 

What impact has the coronavirus pandemic had on the environment? | COVID-19 Special - Jun 26, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79QazGhCQtk

 

How many ice ages has the Earth had, and could humans live through one? – Jun 27, 2022

https://theconversation.com/how-many-ice-ages-has-the-earth-had-and-could-humans-live-through-one-179360

 

Sustainability report shows impact of climate change and extreme weather on racing industry

https://www.bbc.com/sport/horse-racing/61968354?fbclid=IwAR1WTdgPZQbhfQDBwcY8JbbRE_9VmSFUh54JC7ZB0l7wj8nXLPVH4NRq3Zs

 

The Joy of Saving the World: Research suggests a surprising motive for environmentalism: feeling good.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166914/environmentalism-happiness-joy-saving-world

 

Is Nuclear Power Just Too Dangerous?  A survey of the world’s worst nuclear disasters highlights the catastrophic consequences of technical hubris.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166949/nuclear-power-just-dangerous-atoms-ashes-serhii-plokhy

 

Hidden in caves: Mineral overgrowths reveal unprecedented modern sea-level rise

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-hidden-caves-mineral-overgrowths-reveal.html

 

The Silver Lining in the Supreme Court’s Decision to Limit Carbon Emission Regulations: In West Virginia v. EPA, the court extended a lifeline to the coal industry and questioned the administrative state itself. But it could have been even worse.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166934/west-virginia-epa-supreme-court-case-ruling-carbon-emissions-administrative-state

 

Expert Warns of Rise in “Mass Casualty” Events as a Result of Climate Change | Amanpour and Company - Jul 1, 2022 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Np-fg8hnY

 

Scientist's Terrifying NEW Discoveries Under Antarctica's Ice - Jun 19, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iM3kHSRNu8

 

New recycling method could eliminate the climate impact of plastic: “If the process is powered by renewable energy, we also get plastic products with more than 95 percent lower climate impact than those produced today, which effectively means negative emissions for the entire system.”

https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/energy/3543717-new-recycling-method-could-eliminate-the-climate-impact-of-plastic/

 

$26K solar car now has a factory — and will roll out this year: Aptera expects to begin delivering its self-powered car in 2022.

https://www.freethink.com/technology/aptera-solar-car

 

A Brief But spectacular take on centering Black leadership in climate change solutions - Jul 2, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vahjuRrD1sQ

 

The Supreme Court Appoints Itself to Be America’s Regulatory Czar: The high court cast aside the peoples' elected representatives to enact the climate denial agenda of the mega-donors who funded their nominations. They won't stop there.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166983/supreme-court-epa-power-grab

 

No Way to Build a Railroad: Maryland’s outgoing GOP Governor Larry Hogan is eyeing a 2024 run for president. He is also leaving behind a mass transit mess.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/06/20/larry-hogan-purple-line-fiasco/

 

Attaining replacement rate fertility, Achieving population stabilization, and Ending overpopulation:

https://populationconnection.org/article/presidents-note-june-2022/

 

The madness of it all is heightened by “pro-life” (give me a break) members of Congress failing to extend the expanded child tax credit that reduced child poverty by 50 percent in 2021 and refusing to vote for a bill to address the critical shortage of baby formula in the United States. So make sure every fertilized egg becomes a baby, but then once those babies are born, let them starve. Got it.

https://populationconnection.org/article/editors-note-june-2022/

 

Letters to the Editor, June 2022

https://populationconnection.org/article/letters-to-the-editor-june-2022/

 

In the News, June 2022

https://populationconnection.org/article/in-the-news-june-2022/

 

Harnessing Africa's baby boom: Women seize power over their fertility – and future

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/contraception-in-ghana/

 

The Supreme Court’s EPA Ruling Was the Kicker in a Week of Terrible Climate News: While everyone was focused on the Supreme Court, there was a string of broken promises and record-breaking heat waves.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166969/supreme-court-epa-ruling-bad-climate-news-heatwaves-g7-california

 

Texas Paul responds to Republican Senate Candidate Eric Greiten’s ‘RINO Hunting’ campaign ad

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-meidastouch-podcast/id1510240831

 

America’s Necessary Myth for the World: The great paradox in the world today is that the “dumb simplicity” of America’s self-perception is both obviously bogus and fundamentally true.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/07/american-involvement-ukraine-trump-election/661460/

 

11 key points from 6 insurrection hearings

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/02/politics/january-6-latest-what-matters/index.html

 

Let’s Finally Go Solar

https://www.populist.com/28.12.Lingo.html

 

Rosemary Radford Reuther: Ecofeminist Who Stayed Put

https://www.populist.com/28.12.Rollins.html

 

Concentrated Animals on Land and Sea

https://www.populist.com/28.12.McMIllen.html

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