Sunday, May 28, 2023

Ecology and Pollution and Climate Change related links 052823


Death Toll in Turkey and Syria Tops 21,000 as Mourners Crowd Cemeteries: Turkey’s tally of the dead was 17,674, surpassing a traumatic 1999 earthquake

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hopes-of-finding-earthquake-survivors-in-turkey-and-syria-fade-as-aid-arrives-11675926981

 

Turkey earthquake: 113 arrest warrants connected to building construction

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64615349

 

This Five-Mile-Long Cloud of Methane Was Spotted Over Wyoming

https://www.yahoo.com/now/five-mile-long-cloud-methane-160001027.html

 

The U.N. Secretary-General’s Searing Message for the Fossil-Fuel Industry: Forget diplomatic language—it’s a moment for some home truths.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-un-secretary-generals-searing-message-for-the-fossil-fuel-industry

 

California fuel pipeline to resume service Saturday after fuel leak caused disruption: The pipeline operator detected a leak on Thursday.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/nevada-governor-declares-state-emergency-fuel-pipeline-leak/story

 

East Palestine Update: Evacuation Area Extended, Controlled Release of Rail Car Contents Planned for 3:30 p.m.

https://governor.ohio.gov/media/news-and-media/east-palestine-update-evacuation-area-extended-controlled-release-of-rail-car-contents-planned-for-3-30-pm-02062023

 

White Noise movie about train derailment had extras from Eastern Palestine

https://rumble.com/v29eqxi-white-noise-movie-about-train-derailment-had-extras-from-eastern-palestine.html

 

Life After the Ohio Train Derailment: Trouble Breathing, Dying Animals, and Saying Goodbye: After a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, leaked noxious chemicals, residents in the area are still trying to recover.

https://newrepublic.com/post/170570/life-ohio-train-derailment-trouble-breathing-dying-animals-saying-goodbye

 

The TRUTH Behind the Ohio Train DERAILMENT and Media BLACKOUT!!! – Feb 14, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9RxT7JS3fU

 

Ohio Train Derailment Governor's Press Conference - LIVE Breaking News Coverage – Feb 14, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWIitw9Oaxs

 

The train derailment disaster in Ohio: How things spiraled into a catastrophe, and what happens next

https://theweek.com/ohio/1020993/ohio-train-derailment-disaster

 

Science Behind Toxic Ohio Train Crash Media Won’t Tell You - Featuring Will Bunch – Feb 15, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz9iW-pNagk

 

Bomb Train: Rail Giant Norfolk Southern Skips First Public Meeting on Toxic Train Derailment in Ohio – Feb 16, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVyJB3D6GIw

 

BREAKING: ANOTHER Train With Hazardous Cargo DERAILS Near Detroit. Norfolk Southern BAILS Town Hall – Feb 16, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71-jEedXdgM

 

How Corporate Greed Destroyed a Small Ohio Town – Feb 16, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3quHjtfFVy0

 

Ohio Train Disaster Story Gets EVEN WORSE – Feb 16/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnfLms1KQK4

 

The Conspiracy of the Ohio Train Derailment Is Right in Front of Us: Conspiracy theorists are jumping on news of the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. But the truth is much more simple.

https://newrepublic.com/article/170628/conspiracy-ohio-train-derailment-right-front-us

 

Norfolk Southern released 1.1M pounds of vinyl chloride after derailment, lawsuit alleges

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/02/16/train-derailment-norfolk-southern-vinyl-chloride-ohio/11274194002/

 

‘Inside Job’: CDC Changed Toxicity Info on Vinyl Chloride Days Before Derailment

https://newspunch.com/inside-job-cdc-changed-toxicity-info-on-vinyl-chloride-days-before-derailment/

 

Corporate Greed and Deregulation Fuel Threat of More Bomb Trains As East Palestine Demands Answers – Feb 17, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-qoMPqrBTc

 

Biden officials weighing civil penalties in Ohio's toxic rail disaster: Officials on the call touched on the debate over whether electronically controlled pneumatic brakes could have averted the disaster.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/17/ohio-rail-disaster-biden-officials-00083461

 

The Ohio Train Disaster: Corporate Greed & Regulatory Failure | The Problem With Jon Stewart Podcast – Feb 19, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8Jrk6fvmQ8

 

What Happens When a Toxic Bomb Train Hits Your Town?  The residents of East Palestine impacted by this massive toxic spill are left drinking bottled water while being assured everything is fine. But everything is not fine.

https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/toxic-bomb-train

 

A Bomb Train Hits East Palestine, Ohio

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/2/16/a_bomb_train_hits_east_palestine

 

Ohio to open a clinic amid growing health concerns over train derailment: The clinic will open at noon Tuesday for any East Palestine-area residents with questions related to the Feb. 3 train derailment.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ohio-open-clinic-growing-health-concerns-train-derailment-rcna71442

 

Profit Before Safety: The Train Derailment Lesson: While railroad execs lined their own pockets, their lobbyists advocated against stricter safety rules.

https://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/profit-before-safety-the-train-derailment-lesson

 

Residents near Ohio train derailment diagnosed with ailments associated with chemical exposure, including bronchitis: Medical professionals suspect that some people's headaches, rashes and respiratory problems are related to the release of hazardous chemicals in East Palestine.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/ohio-derailment-chemicals-people-diagnosed-bronchitis-rcna71839

 

EPA orders ‘pause’ of derailment contaminated waste removal

https://apnews.com/article/politics-climate-and-environment-us-environmental-protection-agency-ohio-pennsylvania-ef698f4bbbcea1e2b7d7e2bad66bbd4e

 

Pa. health center near derailment draws 200 in 2 days as lawmakers demand fair treatment

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2023/03/pa-health-center-near-derailment-draws-200-in-two-days-lawmakers-demand-fair-treatment-for-pa-residents.html

 

Nine survivors pulled from Turkey's rubble as earthquake death toll passes 40,000

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/survivors-ever-fewer-earthquake-rubble-turkey-syria-2023-02-12/

 

Climate Denial, False Solutions and Corporate Accountability with Kert Davies – Feb 14, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nIMbiYza4E

 

Scientists Warn of Irreversible Loss of the West Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets and Rapid Acceleration of Sea Level Rise

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-warn-of-irreversible-loss-of-the-west-antarctic-and-greenland-ice-sheets-and-rapid-acceleration-of-sea-level-rise/

 

Saving America's salt lakes, great and small: The Great Salt Lake is disappearing, leaving behind a 'Great Toxic Dustbowl'

https://theweek.com/climate-change/1020944/saving-americas-salt-lakes-great-and-small

 

Massive Fire at Florida Plant Nursery Sends Flames, Smoke Into Sky: The fire broke out about 2 a.m. at Nursery Supplies Inc. in Kissimmee, which is just south of Orlando in central Florida, authorities told news outlets

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/massive-fire-at-florida-plant-nursery-sends-flames-smoke-into-sky/2975375/

 

So-called Doomsday Glacier is ‘in trouble,’ scientists say after finding surprising formations under ice shelf

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/15/world/thwaites-doomsday-glacier-sea-level-climate-intl/index.html

 

Earthquake death toll passes 46,000; desperation for signs of life

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/teenager-rescued-rubble-turkey-10-days-after-quake-2023-02-16/

 

EPA Announces $2B to Fight Forever Chemicals

https://www.route-fifty.com/finance/2023/02/epa-announces-2b-fight-forever-chemicals/382948/

 

Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda

 

Should We Start Preparing for the Evacuation of Miami?  Daniel Aldana Cohen argues that planning the withdrawal from Miami would force other places to get serious about hosting climate migrants, while Samantha Schuyler says Miami can still become a model of adaptation.

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/miami-climate-change-evacuation/

 

Is Your Lush, Green Lawn Killing Mother Nature?

https://hightowerlowdown.org/podcast/is-your-lush-green-lawn-killing-mother-nature/

 

Lies that Damage Earth

https://www.populist.com/29.03.Lingo.html

 

‘Servants of the Damned’ Tend to Get Their Way

https://www.populist.com/29.03.Young.html

 

With Electric Vehicles, 90% of Americans would see Transportation Costs, CO2 Emissions Plummet

https://www.juancole.com/2023/01/americans-transportation-emissions.html

 

Lies, Damn Lies, and Climate Change

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/1/19/lies_damn_lies_and_climate_change

 

Why the Silence on the Bombing of the Nord Stream 2 Natural-Gas Pipeline?  Either the President is a terrorist or a journalist is a fraud. Why doesn’t anyone want to find out which is true?

https://www.laprogressive.com/war-and-peace/nord-stream-2-natural-gas-pipeline

 

A More Realistic Energy Transition: Get Better at Using Less of It: Being an early adopter of solar technology has given me personal insight into some of the practical limitations and difficulties of the energy transition.

https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change-2/realistic-energy-transition

 

Blinken tours Turkey earthquake zone, unveils $100 million more in aid: The gesture of support comes as Washington seeks to resolve a number of disputes with the estranged NATO ally

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/02/19/blinken-turkey-earthquake/

 

Reduce the Birth Rate to Control Climate Change

https://www.populist.com/29.04.McMillen.html

 

‘Drought Profiteers’ Under Fire as Wall Street Targets Colorado River Water: “Vultures,” said one critic, are “looking to make a lot of money off this public resource.”

https://www.populist.com/29.04.Stancil.html

 

The Colorado River war and the growing problem of less water: With water supply dwindling, the West must decide who gets what

https://theweek.com/climate-change/1020567/the-growing-problem-of-less-water

 

Malaria mosquitoes are moving quickly into new territory as climate warms: A new study shows how the health threats of a warming climate are already here.

https://www.grid.news/story/climate/2023/02/16/malaria-mosquitoes-are-moving-quickly-into-new-territory-as-climate-warms/

 

U.S. urges rail industry, Congress to boost safety measures after toxic derailment

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-urges-rail-industry-congress-boost-safety-measures-after-toxic-derailment-2023-02-21/

 

Over 1,500 flights canceled as major winter storm threatens to produce historic snowfall: The National Weather Service has issued winter storm, blizzard and high-wind advisories for swaths of the western and the north-central United States.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/parts-northern-us-shut-major-winter-storm-threatens-historic-snowfall-rcna71721

 

Storm brings snow to Southern California as heavy rain prompts search and rescue missions: Rain-swelled waterways were the focus of multiple rescues Friday and Saturday. RVs were swept into a river in Los Angeles County.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/storm-brings-snow-southern-california-heavy-rain-prompts-search-rescue-rcna72348

 

This Native American Tribe Is Taking Back Its Water | Innovation | Smithsonian Magazine

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/native-american-tribe-pima-indians-taking-back-water-180981542/

 

Is this really safe? – Feb 25, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr35eco8KcI

 

Dirty Nickel, Clean Power: Making the Ocean Bleed Red. How the race for more efficient batteries is poisoning Indonesia’s coastal waters.

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/indonesia-nickel-pollution-batteries/

 

Jackson’s Water System Is Broken by Design: Declining federal funding has left the water infrastructure in Mississippi’s capital at the mercy of conservative state politicians.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jackson-mississippi-water-infrastructure/

 

Jill Biden sees East Africa drought up close, seeks more aid

https://apnews.com/article/weather-jill-biden-droughts-nairobi-kenya-cec33e07c670401a0e2e2721d8638cae

 

EU’s ‘Toxic Collusion’ Harms Indian Ocean Tuna, Critics Allege: If the EU supported ambitious measures to conserve tuna species, like the ones put forth by India and the Maldives, the situation would improve for everyone.

https://www.laprogressive.com/animal-rights-2/eus-toxic-collusion-harms-tuna

 

Where Walruses Go When Sea Ice Is Gone: The short documentary “Haulout” follows a scientist on a remote Arctic beach who witnesses the chaotic effects of climate change on Pacific walruses.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/where-walruses-go-when-sea-ice-is-gone

 

Why S.U.V.S Are Still a Huge Environmental Problem: The world is moving toward heavier cars at a time when it should be doing precisely the reverse.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-suvs-are-still-a-huge-environmental-problem

 

Nature’s Rights Are Coming Soon

https://www.populist.com/29.05.Lingo.html

 

Climate Groups Cheer Bill to Tax Big Oil Windfall Profits

https://www.populist.com/29.05.Wilkins.html

 

How the World Can Help After the Middle East Earthquake: For Syrians, the quake is the latest crisis after years of suffering. It’s time to end sanctions and send aid.

https://www.populist.com/29.05.Hassen.html

 

Fact Check-Meme claiming that wind turbines are inefficient misquotes expert

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-windturbines-misleadingmeme/fact-check-meme-claiming-that-wind-turbines-are-inefficient-misquotes-expert-idUSL1N2R31IG

 

Fact-check: Do wind turbines cost more to build than the energy they produce?

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/13/wind-turbine-never-generate-much-energy-cost-build/8423146002/

 

Overblown: Wind turbines don’t take more energy to build than they will ever produce

https://fullfact.org/online/wind-turbines-energy/

 

The West is an Exploiter’s Paradise

https://www.populist.com/29.05.Knight.html

 

Delaware Riverkeeper – Mar 2, 2023

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

 

Mississippi passes bill restricting electric car dealerships

https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-electric-cars-sales-tesla-31c06e7ecb9693f15bc578623b56fd9c

 

The Inflation Reduction Act, which aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions, allows Americans to save thousands when they buy energy-efficient appliances.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/climate/tax-breaks-inflation-reduction-act.html

 

Nations reach accord to protect marine life on high seas

https://apnews.com/article/un-oceans-biodiversity-treaty-0b024fa07e8c1947236d8b8491ebf92c

 

Winter storms ease drought conditions in California, report shows

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-02/more-than-16-percent-of-california-no-longer-in-drought

 

The microbiome is the community of microorganisms (such as fungi, bacteria and viruses) that exists in a particular environment. In humans, the term is often used to describe the microorganisms that live in or on a particular part of the body, such as the skin or gastrointestinal tract. These groups of microorganisms are dynamic and change in response to a host of environmental factors, such as exercise, diet, medication and other exposures.

https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Microbiome

 

Death toll rises to 13; teenager hikers rescued in Southern California: Winter storm updates

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/03/05/winter-storm-live-updates-power-outages/11407144002/

 

NTSB opens investigation into Norfolk Southern safety practices after train derailments

https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/3888621-ntsb-opens-investigation-into-norfolk-southern-safety-practices-after-train-derailments/

 

What’s With the Weather?! The Science Behind This Winter’s Weird Atmospheric Conditions

https://katiecouric.com/news/why-weird-winter-weather/

 

Ohio sues Norfolk Southern over East Palestine derailment

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/14/ohio-sues-norfolk-southern-over-east-palestine-derailment.html

 

Storm Freddy: Malawi declares state of disaster as more than 200 killed

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-64938811

 

Survivors in shock as Cyclone Freddy toll passes 400 in Malawi, Mozambique

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/cyclone-freddy-toll-passes-300-mozambique-counts-bodies-2023-03-16/

 

The Latest Train Derailment Is Dumping Diesel on Tribal Land

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/the-latest-train-derailment-is-dumping-diesel-on-tribal-land/ar-AA18LbFg?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=5df24846c7ed416ea796a6620cd2b860&ei=50

 

Ecuador earthquake kills at least 15 people

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-65004163

 

Is Climate Change Coming for Your Home? | Sierra Club

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/1-spring/editor-s-desk/climate-change-coming-your-home

 

He ran the NAACP. Now he’s leading the Sierra Club's fight - Los Angeles Times

https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2023-02-23/ben-jealous-led-the-naacp-now-hes-running-the-sierra-club-boiling-point

 

Introducing the New Sierra Club Executive Director, Ben Jealous | Sierra Club

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/1-spring/top/introducing-new-sierra-club-executive-director-ben-jealous

 

Weaponized Juvenile Techno-Tortoises | Sierra Club

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/1-spring/notes-here-there/weaponized-juvenile-techno-tortoises

 

River Rights Gone Wrong in California | Sierra Club

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/1-spring/notes-here-there/river-rights-gone-wrong-california

 

How Climate Change Could Sink the US Real Estate Market | Sierra Club

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/1-spring/feature/how-climate-change-could-sink-us-real-estate-market

 

Montana Has a Habitat Problem | Sierra Club

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/1-spring/feature/montana-has-habitat-problem

 

Biden establishes vast new national monument near Nevada-California border, honoring tribes: Spirit Mountain area, known as Avi Kwa Ame, receives protections, while process starts to create new national marine sanctuary in Pacific islands

https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/03/21/biden-establishes-vast-new-national-monument-near-nevada-california-border-honoring-tribes/

 

Pearl Harbor Families Drank Antifreeze, Not Just Jet Fuel in Water, Department of Health Memo Reveals

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/03/21/pearl-harbor-families-drank-antifreeze-not-just-jet-fuel-water-department-of-health-memo-reveals.html?ESRC=navy_230321.nl

 

Why Is LA City Hall Ignoring Ominous UN Climate Report?  While City Hall averts its eyes from the obvious—droughts, wildfires, invasive species, storms, and sea level rise—they cannot claim, “Nobody ever told us.

https://www.laprogressive.com/los-angeles-2/ominous-un-climate-report

 

Los Angeles Reimagined | Sierra Club

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/1-spring/feature/los-angeles-reimagined

 

At least 23 dead after tornadoes tear through Mississippi: The state was sending search-and-rescue resources and other help to the area, said Malary White, a spokesperson for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tornado-hits-mississippi-causing-damage-rcna76644

 

Evacuated villagers tell how Spain's forest fire forced them to leave animals

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/spain-firefighters-working-control-blaze-that-has-destroyed-4000-hectares-2023-03-25/

 

'It's Kind Of Like Ground Zero Here': Rolling Fork, MS Faces Shocking Destruction After Tornado – Mar 26, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZM0AKzAR94

 

Deadly tornado kills over 20 people – Mar 26, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t85FbC4qr4

 

How Dust Affects the World’s Health

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/151100/how-dust-affects-the-worlds-health

 

Watch LA’s Teachers Make Good on Their Promise to Support Community Schools: In 2019, LA teachers went on a successful strike. Four years later, they can point to the evidence of what went right with a little district support—and help realize an even better future.

https://www.laprogressive.com/education-reform/support-community-schools

 

Pentagon, Interior launch new program to protect land around bases

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2023/03/24/pentagon-interior-launch-new-program-to-protect-land-around-bases/

 

Why Biden Chooses Fossil Fuels Over Us: The administration's approval of the Willow oil project in Alaska communicates a disconnect from reality.

https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change-2/biden-chooses-fossil-fuels

 

After nearly 200 years, the Yuchi Tribe of Oklahoma reconnects with bison

https://www.gpb.org/news/2023/03/26/after-nearly-200-years-the-yuchi-tribe-of-oklahoma-reconnects-bison

 

U.S. renewable electricity surpassed coal in 2022

https://apnews.com/article/renewable-energy-coal-nuclear-climate-change-dd4a0b168fe057f430e37398615155a0

 

Death toll at least 31 after storms pummel South, Midwest, Mid-Atlantic: The tornado risk continues Sunday in Texas and again Tuesday from the upper Midwest to mid-South

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/04/02/tornadoes-storms-update-death-toll/

 

Water windfall: Key California reservoir fills for just third time in 12 years.  San Luis Reservoir, between Gilroy and Los Banos, is the largest off-stream reservoir in the United States.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/04/03/water-windfall-key-california-reservoir-fills-for-just-third-time-in-12-years/

 

‘Mindboggling’: Will Monday’s big snow tally break a 1952 record in the Sierra Nevada?

https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/04/02/mindboggling-will-mondays-big-snow-tally-break-a-1952-record-in-the-sierra-nevada/

 

GM passes Ford to take No. 2 spot in EV sales behind Tesla

https://apnews.com/article/electric-vehicle-sales-general-motors-ford-tesla-2687c93bf562aaeb6581cc4efea20d4a

 

Missouri tornado kills 5 in latest wave of severe weather

https://apnews.com/article/midwest-south-storms-tornadoes-2783b74e077740b3c253ce30632ff04d

 

Two dead, over a million without power after ice storm hits Canada

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/freezing-rain-canada-leaves-more-than-million-without-power-2023-04-06/

 

West Coast king salmon are so depleted officials just canceled the Oregon and California season

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2023/04/06/california-chinook-salmon-season-canceled-until-spring-2024/11618489002/

 

More Light Than Heat: The Importance of Education in Coping with Climate Change

https://thehumanist.com/magazine/spring-2023/features/more-light-than-heat

 

Humanist Ecology and Climate Disinformation

https://thehumanist.com/commentary/humanist-ecology-and-climate-disinformation

 

California officials gird for potential disaster: When and where will the record melting snow go?

The faster the massive snowpack melts, the bigger a potential flood problem it presents.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/04/11/california-officials-gird-for-potential-disaster-when-and-where-will-the-record-melting-snow-go/

 

Sea levels rise faster than expected in southern U.S.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/04/10/sea-level-rise-southern-us/?utm_campaign=

 

How to Guarantee a Train Wreck

https://www.creators.com/read/jim-hightower/03/23/how-to-guarantee-a-train-wreck

 

Tracking Norfolk Southern’s Derailment

https://hightowerlowdown.org/podcast/tracking-norfolk-southerns-derailment/

 

Wind Farms Should Tread Carefully

https://www.populist.com/29.06.Lingo.html

 

Rail Workers Warned Us: Greed is Dangerous: Following derailments across the country, rail workers have a solution to the nation’s rail crisis: public ownership.

https://www.populist.com/29.06.Entralgo.html

 

Casey Jones Meets Hunter Harrison: Working on the Railroad, Part 2

https://www.populist.com/29.06.OLeary.html

 

Biden Arrives to Save Planet Tied to Tracks

https://www.populist.com/29.06.Young.html

 

Colorado Conflicted About Cutting Its Water Use

https://www.populist.com/29.06.Marston.html

 

Inside Climate News.  Three of our reporters have taken home awards recently for their impressive bodies of work. We hope you’ll take a moment to read their stories, if you haven’t done so already.

https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?e=043b9aaaae&u=7c733794100bcc7e083a163f0&id=89bbd6ef73

 

Businesses face more and more pressure from investors to act on climate change

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/09/1168446621/businesses-face-more-and-more-pressure-from-investors-to-act-on-climate-change

 

Eco-Terrorism is Real and Driven By Corporate Capitalism

https://www.populist.com/29.07.Kalet.html

 

Chronicle of an Abandoned Oil and Gas Well — One of Millions

https://www.populist.com/29.07.Thompson.html

 

The Media’s Recent Turn to “Climate Optimism” Is a Cruel Fantasy: Beneath the upbeat messaging, the latest UN climate report makes it clear that while the means to save the planet may still be available, the political will is nowhere in sight.

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/ipcc-report-climate-optimism/

 

Worse than the spotted lanternfly? A new disease is killing beech trees in Pa. and N.J.: This could be a much worse threat than the spotted lanternfly, experts say. The beech is one of the prevalent trees in forests throughout the Mid-Atlantic, and the disease is spreading rapidly.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/beech-leaf-disease-pennsylvania-new-jersey-nematode-20230417.html

 

G7 vows to step up moves to renewable energy, zero carbon

https://apnews.com/article/g7-climate-energy-environment-emissions-japan-4375829166aed9b9b064dcf8d7e544e8

 

Regenerative Agriculture and Agrivoltaics: Farm-to-Solar Could Accelerate the Renewable Energy Transition: Embracing regenerative agriculture and agrivoltaics may be able to ally solar industry stakeholders with local farmers and the global agriculture industry.

https://www.laprogressive.com/the-environment/regenerative-agriculture-and-agrivoltaics

 

A Pipeline Brings Gas and Revolt to Southern Italy: “We thought nothing like this could happen in Italy until we found ourselves right in the middle of it.”

https://inthesetimes.com/article/no-tap-gas-pipeline-protests-southern-italy

 

Land, Respect, and Belonging: A Teaching on Sacred Responsibility with Dr. Daniel Foor

https://ancestralmedicine.org/vault/land-respect-belonging/

 

Here are the EV models eligible for new tax credits up to $7,500

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/17/cars/ev-tax-credits-2023-which-cars-climate/index.html

 

Greenland, Antarctica ice sheets melting at disastrous pace

https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/15/1597/2023/#abstract

 

One Earth - Environmental Short Film - 2 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQYgCxu988s

 

Earth Week Webinar "Water: Source of Life and Development of the Earth"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnnlGDhs99Q

 

“Big melt” begins for Sierra Nevada snowpack: Flood danger increases for Tulare Lake Basin area and Yosemite Valley as temperatures rise this week

https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/04/24/big-melt-begins-for-sierra-nevada-snowpack/

 

A Dancing Bird Finally Gets Some Protection

https://www.populist.com/29.08.Horning.html

 

Woe is WOTUS: When Lawmakers Make Water Policy Through Lawsuits

https://www.populist.com/29.08.Guebert.html

 

GENE LYONS: After disaster blows through, we're all on the same side

https://www.goshennews.com/opinion/gene-lyons-after-disaster-blows-through-were-all-on-the-same-side/article_6d0efd7e-d4bc-11ed-87ff-57047c995854.html

 

Science, Solutions, Solidarity For a Livable Planet

https://www.un.org/en/climatechange

 

UN warns Earth ‘firmly on track toward an unlivable world’

https://apnews.com/article/climate-united-nations-paris-europe-berlin-802ae4475c9047fb6d82ac88b37a690e

 

United Nations’ Dire Climate Warning

https://www.populist.com/29.08.Lingo.html

 

Ocean Warming Study So Distressing, Some Scientists Didn't Even Want to Talk About It: "This is one of those 'sit up and read very carefully' moments," said one science journalist.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/ocean-warming-study

 

The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin: Bitcoin mines cash in on electricity — by devouring it, selling it, even turning it off — and they cause immense pollution. In many cases, the public pays a price.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/business/bitcoin-mining-electricity-pollution.html

 

Distressing Truth Scientists Don’t Want To Tell You – Apr 28, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7rXGtwz3CA

 

Brazil recognizes 6 Indigenous areas in boost for Amazon

https://apnews.com/article/brazil-amazon-indigenous-climate-lula-95ad8bb0cfb43007470a20897001af81

 

Flood concerns rise as Mississippi River crests in Iowa city

https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-river-crest-flooding-382789d560ad005a3b2f8131fd8a1858

 

Greenpeace Activists Scale Belgian LNG Terminal to Demand End to US Imports: "Many gas projects and terminals are emerging across Europe and the U.S., directly threatening the health of communities near production sites and the entire planet with disastrous environmental and climate impacts."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/greenpeace-belgium-lng-protest

 

US Supreme Court's Blow to Big Oil 'Should Open the Floodgates for More Lawsuits': "The high court's decision is a major victory for communities across the country that are fighting to hold Big Oil accountable and make them pay for the climate damages they knowingly caused," said one advocate.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/supreme-court-fossil-fuels-climate

 

Review | Future on Fire: mass movements in the climate crisis

https://www.rs21.org.uk/2023/04/24/future-on-fire-mass-movements-in-the-climate-crisis/

 

Chernobyl 1986 – when nuclear power came of age

https://www.rs21.org.uk/2023/04/26/chernobyl-1986-when-nuclear-power-came-of-age-2/

 

Know Better, Do Better

https://www.psrpa.org/post/know-better-do-better

 

Radioactive Contaminants from Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Operations - 2 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBEAreiQ13M&t=71s

 

Welcome to the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center website!

https://fairmountwaterworks.org/

 

Rising Sea Levels Threaten Lives: Everything scientists have warned contributes to the destruction of the environment continues unabated, from mining coal to using fossil fuels.

https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change-2/rising-sea-levels-threaten-lives

 

Climate change: Vietnam records highest-ever temperature of 44.1C

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65518528

 

Wildfires burning out of control in Canada's main oil-producing province, Alberta, are disrupting about two percent of the country's oil production, the equivalent of 185,000 barrels per day

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/alberta-wildfire-impact-canadian-energy-companies-2023-05-08/

 

Emperor of the Earth (Satire)

https://www.populist.com/29.09.Lingo.html

 

A Colorado Reservoir Gets Ready for an Epic Snowmelt

https://www.populist.com/29.09.Marston.html

 

S.1440 - Transit to Trails Act.  05/04/2023 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.  https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/1440

 

Fossil fuel firms owe climate reparations of $209bn a year, says study: Groundbreaking analysis by One Earth is first to quantify economic burden caused by individual companies

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/19/fossil-fuel-firms-owe-climate-reparations-of-209bn-a-year-says-study

 

World likely to breach 1.5C climate threshold by 2027, scientists warn: UN agency says El Niño and human-induced climate breakdown could combine to push temperatures into ‘uncharted territory’

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/17/global-heating-climate-crisis-record-temperatures-wmo-research

 

Italy floods leave 13 dead and force 13,000 from their homes

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65632655

 

Cleaning Toxic Military Sites Will Take Decades Without More Funding

https://www.moaa.org/content/publications-and-media/news-articles/2023-news-articles/recommended-reads/cleaning-toxic-military-sites-will-take-decades-without-more-funding/

 

America is on a fast road to adopting electric cars. Philly is already falling behind.  Charging stations in every cranny of the city will transform public thoroughfares as profoundly as street lights and underground sewers did a century ago.

https://www.inquirer.com/transportation/electric-cars-philadelphia-parking-charging-stations-20230520.html

 

Mount Etna volcano erupts, raining ash on Catania, forcing flight suspension at local airport

https://apnews.com/article/mount-etna-volcano-erupts-c968754750356ac5934e7aa97839471e

 

US states agree breakthrough deal to prevent Colorado River from drying up: ‘Huge lift’: California, Arizona and Nevada agree with government to take about 13% less water from drought-stricken river

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/22/colorado-river-states-california-arizona-nevada

 

What We Owe Our Trees: Forests fed us, housed us, and made our way of life possible. But they can’t save us if we can’t save them.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/29/what-we-owe-our-trees

 

BPRA: A Win in the Fight for a Green New Deal – May 23, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33JBBwM1P_Q

 

Make Parking Impossible: Cars have made American cities uglier and more dangerous. Here’s the solution.

https://newrepublic.com/article/171711/make-parking-impossible

 

Biden’s Power Plants Plan

https://www.populist.com/29.10.Lingo.html

 

Biking in the Car Culture

https://www.populist.com/29.10.Rollins.html

 

Buying Time for Biofuels

https://www.populist.com/29.10.Art%20Cullen%20Buying%20time%20for%20biofuels.html

 

More Greenhouse Gas Comes from Rural Leaders than Rural America

https://www.populist.com/29.10.Guebert.html

 

Will AI Lead to Human Extinction?

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ai-chatgpt-tech-disruption-humanity/

 

Ted Williams: In California, killing fish to save frogs

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2023/05/03/commentary-california-killing-fish/

 

Eliane Brum Is in the Reforesting Vanguard. A conversation with the award-winning Brazilian writer and journalist about the politics of the Amazon rain forest, the violence that seethes beneath its canopy, and her new book, Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Center of the World.

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/eliane-brum-banzeiro-okoto/

 

In East Palestine, Norfolk Southern Hired a Company With a Long History of Ignoring Hazards. Why trust a company with CTEH’s spotty record to monitor air quality at the site of the Ohio train wreck? For the railroad, it all made perfect $en$e.

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/cteh-norfolk-southern-east-palestine/

 

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