Monday, November 2, 2020

Ecology and Pollution and Climate Change related links 110220

 

The Trump administration is reversing nearly 100 environmental rules.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks-list.html?fbclid=IwAR1IyEReg1glWF_xvkMXJmgovH-2Kya_IR16GzG_paDQyTdI5-es3-vJZBM

 

Exempt from inspection: States ignore lead-contaminated meat in food banks.  Hunter-donated meat provides crucial protein to US food banks. But an EHN investigation found a lack of oversight that could result in potentially hundreds of thousands of lead-contaminated meals this year.

https://www.ehn.org/lead-in-donated-venison-meat-2648176251.html?fbclid=IwAR2AfAHb7GryLAMVGQlSvchJwm0K5yVzvKlwZB-UYHA4P4f1dgk3RH883Pw

 

A Native Nation’s Impossible Fight to Stop Trump’s Wall From Dividing Its Land: The Kumeyaay are trying to block construction—and run out the clock on the Trump presidency.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/10/a-native-nations-impossible-fight-to-stop-trumps-wall-from-dividing-its-land/?fbclid=IwAR1oWdwafuqdPF3khjkxplaC-AvNUOCfP6XBnHZHMLzH-exXMiMBp2Nyzrg

 

Japan To Release Radioactive Fukushima Water Into Ocean

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nishandegnarain/2020/10/18/japan-to-release-radioactive-fukishima-water-into-ocean/?fbclid=IwAR2lEjfZDMjNIkM1iO-7vdpguW0vDermkGm_6ByDjdGeSV1KIK7MvIjNnug#3ad97f324329

 

Colorado wildfire jumps U.S. Continental Divide, threatens mountain towns

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-wildfire-colorado/colorado-wildfire-jumps-u-s-continental-divide-threatens-mountain-towns-idUSKBN2772OC?fbclid=IwAR08YDU9bhIBDtMI5b-EkUpzSPs4efiTuByb_25fvom02_6ElRxrS-PJPh4

 

Medical Residents Learn To Treat The Growing Health Hazards Of Climate Change

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/10/12/918878683/medical-residents-learn-to-treat-the-growing-health-hazards-of-climate-change?utm_term=nprnews&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR0cA2OxMU1bETpungcAYf2kX-NQ_YjA9uvqKvZLZVWcDssPESmubjziNBM

 

Dust from your old furniture likely contains harmful chemicals—but there’s a solution: Researchers find people's exposure to PFAS and certain flame retardants could be significantly reduced by opting for healthier building materials and furniture.

https://www.ehn.org/pfas-and-flame-retardants-in-house-dust-2648396264.html?fbclid=IwAR0lYANFcr9h34jGDF_IY061nlBBDtUIY-M_nxE_zr5-Ctob9Fu1YO6MKco

 

THESE INDIGENOUS EDUCATORS ARE BRINGING WESTERN AND NATIVE SCIENCE TOGETHER IN THE CLASSROOM: By meshing laboratory science with Traditional Ecological Knowledge, college professors aim to cultivate better environmental decision makers — and decisions.

https://ensia.com/articles/environmental-education-traditional-ecological-knowledge-native-science/?fbclid=IwAR03wnBfUy3M6aPlcmGzMYgFJPu08esqsxiBimjD_0crEAdSdhWR7uEAccU

 

Growing trees, growing jobs: How restoring forests across the United States can help address the unemployment crisis

https://www.americanforests.org/magazine/article/growing-trees-growing-jobs/

 

Growing pains: the race to plant billions of trees.  We need to plant billions of seedlings — soon — to bring our forests back to health. But with the nation’s tree nurseries facing labor, infrastructure and other shortages, where will those seedlings come from?

https://www.americanforests.org/magazine/article/growing-pains-the-race-to-plant-billions-of-trees/

 

Offshoots: U.S. plants roots in global trillion trees movement

https://www.americanforests.org/magazine/article/offshoots-u-s-plants-roots-in-global-trillion-trees-movement/

 

Washington Outlook: Two legislative wins on Capitol Hill for national forests

https://www.americanforests.org/magazine/article/washington-outlook-two-legislative-wins-on-capitol-hill-for-national-forests/

 

Protecting Species in a Pandemic

https://defenders.org/magazine/fall-2020/protecting-species-pandemic

 

Wildlife Matters

https://defenders.org/magazine/fall-2020/wildlife-matters

 

Finding a Way for Wildlife

https://defenders.org/magazine/fall-2020/finding-way-wildlife

 

All Creatures, Great and Small

https://defenders.org/magazine/fall-2020/all-creatures-great-and-small

 

10 Things You Can Do To Protect Nature

https://defenders.org/magazine/fall-2020/living-lightly

 

Toxic Legacy: After decades of pollution, a community faces unexpected — and unprecedented — opposition from the Department of Justice.

https://earthjustice.org/features/dte-river-rouge-toxic-legacy

 

None of us can go it alone if we want to make big change possible.  On finding solace and solidarity in a brokenhearted world.  “It’s no wonder Gen Z is the most stressed generation in America.”

https://earthjustice.org/features/gen-z-climate-crisis-none-of-us-can-go-it-alone

 

The Planet Cannot Afford a Risky Choice for the Supreme Court: We need Justices who will make sure our courts remain a place where science and the law beat corruption and privilege.

https://earthjustice.org/blog/2020-september/amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court-environment-science-politics?curation=newsletter

 

Endangered Whale Protected From Life-Threatening Seismic Blasts

https://earthjustice.org/brief/2020/endangered-whale-protected-seismic?curation=newsletter

 

This Dreamy Alaskan Rainforest is a Buffer Against Climate Change: The Tongass National Forest is threatened by a rule change that would allow new clear-cut logging. We’re fighting to defend it.

https://earthjustice.org/features/tongass-alaska-rainforest-climate-change-buffer?curation=newsletter

 

Trump to strip protections from Tongass National Forest, one of the biggest intact temperate rainforests

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/10/28/trump-tongass-national-forest-alaska   

 

It’s Time to Say Goodbye to Household Gas: Gas appliances are polluting our homes. Gas lines cause tragic explosions. Electrifying our housing supply can help.

https://earthjustice.org/blog/2020-september/old-gas-powered-houses-are-killing-us-green-energy-can-fix-that

 

The Smokey View from the Northwest

https://www.cato.org/blog/smokey-view-northwest

 

H.R.2546 - Protecting America's Wilderness Act.  05/07/2019 – Introduced in the House and Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.  02/12/2020 – House Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 231 – 183.  02/13/2020 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2546

 

Greenpeace warns of “ecological disaster” if governments force widespread disposables on restaurants

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/greenpeace-warns-of-ecological-disaster-if-governments-force-widespread-disposables-on-restaurants/

 

Indigenous groups at risk as Bolsonaro encourages amnesty for land grabbers in midst of pandemic

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/indigenous-groups-at-risk-as-bolsonaro-encourages-amnesty-for-land-grabbers-in-midst-of-pandemic/

 

Choppy Waters – Forced Labor and Illegal Fishing in Taiwan’s Distant Water Fisheries

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/research/choppy-waters-forced-labor-illegal-fishing-seafood-taiwans-distant-water-fisheries/

 

Two Books that Changed my Life.  Reading about whale killings moved me to action.

The International Year of Plant Health.  Mother Earth needs a breather from human interaction.

https://greenpeacefund.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Web-version-GP-Legacy-newsletter-Fall-2020.pdf

 

Zeta expected to make landfall in Louisiana Wednesday night: A hurricane warning has been issued for the New Orleans metro area. A landfall is expected Wednesday evening along the southeast Louisiana coast.

https://www.wwltv.com/article/weather/radar/tropica-storm-hurricane-zeta-2020-update/289-d42066f3-5d55-4d32-8239-73ad9fb5d459?ref=exit-recirc

 

Massive Black Bear Walks Right Into Bowhunter’s Arrow… And People Got Pissed That He Shot Him

https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2020/10/27/massive-black-bear-walks-right-into-bowhunters-arrow-and-people-got-pissed-that-he-shot-him/

 

IMF Chief Kristalina Georgieva Says We Have a 'Once in a Century Opportunity' to Fund a Sustainable Future

https://time.com/collection/great-reset/5901323/imf-kristalina-georgieva-sustainable-economy/

 

Europe Has Big Plans for a Green New Deal. Poland's Coal Country Isn't So Sure

https://time.com/collection/great-reset/5900740/europe-green-new-deal-poland/

 

Lily Cole: We Must Turn This Crisis Into an Opportunity for a Better World

https://time.com/collection/great-reset/5900763/lily-cole-covid-19-opportunity/

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