Articles include: A breakthrough for U.S. wind power; interactive maps; circular economy; California cutting smog; gas flaring;
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Daily Climate, April 29, 2021
Articles include: The climate solution actually adding millions of tons of C02 into the atmosphere; Joanne Chory is harnessing plants to stop climate change; The Exxon of green power: A Spanish company and its boss set sky-high goals; Poland clinches ′historic′ deal to phase out coal by 2049; DOE unveils grid plans to unlock renewables; A warming world threatens Colombia’s coffee future; Study: Reversing warming quickly could prevent worst climate change effects; Study: ‘Life support’ measures could buy Great Barrier Reef another two decades.
The Daily Climate, April 28, 2021
Articles include: lumber shortage; disabilities and natural disasters; California wildfire season; Study: cut methane emissions quickly; flooding in Michigan; climate vote in Senate; Study: poor communities affected by climate change; low carbon fuel standard; money to modernize grid; Fukushima; Ford making electric vehicles; Study: sea level rise and budgets.
The Daily Climate, April 27, 2021
Articles include: California drought; underreporting GHGs; weather station in the Andes; 26,000 snakes; tools: graphics and climate change; deforesting Brazil; EPA and California air standards; pandemic and snow melt in SE Asia.
The Daily Climate, April 26, 2021
Articles include: wood pellet loophole in Paris Accord; bike licensing and justice; hydrogen and the grid; California oil spillers and the law; jobs; US and China and Clean technology; electric trucks; Canada’s melting permafrost; Report: halting methane emissions.
California pushes to ban fracking and oil extraction
The Hill: California pushes to ban fracking and oil extraction.
Story at a glance
- Newsom aims to halt oil production by 2045.
- Scientists have warned fracking contributes to greenhouse gas release.
- Some politicians have warned the moves will decimate local economies.
The Daily Climate, April 13, 2021
Articles include: Reactions to ‘Fracktured’ investigation; Native communities and rising waters; Losing ‘gods’ to climate change; American Jobs Plan; climate change, wildfires, and Elk; California, oil wells, and groundwater pollution; NFTs fueling climate change; Pacific heat wave & the Gulf of Mexico; burning pig poop; polluting SUVs; laws aimed at pipeline protestors; moms battling climate change.
The Daily Climate, April 12, 2021
Articles include: Flood survivors; Biden’s infrastructure plan; California expands O&G drilling; battery makers; Canadian energy jobs; nuclear power plant shutting down; Russia & the arctic; Maine laws & solar investment; Brazil; home buying and climate change; offshore wind; Navajo farmers.
How Does Climate Change Affect Human Health? Scientists Weigh In
Green Matters: How Does Climate Change Affect Human Health? Scientists Weigh In. Climate change affects our weather patterns, sea levels, wildlife populations, and global temperatures, but very few people understand the ramifications it’s had on the human population. Believe it or not, our food, water, and air quality have all been seriously affected by climate change, and as a result, climate change has affected human health in a number of dangerous and potentially deadly ways. Sadly, it will continue to do so as global warming worsens.
How does climate change affect human health?
Human beings are among the many lifeforms affected by climate change, though ironically, global warming was completely brought on by human activity. For example, air pollution is the root of many human health problems, while deforestation has destroyed many of the trees sequestering CO2 emissions. Water pollution affects our food and water supply on a daily basis, high temperatures lead to droughts — which deprive communities of drinking water — and the melting ice caps endanger seaside communities daily.
The Coast-to-Coast Battle Over Rooftop Solar
Inside Climate News: Inside Clean Energy: The Coast-to-Coast Battle Over Rooftop Solar. As California works on a new net metering policy, other states are grappling with similar issues.
A debate over how best to compensate rooftop solar owners is taking place across the country.
In California, the country’s leading solar market, regulators are working on changes to rooftop solar rules, while utilities and solar advocates are trying to position themselves to shape the process to their liking.
Many of the other policy fights are happening in places where rooftop solar is at the margins, and utilities would like to keep it there.