Articles include: Making way for wildlife; Biden suspends drilling in the Arctic Refuge; imagining life after highways; methane emitters; where solar & wind power are needed; Study: heat deaths & climate change; Trump denial; airlines & GHGs; Norwegian environmental base.
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The Senate just took a step toward actually lowering US greenhouse gas emissions.
Vox: The Senate just took a step toward actually lowering US greenhouse gas emissions. Why the Senate’s move to reverse Trump’s deregulation of methane molecules is so critical, and where the resolution goes next.
The Senate on Wednesday took an important step forward on limiting emissions — and meeting its commitments to curb global warming — by voting to limit the unbridled release of methane molecules, often a byproduct of natural gas production, into the atmosphere.
The 52-42 vote reinstates the Oil and Natural Gas New Source Performance Standards, a handful of Obama-era regulations on methane emissions rolled back by former President Donald Trump in August 2020. The measure drew support from every Senate Democrat, as well as Republican Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), who has opposed GOP efforts to deregulate methane emissions in the past; Lindsey Graham (R-SC); and Rob Portman (R-OH). The rule is expected to be taken up and passed by the House of Representatives in May.
The Daily Climate, April 8, 2021
Articles include: Marine life can’t survive at the equator; Black climate agenda; Biden to court – dismiss children’s lawsuit; ghost forests and sea level rise; Enbridge pipeline & Michigan; handling the climate crisis; nuclear heating plant; lightning & the Arctic; Report: Canadian wood pellet industry; EPA reverses trump; polar bears’ food plight; PayPal net-zero pledge.
The Daily Climate, April 1,2021
Articles include: Climate change and financial markets; Report: O&G warning – diversify; Tackling climate change will create jobs; Biden and electric vehicles; Rainforests will become savannas – study and study. EU climate plan and Asia; greening the financial system; low maximum Arctic ice; world bank financing fossil fuels; Canada’s TransMountain pipeline study paper from a team at Simon Fraser University‘s School of Resource and Environmental Management; Increase funding for poor nations; Saudi Arabia, renewable energy, planting trees; frequent flyers; Aussie brewer and solar power; coal shutdowns – German approach; Report (no link provided): Barrier Reef doomed; EPA fires trump appointees.
The Daily Climate, March 30,2021
Articles include: Eastern Kentucky and flooding; Biden offshore wind farms; Massachusetts law and gas ban; Japan’s cherry blossoms peak; Electric vehicles; investigating trump attacks on science; Russian oil leaks; DOE & carbon capture; Study: China and coal-based electricity (published by Ember, the London-based energy and climate research group – no link provided); Biden reducing methane emissions.
Environmental Health News, March 26, 2021
Articles include: mystery chemicals found in pregnant women; Europe’s plastic boom and US fracking; US Chemical Safety Board & trump; Paraquat poisoning; Florida’s lead poisoning problem; pesticides in US streams; Study paper released last week on Florida manatees exposed to weed killer adds glyphosate; microbes & PFAS; Rat Study published in the journal Particle and Fibre Toxicology: chemicals pass through to offspring; coal plant next door.
The Daily Climate, March 25, 2021
Articles include: midwestern winemakers; Mauritanian protestor; Netflix bingeing; Biden halted O&G leases; China’s coal spree; Report: big banks financing O&G drilling; Democrats plan to revive Obama-era climate change rule; riders abandoning buses & trains; new climate change technology; sea ice in Northern Labrador; EPA to review Trump’s attacks on science; 50% carbon cut by 2050.
The Daily Climate, March 18, 2921
Articles include: Republicans warn Federal Reserve against assessing climate risk in financial system; The EPA restores climate change website deleted under Trump; Study: Ocean emissions from bottom trawling are equivalent to global aviation; Scientists claim feeding cows seaweed could slash their methane emissions by a staggering 82 percent; Nearly half the U.S. is in drought that’s expected to grow worse: NOAA; Inside clean energy: Where can we put all those wind turbines?
The Daily Climate, March 10, 2021
Articles include: One chemical plant emits a super-pollutant that does more climate damage than every car in the city Is the ‘legacy’ carbon credit market a climate plus or just hype? Ecuador court orders end to gas flaring by oil industry in Amazon; California’s big oil wins OK for 40,500 wells. Farmer vows to sue; Federal courts help Biden quickly dismantle Trump’s climate and environmental legacy; Twelve states are suing Biden’s administration over executive order on climate change; Climate change could drive Komodo dragons to extinction; Republicans’ new favorite study trashes Biden’s climate plans – but who’s behind it? U.S. judge approves Daimler’s $1.5 billion diesel emissions settlement
Trump policy that weakened wild bird protections is revoked
ABC News: Trump policy that weakened wild bird protections is revoked. The Biden administration has reversed a policy imposed under President Donald Trump that drastically weakened the government’s power to enforce a century-old law protecting most U.S. bird species.
The Biden administration on Monday reversed a policy imposed under former President Donald Trump that drastically weakened the government’s power to enforce a century-old law that protects most U.S. bird species.
Trump ended criminal prosecutions against companies responsible for bird deaths that could have been prevented.
The move halted enforcement practices under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act in place for decades — resulting most notably in a $100 million settlement by energy company BP after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill killed about 100,000 birds, according to federal data. Some scientists have said that number could be higher.
A federal judge in New York in August struck down the Trump administration’s legal rationale for changing how the bird treaty was enforced.