Four States Just Got a ‘Trifecta’ of Democratic Control, Paving the Way for Climate and Clean Energy Legislation
by Inside Climate News | November 9, 2022
The new administration can empower state regulatory agencies by appointing leadership that prioritizes clean and affordable energy policies, said Emily Scarr, director of Maryland PIRG, the Baltimore-based consumer advocacy group. It would send a clear message that it plans to hold ...
REPORT | Bureau of Land Management Land Health Status – 11-09-2022 (PDF)
Huge swaths of BLM lands are failing fundamental land health standards with current livestock grazing management identified as a significant cause ...
Did climate change really kill billions of snow crabs in Alaska?
by MongaBay | November 7, 2022
Carter Braxton Dew, a former NOAA fisheries biologist who worked for the agency for 25 years, agreed that climate change probably isn’t solely responsible for the snow crab’s disappearance. “During the past few years, as the numbers of some major Bering Sea crab stocks have ...
New Evidence Shows Pesticides Contain PFAS, and the Scale of Contamination Is Unknown
by Civil Eats |
At the time, no one was talking about PFAS in pesticides, and Lasee didn’t know what to make of his results. That changed last year, when he began to see news coming out of two states. First, in December 2020, the nonprofit organization Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility ( ...
How the Hulk Took EPA to Task Over Forever Chemicals
by E&E News | November 4, 2022
The document went on: “In addition, he has been retweeting stories after you made the announcement that say that ‘experts say the plan isn’t enough,’” as well as stories that “emphasize” Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and attorney Robert Bilott, the memo ...