Staff Report – It’s that time of year again when the weather begins to grow hotter and the hurricanes start forming off the west coast of Africa and swirling across the Atlantic Ocean toward the United States. And yes, the planet is still growing hotter due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels…
ENVIRONMENT
The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon – The Fish Are Vanishing Anyway.
By Tony Schick, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and Irena Hwang, ProPublica – Photography by Kristyna Wentz-Graff, Oregon Public Broadcasting – CARSON, Wash. — The fish were on their way to be executed. One minute, they were swimming around a concrete pond. The next, they were being dumped onto a stainless steel table set on an incline.…
Americans Remain Concerned About Climate Change and Related Disasters, as WMO Predicts the World Could See a 1.5 Degree Rise in the Next Five Years
By Glynn Wilson – As carbon emissions rise and the planet continues its warming trend, climate change and energy are increasingly on the public’s mind, according to public opinion surveys from Morning Consult. For good reason, according to the latest data. There is a 50-50 chance of the annual average global temperature temporarily reaching 1.5°…
The Earth Nears a Tipping Point When Forests Stop Storing Carbon and Release it Into the Atmosphere
We can’t plant enough trees to stop run amok deforestation – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As if the world needed another reason to be down on Russia, the widespread wildfires that raged across Russia in 2021, burning vast swaths of forest and sending smoke as far as the North Pole, unleashed massive…
Earth Day 2022: Will We Ever Learn?
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Millions of people all over the world came out on April 22, 1970 to celebrate the first Earth Day, and the era of environmental activism was launched. The movement was an evolution from the non-violent activism for civil rights and against the war in…
Biden Administration Announces New Vehicle Fuel Economy Standards to Require 49 MPG by 2026
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Spurred on by high gas prices and increasing evidence of climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels for transportation as well as energy, the Biden Administration moved quickly and aggressively to reverse Trump administration rollbacks in new car fuel economy standards and announced much…
Distracted by War and Crises, the World Sleepwalks to ‘Climate Catastrophe’
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — All you have to do is glance at what people are paying attention to on social media and television to see that United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres was right on Monday when he said the world is “sleepwalking to climate catastrophe.” “There is no kind way to put…
Summer Global Warming Trends Expected to Continue Across U.S., Along With Droughts, Fires in the West
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the Earth turns toward the first day of Spring on Sunday, March 20, climate scientists are forecasting the continuation of a trend from April to June of higher temperatures across most of the Unites States, from the Desert Southwest to the East Coast and north through the Midwest…
Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Biden Administration and Considering Climate Change When Forming Federal Policy
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden Administration received a favorable ruling from an appeals court Wednesday that overruled a local Louisiana judge who had tried to ban the federal government from considering climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels when making policy decisions on such things as…
Louisiana Company and President Plead Guilty to Clean Air Act Violations for Tampering with Truck Emissions
PPEI and President Kory Willis Plead Guilty and Agree to Pay $3.1 Million in Criminal Fines and Civil Penalties for the Manufacture and Sale of Illegal Delete Devices and Tunes for Diesel Trucks By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – People concerned about the environment often wonder why companies, presidents and owners are rarely held…
Biden Administration Won’t Fight Court Ruling Revoking Massive Oil Drilling Leases in Gulf of Mexico
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden administration will not challenge a federal court ruling saying the Department of the Interior under former President Trump failed to take climate change into account when it auctioned off 1.7 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling last year. The decision invalidated…
Deep Cuts in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Required or Humanity Faces Hellish Future
Staff Report – BERLIN (Feb 28, 2022) – Human-induced climate change is causing dangerous and widespread disruption in nature and affecting the lives of billions of people around the world, despite efforts to reduce the risks, scientists say in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, and people and ecosystems least able to cope…
Havana Syndrome Clearly Caused by Directed Energy Weapon
Will the American People Be Told the Truth About Who is Responsible? By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The mysterious Havana Syndrome, called an “alleged set of medical symptoms with unknown causes experienced mostly abroad by U.S. government officials and military personnel,” is so mainstream now that it has its own Wikipedia page. So…
Federal Judge Rules For Environmentalists, Canceling Oil and Gas Leases in Gulf of Mexico
The Biden Administration Must Take Climate Change Into Account Under the Law – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a first of its kind decision with far reaching implications for the battle against climate change and potentially the fossil fuel economy, a federal judge ruled on Thursday in favor of environmental groups against…
Biden Administration’s EPA Announces ‘Bold Actions’ to Protect Poor, Minority Communities in the South from Pollution
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following through on his commitment to action during his Journey to Justice Tour, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael S. Regan announced the first in a series of actions on Wednesday responding directly to concerns of communities historically and disproportionately impacted by pollution in the South, including “Cancer Alley”…
Maryland Environmental Activists Fight Proposed Forestland Sale by NASA
Doomsday Clock Set at 100 Seconds to Midnight
On 75th Anniversary, The Time is the Closest to Midnight in Clock’s History – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – While the past year offered glimmers of hope that humankind might reverse its march toward global catastrophe, the Doomsday Clock was set at just 100 seconds to midnight on Thursday. The time is based on…
How America’s Complicated History With Toxic Exposure and Environmental Racism is Impacting Vulnerable Communities
Guest Column – By Jonathan Sharp – Environmental racism is a kind of racial inequality prevalent in the United States of America and around the world. Environmentally toxic plants, dumping grounds and similar sites are often located in low-income areas populated by people of color. Exposure to materials in and around these sites often lead…
National Park Service Announces Entrance Fee-Free Days for 2022
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Park Service will offer five entrance fee-free days in 2022, free admission days designed to encourage discovery and visitation of the country’s variety of national parks. With at least one in every state, national parks are accessible places to visit to refresh the body, mind and spirit, according to…
E.O. Wilson, a Pioneer of Evolutionary Biology and Scientific Studies of Ants and Human Behavior, Dies at 92
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – If ever there lived a scientist who came closest to figuring out the essence of human nature and what we need to do to survive on planet Earth, it was Edward Osborne Wilson from Birmingham, Alabama, who reached the zenith of the biological sciences at Harvard and provided…