Conservation News ~ 12 March 2021

• "Senate Energy Panel Backs Haaland For Interior Secretary"
• High Court: Barrett's First Ruling Hands Feds A Win In EPA Records Feud
• After Backing Green Building Codes, Local Governments Lose Right To Vote
• "Energy Dept To Restart Obama-Era Loans To Renewable Energy Companies"
• Biden Hosts Congress Members To Talk Infrastructure, Funding
• Energy Transitions: 'It's Gigantic': Battery Storage Grows Exponentially
• "The World’s Largest Intact Forest Is In Danger. Here’s How To Save It."
• Utilities Gearing Up to Install EV Charging Stations Across 16 States
• "More Than 50 Companies Have Vowed To Be Carbon-Neutral By 2040"
• "Butterfly Numbers Plummeting In US West As Climate Crisis Takes Toll"
• Royal Caracal Cats Now ‘Critically Endangered’ In India
• Scientists Discover an 81-Year-Old Snapper
• Countries to consider ground-breaking change to economic reporting that includes natural capital
• 450 butterfly species rapidly declining due to warmer autumns in the western U.S.
• Completely new species of firefly discovered in Singapore
• "Supreme Court Records Ruling Spurs FOIA Reform Push"
• Use of Disinfectants Has Soared, Sparking New Scrutiny Of Ingredients
• Trump-Emboldened Extremists Could Spell Trouble For Biden Interior Dept.
• Study Finds Wildfire Smoke Harms Humans More Than Pollution From Cars
• "Huge Louisiana Coastal Project Receives Positive Report From The Corps"
• Civilian Climate Corps Is a Government Plan That All Americans Can Back
• "Big Banks Make a Dangerous Bet on the World’s Growing Demand for Food"
• "PFAS In Pesticides: 'A Problem Of Epic Proportions'"
• As Biden Woos Both Labor And Greens On Climate, Pipelines May Divide Them
• "US States Look To Step Up Wolf Kills, Pushed By Republicans"
• Biden Reverses Trump-Era Gutting of Migratory Bird Protections
• Interior Nears OK For First US Commercial-Scale Offshore Wind Project
• "Journalists Face Record Levels Of Persecution Globally"
• Big Oil May Want Carbon Tax, But Biden and GOPers Not So Much
• Biden FDA Nears Limiting Toxic Heavy Metals In Commercial Baby Foods
• "White House’s Reworked Climate Metric Draws Lawsuit from States"
• "Caribbean Refinery To Test Biden's Promises On Poverty And Pollution"
• "Sen. Barrasso Backs Murkowski After Trump Targets Her"
• "For Planet Earth, No Tourism is a Curse and a Blessing"
• World's first dinosaur preserved sitting on nest of eggs with fossilized babies
• Wolves will be wolves, so manage the humans
• More than 100 Griffon Vultures pairs in the Eastern Rhodopes
• "Schumer Moves To Break GOP Holds On Haaland"
• 'Climate Time Bomb': 370+ Groups Urge Biden to Halt Line 3 Pipeline
• GOP Favorite Study Trashes Biden's Climate Plans – But Who's Behind It?
• Plant Emits HFC-23 That Does More Climate Damage Than All City Cars
• Courts Help Biden Quickly Dismantle Trump’s Environmental Legacy
• "The $21 Billion Reason to Clean Up Abandoned Oil Wells"
• "New Research Shows Just How Many Fish Are Eating Plastic"
• "Florida’s Flood Disclosure Rules Leave Homebuyers in the Dark"
• "Biden DOJ Backs PennEast Gas Pipeline in Supreme Court Fight"
• "Brood X Cicadas Are About To Put On One Of The Wildest Shows In Nature."
• Physics undergraduate proposes solution to quantum field theory problem
• 'Like a horror movie': Caterpillar silences tomato's cry for help, scientists find
• Scientists Discover Chunk of Protoplanet Older Than Earth In Sahara Desert
• Florida manatee deaths surge past 400 in first two months of 2021
• ENMU Professor's Beetle Discovery Named After Three Legendary Bird Pokémon
• "Senate Confirms Michael Regan To Lead EPA"
• "Biden Delays Trump Changes To Lead And Copper Drinking Water Rule"
• "Fish And Wildlife Service Under Trump Faulted For Lack Of Opinions"
• "In New Oversight Role, Katie Porter Targets Oil Industry"
• "‘There’s No Town Left’: Fukushima’s Eerie Landscapes"
• Oil’s Fight to Roll Back Tribal Sovereignty After Supreme Court Decision
• Arizona Legislature Resists Attempts To Protect Groundwater And Rivers
• "Solar Storms Can Wreak Havoc. We Need Better Space Weather Forecasts"
• Can DOE Store 50 Tons Of Weapons-Grade Plutonium For 10,000 Years?
• "Saving The West’s Most Iconic Cactus From Climate Change"
• Kern County approves plan to allow thousands of new oil wells despite environmental objections
• Jaw-Dropping Fossil Find Contains a Dinosaur Sitting on an Entire Clutch of Eggs
• Fossil fuel cars make 'hundreds of times' more waste than electric cars
• Queensland passes laws banning 'killer' single-use plastics
• Honolulu Charts a Path Away from Fossil Fuels
• Endangered Species Act Protection Sought for Rare Montana Plant           
• Bill proposed to remove grizzlies from endangered species list
• China environment minister urges crackdown on steel mills' illegal production
• Newly identified extinct insect suborder includes new species from Driftwood Canyon
• Hemiandrus jacinda: insect named after New Zealand prime minister
• "Senate Advances Interior Secretary Nominee Deb Haaland"
• "Senators Strike Early Bipartisan Tone On Infrastructure"
• "House Republicans May Follow Democrats In Rebooting Shamed 'Earmarks'"
• Community, Enviros Sue CA County on Vote To Allow 1000s Of New Oil Wells
• "In Swing Through Europe, John Kerry Aims To Boost Climate Action"
• US Must Cut Emissions By Over 57% To Meet Paris Climate Target: Report
• Trump Planned Logging in Yaak Valley; Greens Ask Biden For ‘Climate Refuge’
• Overlooked: Indigenous People Could Lead Global Plan to Conserve Nature
• Over 20 Countries Weakening Environmental Protection During Pandemic
• Senate confirms Michael Regan as EPA chief
• First Nations headdress stolen 15 years ago found in West Vancouver dumpster
• Deep-sea roombas will comb ocean floor for DDT waste barrels near Catalina
• Dutch to limit forest biomass subsidies, possibly signaling EU sea change
• Ecuador court orders end to gas flaring by oil industry in Amazon
• California proposes to transition away from toxic pesticides
• Garnier is now officially a certified cruelty-free brand
• US Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to Fairbanks Four lawsuit
• A Canadian Company upcycles millions of disposable chopsticks into sleek furniture and home goods
• Mexico’s vast tree-planting program ended up encouraging deforestation
• Critically endangered macademia species becomes a plant supermodel
• Eastern black rail added to endangered species list in Florida
• Missouri population of Eastern Hellbenders granted Endangered Species protection
• China to push for building ‘Polar Sil Road’ in Arctic Ocean
• Anglers find great white shark bonanza at whale carcass
• Sea otters maintain remnants of healthy kelp forest amid sea urchin barrens
• Land could be worth more left to nature than when farmed
• Next steps announced in process to reinstate and strengthen Migratory Bird Treaty Act
• A timber lobbyist called our investigation ‘completely bogus’ but we have the receipts to shot its not
• Ecology secures $3.6 million to restore and preserve vital coastal wetlands
• Good times in the Galapagos as island welcomes 36 endangered Giant Tortoises
• Chaco Canyon, a priceless desert park and cultural site, wins reprieve from oil and gas
• A cephalopod has passed a cognitive test designed for human children
• Giraffe dies at LA Zoo after delivery of stillborn calf
• There is a lithium mining war that could poison the Nevada Desert’s water
• World’s largest fluorescent rock found in New Jersey
• Giant clam shells worth $3.3 million seized in Philippine raid
• Rare plant found near Tucson, Sierra Vista to be added to endangered species list
• Willamette Valley Prairie Flower is latest Endangered Species Act success
• The collapse of Northern California kelp forests will be hard to reverse
• Red Wolf Veronica, F1858, passes away
• Biden administration rescinds restrictions on land fund that benefits Arizona