Conservation News ~ 23 April 2021

• Hunger Strikers Seeking Environmental Justice Win Air-Pollution Delay
• U.S. Seeks To Polish Tarnished Reputation With New Climate Pledges
• EPA IG: Trump Official Delayed Releasing Info On Cancer Chemical In Ill.
• "Judge Nixes Civil Rights Bid to Block Chicago Metal Shredder"
• "Infrastructure Plan Lifts Tribes’ Hope of Turning on Water Taps"
• Texas’s Zombie Oil Wells Are Creating An Environmental Disaster Zone
• "Regulators Rebuke PG&E For Neglect In Reducing Wildfire Risk"
• Old Apple Orchard To Make Clean Hydrogen Energy in Washington State
• S. Korean Fishmongers, Opposition Voice Concerns Over Fukushima Plans
• "Environmental Group Sues Over Protections For 20 Species"
• "‘Tiger King’ Stars’ Legal Woes Could Transform Cub-Petting Industry"
• Human impact on South America expanded by 60% since 1985
• Large New Amphibious Centipede Species Discovered in Okinawa and Taiwan
• Peru to establish rainforest reserve for isolated Indigenous peoples
• DNA from cave dirt tells tale of how some Neanderthals disappeared
• JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER CHALLENGED TO DRINK RADIOACTIVE WATER BEFORE DUMPING IT INTO THE OCEAN
• Female giraffe receives treatment after poachers amputate hind leg
• Extinction: Elephants driven to the brink by poaching
• Apple creates fund for 'working forests' as part of carbon-removal efforts
• STUDY: HUMANITY HAS RAVAGED ALL BUT 3 PERCENT OF THE LAND ON EARTH
• Suspected poached killed by herd of elephants in Kruger National Park
• ‘Single-use plastics’ to be phased out in Australia from 2025 include plastic utensils and straws
• The White House wants to spend $100 million to monitor the air we breathe
• Drones find signs of a Native American ‘Great Settlement’ beneath a Kansas pasture
• Deciduous trees offset carbon loss from Alaskan boreal fires, new study finds
• Illegal coal mine tunnels threaten a Sumatran village
• Rats reappear on Lord Howe Island for the first time since 2019 eradication program
• Despite Clashes, U.S. And China Vow To Work Together On Climate Change
• "Biden Pressed On Emissions Goal As Climate Summit Nears"
• On Infrastructure, Lofty Ideas Collide With Congressional Reality
• "Transmission Road Map Could Help Unlock Renewables"
• "Interior Order Revokes Trump Moves on Coal Leasing Moratorium"
• "Science Could Aid Climate Cases. Big Oil Is Fighting It"
• EPA Knows Tanks Holding Heavy Fuels Emit Harmful Chemicals
• "US West Prepares For Possible 1st Water Shortage Declaration"
• "Calls Grow For Undoing Environmental Damage Of Trump's Wall"
• Set For Summer: 49 New National Scenic Byways And All-American Roads
• Tarantulas Were Scuttling Around Earth Alongside Dinosaurs 120 Million Years Ago
• Environment protest being criminalised around world, say experts
• Winners of $20M contest make concrete to trap carbon dioxide
• Biggest Coal Mine Workers Union In the US Supports Switch to Renewables
• Rare species of deer born at Keystone Safari
• "Joe Biden To Reveal US Emissions Pledge In Key Climate Crisis Moment"
• "Biden Axes Top Trump Climate Scientist"
• Jackson, Miss., Won’t Release Email About 2020 Water System Problems
• "Is California Suffering A Decades-Long Megadrought?"
• Paint Stripper Methylene Chloride Caused More Deaths Than EPA Identified
• Biden Admin Releases $8 Billion In Disaster Funding For Puerto Rico
• GAO Raises Concerns About Government Inspections Of Offshore Pipelines
• "Size Of Pipeline Spill Again Underestimated In N. Carolina"
• Business Booming in America’s Forests. Some Aren’t Happy About It.
• "How Canada Is Trying To Protect Its Last Three Spotted Owls"
• Pollution settlements cost Delaware poultry producer $205 million
• Grizzlies use the same Yellowstone trails as people
• Some guitar makers in pursuit of sustainable manufacturing
• With British Columbia’s last old-growth at risk, government falters: Critics
• Caring for those ‘just like us’: Q&A with vet and great ape advocate Rick Quinn
• Did you know that a group of warthogs is called a sounder? Candid Animal Cam
• The U.S. reptile most at risk from rising seas is one you likely haven’t heard of
• Momentum is building for a ‘robust’ biodiversity framework: Q&A with Elizabeth Mrema
• Big cats: US senators seek ban on private ownership of lions and tigers
• Federal Analysis Finds Insecticide Malathion Imperils Continued Existence of 78 Endangered Species
• DiCaprio, Katy Perry urge Biden to refuse Brazil environment deal
• A recently discovered insect has been named after coronavirus 
• After 40 years, new fish species in named by students on Guam
• "Biden Plans To Cut Emissions At Least In Half By 2030"
• Report On Suncor Malfunctions Doesnt Quell Calls For Refinery’s Closure
• "Legislation Aims To Kill 90% Of Wolves Roaming Idaho"
• Biden Admin Kicks Off Plan To Shore Up Cybersecurity Of Electric Grid
• Watchdog: Trump-Era Rollback Of Car Rules Undercut EPA Staffers' Advice
• "How Politics Is Shaping Biden’s Infrastructure Proposal"
• ‘Water Warriors’: US Women Banding Together To Fight For Water Justice
• "U.S. To Join Global Effort To Decarbonize Shipping Industry - Kerry"
• Controversial $2.5B Oil Terminal Moves Forward In Plaquemines Parish
• Spillover: We Failed To Stop SARS-CoV-2. How Do We Find Next 'Big One'?
• Melting ice in Arctic linked to bowhead whales holding off annual migration
• New beef scorecard measures brands against their deforestation promises
• Hunger, disorientation blamed for pilot whale mass stranding in Indonesia
• Deadly new snake named after mythical Chinese goddess of healing
• Environmental art initiative aims to help paint a better future for Southeast Asia
• Dams drove an Asian dolphin extinct. They could do the same in the Amazon
• Nature is no longer “a nice to have,” it’s “a must-have”: Q&A with André Hoffmann
• Food systems drive a third of greenhouse gas emissions, study estimates
• Legislation aims to kill 90% of wolves roaming Idaho
• "A Guide To Biden's Climate Summit"
• "Dems Push $25B For Electric School Buses, A Biden Priority"
• "White House Moves To Assist Western U.S. Communities Hit By Drought"
• "Lead Detected In 80% Of Allegheny County, Pa., Water Systems: Report"
• Collins Joins Democrats In Bid To Undo Trump Methane Emissions Rollback
• "10 Things We Learned About Earth Since The Last Earth Day"
• "Four In 10 Americans Live In Counties With Unhealthy Air Pollution"
• "Texas On Track To Add Record Solar Power Capacity By End Of 2022"
• "‘Forever Chemicals’ Coat The Outer Layers Of Biodegradable Straws"
• "Harriet Tubman’s Family Home Unearthed In Maryland Wildlife Refuge"
• Judge gives feds 30 days to decide if wildflower is endangered
• Biden Administration Moves to Unwind Trump Auto-Emissions Policy
• Governors Urge Biden To Order 100% Zero-Emission Car Sales By 2035
• President Biden Pledges To Cut US Carbon Emission By Up To 52 Percent By 2030
• The U.S. electric power sector is ‘halfway’ to zero carbon emissions
• ‘Teeming with biodiversity’: green groups buy Belize forest to protect it ‘in perpetuity’
• Thousands Of Pounds of Marine Debris Removed From Channel Islands Marine Sanctuary
• Four in 10 Americans live in counties with unhealthy air pollution levels
• Humanity’s dysfunctional relationship with Earth can still be fixed, report says
• Saving our ‘Beloved Beasts’: Q&A with environmental journalist Michelle Nijhuis
• The political economy of the Pan-Amazon (book excerpt)
• Jamaican Climate Change Youth Council seizes opportunity to continue advocacy amidst pandemic
• No monkey business: For Zanzibar’s red colobus, speed bumps are lifesavers
• Indonesia’s bid to control deforestation wildly off-target, experts say
• Researchers rush to understand kelp forests as harvesting increases
• Pipeline tells Black Memphis landowners: sell us the rights to your land or get sued
• Recovering America’s Wildlife Act reintroduced to U.S. House
• The Nation’s Corn Belt Has Lost a Third of Its Topsoil
• Humanity’s dysfunctional relationship with Earth can still be fixed
• Endangered orange-bellied parrots released into wild
• Dolphins, turtles found dead in Kipini due to trawling activities
• Bank climate pledges in doubt after US giants sit out global agreement
• Florida agriculture officials ban citrus pesticide approved near end of previous administration
• ‘Extinct’ highly venomous sea snake rediscovered in ocean’s twilight zone
• America’s largest coal miners’ union back clean energy
• Biden invites 40 world leaders to virtual summit on climate crisis
• JPMorgan Chase expanding deforestation policies under shareholder pressure
• Blue Nature Alliance aims to restore 7 million square miles of ocean in five years
• Seagrass forests counteract ocean acidification
• France drafts ecocide bill to punish acts of environmental damage
• Recent jaguar sighting give experts hope for species recovery on both sides of the Arizona-Mexico border
• One person arrested in connection with TABLE Mountain Fire
• As coal pollution declines, crops begin to flourish
• NZ to launch world-first climate change rules
• Lawsuit filed to protect rare Southern Nevada wildflower
• Phoenix Zoo welcomed new species and 14 prairie dog pups
• New species of ehu is named after scientist who spent decades studying the fish
• $25 million worth of giant clam shells seized in the Philippines
• Coffee waste can boost tropical forest recovery
• In world first, New Zealand to make banks report climate impact
• Deb Haaland scraps a slew of fossil-fuel friendly Trump orders
• Shrinking sea meadows store more carbon than forests
• Indian government makes another attempt to amend the Indian Forest Act of 1927
• Western US may be entering its most severe drought in modern history
• First GMO mosquitoes to be released in the Florida Keys
• With first-ever Colorado River shortage almost certain, states stare down Mandatory cutbacks
• New species of dumbo octopus identified using minimally invasive techniques