Conservation News ~ 23 September 2022

• "As Wildfires Grow, Millions of Homes Are Being Built in Harm’s Way"
• "As Seas Rise, U.S. Coastal Landowners Urged To Let The Water In"
• Will New Indiana Plant Recycle Plastic Waste or Just Incinerate It?
• "California’s Newsom Signs Bills Boosting State Extreme-Heat Plan"
• "Air Conditioning Has A Climate Problem. New Technology Could Help."
• Enviros Seek To List Rare NV Springsnail As Endangered Due To Lithium Mine
• "The Gulf of Maine Is Simmering, But Its Lobsters Seem Fine — For Now"
• "It Wasn’t Just Oil Companies Spreading Climate Denial"
• "Climate Change Raises New Challenges for Marijuana Farmers"
• Congress Studies Addition Of Lynching Sites To National Park System
• Tiny new tree frog species found in rewilded Costa Rican nature reserve
• A New Pearl Oyster Species Has Been Found Off The Coast Of Thailand
• UN chief visits Pakistan floods
• Egypt accused of thwarting environmental groups ahead of COP2
• Brazil Faces Two Contrasting Legacies For Amazon In October’s Elections
• "White House Alarm Rises Over Europe As Putin Threatens Energy Supply"
• "US Takes Aim At Some Trump Offshore Safety Rule Rollbacks"
• "FEMA Removes Data Showing Drop In Flood Insurance Policies"
• Tidal Marsh Or 'Fake Habitat'? Calif. Environmental Project Draws Critics
• Human Rights Group: Egypt Stifles Environmental Work Ahead of COP
• "At 75, the Father of Environmental Justice Meets the Moment"
• "Biden To Boost Biotech To Tackle Cancer, Climate Change"
• "To Clean Up The Potomac, Engineers Are Digging A 2-Mile Tunnel Under It"
• Conservation May Change Focus on Charismatic Wildlife Species
• Hawaii's Prolonged Drought Is Pushing Native Species to the Brink
• Tri-colored bat proposed for federal endangered species listing
• Tiny New Tree Frog Species Found in Rewilded Costa Rican Nature Reserve
• Lawsuit Aims to Protect West Coast Fisher
• USAID Announces New Up To $18.5 Million Effort to Conserve Forests in Papua New Guinea
• Co-existence, not Fortress Conservation: Here is why India's cheetah experiment is unique
• "Dozens Of Buildings Burn As Gusty Winds Fan California Wildfire"
• "‘Clairvoyant’ 2012 Climate Report Warned Of Extreme Weather"
• "UN Sums Up Climate Science: World Heading In Wrong Direction"
• "EPA Beats Challenge to New Freedom of Information Act Process"
• "Why Heat Wave Warnings Are Falling Short In The U.S."
• "Switching To Renewable Energy Could Save Trillions - Study"
• "Alfalfa Farmers Asked To Give Up Crop Amid Megadrought In US South-West"
• "Energy Crisis: Why We Benefit From Darker Cities"
• "For Climate Voters, The Future Is Female"
• The Mysterious, Vexing, and Utterly Engrossing Search for the Origin of Eels
• "House Dem Leaders Scramble Permitting Reform Effort"
• Biden Goes To Detroit, Pledges Electrification
• Judge Tosses Air Permit For Giant Formosa Plastics Complex, Citing EJ
• "Administration Awards Gulf Of Mexico Drilling Leases To Oil Giants"
• "U.S. House Democrats Probe PR Firms' Work For Oil, Gas Companies"
• "‘We’re Losing Our People’"
• "EU, Australia Shape Standards to Keep PFAS Off the Dinner Table"
• "California Water Pipeline Hits Legal Setback"
• "Lyme Disease Spike Tied To Climate. Where’s The Vaccine?"
• "Billionaire No More: Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company"
• "Senate Democrats Set Action On Kigali Climate Treaty"
• "Biden Plans Floating Platforms To Expand Offshore Wind Power"
• In Study of Pakistan’s Floods, Scientists See Climate Change at Work
• "The Titans of Plastic"
• "Community Spread Of Polio Prompts CDC Wastewater Surveillance"
• "States Balk at Permitting Plan’s ‘National Interest’ Power Lines"
• "Boil-Water Notice Lifted In Jackson, Mississippi, After Nearly 7 Weeks"
• "New Atlas of Bird Migration Shows Extraordinary Journeys"
• New Docs Show Oil Companies Slow-Rolling, Overselling Climate Initiatives
• "At Old Coal Mines, the American Chestnut Tries for a Comeback"
• Giant sequoia protection efforts underway in the southern Sierra
• Researchers find 3 previously-unknown fly species in Finnish forests
• Three new species of Cryptozoic snakes discovered under graveyards and churches in Ecuador
• A new species of anthropophilic sand fly
• Long Beach Aquarium Releasing Endangered Frogs Back Into Wild
• Oregon high court declines appeal in $1 billion timber suit
• "Fiona Barrels Toward Turks And Caicos As Cat. 3 Hurricane"
• Vulnerable Nations Demand Global Tax To Pay For Climate Loss And Damage
• "Even Before Fiona, Puerto Rico’s Power Grid Was Poised For Failure"
• "Climate Law Spurs CCS At New West Virginia Gas Plant"
• "GOP’s Bad Blood Threatens Manchin Side Deal"
• "GAO: Government Must Boost Climate Resilience"
• "Pentagon Shift to PFAS-Free Foam Spurring ‘Tidal Wave’ of Change"
• "State of Unease: Colorado Basin Tribes Without Water Rights"
• World’s Oldest Winged Insect Is in Trouble. How Frightened Should We Be?
• "This Map Can Tell You When Fall Foliage Is Peaking In 2022"
• Puerto Rico: Hurricane Fiona Causes Territory-Wide Blackout, Flooding
• Storm Lashes Alaskan Shore, Bringing Severe Flooding And Evacuations
• "Permitting Overhaul In Peril As Funding Deadline Looms"
• "The U.S. Forgot Lake Charles, And It Could Happen Again Elsewhere"
• "WHO Raises Alarm On Disease In Flood-Hit Areas Of Pakistan"
• "Feds Raid Oil & Gas Polluter's Offices"
• Fossil Firms Seek To Expand Own Free Speech - Limit It For Citizens
• Regulators Let Oil Companies Gulp California's Dwindling High-Quality Water
• "Iraq's Political Stalemate Pushes Climate Action To Backseat"
• "Flight of the Condors"
• Lawsuit Launched to Protect Threatened Coral Species
• Sri Lankan study identifies new jellyfish, sparking interest in the species
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• Researchers uncover 33 new species of toxic fungi
• "Kigali Climate Treaty Clears Senate Hurdle"
• "Biden to Skip UN Climate Meeting as Issue Moves to ‘Back Burner’"
• "Louisiana Takes Big Step Toward Unprecedented Land-Building Project"
• "Al Gore Calls the World Bank Chief a 'Climate Denier'"
• Louisiana Plant Explosion Highlighted In Push For New Chemical Safety Rules
• Cambodian Mekong Mega Dam’s Resurrection ‘The Beginning Of The End’
• In Puerto Rico The Vast Majority Of People Have No Clean Water
• "Fury Over ‘Forever Chemicals’ as US States Spread Toxic Sewage Sludge"
• Dutch Meuse River Rewilding Project Turns Back The Clock 500 Years
• "Inside The War Against Southern California’s Urban Coyotes"
• Senate Ratifies Pact to Curb Broad Category of Potent Greenhouse Gases
• "Manchin Releases Permitting Reform Package"
• "Biden Meets With U.K. Leader Under Cloud Of Climate Skepticism"
• "Revealed: The ‘Shocking’ Levels Of Toxic Lead In Chicago Tap Water"
• "Climate Reporting Gets EPA Help as Wall Street Rules Face Fight"
• "Atlantic Canada On Hurricane Fiona's Path, Broad Impact Expected"
• "NIH Advisers Urge Tighter Oversight Of Experiments On Deadly Viruses"
• "Exclusive: U.S. EPA To Consider Tougher Emissions Rules For Heavy Trucks"
• How EPA Effort to Reduce Climate-Warming ‘Immortal’ Chemicals Stalled
• "New System Aims to Save Whales Near San Francisco From Ship Collisions"
• Drought threatens UK government's mass forestry scheme
• Endangered status proposed for tri-colored bat
• Interior Department Announces Nearly $105 Million in Funding for Wetland Conservation
• Wildlife experts rescued 32 of the 230 whales that were found stranded on the wild and remote west coast of Australia’s island state Tasmania.
• Mongabay founder and CEO Rhett Ayers Butler has won the 2022 Heinz Award for the Environment
• Dave Foreman passes away
• For the first time since the 1940s, Chinook salmon are swimming in the McCloud River
• Rare yellow-legged frogs are returned to drought-hammered San Gabriel Mountains
• Jeep will electrify entire lineup, launch 4 EVs by 2025
• China discovers stunning crystal on the moon, nuclear fusion fuel for limitless energy
• Researchers generate fusion at 100 million Kelvin for 20 seconds
• DNA study traces the homeland of modern humans to the Makgadikadi-Okavango wetland
• "Embattled World Bank Leader ‘Slow-Walking’ Climate Initiatives"
• "California Should Expect A ‘Fourth Dry Year’ As Drought Persists"
• "White House Launches ‘Generational’ $7 Billion Hydrogen Plan"
• "Wildfire Smoke Is Erasing Progress on Clean Air"
• "Fiona Will Lash Parts Of Canada As Region’s Strongest Storm On Record"
• "FERC Chair’s Renomination in Limbo, Raising Fears About Deadlock"
• "UK Government Lifts Fracking Ban Despite Opposition"
• "Climate-Fueled Wildfires Worsen Danger for Struggling Fish"
• "Drowning Island Nations: ‘This Is How A Pacific Atoll Dies’"
• "Minnesota Ojibwe Harvest Sacred, Climate-Imperiled Wild Rice"