Conservation News ~ 28 April 2023

• Biden signs executive order creating Office of Environmental Justice
• "E.P.A. to Propose First Controls on Greenhouse Gases From Power Plants"
• "UN’s Weather Agency: 2022 Was Nasty, Deadly, Costly And Hot"
• "In Puerto Rico, Solar Power Microgrids Boost Hurricane Resilience"
• "FTC Eyes Revisions to the Guidelines that Shape Green Marketing"
• "Historic Investment In Urban Trees Underway Across The U.S."
• Earth Day Greenwashing Must Not Detract From Message: Protest Founder
• "New Federal Program Targets Abandoned Crab, Lobster Traps"
• "Unhealthy Air Alerts In Eastern North Carolina As Fire Rages"
• "The Giving Forest"
• "Last Earth Day, Wynn Bruce Set Himself on Fire Outside the Supreme Court"
• Scientists find 26 new species of worm in Porirua
• Two new species of crayfish found in western North Carolina
• Wetland-Dependent Desert Flower Protected Under Endangered Species Act
• Native New Mexico plant named endangered species
• An Indigenous woman from the Amazon wins the Goldman Environment Prize
• "Oil Companies Rejected by Supreme Court on Climate Suits"
• "Many Young Voters Bitter Over Biden’s Support of Willow Oil Drilling"
• "Biden Threatens To Veto House Resolution To End Solar Panel Tariffs Freeze"
• "Granholm Backs Mountain Valley Pipeline"
• EPA Accused Of Failing To Regulate Use Of Toxic Herbicide Despite Court Order
• 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners Include Texas Gulf Coast Defender
• EPA Settlement Forces Chemical Plant To Cut Cancer-Causing Air Pollutants
• "Safety Board: Several Issues Contributed to Massive Fire at BioLab"
• "The Next Big U.S. Power Plant Fight Is Coming"
• "Salamander Dads Are Turning Into Cannibals, Threatening Species Survival"
• Vying for 2024, Can Biden Repair Damaged Climate and Environmental Image?
• "Top US Banks Face Little Investor Pressure On Fossil-Fuel Financing"
• Amid Fires, Calif. Scientists Probe How Smoke Affects Pregnancy and Children
• "EPA Solvent Rule Said to Signal Hurdles Ahead for US Industries"
• Record Number Of Dam Removals Helps Restore Rivers Across Europe
• "Blackout-Beset South Africa May Delay Closing Coal Stations"
• "U.S. Identifies Gulf Of Maine Area For Offshore Wind Development"
• New Book: "Did a Military Lab Spill Anthrax Into Public Waterways?"
• "Clean Energy, Ethanol Concerns Dog Debt Ceiling Bill"
• "Governors Island to Be Site of $700 Million Climate Campus"
• "House Republicans Pass US Debt Bill, Push Biden On Spending"
• "In the Game of Musical Mines, Environmental Damage Takes a Back Seat"
• Scientists: "Record Ocean Temperatures Put Earth In ‘Uncharted Territory’"
• "Senate Votes To Overturn Biden Truck Pollution Limit"
• "Home Efficiency Plans Run Up Against Lack of Qualified Workers"
• "GM Kills Another Electric Car. It’s Different This Time."
• Canada Oil Sands Leak Heightens First Nations' Calls To Clean Up Tailings
• Ex-Federal Officials Slam WHO For Misleading Guidance On ‘Forever Chemicals’
• Justice Gorsuch Sold House to Guy Whose Firm Brought Clean Power Plan Suit
• "Will California’s Big Melt Be A Slow-Moving Disaster?"
• "Climate Change Caused Catastrophic East Africa Drought, Scientists Say"
• EPA and Texas Ignored Warnings at Chemical Site. Then an Inferno Erupted.
• "BC Hydro Secretly Handed Out $430 Million In Site C Dam Contracts"
• House Dems Release Permitting Proposal Focused On Electricity, Renewables
• Enviros Hit GOP With Attack Ads Over Votes To Repeal Renewable Tax Credits
• "Anti-China Fervor Casts A Dark Cloud Over Solar And U.S. Climate Goals"
• Flooding on Upper Mississippi River To Halt Barge Traffic For Weeks: USDA
• L.A.’s Water Lifeline Faces Unprecedented Flood Threat, Calamity
• "Drop The 'Natural' In Natural Gas, Climate Activists Urge US Officials"
• "Coral Reefs Are in Crisis. Could a Controversial Idea Help?"
• Oregon State University researcher will receive top global forestry award from Swedish king
• Lion thought extinct in Chad reappears after 20 year hiatus
• Study shows dramatic insect decline is also occurring in forests
• Organic roofs top green hillocks in Mexico City forest to form zero-waste pavilions
• Sleeping elephant seals fall though oceans depths
• Researchers develop carbon-negative concrete
• Scientists discover pristine deep-sea Galapagos reed teeming with life
• Johan Rockstrom: The 100 most influential people of 2023
• Salting and burying biomass crops in dry landfills could economically capture greenhouse gas for thousands of years
• Scientists find unprecedented rates of sea level rise along some US coasts that’s 3 times higher than global average