Conservation News ~ 5 May 2023

• "EPA Allows Gasoline With Higher Ethanol Blend During Summer"
• "California Phases Out Diesel Trucks: What Happens Next?"
• "New York to Ban Natural Gas, Including Stoves, in New Buildings"
• "House OKs Resolution Overturning Biden Solar Tariff Pause"
• "California's Fire Season Under Way Weeks After Heavy Rain and Snow"
• "Dispatcher Frustration Over Stress And Pay Risks US Wildfire Chaos"
• "Will A New National Park Mend Tribal Ties?"
• "The Places At Greatest Risk From Extreme Heat"
• "Maine Transmission Line Is Stalled Despite Court Victories"
• "What Cheetahs, Armadillos and Whales Revealed About Human DNA"
• Scientists discover 3 new sea worms that glow in the dark
• ZSI team discovers 2 new spider species in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
• "Supreme Court to Mull Voiding Chevron Ruling on Agency Power"
• "Many California Hospitals Are Near Wildfire Danger Zones, Study Says"
• "Navajo Nation, Activists Feel Cut Out As Company Plans Uranium Mining
• Climate Change Is Walloping US Farms. Can Farm Bill Create Solutions?
• "Environmental Groups Sue U.S. Over SpaceX Launch License For Texas"
• "Orbiting Methane ‘Speed Cameras’ Are Catching Polluters in the Act"
• Brazil’s Lula Recognizes Six Indigenous Lands, And Says More To Come
• "California Condors In Arizona, Utah Died From Avian Flu"
• "What Sound Can Tell Us About Our Changing World"
• "A Grove Of Tree Books For Arbor Day"
• 58 species added, 36 removed from Michigan's threatened, endangered species list
• Scientists Use NASA Satellite Data to Determine Belize Coral Reef Risk
• "Famine Still Stalks Somalia"
• "Biden’s Push To Disclose Climate Risks Hits Wall Of Industry Resistance"
• "How Dust Storms Happen, And Why They’re So Dangerous"
• "Outrage Over Fresh Chemical Leak At Shell Plastics Plant"
• Enviros Want FTC Green Guides to Shun ‘Chemical’ Recycling of Plastic Waste
• "Climate-Hit Wetlands Lay Bare Britain's Biodiversity Struggle"
• "The FCC Is Supposed to Protect the Environment. It Doesn’t."
• "Google Promised to Defund Climate Lies, but the Ads Keep Coming"
• "Toxic Vinyl Chloride Is A Widespread Environmental Injustice"
• "They Pollute. You Pay (Literally)."
• New mushroom species discovered from Sri Lanka
• New subterranean catfish species discovered in India
• "Senators Back Solar Tariffs, Oppose Prairie Bird Safeguards"
• "Is It a Lake, or a Battery? A New Kind of Hydropower Is Spreading Fast."
• "Fla. And La. Must Borrow Millions To Pay Insurance Claims"
• "Biden Administration Proposes Water Quality Standard For Tribes"
• Senators Hopeful They Can Keep Rail Safety Bill On Track After E Palestine
• "Inside Big Beef’s Climate Messaging Machine: Confuse, Defend And Downplay"
• "U.S. Climate Envoy Kerry Says China Has Invited Him For Talks"
• "Hawaii Lawmakers Fail To Pass Annual Park Fee For Tourists"
• "UN Warns Heat Records Could Be Broken As Chance Of El Niño Rises"
• "The Latest To Be Evacuated From California's Floods? Bunnies"
• Black Alabamians Endured Poor Sewage For Decades. Now They May See Justice.
• Texas’ Water Infrastructure Is Broken, Jeopardizing Quality And Supply
• "Living and Breathing on the Front Line of a Toxic Chemical Zone"
• In ‘Cancer Alley’, Chemical Giants Campaign Against Grassroots Organizers
• "WVa Residents Rip Pesticide Facility Plan As Hearing Looms"
• Tribe Signs Pact To Work With California To Save Endangered Salmon
• "Commonwealth Hard Hit By Climate Impacts"
• First Nation Fights In B.C. Court To Stop Dozens Of Mineral Claims
• "Do Hungry North Atlantic Right Whales Follow Their Noses?"
• "Long Reviled as ‘Ugly,’ Sea Lampreys Finally Get Some Respect"
• German Zoo welcomes first polar bear cub in 21 years
• Rice loving Asian elephant captured and relocated after killing six people in India
• Rare statue of Maya lightning god found in Mexico
• American Museum of Natural History in NYC to open state of the art Richard Gilder Center
• Rare, revered reptile on brink of extinction after last female dies
• ‘Extinct’ snail return to Tahiti in largest wildlife reintroduction ever
• Volcanic microbe discovered can eat CO2 astonishingly quickly to cut climate-heating gases
• California bans the sale of new diesel trucks by 2036
• Two massive gravity batteries are nearing completion in the US and China