“A federal judge on Monday threw out a major Trump administration rule scaling back federal protections for streams, marshes and wetlands across the United States, reversing one of the previous administration’s most significant environmental rollbacks,” the Washington Post reports.
Biden to Treat Climate Change as Public Health Issue
“The Department of Health and Human Services is preparing to launch an office that will treat climate change as a public health issue, designed to address what the White House says are health risks including those that disproportionately affect poor and minority communities,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The new office is likely to spur initiatives touching on many aspects of healthcare… It is expected to offer protections for populations most at risk—including the elderly, minorities, rural communities and children—and could eventually lead to policies compelling hospitals and other care facilities to reduce carbon emissions.”
Related from Green That Life: Opening our eyes to climate change myths.
Hurricane Nears Category 5 Strength
“Hurricane Ida explosively intensified overnight into a high-end Category 4 storm, and is bringing ‘catastrophic effects’ to Louisiana as it gears up to be one of the strongest hurricanes to make landfall in the state’s recorded history,” Axios reports.
“Maximum sustained winds were measured by aircraft to be 150 mph, just shy of Category 5 intensity.”
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) told CNN that Ida “will be one of the strongest hurricanes that hit anywhere in Louisiana since at least the 1850s,”
Category 4 Hurricane to Hit Louisiana
“Hurricane Ida is rapidly gaining strength Saturday over the unusually warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and is predicted to hit southeastern Louisiana as an ‘extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm on Sunday evening,’ Axios reports.
Where’s the Climate Leadership?
Sara Goddard: “The unbridled impunity with which fossil fuel companies and plastics producers greenwash their activities is deeply entrenched. It’s accepted with ignorance or cynical resignation by a nation that lacks robust, centralized climate leadership in tackling a planetary crisis of epic proportions.”
“Oil producers act with abandon, fueled with cash and no guardrails… But it’s not just the power of money that ensures industry dominance. Energy companies exert an enormous amount of influence in policy-making at every level of government…”
“And let’s not forget the influence that the industry exerts on individual lawmakers, Republicans and Democrats, alike.”
Trump’s Border Wall Torn Apart by Monsoon Rains
Gizmodo: “It turns out ignoring bedrock environmental laws may not have been the best choice for a multibillion-dollar construction project.”
“Photos show former President Donald Trump’s border wall in deep disrepair after summer monsoon rains literally blew floodgates off their hinges.”
It Rained at the Summit of Greenland
New York Times: “Something extraordinary happened last Saturday at the frigid high point of the Greenland ice sheet, two miles in the sky and more than 500 miles above the Arctic Circle: It rained for the first time.”
“The rain at a research station — not just a few drops or a drizzle but a stream for several hours, as temperatures rose slightly above freezing — is yet another troubling sign of a changing Arctic, which is warming faster than any other region on the planet.”
Biden Administration Halts Use of Common Pesticide
New York Times: “The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it is banning a common pesticide, widely used since 1965 on fruits and vegetables, from use on food crops because it has been linked to neurological damage in children.”
Bill Gates Pledges $1.5 Billion Towards Infrastructure
Bill Gates told the Wall Street Journal he would spend $1.5 billion over three years on infrastructure projects aimed at slowing the greenhouse-gas emissions that cause climate change.
However, he will likely shift funding for the biggest projects to Europe and Asia instead if the bipartisan infrastructure package doesn’t become law.
A Hotter Future Is Now Certain
“Nations have delayed curbing their fossil-fuel emissions for so long that they can no longer stop global warming from intensifying over the next 30 years, though there is still a short window to prevent the most harrowing future, a major new United Nations scientific report has concluded,” the New York Times reports.
“Even if nations started sharply cutting emissions today, total global warming is likely to rise around 1.5 degrees Celsius within the next two decades, a hotter future that is now essentially locked in.”
“At 1.5 degrees of warming, scientists have found, the dangers grow considerably. Nearly 1 billion people worldwide could swelter in more frequent life-threatening heat waves. Hundreds of millions more would struggle for water because of severe droughts.”
Green That Life: Opening our eyes to climate change myths.
Dixie Fire Becomes Largest Wildfire In California History
Politico: “The fire, which has burned for 23 days and forced mass evacuations, razed the Gold Rush town of Greenville on Thursday, destroying 91 buildings and damaging five others. Smoke from the blaze has blown to lower parts of Northern California, including the state capital of Sacramento where the air quality index on Friday reached ‘unhealthy’ levels.”
Big Majority Concerned About Plastic Waste
A new Consumer Brands/Ipsos survey finds 84% of U.S. shoppers say they’re concerned about plastic and packaging waste.
Related from Green That Life: 5 ways to kick your plastic addiction.
How Big Meat and Big Dairy Hurt the Planet
Sara Goddard: “The Big Meat and Dairy industries are copycats — copycats of Big Oil, that is. (Big Oil, for their part, copied from Big Tobacco.) Fueled by extraordinary wealth, these industries have for years denied, deflected, and obfuscated the true impact of their actions on human and planetary health.”
“The tobacco industry’s tactics have been exposed and now the fossil fuel industry is under scrutiny, but the Big Meat and Dairy industries have puttered along with comparatively little oversight. Why?”
Biden Brings Back Obama’s Mileage Standards
“In a major step against climate change, President Joe Biden is proposing a return to aggressive Obama-era vehicle mileage standards over five years,” the Associated Press reports.
“He’s then aiming for even tougher anti-pollution rules after that to forcefully reduce greenhouse gas emissions and nudge 40% of U.S. drivers into electric vehicles by decade’s end.”
Record Heat Waves Far More Likely Than Thought
A new study finds the recent deadly heat wave in the Pacific Northwest, during which all-time temperature records were shattered by several degrees, is a prologue to what is coming across much of the U.S., Europe and Asia, Axios reports.
Civilian Climate Corps Gains Traction
“A new Civilian Climate Corps has become a central progressive demand for the Democrats’ budget reconciliation package, and party leaders seem poised to go along,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Climate groups and elected officials alike see it as a combination of several top priorities: a tangible response to climate change, a broad-based jobs program aimed especially at young people and people of color, and a test case for Franklin Delano Roosevelt-style populism that President Biden is so eagerly trying to emulate.”
Climate Change Rises In Importance to Voters
Elliot Morris: “For the first time since The Economist and YouGov began regularly conducting polls in 2009, Americans rate climate change as their second most important issue — ranking it above every other problem except healthcare.”
Bezos Says Flight Reinforced Need to Fight Climate Change
Jeff Bezos said in an interview hours after flying to suborbital space that there are “no words” to adequately describe the experience, but that it reinforced his commitment to combating climate change and keeping Earth “as this beautiful gem of a planet that it is,” Axios reports.
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