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IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: President Biden calls on Congress to suspend federal gas tax to lower prices at the pump; Parts of the Arctic warming five times faster than the rest of the planet; Native American tribes to co-manage Bears Ears National Monument; Offshore wind project pipeline doubles in one year; PLUS: IEA warns Europe Russia could shut down gas exports this winter… All that and more in today’s Green News Report!
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Green News Report
with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen
6/23/2022
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IN ‘GREEN NEWS EXTRA’ (see links below): America’s incoherent approach to fighting high gas prices; Climate change, extreme weather disasters damage victims’ long term finances; Germany pushes back against EU 2035 fossil fuel car ban; Hot today? This interactive map can tell you how much the climate crisis is to blame; Innovative companies working on cleaning up solar industry’s supply chain; Solar bees: solar panel fields help increase honey production in beehives; Costly Vogtle Nuclear Plant forcing investors to hard choices; How fast fashion became faster , and worse for the Earth… PLUS: Why Spain’s renewable energy boom is so controversial… and much, MUCH more! …
STORIES DISCUSSED ON TODAY’S ‘GREEN NEWS REPORT’…
- Biden calls on Congress to suspend federal gas tax to lower gas prices:
- Biden calls for three-month suspension of federal gas tax but faces long odds of getting Congress on board (CNN)
- Biden Gas Tax Call Lands With A Thud (The Hill)
- EXPLAINER: How Biden’s proposed gas tax holiday would work (AP)
- America’s incoherent approach to fighting high gas prices (Axios)
- VIDEO: President Biden Remarks on Gas Prices and Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine (C-SPAN)
- As Biden touts gas tax pause, even some of his own officials balk (Washington Post/MSN)
- Republicans Vote Against Gas Price Gouging Bill (Crooks and Liars)
- High Pump Prices: Oil Lobby Says Blame Russia and Biden, But Economists Say It Ain’t So (Influence Map)
- Biden’s Gas Tax Holiday Won’t Save Summer (Bloomberg)
- Oil Companies Are Raking in Record Profits in This Gas Crisis (Yahoo News)
- Despite high gas prices, record road travel predicted for July 4:
- Record high gas prices won’t deter demans for July 4 travel plans (Axios)
- Gas prices aren’t leading to less driving — yet (Axios)
- IEA warns Europe to prepare for Russia to cut off natural gas:
- IEA warns Europe to prepare for total shutdown of Russian gas exports (Irish Times)
- Europe told to prepare for Russia turning off gas (BBC)
- Europe should be prepared for Russia to totally cut all natural gas supplies this winter, IEA chief says (Market Insider/MSN)
- World has ‘gambled on fossil fuels and lost’, warns Guterres (United Nations)
- Parts of the Arctic warming 5-7 times faster than global average:
- Red alert: Portions of the Arctic are warming much faster than we thought (Grist)
- Study: Staggering ‘off the scale’ temperatures in the vast expanse of the Barents Sea region (Daily Kos)
- Native American tribes to co-manage Bears Ears:
- Native American Tribes To Co-Manage National Monument For First Time (Washington Post)
- 5 Native American tribes will work with federal officials to co-manage Bears Ears National Monument (CNN/MSN)
- Global offshore wind industry boom ‘nothing short of staggering’:
‘GREEN NEWS EXTRA’ (Stuff we didn’t have time for in today’s audio report)…
For a comprehensive roundup of daily environmental news you can trust, see the Society of Environmental Journalists’ Daily Headlines page
- America’s incoherent approach to fighting high gas prices (Axios)
- You’ve likely been affected by climate change. Your long-term finances might be, too (NPR)
- Reports: German finance minister pushes back against EU 2035 fossil fuel car ban plan (Business Green)
- Hot today? This map can tell you how much the climate crisis is to blame (UK Indpendent)
- Supply chain cleanup: Solar is one of the cleanest power sources we’ve got. But it could be even greener. (Grist)
- Solar panel fields help increase honey production in photovoltaic beehives (Interesting Engineering)
- Costly Nuclear Plant Forcing Investors to Hard Choices (Climate Crocks)
- Why Spain’s renewable energy boom is so controversial (Euronews)
- Brazil’s Lula Sets Out ‘Net Zero Deforestation’ Aim In Election Bid (Thompson Reuters Foundation)
- Enviros, Property Owners Sue To Block $2.5-Billion Dam In Santa Clara Co. (LA Times)
- From ‘Carp’ To ‘Copi’: Unpopular Fish Getting A Makeover (AP)
- How Fast Fashion Became Faster — and Worse for the Earth (NY Times)
- The 1977 White House climate memo that should have changed the world (Guardian UK)
- Four solutions to mitigate climate change, from the IPCC (Dr. Michael Mann, Penn Today)
- UN warns Earth ‘firmly on track toward an unlivable world’ (AP)
- Environmental Sacrifice Zones: 8 Places We’ve Given Up-Probably Forever (Environmental Health Network)
- “Rare Earths” from Coal Waste (Climate Crocks)
- Feeling Hopeless About the Climate? Try Our 30-Day Action Plan (The Revelator)
- Green Upheaval: The New Geopolitics of Energy (Foreign Affairs)
- VIDEO: 2050: what happens if we ignore the climate crisis (Guardian UK)
- Guilt, grief and anxiety as young people fear for climate’s future (Reuters)
- 99.9 percent Of Scientists Agree Climate Emergency Caused By Humans (Guardian UK)
- An Empire of Dying Wells: Old oil and gas sites are a climate menace. Meet the company that owns more of America’s decaying wells than any other. (Bloomberg)
- Climate Fund Choices for Investors Are Multiplying (Bloomberg/Yahoo)
- How climate change could undo 50 years of public health gains (Grist)
- Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration (Pro Publica)
- Exxon’s Snake Oil: 100 years of deception (Columbia Journalism Review)
- What Does ’12 Years to Act on Climate Change’ (Now 9 Years) Really Mean? (Inside Climate News)
- VIDEO: A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (The Intercept)
- What genuine, no-bullshit ambition on climate change would look like: How to hit the most stringent targets, with no loopholes. (David Roberts, Vox)
- A Global Shift To Sustainability Would Save Us $26 Trillion (Vox)
- Project Drawdown: 100 Solutions to Reverse Global Warming (Drawdown.org)
- An Optimist’s Guide to Solving Climate Change and Saving the World (Vice)
- The great nutrient collapse: The atmosphere is literally changing the food we eat, for the worse. And almost nobody is paying attention. (Politico)
- The world’s bleak climate situation, in 3 charts: We’ve got a long way to go and a short time to get there. (Vox)
- The Climate Risks We Face (NY Times):
To stabilize global temperature, net carbon dioxide emissions must be reduced to zero. The window of time is rapidly closing to reduce emissions and limit warming to no more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit or 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, the goal set in the Paris climate accord. The further we push the climate system beyond historical conditions, the greater the risks of potentially unforeseen and even catastrophic changes to the climate – so every reduction in emissions helps.
- The Uninhabitable Earth: When will climate change make earth too hot for humans? (New York Magazine):
Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak – sooner than you think.
- A beginner’s guide to the debate over 100% renewable energy (Vox):
Clean-energy enthusiasts frequently claim that we can go bigger, that it’s possible for the whole world to run on renewables – we merely lack the “political will.” So, is it true? Do we know how get to an all-renewables system? Not yet. Not really.
“UN warns Earth ‘firmly on track toward an unlivable world'” – Desi link upthread
WOW !
Thank you thank you UN … thank you thank you Desi and Brad.
Where would we be if we had no warnings?
So let me join you and add a warning … first the ‘little things’ (The Real Dangers With Microbes & Viruses) and next a bit about our competence in dealing with the ‘littler things’ (On The Origin of the Genes of Viruses – 18).