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from The Environmental Defense Center Highlights The Environmental Defense Center (EDC) announces the defeat of a proposed project by Aera Energy in the Cat Canyon Oil Field in Santa Barbara County This project could have potentially flooded local roadways, threatened thousands of native oak trees and wildlife, and harmed the water systems The Sierra Club … Read more
by Ewa Krukowska and Laura Millan Lombrana Highlights The European Commission unveiled a 750 billion euro economic recovery plan that incorporates climate-neutrality goals that aim to accelerate clean transportation, energy savings, and renewable energy production In order to access these funds, EU members must prove their investments are aligned with the Green Deal, Europe’s 2050 climate … Read more
Many California lawmakers understand the connection between energy use and the climate crisis. However, they are much less familiar with the vast potential for carbon sequestration in our soils. Healthy soils are a critical component of achieving the urgent goals of net-negative emissions by 2030 (drawdown of emissions already in the atmosphere greater than new greenhouse gas emissions) and increased resilience to climate-driven extremes like drought, heat, and floods.
by Rachel Ramirez, Grist Highlights Brazil now has the second-highest number of documented COVID-19 cases, with 400,000 confirmed cases and 25,000 deaths According to the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil, an indigenous rights organization, the mortality rate among the indigenous population of nearly one million is double that experienced in Brazil overall The entire Amazon region … Read more
by Steve Horn, OneZero Highlights TC Energy, a Canadian pipeline corporation that owns the Keystone XL pipeline, has partnered with Amazon Web Services The Keystone XL pipeline would carry oil from Alberta to Nebraska but its permit was recently vacated by a federal judge This announcement comes after Google declared it would not help create … Read more
The recent deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and too many others at the hands of police, are abhorrent and intolerable. Institutional racism, intentionally interwoven into the American fabric since long before our nation’s founding, has locked in major inequalities for people of color in wealth, income, education, health, jobs, housing, and public safety. Black, … Read more
by Emily Atkin, Heated Highlights As protests and demonstrations occur throughout the world in response to the murder of George Floyd, some environmental groups have responded in solitary while many other activists and groups have remained silent. Groups such as the Sierra Club and white climate activists like Greta Thunberg have all spoken out in solidarity. However, … Read more
by Rachel Koning Beals, Market Watch Highlights A new report from Ceres examines the wide-ranging and compounding impacts of the climate crisis on U.S. financial markets. Due to climate change, the United States has spent $1.7 trillion on over 265 extreme weather events since 1980 and has seen economic losses of more than $500 billion … Read more
by Justin Gerdes, Greentech Media Highlights Though California is a leader in clean energy within the US, it remains the seventh-largest oil-producing state and needs to take action to eliminate the fossil fuel industry. California leads the nation in solar rooftops and electric vehicles and also ranks fifth in installed wind capacity For full fossil … Read more
by Laura Millan Lombrana and Eric Martin, Bloomberg Green Highlights A new report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says investors worldwide are underestimating the financial risks from climate change, and companies need to start disclosing their exposure Asset prices currently fail to reflect the risk of extreme weather events that may cost $1 trillion annually starting … Read more
