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Jeff Bezos Commits $100M in Grants for AI Solutions to Climate Change - Observer (Apr 18) |
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Apr 18 · Billionaire Jeff Bezos is looking for practitioners, researchers and innovators with ideas about combatting climate change with artificial intelligence. The Amazon (AMZN) founder’s Bezos Earth Fund will invest up to $100 million into solutions through the A.I. for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge, a new initiative urging applicants to propose ways to utilize emerging technologies for environmental good.
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Oil and gas companies give up rights to West Coast offshore permits - Observer (Feb 21) |
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Feb 21 · The last offshore oil and gas permits for Canada's Pacific coast have been retired, Ottawa announced today.
Chevron Canada voluntarily ceded 23 offshore oil and gas permits, the last in existence on the B.C. coast, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said at a Victoria press conference.
Natural Resources Canada has now officially secured the surrender of all 227 permits involving historical offshore oil and gas rights along the Pacific coast, which has been under a federal moratorium on offshore oil and gas activity since 1972.
Ocean conservation groups had been pushing for the sunset of all outstanding oil and gas permits due to the threat of ... Read more ...
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Hot summer, hot autumn, hotter climate change debate - Observer (Oct 11, 2023) |
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Oct 11, 2023 · As Canadians gathered for Thanksgiving this year, the extreme heat of the summer and early fall was not far from many of our minds.
This unprecedented heat has melted away the last traces of climate change denial, as the true costs reveal themselves.
Though climate policy remains a political hot potato, the Canadian debate has finally and definitively shifted from whether there's a serious need for a credible policy to how best to address it.
As opposed to previous years, where extreme weather events — though horrible — were sporadic and regional, the summer of 2023 brought consistent and widespread horrors from around the world to our TV screens for ... Read more ...
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Even public transit isn’t immune to ‘total greenwashing’ - Observer (Sep 12, 2023) |
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Sep 12, 2023 · For the past few weeks, buses in Canada's third-largest city have greeted passengers with massive advertisements pushing misleading information about the climate impacts of the country's natural gas industry.
The ads have popped up on Vancouver buses, occupying nearly every inch of free space on the vehicles' side. They claim natural gas "will reduce emissions," despite widespread evidence the fossil fuel industry is a major source of planet-warming methane and must be shut down to prevent runaway climate change. They were paid for by Canada Action, a lobby group that promotes Canada's oil and gas sector.
"It's total greenwashing," said Canadian Association of Physicians ... Read more ...
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As the Prairies burn, Indigenous communities deserve equal support: Indigenous Climate Action - Observer (May 19, 2023) |
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May 19, 2023 · Colonialism causes climate change, and Indigenous rights are the solution.
That phrase — a tagline from Indigenous Climate Action, an Indigenous-led organization that works at the intersection of climate justice and Indigenous rights — has found new meaning as fires stretching across Alberta and Saskatchewan have devastated local communities.
Last week, the East Prairie Métis Settlement in northern Alberta lost 27 homes and a bridge to the wildfires, which have prompted a state of emergency in the province. Residents fought the blaze on their own, even using a water truck to extinguish flames coming up the community's road, CBC reports. An evacuation ... Read more ...
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Report finds Big Oil can afford to clean up its mess but needs arm-twisting to pay up - Observer (Mar 20, 2023) |
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Mar 20, 2023 · The recent revelation of a massive leak from Imperial Oil’s tailings ponds highlights the question of what to do with the rest of the oilsands waste accumulating along the Athabasca River.
Massive ponds filled with more than 1.4 trillion litres of toxic waste are set to hit capacity in 2025. At that point, the sludge-like oilsands tailings will be treated and dumped into the river, in accordance with federal regulations still being developed. That is, unless Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) identifies an alternative; the federal agency says dumping treated tailings is just “one of the options” under consideration.
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Oilsands giants take step forward in plans for massive carbon storage hub - Observer (Jan 05, 2023) |
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Jan 05, 2023 · A group representing Canada’s largest oilsands producers got the green light to evaluate a proposed carbon storage site in northeastern Alberta that would seek to curb planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from the industry's operations.
The Pathways Alliance plans to capture carbon dioxide pollution by outfitting as many as 20 oilsands production facilities with carbon capture technology and constructing a 400-kilometre pipeline to transport it to a proposed storage hub in the Cold Lake area.
If the project is allowed to proceed, it will be one of the largest in the world. Carbon dioxide (CO2) captured from the oilsands facilities will be liquefied and sent to ... Read more ...
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Seven reasons to be cheerful about the Amazon in 2023 — and three to be petrified - Observer (Jan 03, 2023) |
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Jan 03, 2023 · For anyone who cares about the Amazon rainforest, there was an extra reason to celebrate the new year countdown in Brazil because the first stroke of midnight will mark the last moment in power for Jair Bolsonaro.
The defeat of the ultra-right former army captain, who unleashed a wave of forest burning and river poisoning during his four years in office, was arguably the world’s best environmental news of 2022. As he is replaced by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, here are seven reasons to be cheerful about the Amazon in 2023, and three reminders of why that’s no excuse for anyone to drop their guard.
Anyone would feel relief after the firestorm that was ... Read more ...
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2022 connected the dots between fossil fuel finance and climate chaos - Observer (Dec 29, 2022) |
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Dec 29, 2022 · 2022 was a year of connecting the dots, and demystifying the connections between climate chaos, financial flows and corporate greed. Collectively, we experienced increasing economic insecurity, volatility from Russia’s fossil fuel-funded war in Ukraine, and record-shattering climate disasters like fires, floods, and deadly heat.
All while bank and fossil fuel executives, and the conservative politicians they back, raked in billions in profit while the rest of us struggled with rising prices.
That’s why we’re reimagining an economy that supports everyday people more and fossil fuel companies less.
In 2022, as the largest financier of fossil fuels ... Read more ...
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Canada’s fossil-fuelled sprint away from climate safety - Observer (Jul 27, 2022) |
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Jul 27, 2022 · Burning fossil fuels is the root cause of climate breakdown, ocean acidification and the choking air pollution that is killing millions every year.
For more than 30 years, Canada has been promising to do its part in solving these crises by reining in our hugely oversized fossil fuel burning. Instead, we keep cranking up the amount we burn. That's according to the data in the latest BP Statistical Review of World Energy.
This data also shows that Canada is dragging its feet on expanding climate-safe and less-deadly energy sources that we need to switch to — like hydro, nuclear, wind and solar. As a result, fossil fuels’ formidable lead in Canada’s energy ... Read more ...
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Gas Prices Are Surging But the Cost of Owning Electric Vehicles Is Rising Even Faster | Observer - Observer (Jun 28, 2022) |
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Jun 28, 2022 · With oil at its highest prices in years, driving a gas-powered car is increasingly expensive. But while going electric might seem like a logical alternative for motorists, it’s by no means more economical. From Tesla and Lucid to General Motors and Ford, automakers across the spectrum are hiking up prices for their most popular electric vehicles at an unprecedented pace. Most of these companies cite surging raw material costs as a primary reason, but there is also an element of capitalizing on a growing appetite for EVs - at least among those who can afford them. Popular electric vehicles are significantly pricier Last week, GM increased prices for its electric GMC Hummer ... Read more ...
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EU tours gas lobby events, amid escalating climate crisis - Observer (Apr 05, 2022) |
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Apr 05, 2022 · The European Commission is sending its energy commissioner, Kadri Simson, on a gas lobby tour at a time when climate change targets are possibly being reassessed in light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Simson on Thursday (7 April), is opening speaker at the Gas Infrastructure Europe's (GIE) annual conference in Budapest, which includes state secretaries from mainly eastern European countries and gas industry insiders.
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Natural disasters aren't as natural as they used to be - Observer (Nov 30, 2021) |
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Nov 30, 2021 · Natural disasters strike across the globe, but in the second half of 2021, British Columbia has had more than its share, starting with a heat wave that was the “deadliest weather event in Canadian history,” according to Sarah Henderson, scientific director of the BC Centre for Disease Control, while provincial Health Minister Adrian Dix described it as a "one-in-a-1,000-year event." Over 500 people died as a direct result of the extreme temperatures.
One victim of the B.C. heat dome was the village of Lytton. David Phillips, senior climatologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, referring to the devastation of the heat wave, lamented that ... Read more ...
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Methane promises: Fool me 26 times ... - Observer (Nov 16, 2021) |
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Nov 16, 2021 · "No more blah, blah, blah. No more whatever the f*** they are doing inside there..." - Greta Thunberg at COP26 in Glasgow This isn't complicated. Everyone has known for decades that the primary forces overheating our planet and destabilizing our climate are the rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) in our atmosphere. Read more ...
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Major toilet paper brands are flushing our forests down the drain - Observer (Sep 17, 2021) |
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Sep 17, 2021 · What runs through your mind when you’re deciding which toilet paper to buy? Sale price, roll size, pitiful single-ply or luxurious triple? Climate change might not make your list of considerations, but it should.
According to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the toilet paper industry is among the most egregious climate offenders in Canada.
In its latest report on tissue products, the NRDC evaluated the sustainability of 44 toilet paper brands, giving each product a score from A+ to F. Who Gives a Crap, 100% Recycled and Green Forest were ranked highest, while Angel Soft and Charmin brought up the rear with critically low scores.
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More Arctic lightning is a peril for the planet National Observer - Observer (Apr 26, 2021) |
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Apr 26, 2021 · The Arctic isn’t doing so hot. That’s because it is, in fact, too hot. It’s warming at least twice as fast as the rest of the planet, which is setting off vicious feedback loops that accelerate change. Ice, for instance, is more reflective than soil, so when it melts, the region absorbs more solar energy. More dark vegetation is growing in northern lands, absorbing still more of the sun’s heat. And when permafrost thaws, it releases gobs of greenhouse gases, which further warm the climate.
The Arctic has gone so bizarro that lightning — a warm-weather phenomenon most common in the tropics — is now striking near the North Pole. And according ... Read more ...
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One of the common conservative, climate-denier refrains whenever international climate efforts ramp up is that it would b - Observer (Jan 07, 2021) |
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Jan 07, 2021 · A group of more than 60 major American industry associations are trying to stop Canada’s efforts to reduce plastic pollution.
In a letter to Canada’s International Trade Minister Mary Ng, the group threatened to use novel provisions in the new NAFTA agreement (CUSMA) to delay proposed plastics legislation. The letter was sent as a warning salvo in September, about a month before Canada announced detailed plans for its new legislation.
Canada’s proposed laws will ban some single-use plastics, list plastic as a toxic substance and force companies to take more responsibility for their products’ disposal. Details of the changes were announced in late ... Read more ...
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They make a living outside in dangerous NC heat - Observer (Oct 20, 2020) |
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In North and South Carolina, sea-level rise is most noticeable in counties along the coast, where beaches shrink, dunes disappear and homes crumble, but the effects of climate change reach well inland. “Beyond the Beach” is a ... Read more ...
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Texas produced more energy from renewable sources than coal last year - Observer (Jan 10, 2020) |
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Jan 10, 2020 · Dallas' independent source of local news and culture
Last year Texas generated more energy from renewable sources than from coal, according to data from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.
Texas produces the most wind energy of any state in the nation, and its solar energy capacity is growing rapidly.
Earlier this year, as the Dallas Observer reported, Texas' wind energy output surpassed its coal energy production for the first time. At the time, ERCOT said the trend wasn't likely to hold through the rest of the year.
Texas uses the most coal in summer and winter, during which hot and cool temperatures lead to high air conditioning and heat use and put ... | By Meredith Lawrence Read more ...
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Study: even a coal-powered Tesla is greener than a normal car - Observer (Nov 26, 2019) |
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Nov 26, 2019 · Critiques of Tesla, the struggling electric car company founded by space-litterer Elon Musk, generally focus on exploitative labor practices, the boss's erratic behavior, or the end-product's rare-but-troubling propensity to on fire. Real cynics also question whether electric automobiles will actually save the planet, considering they're actually powered by fossil fuels, mostly.
Electric cars use electricity. In the United States, almost 64% of our electricity is generated by burning fossil fuels. In other countries embracing electric car technology, including Sweden, where most of the domestic power load comes from renewables, occasional peak demand is fulfilled by imported ... | By Chris Roberts Read more ...
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Thunberg to make documentary - Observer (Oct 21, 2019) |
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Oct 21, 2019 · Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg continued her tour of Alberta's oilsands region on Saturday, an Indigenous group says, conducting interviews that the group says will be part of an upcoming BBC documentary.
The Mikisew Cree First Nation says in a news release that Thunberg spent the day on the shores of Gregoire Lake near Fort McMurray with members of the First Nation, and that her interviews focused on environmental concerns over oilsands development and climate change.
Mikisew Chief Archie Waquan presented Thunberg with a blanket, stating in the news release that the First Nation was honoured to "join forces" with Thunberg as she leads the way in "protecting our ... Read more ...
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Ocracoke residents mystified after FEMA rejects individual Dorian aid for them - Observer (Oct 10, 2019) |
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Oct 10, 2019 · Hurricane Dorian did not cause enough damage in North Carolina — including on Ocracoke Island — for residents in affected areas to receive aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency-s Individual Assistance program, FEMA told Gov. Roy Cooper this week.
Cooper had requested such assistance for Carteret, Dare, Hyde and New Hanover counties as a result of the early September storm. FEMA-s Individual Assistance includes a slew of disaster relief efforts, including grants for home repair, unemployment assistance and the disaster food stamp program, among others.
In the denial letter, Jeff Byard, the associate administrator of FEMA-s Office of Response and ... | By Adam Wagner and Read more ...
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Norway public pension fund severs final link with Canada's oilsands - Observer (Oct 08, 2019) |
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Oct 08, 2019 · Norway's municipal employees pension fund, the country's largest, has sold its last remaining stakes in companies with operations in Canada's oilsands, saying holding them does not align with efforts to keep global heating below internationally agreed-upon targets.The fund, Kommunal Landspensjonskasse (KLP), last year dumped stocks that drew more than 30 per cent of their revenue from oilsands operations, but on Monday said they can no longer tolerate even those that have five per cent exposure.
KLP, which manages the pensions of Norway's 900,000 nurses, firefighters and other employees of local governments and state-owned enterprises, said in a statement that it had ... Read more ...
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A North Carolina farmer sees the climate changing - Observer (Aug 14, 2019) |
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Aug 14, 2019 · I have lived and farmed in Chatham County for 36 years and come from a continuous line of farming families. With that background, I've always known that a farmer's livelihood is susceptible to the weather, that's nothing new. What is new, over the last few years, is a collection of rapidly-increasing changes on my farm that I believe are attributable to changes in the climate.
Increased incidence of heavy rainfall is perhaps the most significant factor impacting my farm. The NOAA data shows a pattern of increasingly frequent and more intense storms impacting the Southeastern United States. These hurricanes and strong storms aren't just a coastal problem. They cause flooding ... Read more ...
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Fossil fuel burning leaps to new record, crushing clean energy and climate efforts | National Observer - Observer (Jul 31, 2019) |
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Jul 31, 2019 · Despite decades of promises to prevent a climate crisis, the primary cause of it — global fossil fuel burning — continues to increase rapidly. Last year's record-breaking burn was a doozy.
That's according to data in the latest "BP Statistical Review of World Energy."
And renewable energy — a hoped-for climate solution — has not only failed to halt the explosive rise in fossil carbon burning, it's falling ever-further behind.
My first chart shows the amount of global energy produced by burning fossil fuels each year. As you can clearly see, humanity just keeps burning more and more.
If this seems surprising to you, it could be because the BP report doesn't ... Read more ...
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Seafloor investigation off Outer Banks reveals methane seeps | Raleigh News & Observer - Observer (Jul 21, 2019) |
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Jul 21, 2019 · Deep-sea explorers investigating a spot 39 miles off North Carolina's Outer Banks say they encountered a surreal stretch of seafloor filled with geyser-like bubble plumes, some of them "continuous and others turning off and on over periods of less than a minute."
In some spots, the bubble plumes are plentiful enough to resemble florescent lace curtains in the glow of a camera deployed by NOAA Ocean Exploration and Research.
Adding to the spectacle: The bubbles rise amid "dense" beds of mussels that are seen in a video stretching as far as the camera lens could penetrate.
The bubbles are methane gas, seeping constantly from the ocean floor off Bodie Island, at a ... Read more ...
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Michael E. Mann took climate change deniers to court--they apologized - Observer (Jun 13, 2019) |
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Jun 13, 2019 · In 2011, renowned scientist Michael E. Mann sued a Canadian think tank that published an interview suggesting his work on climate change was fraud.
Eight years later, the Winnipeg-based Frontier Centre for Public Policy — which often promotes climate change denial — apologized Friday and wiped the inflammatory interview from its website.
"(The apology) gives me faith in our legal system that truth can still win out, even in an era of 'fake news' and 'alternative facts,'" Mann said in an email toNational Observer
In the fight against climate disinformation, experts like Mann, an atmospheric scientist at Pennsylvania State University, are turning to new ... Read more ...
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Bringing science and faith to bear on climate change - Observer (Jun 13, 2019) |
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Jun 13, 2019 · Many people are concerned about climate change, but most do little to reduce the way they contribute to it. They're daunted by a problem that's as big as the world and by the smallness of their place in it.
On Tuesday, two advocates for action came to Raleigh as part of a campaign to replace that sense of individual futility with a spirit of common mission. One is a lawyer, the other a minister and together they're trying to help save the planet by joining the forces of reason and faith.
Kenneth Kimmell, president of the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the Rev. Susan Hendershot, president of Interfaith Power and Light, spoke at Raleigh Pullen Memorial Baptist Church ... | By Ned Barnett Read more ...
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Tax collections uncertain amid Wyoming coal bankruptcies - Observer (Jun 11, 2019) |
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Jun 11, 2019 · Rereading a chapter from a favorite novel can often reveal details and insight that make the story more rewarding. For Campbell County, Chapter 11 of the Powder River Basin coal industry's nonfiction tale reads more like a recurring nightmare from a prolonged horror saga.
Cloud Peak Energy Corp.'s recent Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing has local and state officials worried about the future of the company's three basin mines and the 1,200-some-odd people who work at them. They're also scrambling to get in line to salvage even a small fraction of the millions of dollars left owed to the people of Campbell County and Wyoming.
The company filed for bankruptcy May 10, which also ... Read more ...
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NC Senate approves higher fees for electric cars and new ones for plug-in hybrids - Observer (Jun 03, 2019) |
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Jun 03, 2019 · A bill that would increase registration fees for electric cars and levy a new one on plug-in hybrid vehicles failed to get out of committee in the state Senate, but the proposal lives on in the Senate's version of the budget.
The proposed budget approved by the Senate on Friday would increase the annual fee paid by owners of electric vehicles by $100, to $230 starting next year. Owners of plug-in hybrid vehicles would face a new registration fee of $115 a year. Both fees would be adjusted for population growth and inflation annually starting in 2021.
The original legislation, Senate Bill 446, was introduced by Sen. Jim Davis and Sen. Tom McInnis, who lead both the ... Read more ...
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What's really going on with the California super bloom? - Observer (Mar 19, 2019) |
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Mar 19, 2019 · Visitors explore a ‘super bloom' of poppies near Lake Elsinore, California. Mario Tama/
It's a little like something out of a mid-1980's horror movie: a seemingly innocent and objectively gorgeous outbreak of wild poppies springs up out of nowhere in the foothills of a California town, and for a while, all is well as the locals bask in nature's gift. But then, the crowds appear; pulled towards the phenomenon by a force they themselves don't quite understand. Like the locals, the out-of-town visitors are also passionate seekers of beauty, and the vivid orange blossoms they've seen in pictures seem to be nothing more than an offering from the earth that's completely pure in its ... | By Helen Holmes Read more ...
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U.S. and Canadian oil production pushing planet's climate goals out of reach, says IEA - Observer (Mar 08, 2019) |
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Mar 08, 2019 · A surge in U.S. and Canadian oil production over the last decade has added the equivalent of "one Russia or one Saudi Arabia" to the markets - pushing the planet farther away from ever getting a grip on the pollution that is driving climate change.
Fatih Birol, the executive director of the International Energy Agency, revealed this fact Feb. 26 while discussing what he saw as a "growing disconnect" between the countless scientific studies calling for a decline in heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions - each more urgent than the last - and the fact that pollution continues to rise, hitting a record high last year.
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Canada: Humans fuelled the warming linked to catastrophic wildfires in B.C. - Observer (Jan 08, 2019) |
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Jan 08, 2019 · Humanity's contribution to climate change made the catastrophic wildfires across the western Canadian province of British Columbia in 2017 far worse, says a new study by Canadian scientists.The devastating season saw an area go up in flames in B.C. that was seven to 11 times larger than what would be expected without human influence on the climate, according to scientists at Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and the University of Victoria (UVic).
The 2017 wildfires burned up over 12,000 square kilometres, forcing 65,000 people from their homes, exposing millions to harmful smoke-filled air and plunging the province into a state of emergency for months.
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Humans fueled the warming linked to catastrophic wildfires in B.C. - Observer (Jan 08, 2019) |
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Jan 08, 2019 · "This will have increasing impacts on many sectors, including forest management, public health, and infrastructure,” said Kirchmeier-Young, who also works at the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium at UVic.
The subject of the massive increase in forest fires has been a preoccupation for Canadian scientists, who have found that roughly four million hectares of land were affected by forest fires in Canada over the three years to 2016, well above the long-term average.
In May 2016, a terrifying wildfire swept through Fort McMurray, Alberta, forcing an evacuation of at least 88,000 people, the largest in Alberta history and destroying at least $3.7 billion worth of property, ... | By Carl Meyer Read more ...
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Atlantic Coast Pipeline in NC: complaint filed against Roy Cooper - Observer (Feb 15, 2018) |
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Feb 15, 2018 · The new head of a conservative, Raleigh-based think tank says he has asked the state's ethics commission to look into whether Gov. Roy Cooper accepted an illegal gift tied to his administration's approval of a key Atlantic Coast Pipeline permit.
The ethics complaint came Wednesday, hours before Cooper announced he won't block a bill that would divert money from the fund that is at the center of the complaint.
Donald Bryson, who recently became president of The Civitas Institute, on Wednesday announced that he filed the complaint against Cooper with the state Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement. The complaint questions whether Cooper's administration might have ... Read more ...
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Pipeline fund: McCrory slams Cooper over Atlantic Coast Pipeline fund - Observer (Feb 14, 2018) |
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Feb 14, 2018 · Former Gov. Pat McCrory called for an ethics investigation of his successor on Monday as legislative Republicans sent Gov. Roy Cooper's aide a long list of questions about a $57.8 million pipeline fund.
The letter to Cooper's legislative director, Lee Lilley, came several days after Lilley got a surprise interrogation at a legislative committee meeting about the mitigation fund that the Democratic governor privately negotiated with the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and announced on the same day the interstate project won a key state environmental permit.
"We are sure you can understand why many North Carolinians are concerned that it appears the governor obtained $58 million ... Read more ...
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Atlantic Coast Pipeline: $57.8 M environmental fund raises ethical, legal concerns - Observer (Feb 02, 2018) |
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Feb 02, 2018 · The Atlantic Coast Pipeline will bring more than natural gas to North Carolina. It could bring legal headaches for Gov. Roy Cooper.
The underground conduit will supply fuel for Duke Energy power plants and, according to its developers, shower local governments with $60 million in property tax revenues by 2025.
But the 600-mile line also came with a footnote: a $57.8 million environmental mitigation fund, which Cooper, or anyone he delegates, will control. This detail was disclosed Friday, Jan. 26, when a key state environmental permit was issued by the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality.
Now both opponents and supporters of the pipeline are questioning the fund. | By JARI TANNER Associated Press Read more ...
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UK polluters face Brexit anxiety over carbon credits - Observer (Dec 19, 2017) |
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Dec 19, 2017 · The system is divided in 'phases': the current phase III is in place until 2020, while phase IV will be from 2021 to 2030. Every year in April, companies have to comply with the ETS by handing in a number of carbon credits equivalent to their greenhouse gas emissions.
Brexit is due to happen on 29 March 2019, two years after the UK triggered the EU treaty's Article 50.
With the compliance date for emissions from the year 2018 – April 2019 – falling after Brexit, the European Commission recently proposed a change in the legislation, which brings forward the 2018 compliance date to 15 March 2019.
"This is just a very short-term emergency measure for ... | By Peter Teffer Read more ...
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