President Joe Biden’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released proposed rules Monday for publicly traded companies that would compel those firms to disclose a range of climate-related information to shareholders. Described in a 500-plus-page document, that information includes financially material climate-related risks as well as estimated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which were described by the…
SEC Rule Would Mandate That Companies Disclose Climate-Related Information, Greenhouse Gas Emissions
March 21, 2022
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Persistent Drought and Above-Average Temperatures Expected in United States: NOAA
For the second year in a row, forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are predicting “prolonged, persistent drought” in the western United States as part of its Spring Outlook for the country. Precipitation is “most likely” to remain below-average in the west, according to a NOAA news release published on March 17….
Corroboree Frogs Hop Back Into The Snowy Mountains
One hundred Southern Corroboree frogs—a critically endangered Australian frog species—have returned to their native home in an Australian mountain range known as the Snowy Mountains. Kosciuszko National Park in the Snowy Mountains will establish the new frog population in a purpose-built field enclosure designed to protect and observe the frogs. The enclosure features irrigation systems…
Immigration-Driven Population Growth Claiming Vast Swaths of Open Space: Report
March 18, 2022
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A new report from NumbersUSA has revealed that 17,800 square miles of open space in the U.S. was claimed by development between 2002 and 2017. That area is about as large as Connecticut and Maryland put together. “The rate of sprawl in this century has slowed down fairly substantially from what it was in the…
Senators Hear Testimony on Soldiers’ Exposure to Toxic Burn Pits
Experts testified at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on March 16 about the long-term health effects of exposure to burn pits that used jet fuel to incinerate medical waste, chemicals, human waste, and other trash at U.S. military installations during the First Gulf War and subsequent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The hearing coincided with…
Senate Hears Testimony on Soldiers’ Exposure to Toxic Burn Pits
At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on March 16, experts testified about the long-term health effects of exposure to burn pits that used jet fuel to incinerate medical waste, chemicals, human waste, and other trash at U.S. military installations during the First Gulf War and subsequent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. One prompt for…
Biden Withdraws Raskin’s Fed Nomination After Manchin Shoots It Down
March 15, 2022
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President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he would withdraw Sarah Bloom Raskin’s nomination to serve as Vice Chair for Supervision of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. The announcement came one day after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) declared he would not vote for Raskin, a move many observers saw as the death knell for her nomination…
Multiple Geomagnetic Storms Expected to Hit Earth This Week, Scientists Say
The Space Weather Prediction Center issued a geomagnetic storm watch on March 13, noting that mild solar storms are expected to hit earth this week due to “possible effects from the arrival of coronal mass ejections on March 10.” Geomagnetic storms occur when a large burst of solar wind interferes with the Earth’s magnetic field….
Gasoline Prices Taper Off, Could Rise Again
Many areas are reporting marginally lower gas prices or flat gas prices over the weekend, following a stratospheric rise in fuel costs resulting from long-developing trends in the oil industry and the impacts of the Russo-Ukrainian war on the global fuel supply. Meanwhile, the Philadelphia Enquirer reported that gas was down one cent per gallon…
Australian Billionaires Raise $210 Million For World’s Biggest Solar Project
Andrew Forrest and Mike Cannon-Brookes—Australia’s most vocal billionaires on climate change—have invested a further $210 million towards the world’s biggest intercontinental renewable power system. Sun Cable’s $30 billion Australia-Asia Power Link (AAPowerLink) project had already received nearly $50 million from Forrest and Cannon Brookes in 2019 through their respective investment firms, Squadron Energy and Grok…
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