How America’s “Most Powerful Lobby” Is Stifling Efforts to Reform #Oil Well Cleanup in State After State
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In #NewMexico, oil companies agreed to work with regulators to find a solution to the state’s more than 70,000 unplugged wells. After months of negotiations, the industry turned against the bill it helped shape.

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https://www.propublica.org/article/oil-industry-lobbying-unplugged-wells

The U.S. Oil Industry Has Repeatedly Stifled Efforts to Reform Well Cleanup

In New Mexico, oil companies agreed to work with regulators to find a solution to the state’s more than 70,000 unplugged wells. After months of negotiations, the industry turned against the bill it helped shape.

^ProPublica

BT Tower lit up as global landmarks show climate stripes

Climate stripes showing Earth's rapid warming are being displayed on landmarks all around the world for Show Your Stripes Day 2024

https://www.reading.ac.uk/news/2024/University-News/BT-Tower-lit-up-as-global-landmarks-show-climate-stripes

#London #UK #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Minnesota highway projects will need to consider climate impacts in planning

The state legislature expanded a 2023 law that will now require all major highway projects to account for and mitigate climate impacts before qualifying for state funding

https://energynews.us/2024/06/21/minnesota-highway-projects-will-need-to-consider-climate-impacts-in-planning/

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Minnesota highway projects will need to consider climate impacts in planning

An expanded 2023 law requires all major highway projects to account for and mitigate climate impacts before getting state funding.

^{Frank Jossi (Energy News Network)}

How does heat kill? It confuses your brain. It shuts down your organs. It overworks your heart

https://apnews.com/article/deadly-heat-wave-body-climate-change-b70e6ff98a81e80d9b99ed088e6de3d6

#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

How does heat kill? It confuses your brain. It shuts down your organs. It overworks your heart.

When dangerous heat waves strike, what happens inside the human body can become a life-or-death battle decided by just a few degrees. Raising a person's ordinary core temperature by just 7 degrees Fahrenheit puts them at high risk of death.

^{SETH BORENSTEIN (AP News)}

Rise in gas flaring hurting climate change efforts, World Bank warns

The amount of gas flared worldwide in 2023 rose by nine billion cubic meters to 148 bcm, its highest level since 2019, a World Bank report has said

https://punchng.com/rise-in-gas-flaring-hurting-climate-change-efforts-world-bank-warns/

#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Rise in gas flaring hurting climate change efforts, World Bank warns

The amount of gas flared worldwide in 2023 rose by nine billion cubic meters to 148 bcm, its highest level since 2019, a World Bank report has said.

^{Agency Report (Punch Newspaper)}