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Trump officials rush plans to drill in Arctic refuge before Biden inauguration
- Bureau of Land Management begins ‘call for nominations’
- Coastal plain region home to many vital wildlife habitats
In a last-ditch attempt to make good on promises to the oil and gas industry, the Trump administration is rushing to formalize plans to drill for oil in the Arctic national wildlife refuge before Joe Biden takes office. On Tuesday, the Bureau of Land Management initiated the process with a formal “call for nominations”, inviting input on which land tracts should be auctioned off in the refuge’s 1.5m-acre coastal plain region.
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Continue reading...Virginia industries argue clerk error should not vacate lawsuit challenging RGGI regulation
UN’s IMO strikes shipping emissions deal that lets maritime GHGs keep rising
San Francisco just banned gas in all new buildings. Could it ever happen in Australia?
IMF “hopeful” of a rising international carbon price floor
Inverted cables doom European Vega rocket
UPDATE – Start of 2021 EU carbon allowance auctions to be delayed
Australia drought: Capturing spectacular storms in the outback
EU Climate Law deal could face delay over budget brouhaha -analysts
EU carbon market alone “can’t bridge funding gap” to 2030 target -senior official
World’s leading researchers implore G20 to apply Covid lessons to climate response
Dozens of the world's leading climate research institutions issue joint call for G20 leaders to apply lessons of Covid-19 to lead decarbonisation.
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Big oil and gas have a lot invested in Trump’s attack on the election system | Jonathan Watts
This ‘climate coup’ shows how terrified far-right Republicans and their fossil-fuel donors are of losing power in the long term
Calmer heads may yet talk Donald Trump down from caps-locked denial to lower-case concession, but the longer the defeated president flirts with a coup, the more the oil and gas industry must take a share of the blame.
Fossil-fuel firms are among the biggest donors to the defeated US president and the Republican party leaders who have endorsed his legal challenge to overturn the election result.
Continue reading...Indian carbon trading firm to launch IPO
NZ Market: NZUs hit new highs as supply remains strained
London hospital trust to pay £250k to install LTN for public health benefits
Guy’s and St Thomas’ charity will fund low-traffic neighbourhood to tackle air pollution and obesity in Lambeth and Southwark
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- ‘I got it wrong. Since the changes it’s become more vibrant’: life in an LTN
The health and social benefits of reducing motor traffic are so substantial that a hospital charity is paying to install temporary low-traffic neighbourhood (LTN) measures in a London borough.
Southwark council will be given £250,000 by the Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charitable Trust to install planters and removable bollards in three areas.
Continue reading...Pet flea treatments poisoning rivers across England, scientists find
Discovery is ‘extremely concerning’ for water insects, and fish and birds that depend on them
Highly toxic insecticides used on cats and dogs to kill fleas are poisoning rivers across England, a study has revealed. The discovery is “extremely concerning” for water insects, and the fish and birds that depend on them, the scientists said, who expect significant environmental damage is being done.
The research found fipronil in 99% of samples from 20 rivers and the average level of one particularly toxic breakdown product of the pesticide was 38 times above the safety limit. Fipronil and another nerve agent called imidacloprid that was found in the rivers have been banned from use on farms for some years.
Continue reading...Climate Explained: what would happen if we cut down the Amazon rainforest?
ISPT to go net-carbon positive by 2025 with rooftop solar, PPAs, offsets
Industry superannuation-backed property funds manager sets carbon positive target for 2025 after being certified 100% carbon neutral for its base operations this year.
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Nasa SpaceX mission: Dragon capsule docks with space station
Huge luxury Saudi resort goes 100pct renewables with one of world’s biggest batteries
Luxury Saudi tourism resort next to Red Sea to be 100 per cent renewable, with more than 200MW of wind and solar and a 1,000MWh battery.
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