Ambient Air Quality/EPA/NTAA/Tribes

EPA – Power Sector Programs Progress Report

AP News – Documents: Mining Company writing own environmental report

NY Times – It’s a Vast, Invisible Climate Menace. We Made It Visible.

Reasons To Be Cheerful – Power Struggle

CARB – 2019 Community Air Grants Awardees

Editor’s Note: this year’s awardees include the Blue Lake Rancheria, the Morongo Band of Mission Indians, the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians, and the Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians!

EPA – EPA proposes air quality plan for oil and gas emissions on the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation

MPR – North Dakota, tribe to develop Dakota Access pipeline spill plan

National Association of Clean Air Agencies – Washington Update

 

COP25 Coverage

The Hill – Climate negotiators postpone decision on carbon markets

NPR – U.N. Climate Summit Goes To Extra Time, but Ends with Major Questions Unresolved

Indian Country Today – Breaking: Governments end climate talks with no deal

NY Times – U.N. Climate Talks End with Few Commitments and a ‘Lost’ Opportunity

CarbonBrief – COP25: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Madrid

 

Climate Change/Energy

Cronkite News – Arctic to Arizona: NAU professor explains how climate change affects everyone

Indian Country Today – ‘No strong sea ice layer’ and the Arctic is ‘unsafe for travel, hunting, our future’

Chicago Daily Herald – Thousands of dead Alaska seabirds are washing ashore, for a fifth year. Experts call that a climate ‘red flag

The Atlantic – How Coal Country Becomes Solar Country

CNN Business – Africa’s ‘first fully solar-powered village’ wants to be a model for a renewable future

NPR – Powered By Faith, Religious Groups Emerge As a Conduit for a Just Solar Boom

E&E News – Fear of famine rises as climate gets hotter

E&E News – Industry warned of tariff ‘devastation.’ That didn’t happen

CarbonBrief – Interactive: When will the Arctic see its first ice-free summer?

U of T News – Halting climate change means a world without fossil fuels – not merely curbing emissions: U of T researchers

CNN Business – Goldman Sachs is first big US bank to rule out loans for Arctic drilling

Financial Times – Bank of England to set up tough climate stress tests

 

Toxics/Mobile Sources

CNBC – GM expects Cadillac to be majority, if not all, EVs by 2030

Ensia – Opinion: In the Absence of Strong U.S. Government Regulation, Communities Need to Take a Holistic Approach to Pesticide Use

EPA- U.S. Refiners to Deliver Cleaner Marine Diesel Fuel with Key Regulatory Change

AP- Multi-state pact could curb transportation carbon emissions

 

Indoor Air Quality

NBC – E-cigarettes linked to lung problems, first long-term study on vaping finds

Wired – The Quest for Clean Air

Vice – I Bought an Air-Quality Monitor and My Life Will Never Be the Same

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