News items for July 26, 2024
(Also showing draft and scheduled news items)
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1. Blazes spread in California and eastern Oregon
The authorities arrested a man believed to have started the fire north of Sacramento. A second fire in eastern Oregon is now the largest in the country.
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2. We’ll help you get off gas, says WA’s top gas supplier
By helping customers pivot to electrification, Puget Sound Energy presents a jobs-boosting model to the bioregion.
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3. Feds pay First Nation in BC $147M over loss of water rights
The Esk’etemc First Nation was prevented from completing an irrigation ditch in the 1890s despite a reserve land agreement.
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4. Natural gas initiative qualifies for WA ballot
Initiative 2066 would roll back portions of a law meant to help Puget Sound Energy, the state’s largest utility, chart a transition from natural gas, and it would threaten energy-efficiency mandates.
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5. 25 states file emergency appeal to U.S. Supreme Court to halt EPA’s carbon rule
The appeal said that the EPA has overstepped its authority as it mandates greenhouse gas regulations that are impossible to meet because the technology either currently doesn’t exist, or would be so cost prohibitive that it would make using coal impossible.
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6. Looking from space, researchers find pollution spiking near e-commerce hubs
Research showed truck-related releases of nitrogen dioxide, which can cause asthma, concentrated around some 150,000 warehouses nationwide.
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7. Grabbing public land in the name of housing
Have politicians finally found a way to take public land out of the public’s hands?
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8. Feds pick Hanford nuclear site for massive solar farm
While Washington struggles to contend with surging demand for electricity, federal officials on Thursday announced plans for a massive solar farm on the Hanford nuclear site.
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9. Plant-based meat needs public funding to scale. A culture war stands in the way
Public funding helped electric vehicles go mainstream. Are alternative proteins next — or are they too polarizing?
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10. Bears, fish, and wolves’ new predator: the Supreme Court?
The Chevron ruling might be bad news for wild animals — though not all environmentalists think so.
More News from July 26, 2024
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Environmentally, offshore wind Is … fine
How often can you say that about an energy generation system?