Card – The Atlantic – 1/24/22 Related: Idaho has biggest U.S. deposit of metal vital for clean energy. Is mining boom coming? Read more at: https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/business/article257678943.html#storylink=cpy Also: Visualizing China’s Dominance in Clean Energy Metals
How FERC, courts may change pipeline industry in 2022
Card – E&E Energywire – 1/20/22
Biden outpaces Trump in issuing drilling permits on public lands
Card – The Washington Post – 1/27/22
U.S. crop insurance payouts rise sharply as climate change worsens droughts, floods
Card – Reuters – 1/27/22
Climate change fueled 3rd costliest losses ever in 2021 — less than half of that property was insured
Card – Market Watch – 1/25/22
What’s climate change really doing to the ocean? Ask the robots
Card – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – 1/26/22
Carbon-Negative Construction
Card – Anthropocene – 1/2022
Fourth Circuit Vacates Two Key MVP Permits
The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated – for the second time – the approvals granted by the U.S. Forest Service (NFS) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) to cross 3.5
Augusta County citizen opposition kills proposed waste pit
Strong citizen opposition to a proposed waste pit in Augusta County, has killed the project. The Houff Corporation had proposed in November to construct a 3-million-gallon open pit to store industrial food waste imported from outside the county, to be
New members join ABRA’s Board of Directors
Three new members have been elected to ABRA’s Board of Directors: Ben Luckett, Appalachian Mountain Advocates; David Sligh, Wild Virginia; and Judy Rodd, Friends of Blackwater. Continuing on the ABRA Board are Kate Boyle of Appalachian Advocates (Vice Chair), ABRA