Cincinnati Magazine
March 2, 2021
The restaurant industry has been hard hit by the pandemic, of course. With no clear path through Ohio’s and Kentucky’s official COVID response, these three Cincinnati restaurateurs made tough decisions to ensure they’d be able to serve another day.
Illustration by Lucila Perini
The Aperture
Chef Jordan Anthony-Brown was set for a summer 2020 opening of The Aperture in Walnut Hills’s Paramount Square redevelopment. But about a month before construction started, COVID put the project on hold. He pivoted by serving Mediterranean-by-way-of-Appalachia cuisine at a few pop-ups over the course of the year, but the constraints were real. “Not having space to cook was probably the most difficult thing,” he says. “Even if I wanted to do takeout options over the summer, I just didn’t have the space to do it.” With hope finally in sight, though, Anthony-Brown eyes an Aperture opening later this year.
Greenpeace USA
Emergency Appeal Filed With 9th Circuit to Block Willow Project
by Tim Donaghy
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If President Biden and his administration are serious about combating the climate crisis and prioritizing a transition to renewable energy then it’s time for all the Arctic drilling games to stop
Conservation groups filed an appeal and plan to request an emergency order today in the 9th Circuit Court Appeals to block ConocoPhillips’ work on its Willow oil and gas drilling project in the Western Arctic. They had sued the Trump administration in December for failing to study climate change and other impacts before approving the project’s final development plan.
JUNEAU (AP) — A federal judge has denied requests made by conservation groups that lobbied for the courts to block ConocoPhillips from starting construction on its new Willow oil field.
Conservation groups say a large-scale oil drilling project on 1.2 million acres in northern Alaska will exacerbate climate change and harm endangered species.
This undated aerial file photo provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a herd of caribou on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP, File)
(CN) A federal judge has temporarily halted construction of a massive oil and gas drilling project in northern Alaska after conservation groups asked the Ninth Circuit on Friday to block the “environmentally reckless” plan.
The Center for Biological Diversity and its allies filed their Ninth Circuit appeal on Feb. 5 after U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason, a Barack Obama appointee, denied the groups’ motion for a preliminary injunction four days earlier.