Environmental News For The Week Ending 09 May 2019
This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at
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Major coronavirus metrics continue to head lower in the US, and now also globally. New cases in the US during the week ending May 8th were down 18.6% from new cases during the week ending May 1st, and are now down 83.3% from the January peak; this week also saw fewer new cases than any week since September. This week s US deaths attributed to Covid were 6.8% lower than the prior week s, and down 80.5% from the January high; US Covid deaths are now at the lowest rate since since the second week of July.
A Just Transition? On Brooklyn’s Waterfront, Oil Companies and Community Activists Join Together to Create an Offshore Wind Project and Jobs
Residents of Sunset Park, a largely immigrant, working-class community, hope the project will bring high-paying jobs to an economically-stressed neighborhood.
May 9, 2021
Aroldo Garcia discusses a major offshore wind development coming to Brooklyn with Summer Sandoval, a campaigner with the environmental justice group UPROSE. The project could bring more than 1,000 jobs to a site in Brooklyn s Sunset Park. Credit: Nicholas Kusnetz
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When Aroldo Garcia learned that the operations base for a major offshore wind project was coming to his Brooklyn neighborhood, he thought about the jobs it could provide for his family members and friends who worked as handymen and contractors, and for others who didn’t have work at all.
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Biden’s Road to Clean Energy Runs Through West Virginia Coal Country Source: By Kellie Lunney, Bloomberg Business • Posted: Tuesday, May 4, 2021
The state’s senators, Joe Manchin and Shelley Capito, are poised to shape the nation’s energy transition with the challenges of their home state firmly in mind.
The New River Gorge in southern West Virginia. With the creation of a new national park here, tourism in the region is expected to increase. Photographer: Kristian Thacker for Bloomberg Businessweek
Gerald Lucas, 69, is a former coal miner and federal mine inspector who now gives public tours underground at the Beckley, W.Va., Exhibition Coal Mine, a working mine that ceased operations in 1953. He describes it as a fun job that allows him to share his decades of experience with visitors.
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Here are the top stories and upcoming coverage plans for Reuters text service as of 10 p.m. GMT/6 a.m. SGT. For a full schedule of news and events, go to our editorial calendar on Reuters Connect here.
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CZECH-RUSSIA Livid Russia expels 20 Czechs after blast blamed on Skripal suspects Moscow expelled 20 Czech diplomats on Sunday in a confrontation over Czech allegations that two Russian spies accused of a nerve agent poisoning in Britain in 2018 were behind an earlier explosion at a Czech ammunition depot that killed two people.
ISRAEL-GREECE-DEFENCE Israel and Greece sign record defence deal Israel and Greece have signed their biggest ever defence procurement deal, which Israel said on Sunday would strengthen political and economic ties between the countries and the two countries’ air forces launched a joint exercise.
Families reunite as Australia-New Zealand ‘travel bubble’ begins
Hundreds of passengers from Australia began arriving in New Zealand airports on Monday after authorities reopened borders, a pandemic milestone that allows quarantine-free travel between the countries for the first time in over a year.
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Livid Russia expels 20 Czechs after blast blamed on Skripal suspects
Moscow expelled 20 Czech diplomats on Sunday in a confrontation over Czech allegations that two Russian spies accused of a nerve agent poisoning in Britain in 2018 were behind an earlier explosion at a Czech ammunition depot that killed two people.
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U.S. officials pledge Biden will raise cap on refugees, but old goal unlikely