The rule is the first time FERC has directly addressed the country’s need for long-term energy transmission planning and will help achieve President Joe Biden’s target of decarbonizing the U.S. economy by 2050. ecowatch.com/ferc-electric-…

The amount of stormwater captured in late 2023 through spring 2024 is enough to meet water demands of about 2.4 million people, about 25% of the county.
ecowatch.com/los-angeles-st…

A new report from the United Nations’ Office on Drugs and Crime has found that more than 4,000 wildlife species are targeted worldwide for illegal trade, and about 162 countries have active illegal wildlife trading.
ecowatch.com/global-wildlif…

Last month, Biden said he was requesting that tariffs be raised on imports of Chinese products made from aluminum and steel after his aides said China was selling the metals at prices that were falsely low to deplete the market share.
ecowatch.com/electric-vehic…

The researchers discovered that, of the nearly $7 trillion given to the banks, almost half supported the expansion of fossil fuel development.
ecowatch.com/big-banks-foss…

The Mammoth plant, located in Iceland, is nearly ten times bigger than Orca, its second-largest plant.
ecowatch.com/co2-removal-cl…

Numerous scientists surveyed envisioned a “semi-dystopian” future for the planet, with heat waves causing mass migrations, increasingly frequent and extreme storms and floods, wildfires and famines.
ecowatch.com/climate-scient…

In the study, the researchers said tool use is rare in animals, but they discovered that chimpanzees employed hand grips utilizing more than one finger as they got older.
ecowatch.com/chimpanzees-to…

Trump said the $1 billion gift from the petroleum CEOs would be considered a “deal,” considering the regulation and taxes the companies would be avoiding, people privy to the meeting said on condition of anonymity, as The Washington Post reported.
ecowatch.com/trump-environm…

Scientists have discovered widespread populations of mosquitoes around Scotland, and they fear warming temperatures could lead to increasing public health risks from mosquito-borne diseases. ecowatch.com/mosquitoes-sco…

If the bill passes, Vermont would be the first state with a law that holds companies with high emissions financially responsible for climate-related damages to the state. ecowatch.com/vermont-climat…

The Mammoth plant, located in Iceland, is nearly ten times bigger than Orca, its second-largest plant.
ecowatch.com/co2-removal-cl…

“We asked them what the biggest barrier to climate action was – the top choice was lack of political will,” Damien Carrington, The Guardian’s environment editor, told EcoWatch. ecowatch.com/climate-scient…

Trump said the $1 billion gift from the petroleum CEOs would be considered a “deal,” considering the regulation and taxes the companies would be avoiding, people privy to the meeting said on condition of anonymity, as The Washington Post reported. ecowatch.com/trump-environm…

“At a time of environmental change it is really important to investigate the current and potential risk posed by mosquitoes and mosquito-borne disease,” said Dr. Jolyon Medlock. ecowatch.com/mosquitoes-sco…

Swiss company Climeworks has opened the biggest operational direct air capture (DAC) plant in the world to pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
ecowatch.com/co2-removal-cl…

Vermont’s House of Representatives has passed S.259, a state bill aimed at collecting recovery costs for climate-related damages from the biggest emitters, such as fossil fuel companies.
ecowatch.com/vermont-climat…

The planet just had its hottest April ever recorded, extending a streak of 11 consecutive record-setting months, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). ecowatch.com/april-2024-rec…

The reclassification means that Venezuela is believed to be the first Andean country, and the first country globally, to lose all of its glaciers. ecowatch.com/venezuela-glac…

A new initiative, SailGP vs Plastic, aims to combat the climate crisis by raising awareness through a group of individuals who have a special relationship with the ocean — the sailing community.
ecowatch.com/sailgp-plastic…