Salish Sea News Week in Review April 8, 2022

 

Aloha Feng Shui Friday
Feng shui, also known as Chinese geomancy, is an ancient Chinese traditional practice which claims to use energy forces to harmonize individuals with their surrounding environment. The term feng shui means, literally, "wind-water". (Wikipedia)

The battle for your toilet paper is on
Early in the pandemic, toilet paper shortages pushed weary Americans to the fringes. Out of necessity, millions tried rolls made from recycled paper or bamboo. And what they found surprised them.

Dismal B.C. herring season sparks renewed calls for moratorium
Three days after setting his nets out in the Strait of Georgia between B.C.'s mainland and Vancouver Island, Josh Young headed back home to Pender Harbour. The herring he was expecting to catch were nowhere to be found.

B.C. government announces additional logging deferrals for at-risk old-growth trees
Approximately 1.05 million hectares of forests that are most at risk of irreversible loss will now be off limits to logging for at least two years, nearly half of what was determined to be at high risk by a scientific panel in November of 2021.

Judge rules against Navy SEAL training at Washington State Parks
The Navy SEALs won’t be able to use Washington State Parks as training grounds. A judge on Friday ruled against an earlier decision to allow the training at up to 28 parks.

Washington wants drivers to plug into clean cars by 2030 before other West Coast states
The Washington Legislature just approved a goal that all new cars sold in the state beginning with model year 2030 be electric. Oregon and California have 2035 as their target.

First-of-its-kind stormwater ‘heat map’ lights up pollutants fouling waters in Washington state
...[A] first-of-its-kind interactive Stormwater Heatmap is making stormwater pollution visible across the 16,700-square-mile watershed that drains into Seattle’s Puget Sound.

Supreme Court reinstates Trump-era water rule, for now
The Supreme Court has reinstated for now a Trump-era rule that curtails the power of states and Native American tribes to block pipelines and other energy projects that can pollute rivers, streams and other waterways.

For the first time, researchers find microplastics deep in the lungs of living people
Researchers say they have found microplastics — tiny pieces of plastic debris that come as a result of the disposal of industrial waste — deep in the lungs of living humans for the first time.

WA to preserve 10,000 acres of trees to sell as carbon credits to polluters
Under a new policy announced by the Washington Dept. of Natural Resources, trees in portions of state forests will be preserved as part of the state’s new, 10,000-acre “carbon reserve.” The state intends to lease the trees as carbon credits to emitters of greenhouse gases that cause global warming.

Royal Bank defends funding B.C.'s Coastal GasLink pipeline despite environmental concerns
Royal Bank of Canada's chief executive defended the bank's funding of the Coastal GasLink pipeline Thursday and called for incentives to help the shift to a net-zero economy, as investors and Indigenous groups denounced its support of fossil fuels.

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