Matt and Nick talk about the US Environmental Protection Agency’s lawsuit over not regulating polluted waters due to factory farming (EPA sued over lack of plan to regulate water pollution from factory farms | Environment | The Guardian),
Three United Nations reports stating that the world is falling short in its plans to fight climate change ("Untold human suffering" is in the near future as U.N. warns climate change is pushing Earth closer to extreme warming - CBS News),
Emmanuel Macron’s plans to replenish some of the forests France lost to wildfire (Macron wants to replant 10% of French forest after summer wildfires | Reuters),
The EU is not on progress to achieve its goal of cutting methane emissions by 30% (EU on track to break pledge to cut methane emissions by 30%, warns report | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian),
And what Brazil’s election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva means for the Amazon rainforest and the world (Brazil Elects Lula, a Leftist Former Leader, in a Rebuke of Bolsonaro - The New York Times (nytimes.com))!
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