Happy Wednesday everyone! I am sure you are all aware of climate change and global warming by now well here’s some good news for all the environmentalists and change seekers out there.

• In Portland, Maine Federal authorities spent the past few years analyzing rules for the shipping industry and are now close to releasing new guidelines to help protect a vanishing species of whale.
• In Tennessee, Greg Deen and his family are fighting against the local government taking over their beloved town creek into a wattage dumping area.
• President Joe Biden declared Thursday that a $1 billion infusion from the bipartisan infrastructure deal would restore the Great Lakes harbors and tributary rivers that have been polluted by industrial toxins.
  
  
   
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• Rihanna is backing her belief that climate change is a social-justice issue by pledging $15 million to the movement through her Clara Lionel Foundation.
• The Department of Interior is spending $1.15 billion to cap abandoned oil and gas wells across the United States that have been affected by climate change.
• The filters distributed in Benton Harbor, Michigan during the city’s recent lead water crisis worked properly, according to a study state officials said was conducted to give residents assurance to clean water
• A retired special education teacher turned environmental justice advocate will receive what the University of Notre Dame describes as the oldest and most prestigious honor for American Catholics

Enough of hearing what the world has been up to! Let us all try to contribute together towards protecting nature’s scarce resources. After all the more the merrier!