"Live from MPR News," I'm Giole Snyder, fighting in the Middle East flaired u...
Monday, the U.S. and Iran launched fresh follies after President Trump announced
“a new effort to reopen the straight-up for moves to ship traffic.”
U.S. military says it fired on Iranian forces and sank six small boats, United Arab Emirates as an oil port came under attack by Iranian missiles. Imperial Shacky-Northam." But it's hard to say exactly why Iran launched these attacks, but the timing, of course, suggests it has to do with the U.S. decision to launch this project freedom, you know,
to try and open up the straight-up for moves. And it's great, says the U.S. shooting down of some Iranian drones and missiles and attacking some smaller Iranian ships today. The U.A. is an ally of the U.S. and supports it in the war against Iran. And these attacks on the U.A. could be Iran's way of retaliating.
In a social media post, Iran's foreign minister warned that the U.S. and the U.A.
should be wary of being dragged back into a quackmire. Trump administration, suing Minnesota, to try to block the state's lawsuit against
“the fossil fuel industry, impairs Michael Kapli reports on this latest effort by the”
administration to shield oil and gas companies from a wave of climate litigation. The Justice Department says Minnesota should be barred from suing the fossil fuel industry over the impacts of climate change, because it argues the federal government has sold authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Minnesota's lawsuit filed in 2020 alleges the fossil fuel industry must lead people for
decades about the dangers of burning fossil fuels. The state says it's already suffered billions in economic damage from rising temperatures. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said this new DOJ suit is "meritless and should be dismissed." The oil and gas industry says the same for climate lawsuits like Minnesota's.
And the climate changes in the issue for Congress to deal with, not the courts. Michael Kapli and PR News federal transportation officials investigating an incident involving a United Airlines plane that struck a light pole in a truck while landing yesterday at the
“airport in Newark and PR's stroll rosary ports.”
Dashcam video footage appears to capture the moment the Boeing 767 passenger jet struck a truck on the New Jersey turnpike. The driver of the truck was taken to the hospital with minor injuries and released. New Jersey State Police say a landing tire and the underside of the plane collided with the tractor trailer and a light pole during its final approach to the runway at Newark
Liberty International Airport. United Airlines flight 169 was arriving from Venice, Italy. None of the 221 passengers or 10 crew members on board the plane were injured. The airline said, although the plane was being evaluated for damage. Choros and PR news state media in China reporting on a deadly explosion at a fireworks
plan at least 21 people reported dead more than 60 others injured hundreds of rescuers have been deployed. This is in PR news officials and Columbia say a dozen coal miners are trapped inside a mine and central Columbia following an explosion. The province's governor says 15 miners were inside the mine when the explosion occurred.
He said on social media that three were able to escape on their own and that one has been taken to a hospital. A landfill site in Chile is ranked at the top and a global list prepared by the United Nations Environment Program as a world single, high as the midter of methane. John Bartler reports.
The trash dump in till till 60 kilometers north of Santiago tops the list of 50 human origin sites with more than 100,000 tons of methane emitted per year, surpassing even industrial oil and gas facilities elsewhere on the planet. The study based on data from nearly 30 satellites also identified another Chilean landfill among the 10 largest global emitters highlighting the impact of waste management on the climate
crisis.
The report says the emission sources released the amount of methane comparable to 24 million
gas powered cars driven for one year. For NPR news, I'm John Bartler, in Santiago, Chile. The world health organization says it's working to evacuate two people who are showing symptoms of the deadly hunter virus following a suspected outbreak aboard a cruise ship off Cape Fert in the North Atlantic.
The ship with nearly 150 people on board is waiting for help after three passengers died. Okay, birds said Monday, it's not allowing the ship to dock as a precaution passengers have been asked to remain in their cabins. This is NPR news. On consider this NPR's afternoon news podcast, we cover everything from politics to the
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