The Guardian

• US environment agency could end reporting of greenhouse gas emissions

  The mandatory program, which required 8,000 facilities to report their release, will be ended to reduce ‘bureaucratic red tape’

  The US Environmental Protection Agency proposed on Friday a rule to end a mandatory program requiring 8,000 facilities to report their greenhouse gas emissions – an effort the agency said was burdensome to business, but which leaves the public without transparency around the environmental impact of those sources.

  The agency said mandatory collection of GHG emissions data was unnecessary because it is “not directly related to a potential regulation and has no material impact on improving human health and the environment”.

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• Much of US shark meat comes from endangered species, study finds

  Research shows majority of shark meat mislabeled or so vaguely labeled buyers do not know what they are eating

  A recent study has revealed that the majority of shark meat available to American shoppers is mislabeled, with much of it coming from endangered species.

  The research, conducted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, tested products from supermarkets, fish markets and online retailers. Astonishingly, 93% of the samples were either falsely labeled or so vaguely described that buyers had no way of knowing the species they were eating. Only one item carried an accurate, species-specific label.

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• Misinformation, fear and politics – how a South Dakota county drove away millions in solar energy

  Colton Berens was looking forward to the added income from his farm, but armed with rightwing falsehoods, other Selby residents opposed the move

  Like most of South Dakota, Walworth county is built on farming. To the east of Selby, the county seat, vast fields of soybeans and wheat grow between roads that run straight to the horizon. To the west, beyond the county line, the Standing Rock Indian reservation spreads across miles of rumpled green prairie studded with creamy erratics and dark clumps of trees.

  Like many farming regions, Walworth’s deeply conservative population has been steadily declining and aging, from roughly 8,000 in the 1960s to 5,200 today. The grain elevator that towers over Main Street in Selby is among the busiest in the region, but most of the squat brick buildings in its shadow are weathered and lifeless.

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• Jump in US greenhouse gas pollution pushed global emissions higher – report

  ‘Abrupt shift’ in policy since Trump took office will have major consequences for climate crisis, forecast says

  A jump in greenhouse gas pollution in the US helped push global emissions higher in the first half of this year. This could be an omen of what’s to come, with Donald Trump’s pro-fossil fuel agenda set to significantly slow down the emissions cuts required to avoid disastrous climate impacts, a new forecast has found.

  The “most abrupt shift in energy and climate policy in recent memory” that has occurred since Trump re-entered the White House will have profound consequences for the global climate crisis by slowing the pace of US emissions cuts by as much as half the rate achieved over the past two decades, the Rhodium Group forecast states.

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• ‘Entire neighborhoods will have to move’: growth collides with rising seas in Charleston

  Residents worry new developments – including a sea wall planned to shield the city’s historic center – could push floodwaters into their communities

  This story is from Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powers stalling climate action

  On a quiet street near the marsh in Charleston, South Carolina’s Rosemont neighborhood, Luvenia Brown watches the weather reports more than she used to. She’s lost lawn mowers, bikes and outdoor furniture to the rising waters that have repeatedly crept into her yard.

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