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"Nearly a third of local agencies running Central Valley levees have kept up “unacceptable” maintenance, some for years, and the state hasn’t stepped in."
"Staff at an Oklahoma regulatory agency spent over a year building a case against Citation Oil & Gas, a company notorious for oil field pollution. Instead of disciplining the company, agency leaders chose to let it resume operations."
"A new Washington Post investigation has found that as fruit and vegetables are increasingly coming from Mexico, the Food and Drug Administration’s oversight of produce manufacturers in the country has been minimal. In recent years, 34 percent of fresh vegetables and 59 percent of fresh fruit available in the U.S. were imported."
"A historic gathering of First Nations leaders with Canadian and Provincial leaders was hosted by Prime Minister Mark Carney on October 26. It was the first such meeting in over two decades. Although it was considered a landmark gathering, the meeting was boycotted by many First Nations and skipped by a couple of provincial premiers."
"The White House is using federal disaster relief as leverage while Republicans fight to keep power in Washington, with President Trump saying on one occasion that voting for Democrats could mean less money for states."
"Halley Froehlich was sure she’d spend her scientific career in the United States. Her family has been in America since the 1700s. But over the past two years, delayed federal grants and fears about the future motivated her to pack her life into boxes. She moved to Finland with her husband and daughter and is continuing her research — studying how fish, shellfish and seaweed that humans eat are responding to climate change — at the University of Helsinki."
"About a month after three Florida counties declared states of emergency over what officials described as a “wildly unusual” dengue outbreak, infections of the mosquito-borne disease have continued to climb."
"Rare, heavy rainfall started to hit New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Arizona on Wednesday. Since then, brown-colored floodwaters have led to road closures, mandatory evacuations and emergency declarations across the four states."
"Damage from Josephine has closed the only highway to North Carolina’s Outer Banks; king tide flooding is predicted to bring some of the highest water levels of the past 10 years to portions of the Southeast U.S. early next week."
"In what one environmental law expert described as “a dangerous ultimatum,” the Trump administration said it would strip California of its authority to protect its coastline unless state regulators agreed to more than a dozen “corrective actions” that would benefit close allies of the White House, according to the draft findings of a controversial federal review."
"The Saamaka people in Suriname are using modern technology to map their ancestral lands. They hope to get government recognition and protection against illegal logging and mining."
"At wildlife hospitals across eastern Australia, many koalas brought in have distinctive brown patches on their bottoms – a sign of urinary incontinence and a painful inflamed bladder. Others have red, weeping eyes, pointing to a bacterial disease that can cause blindness in the endangered marsupials."
"Concerns about fires loom large in communities, but data shows the tech is no more at risk of failure than boring legacy infrastructure like substation transformers."
"The trial, which start[ed] Monday, comes as Canada rolls back climate policies. A new government report warns the country could experience 5 degrees Celsius of warming under current emissions trajectories."
"Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian president, has staged a dramatic election fightback, defeating his far-right opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro, to claim a historic fourth term in power."
