"Trump Administration Issuing $1B Loan To Bolster Three Mile Island Restart"
"The Trump administration is issuing a $1 billion loan to help finance the restart of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant."
Source: The Hill, 11/20/2025
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Trump FWS Seeks To Roll Back Protections For Imperiled Species And Habitat
"President Donald Trump’s administration moved Wednesday to roll back protections for imperiled species and the places they live, reviving a suite of changes to Endangered Species Act regulations from the Republican’s first term that were blocked under former Democratic President Joe Biden."
Source: AP, 11/20/2025The Risk And Promise Of Offshore Wind Energy In Nova Scotia
"As the federal government considers fast-tracking Wind West Atlantic Energy, residents hope for economic transformation, while some worry about impacts to seafood industry and marine ecosystems"
Source: The Narwhal, 11/20/2025America’s Home Insurance Affordability Crunch: See What’s Happening Near You
"Insurance premiums are rising fast in the parts of the United States most exposed to climate-related disasters like wildfires and hurricanes. New research shows that, as insurance has sharply pushed up the cost of owning a home, the price shock is starting to reverberate through the broader real estate market."
Source: NYTimes, 11/20/2025"A Guerrilla Gardener Installed A Pop-Up Wetland In The LA River"
"To many locals, the Los Angeles River — hugged by concrete embankments and heavy vehicle traffic — hardly seems like a river at all. ... But when Doug Rosenberg came upon a shopping cart tipped over in the river's shallow waters back in 2020, he saw the potential to meet nature halfway."
Source: NPR, 11/20/2025"Brazil Pushes For Early COP30 Climate Deal On Fossil Fuels And Finance"
"Brazil proposes two-stage deal to expedite COP30 negotiations. Disagreements persist on finance and emissions cuts. Group of countries call for roadmap to ditch fossil fuels."
Source: Reuters, 11/19/2025"Recycling Lead for U.S. Car Batteries Is Poisoning People"
"Poisonous dust falls from the sky over the town of Ogijo, near Lagos, Nigeria. It coats kitchen floors, vegetable gardens, churchyards and schoolyards. The toxic soot billows from crude factories that recycle lead for American companies."
Source: NYTimes, 11/19/2025Alberta Wants To Release Treated Oilsands Waste Into The Athabasca River
"Seven months after the Liberal Party vowed to “immediately introduce and pass legislation” affirming the right of First Nations to clean drinking water, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government says they’re still working on it."
Source: The Narwhal, 11/19/2025"Cost-Conscious Utilities Resist Trump’s Push For Nuclear Revival"
"The administration has yet to convince major utilities to commit to building large reactors again."
Source: E&E News, 11/19/2025"Environmentalists Sue to Stop Oil Lease Sales in the Gulf of Mexico"
"Environmental groups sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over a plan to sell oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico. The groups say the sale violates a core environmental law and threatens coastal communities and endangered whales."
Source: NYTimes, 11/19/2025"What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic"
"After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing hens and spiking egg prices, the USDA didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne. ProPublica did. Experts say ProPublica’s analysis offers a plausible explanation for how the wind could have helped spread the virus, exposing a flaw in the USDA’s playbook to fight it."
Source: ProPublica, 11/19/2025"UN Maritime Chief Links Rise Of Dark Fleet To Worker Abuses"
"The head of the United Nations' maritime agency warned of a disturbing rise in the criminalisation of seafarers, driven by geopolitical tensions and a surge in substandard shipping practices linked to the so-called dark fleet operating outside international norms."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 11/19/2025"Trump Plan Waives Protection At +80% Of Wetlands"
"In some states, more than 90 percent of wetlands could be excluded from safeguards provided by the Clean Water Act."
Source: E&E News, 11/19/2025"Data-Center Power Forecasts Climb To Unreachable Heights"
"Utilities expect electricity growth to reach levels that are hard to fathom — and they’re using those estimates to justify costly new investments in fossil gas."
Source: Canary Media, 11/19/2025Ecuador’s Voters Protect Rights of Nature, Reject Constitution Rewrite
"Ecuadorians on Sunday rejected their president’s attempt to rewrite the constitution, a move that would likely have doomed the world’s only constitutional recognition of the rights of nature."
Source: Inside Climate News, 11/19/2025
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