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Top EU Countries Spend $45 Billion Subsidizing Fossil-Fuel Company Cars [9]

"The EU's five biggest members spend 42 billion euros ($45.60 billion) annually subsidizing fossil-fuel company cars, according to a study commissioned by environmental group Transport & Environment (T&E), which called for more subsidies for EVs instead."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Pollution [12]
Transportation [13]
Public [14]
Europe [15]
Source: Reuters [16], 10/22/2024
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Supreme Court To Consider Which Courts Can Hear Challenges To EPA Actions [17]

"The Supreme Court will take up a series of cases to determine which federal courts can take on cases related to certain Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) actions, it said Monday."

Environmental Politics [18]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Pollution [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: The Hill [21], 10/22/2024
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One Of The Largest Solar Projects In US Opens In Texas, Backed By Google [22]

"One of the largest solar projects in the U.S. opened in Texas on Friday, backed by what Google said is the largest solar electricity purchase it has ever made."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Infrastructure [23]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [24]
Source: AP [25], 10/22/2024
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"Faith-Based Environmental Groups Take On Fossil Fuels As ‘A Sacred Duty’" [26]

"In mid-September, Val Smith, chief sustainability officer at Citigroup, one of the United States’ Big Four of banking, met with four religious environmental activists to discuss the company’s record on fossil fuel investment."

Activism [27]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [28]
Environmental Justice [29]
Environmental Politics [18]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [30]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Religion News Service [31], 10/22/2024
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"Reinventing Concrete, the Ancient Roman Way" [32]

"By learning the secrets of 2,000-year-old cement, researchers are trying to devise greener, more durable modern options."

Climate Change [10]
Infrastructure [23]
Natural Resources [33]
Planning & Growth [34]
Technology [35]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
International [36]
Source: NYTimes [37], 10/22/2024
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"Cop16: Colombia Prepares To Host ‘Decisive’ Summit On Biodiversity" [38]

"World leaders, environmental activists and prominent researchers have begun to arrive in Cali, Colombia, for a biodiversity summit that experts say will be decisive for the fate of the world’s rapidly declining wildlife populations."

Biodiversity [39]
Environmental Studies [40]
Fish & Fisheries [41]
Forests [42]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [33]
Wildlife [43]
Public [14]
International [36]
Source: Guardian [44], 10/21/2024
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Canadian Regulator Colluded With A Pesticide Maker To Silence Researcher [45]

"The federal pesticide regulator collaborated with an agrochemical giant to undermine research by a prominent Canadian scientist to stave off an impending ban of a class of pesticides harmful to human brains and sperm and deadly to bees, insects and birds, Canada's National Observer has found."

Agriculture [46]
Biodiversity [39]
Chemicals [47]
Environmental Health [28]
Environmental Politics [18]
Environmental Studies [40]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [33]
Science [48]
Wildlife [43]
Public [14]
Canada [49]
Source: National Observer [50], 10/21/2024
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Oscar Makes Landfall In Cuba, Could Lead To 'Humanitarian Crisis': Updates [51]

"Hurricane Oscar made landfall in eastern Cuba Sunday evening amid a power blackout, adding to fears that the storm may prove to be especially dangerous."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [52]
Energy & Fuel [11]
People & Population [53]
Water & Oceans [54]
Public [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [55]
Central America & the Caribbean [56]
Source: USA TODAY [57], 10/21/2024
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"Peak Coal Predicted This Year Despite Promises To Quit" [58]

"Coal has powered the world's factories, heated homes and fuelled economies for more than a century - and usage driven by the power sector continues to rise despite global promises to kick the habit and save the climate."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Studies [40]
Pollution [12]
Public [14]
International [36]
Asia [59]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [60], 10/21/2024
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Could High-Tech Gear Help Save Both Right Whales and Lobstermen? [61]

"Entanglements are a leading cause of death for endangered North Atlantic right whales. Removing fishing lines from the ocean could help minimize this risk—but only if lobstermen get on board, experts say."

Biodiversity [39]
Environmental Politics [18]
Fish & Fisheries [41]
Natural Resources [33]
Technology [35]
Water & Oceans [54]
Wildlife [43]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [62]
Source: Inside Climate News [63], 10/21/2024
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On Iowa Border, the Mississippi River Is Eroding Sacred Indigenous Mounds [64]

"A multimillion-dollar bank stabilization project proposed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers could protect one of the densest collections of ceremonial and burial mounds still existing in North America."

Infrastructure [23]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [33]
People & Population [53]
Water & Oceans [54]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [65]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [66]
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel [67], 10/21/2024
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Brazil To Seal $30 Billion Settlement With Miners Over 2015 Dam Collapse [68]

"Miners Vale, BHP, and Samarco are discussing a near $30 billion compensation deal with Brazilian authorities related to the 2015 Mariana dam collapse, they said on Friday, with an agreement set to be signed on Oct. 25, sources said."

Disasters [52]
Environmental Justice [29]
Environmental Politics [18]
Infrastructure [23]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [33]
People & Population [53]
Water & Oceans [54]
Public [14]
South America [69]
Source: Reuters [70], 10/21/2024
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"Floods Destroy 1.1 Million Tons Of Rice In Bangladesh" [71]

"Floods in Bangladesh have destroyed an estimated 1.1 million metric tons of rice, according to data from the agriculture ministry, prompting the country to ramp up imports of the staple grain amid soaring food prices."

Agriculture [46]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [52]
Food [72]
Water & Oceans [54]
Public [14]
Asia [59]
Source: Reuters [73], 10/21/2024
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"Hurricane Helene Underscores Need For More Solar-Battery Microgrids" [74]

"Distributed solar and batteries are helping North Carolina communities that were cut off from grid power by flooding. Should utilities build them into resilience plans?"

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Infrastructure [23]
Technology [35]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
International [36]
Source: Canary Media [75], 10/21/2024
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Rewilding Ireland: "Much of the Emerald Isle Is an Ecological Desert" [76]

"Eoghan Daltun rewilded his land in West Cork and wants more of Ireland to do the same."

Agriculture [46]
Biodiversity [39]
Natural Resources [33]
Wildlife [43]
Public [14]
Europe [15]
Source: NYTimes [77], 10/21/2024
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