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Ads Claiming Products Are Carbon Neutral By Using Offsetting Face UK Ban [9]

"Adverts that claim products are carbon neutral using offsets are to be banned by the UK’s advertising watchdog unless companies can prove they really work, the Guardian can reveal, as Gucci becomes the latest company to struggle with a high-profile environmental commitment based on offsetting."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [13]
Public [14]
Europe [15]
Source: Guardian [16], 05/16/2023
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"Intensive Farming Is Biggest Cause Of Bird Decline In Europe, Study Says" [17]

"The use of pesticides and fertilisers in intensive agriculture is the biggest cause of the dwindling number of birds in the UK and the rest of Europe, scientists have said."

Agriculture [18]
Biodiversity [19]
Chemicals [20]
Wildlife [21]
Public [14]
Europe [15]
Source: Guardian [22], 05/16/2023
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"Exxon Targets Standing in Largest-Ever Citizen Lawsuit Penalty" [23]

"Exxon Mobil Corp. and environmental groups will square off once again in circuit court on Tuesday in a 13-year-old lawsuit over pollution from the energy giant’s Baytown, Texas, refinery."

Chemicals [20]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Justice [25]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [27]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [28]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [29], 05/16/2023
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Maker Of Graphite For Batteries Plans $800 Million Factory in SW Georgia [30]

"A company that’s trying to become a major American-based supplier of graphite for electric batteries announced Monday it will invest $800 million to build a factory in southwest Georgia, hiring 400 workers."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [31]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [27]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [32]
Source: AP [33], 05/16/2023
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Transportation ‘Revolution’? How The Infrastructure Law Fuels Freeways [34]

"The Biden administration is supporting a nearly $10 billion highway expansion in Houston that ignited a yearlong debate about its climate effects and the demolition of almost 1,000 homes."

Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Justice [25]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [35]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Transportation [36]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [27]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [28]
Source: E&E News [37], 05/16/2023
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Enviro, Oil Companies Battle Ohio Over Dumping of Fracking Wastewater [38]

"Ten years ago, Tim Kettler asked local officials to stop spreading liquid waste from fracking on the road near his home in Warsaw, Ohio, because he was worried that the fluid would contaminate a pond where he gets his drinking water."

Chemicals [20]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Health [39]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [40]
Pollution [41]
Water & Oceans [42]
Public [14]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [43]
Source: Inside Climate News [44], 05/16/2023
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Herders In Kenya Kill 10 Lions, Including Loonkiito, One Of The Oldest [45]

"One of Kenya’s oldest wild lions was killed by herders and the government has expressed concern as six more lions were speared at another village on Saturday, bringing to 10 the number killed last week alone."

Biodiversity [19]
Wildlife [21]
Public [14]
Africa [46]
Source: AP [47], 05/16/2023
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"Unusually Early Heat Wave In Pacific Northwest Tests Records" [48]

"An early heat wave took hold Saturday in parts of the Pacific Northwest, with temperatures nearing or breaking records in some areas and heat advisories in place through Monday. The historically temperate region has grappled with scorching summer temperatures and unprecedented wildfires fueled by climate change in recent years."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [49]
Environmental Health [39]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [27]
Northwest (OR WA) [50]
Canada [51]
Source: AP [52], 05/15/2023
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"Cyclone Mocha: Deadly Storm Hits Myanmar And Bangladesh Coasts" [53]

"A powerful cyclone has hit the coastlines of Bangladesh and Myanmar after intensifying into the equivalent of a category-five storm. Cyclone Mocha did not make landfall at the sprawling refugee camp in Cox's Bazar as earlier feared, but still tore apart hundreds of makeshift shelters."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [49]
People & Population [54]
Water & Oceans [42]
Public [14]
Asia [55]
Source: BBC News [56], 05/15/2023
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Kerry Challenges Oil Industry To Prove Its Promised Tech Rescues [57]

"Oil and gas producers talk up technological breakthroughs they say will soon allow the world to drill and burn fossil fuels without worsening global warming. U.S. climate envoy John Kerry says the time is here for the industry to prove it can make the technology happen — at scale, affordably and quickly — to stave off climate disaster."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Politics [12]
Pollution [41]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: AP [58], 05/15/2023
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Flush With Federal Money, a Deep South Factory Votes to Unionize [59]

"Workers at a rural Georgia factory that builds electric school buses under generous federal subsidies voted to unionize on Friday, handing organized labor and Democrats a surprise victory in their hopes to turn huge new infusions of money from Washington into a union beachhead in the Deep South."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [31]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Justice [25]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Transportation [36]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [27]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [32]
Source: NYTimes [60], 05/15/2023
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Climate Deniers Target Scientists For Vicious Abuse On Musk’s Twitter [61]

"Some of the UK’s top scientists are struggling to deal with what they describe as a huge rise in abuse from climate crisis deniers on Twitter since the social media platform was taken over by Elon Musk last year."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [13]
Science [62]
Public [14]
International [63]
Europe [15]
Source: Guardian [64], 05/15/2023
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Controlled Burns Prevent Wildfires, But Regulations Make It Very Hard [65]

"Even though the 2021 Marshall Fire made it clear that the fire threat posed by Colorado’s grasslands endangers large urban areas, federal, state and local rules continue to make it difficult to address the risk."

Disasters [49]
Forests [66]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Natural Resources [67]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: ProPublica [68], 05/15/2023
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"Nature Lawyers Up" [69]

"A growing number of countries and courts say the environment should be endowed with legal rights."

Biodiversity [19]
Environmental Justice [25]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Natural Resources [67]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [27]
International [63]
Source: NYTimes [70], 05/15/2023
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Biden Pledged To Stop Funding Fossil Fuels Overseas. ExIm Bank Does Anyway [71]

"In 2021, the Biden administration told federal agencies to stop funding many new fossil fuel projects abroad..... But now, leaders of America's Export-Import Bank have decided to lend nearly $100 million for the expansion of an oil refinery in Indonesia."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [31]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Policy [72]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [27]
International [63]
Source: NPR [73], 05/15/2023
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