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Residents Not Told When Carbon Capture Monitoring Well Leaks in Illinois [9]

"On Sept. 13, Decatur, Illinois, city councilperson David Horn found out a monitoring well at a carbon capture and storage site in his community was leaking. He did not find out through an internal council meeting, nor an emergency phone call from the city manager or an alert from environmental regulators. He found out like most other people did, through an article in E&E News."

Chemicals [10]
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Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [19]
Source: Inside Climate News [20], 10/04/2024
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Blue Ridge Parkway To Be Closed Indefinitely After Helene: Park Service [21]

"The country’s most-visited national park site, the Blue Ridge Parkway, will remain closed indefinitely, the National Park Service (NPS) said Wednesday. The closure affects the entire length of the Blue Ridge Parkway, though some parts were hit harder than others by storm damage. It comes right as the region and scenic road typically see a boom in tourism, as weather cools and the leaves change colors."

Biodiversity [22]
Climate Change [11]
Disasters [23]
Economy & Business [24]
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Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [29]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [30]
Source: The Hill [31], 10/04/2024
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What Happens To Thousands Of Shipping Containers Lost At Sea? [32]

"Russ Lewis has picked up some strange things along the coast of Long Beach Peninsula in Washington state over the years: Hot Wheels bicycle helmets with feather tufts, life-size plastic turkey decoys made for hunters, colorful squirt guns." ... "These items aren’t like the used fishing gear and beer cans that Lewis also finds tossed overboard by fishers or partygoers. They’re the detritus of commercial shipping containers lost in the open ocean."

Consumer [33]
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Transportation [28]
Waste [34]
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National (U.S.) [18]
International [36]
Source: AP [37], 10/04/2024
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"Huge New Jersey Offshore Wind Project Approved For Construction" [38]

"Federal regulators gave a huge, contentious offshore wind project the green light to start construction off the coast of New Jersey."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [39]
Infrastructure [40]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Water & Oceans [35]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [41]
Source: Canary Media [42], 10/04/2024
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"Helene Knocked Out a Key Facility for Monitoring the Global Climate" [43]

"Among the many pieces of critical infrastructure that Hurricane Helene knocked offline in Asheville, N.C., was a key federal office for monitoring the global climate. Work is underway to get the facility running again, but the outage is likely to delay some agencies’ monthly updates on global warming and other climate indicators."

Climate Change [11]
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Environmental Studies [44]
Infrastructure [40]
Science [45]
Water & Oceans [35]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
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International [36]
Source: NYTimes [46], 10/04/2024
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"Hurricanes’ Hidden Toll: Thousands Of Deaths Years After They Strike" [47]

"Of more than 500 hurricanes that have hit the United States, the average storm led to up to 11,000 excess deaths, hundreds of times higher than official estimates."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [23]
Environmental Health [12]
Water & Oceans [35]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Washington Post [48], 10/03/2024
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"Who Will Care for Americans Left Behind by Climate Migration?" [49]

"As people move away from flooding and heat, new research suggests that those who remain will be older, poorer and more vulnerable."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [23]
Environmental Health [12]
People & Population [27]
Planning & Growth [50]
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Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: ProPublica [51], 10/03/2024
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"A Shift Among Democrats: Embrace Record Levels of Oil and Gas" [52]

"JD Vance and Tim Walz on Tuesday both avoided talking about the main cause of global warming that is powering the kind of violent weather that struck the Southeast this week: the burning of fossil fuels."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [39]
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Science [45]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [53], 10/03/2024
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Drug-Resistant Typhoid Spreads In Pakistan As Antibiotics Fail [54]

"From his sickbed, eight-year-old Ukasha could see his siblings play with a ball in the courtyard. His head hurt and his body felt too heavy to move. Ukasha had typhoid fever – an illness he should have recovered from in days. It had been a month."

Environmental Health [12]
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Pollution [16]
Public [17]
International [36]
Source: Guardian [55], 10/03/2024
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"Hurricane Gives Democrats A Climate Opening In Florida" [56]

"Democrats are deploying climate arguments against Republican Rick Scott in the state’s contentious Senate race."

Climate Change [11]
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Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [30]
Source: E&E News [57], 10/03/2024
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"‘Everything Is Dead’: Ukraine Rushes To Stem Ecocide After River Poisoning" [58]

"Ukrainian officials say the Russians deliberately poisoned the Seym River, which flows into the Desna. The Desna connects with a reservoir in the Kyiv region and a water supply used by millions."

Chemicals [10]
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Environmental Health [12]
Military [59]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [35]
Public [17]
International [36]
Europe [60]
Source: Guardian [61], 10/03/2024
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"American Dams Weren’t Built for Today’s Climate-Charged Rain and Floods" [62]

"As flooding hammered Appalachia in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, residents became intimately familiar with a new norm in the US’s post-storm script: dams at imminent risk of failing."

Climate Change [11]
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Infrastructure [40]
Water & Oceans [35]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Bloomberg Green [63], 10/03/2024
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S. Calif. Study Shows Extensive Exposure To Toxic Airborne Plasticizers [64]

"Urban populations in Southern Californian are facing chronic exposure to toxic airborne “plasticizer” compounds — two of which have already been banned from children’s products, a new study has found."

Air [65]
Chemicals [10]
Consumer [33]
Environmental Health [12]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
California [66]
Source: The Hill [67], 10/03/2024
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"Biden Signs Bill Cutting Environmental Reviews For Semiconductor Industry" [68]

"President Biden on Wednesday signed legislation exempting semiconductor manufacturing facilities from environmental reviews — despite objections from some Democrats and green activists who have expressed concerns about the potential for toxic waste."

Chemicals [10]
Economy & Business [24]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Technology [69]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The Hill [70], 10/03/2024
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Voting In Alaska’s Fat Bear Week Starts After Attack Killed 1 Contestant [71]

"Voting started Wednesday in the annual Fat Bear Week contest at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve, with viewers picking their favorite among a dozen brown bears fattened up to survive the winter."

Biodiversity [22]
Fish & Fisheries [72]
Journalism & Media [14]
Natural Resources [26]
Water & Oceans [35]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Alaska and Hawaii [73]
Source: AP [74], 10/03/2024
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