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Feds Launch New Attempt to Gather Data on Energy Usage of Bitcoin Mining [9]

"The Energy Information Agency is starting the process to require cryptocurrency miners to submit energy consumption data after a previous attempt faced legal challenges."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Infrastructure [13]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Inside Climate News [18], 07/12/2024
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Nike Pledged To Shrink Carbon Footprint. It Just Slashed The Staff To Do That [19]

"Since December, Nike has lost about 30% of employees who worked primarily on sustainability initiatives, due to layoffs, voluntary departures or transfers to other duties. Already, the company was missing its targets for reducing emissions."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Journalism & Media [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [20]
Source: ProPublica/Oregonian [21], 07/12/2024
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BP-Owned Firm Selling Carbon Credits On Trees That Aren’t In Danger: Study [22]

"Some forest carbon offsets sold by the biggest offsetting company in the United States offer little or no benefit to the climate, a satellite analysis has found."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Forests [23]
Journalism & Media [14]
Natural Resources [24]
Pollution [25]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [20]
Source: Floodlight/SourceMaterial [26], 07/12/2024
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"Research Shows Heat Exposure Disproportionately Affects Black Richmonders" [27]

"Michael, a resident of Richmond’s Southside who declined to share his last name, sat on Forest Hill Avenue waiting for a bus Tuesday just before 2 p.m., when a car thermometer recorded the temperature at 94 degrees."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [28]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Justice [30]
Public [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [31]
Source: Virginia Mercury [32], 07/12/2024
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"The GOP Has Found A New Reason To Pawn Off America’s Public Lands" [33]

"The new Republican Party platform, adopted this week in advance of the next week’s nominating convention in Milwaukee, mentions federal lands only once — and rather than a vague call to protect them, it proposes pawning some of them off to address housing affordability."

Economy & Business [11]
Environmental Politics [34]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [24]
People & Population [35]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: HuffPost [36], 07/12/2024
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Tests Show O.C. Mosquitos Are West Nile-Positive; That’s Not The Only Danger [37]

"Another county in Southern California has confirmed finding mosquitoes that carry the West Nile virus."

Biodiversity [38]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [29]
Public [16]
California [39]
Source: LA Times [40], 07/12/2024
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"These Biden Rules Could Be Trashed By Trump" [41]

"Some priority regs — including climate standards for existing gas-fired power plants, curbs on lead and copper in drinking water, and heat protections for workers — could be doomed."

Biodiversity [38]
Chemicals [42]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Justice [30]
Environmental Politics [34]
Infrastructure [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [24]
Pollution [25]
Water & Oceans [43]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [44], 07/11/2024
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"Is The EPA About To Get Serious About Methane Pollution From Landfills?" [45]

"Landfills are the third-largest source of methane emissions both in the U.S. and globally." "Current EPA rules are inadequate, experts say, but the agency has committed to updating them. States like California, Maryland, and Washington can show the way."

Chemicals [42]
Climate Change [10]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [25]
Waste [46]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Canary Media [47], 07/11/2024
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Azerbaijan Plans Climate Fund After Pushback On Fossil-Fuel Levy: Source [48]

"Azerbaijan, host of this year's U.N. COP29 climate summit, has scrapped plans to propose a levy on fossil-fuel producers to raise climate-change funding, and instead aims to launch a new fund at the summit for green investments in poorer countries, a senior COP29 source said."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Justice [30]
Environmental Politics [34]
Public [16]
International [20]
Source: Reuters [49], 07/11/2024
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"Supreme Court Rulings Boost Odds to Win Chemical Rule Challenges" [50]

"Three recent Supreme Court decisions increase industries’ chances of winning regulatory challenges, but only after a period of divergent lower court rulings on what the nation’s primary commercial chemical law requires."

Chemicals [42]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [29]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [25]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [51], 07/11/2024
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"The Killer Stalking Sri Lanka’s Men" [52]

"Climate change and contaminated water have combined to create an epidemic of kidney disease."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [29]
People & Population [35]
Pollution [25]
Water & Oceans [43]
Public [16]
Asia [53]
Source: NYTimes [54], 07/11/2024
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"Committee Adds More Riders To House Interior-EPA Bill" [55]

"The legislation includes cuts to EPA and the Interior Department."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Justice [30]
Environmental Politics [34]
Infrastructure [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [24]
Pollution [25]
Water & Oceans [43]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [56], 07/11/2024
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"White House Requires Infrastructure To Be Raised Above Flood Levels" [57]

"The long-awaited rule will affect all federally funded reconstruction projects."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [28]
Infrastructure [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Planning & Growth [58]
Water & Oceans [43]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [59], 07/11/2024
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"CSU Increases Hurricane Prediction For 2024 Atlantic Season After Beryl" [60]

"Colorado State University researchers are predicting that the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season will be more active than previously expected, according to a July forecast released Tuesday."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [28]
Science [61]
Water & Oceans [43]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [62], 07/11/2024
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Texas Leaders Worry That Bitcoin Mines Threaten to Crash State Power Grid [63]

"Residents in the small town of Granbury are raising alarms over noise from a local Bitcoin mine, while state lawmakers warn that the energy-hungry facilities risk “crashing” the electrical grid."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Infrastructure [13]
Pollution [25]
Technology [64]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [65]
Source: Inside Climate News [66], 07/11/2024
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