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Md., Va. Race to Save Dwindling Commercial Fisheries in Chesapeake Bay [9]

"Alarmed by plummeting stocks of commercial fisheries in the Chesapeake Bay, officials in Maryland and Virginia are scrambling to control invasive fish species that are causing at least part of the problem."

Biodiversity [10]
Fish & Fisheries [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [15]
Source: Inside Climate News [16], 03/20/2023
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"Hawaii Supreme Court Ruling Bolsters Rights-Based Climate Cases" [17]

"Hawaii’s top court issued a ruling this week recognizing a human right to a stable climate, a decision that could reverberate in other rights-based climate cases in the US and beyond."

Climate Change [18]
Environmental Justice [19]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
Alaska and Hawaii [21]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [22], 03/20/2023
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Babesiosis, A Tickborne Disease, Is On The Rise In Northeast: CDC [23]

"Tickborne disease has been on the rise in the US, with the number of cases growing 25% from 2011 to 2019. Among them is babesiosis, which has become significantly more prevalent in the Northeast in recent years."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [18]
Environmental Health [24]
Natural Resources [25]
People & Population [26]
Wildlife [27]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [28]
Source: CNN [29], 03/20/2023
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Big Oil Firms Touted Algae As Climate Fix. Now All Have Pulled Funding [30]

"One by one, big oil firms have touted their investments in algae biofuels as the future of low-carbon transportation – and one by one, they have all dropped out. Now in the wake of the last remaining algae proponent, ExxonMobil, announcing its withdrawal, insiders say they are disappointed but not surprised."

Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Natural Resources [25]
Technology [32]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
International [33]
Source: Guardian [34], 03/20/2023
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Utilities Spent Big Preparing Power Grid For Storms – And Still Failed [35]

"Electric utilities spent billions after 2014’s polar vortex to ensure power plants and the grid could handle extreme cold, but this winter it still wasn’t enough".

Climate Change [18]
Disasters [36]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Environmental Health [24]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Floodlight [37], 03/20/2023
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Brazil Tackles Illegal Miners, But Finds Mercury Legacy Harder To Erase [38]

"As the details of the humanitarian crisis in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory unfold amid action to remove illegal miners, mercury left by the rampant gold mining in the area will remain a lingering toxic legacy."

Chemicals [39]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Justice [19]
Natural Resources [25]
People & Population [26]
Pollution [40]
Public [14]
South America [41]
Source: Mongabay [42], 03/20/2023
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"BNSF Fuel Train Derails On Swinomish Reservation" [43]

"A BNSF train leaving a Western Washington oil refinery with diesel fuel derailed shortly after midnight on March 16 on the Swinomish Reservation about 80 miles north of Seattle."

Disasters [36]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Pollution [40]
Transportation [44]
Public [14]
Northwest (OR WA) [45]
Source: ICT [46], 03/20/2023
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"Biden Plans to Name Nevada’s Spirit Mountain Area a National Monument" [47]

"President Biden plans next week to designate nearly a half-million acres of the Spirit Mountain area in southern Nevada as a national monument, according to two people familiar with the matter, protecting some of the most biologically diverse and culturally significant lands in the Mojave Desert."

Energy & Fuel [31]
Environmental Justice [19]
Environmental Politics [48]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [25]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [49]
Source: NYTimes [50], 03/17/2023
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Survivors In Shock As Cyclone Freddy Toll Passes 400 In Malawi, Mozambique [51]

"The last thing Lukia Akimu remembers is the surge of floodwater that hit her village near Mount Soche this week when Tropical Cyclone Freddy tore through southern Malawi. The next thing she knew, she woke up in hospital, her head wrapped in bandages and her neck in a brace."

Climate Change [18]
Disasters [36]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
Africa [52]
Source: Reuters [53], 03/17/2023
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"How Forest Loss Can Unleash the Next Pandemic" [54]

"The forests around the epicenter of the world’s worst Ebola outbreak are getting patchier. The next pandemic could emerge from the edges around these patches, where wildlife and humans mix."

Biodiversity [10]
Disasters [36]
Environmental Health [24]
Forests [55]
Science [56]
Public [14]
International [33]
Source: ProPublica [57], 03/17/2023
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"Shell Rules Out More Ambitious Goal For End-User Emissions" [58]

"Shell has ruled out setting targets to cut emissions in absolute terms from customers' use of its products, its chair said in a report published on Thursday as the energy company faces increased activist and investor pressure over climate."

Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Public [14]
International [33]
Source: Reuters [59], 03/17/2023
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"Leading Denier Think Tank Uses AI Image of Dead Whale and Wind Turbines" [60]

"The Texas Public Policy Foundation used AI to push a misleading story about renewable energy—a practice that could soon become widespread."

Climate Change [18]
Economy & Business [61]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Journalism & Media [62]
Science [56]
Technology [32]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Earther [63], 03/17/2023
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"US Toxic Chemical Releases Climbed 8% in 2021, EPA Report Says" [64]

"The US saw an 8% increase in toxic chemicals industries released into the environment or sent for hazardous waste disposal in 2021 over the previous year, the Environmental Protection Agency reported Thursday."

Chemicals [39]
Environmental Health [24]
Pollution [40]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [65], 03/17/2023
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"Public Health vs. Economic Growth: Toxic Chemical Rules Pose Test for Biden" [66]

"The Biden administration is preparing to impose some of the first new rules in a generation to restrict or ban an array of toxic chemicals that are widely used in manufacturing, presenting the White House with tough choices between its economic agenda and public health."

Chemicals [39]
Economy & Business [61]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Politics [48]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NYTimes [67], 03/17/2023
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"A 24-Armed Hunter, Threatened With Extinction, Is Set to Get Protection" [68]

"Sunflower sea stars, huge starfish that until recently thrived in waters up and down the west coast of North America, are threatened with extinction and should be protected under the Endangered Species Act, federal officials said Wednesday."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [18]
Fish & Fisheries [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [25]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NYTimes [69], 03/17/2023
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