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Monterey Bay Desalination Plant OKd Despite Environmental Injustice Concerns [9]

"In a decision that sheds harsh light on the state’s commitment to environmental justice amid growing drought anxiety, the California Coastal Commission has granted conditional approval to a controversial Monterey Bay desalination project that even the commission’s own staff said would unfairly burden a historically underserved community."

Environmental Justice [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
California [17]
Source: LA Times [18], 11/21/2022
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"Multinationals Opening New Gas Sites, Despite Climate Change Warnings" [19]

"Although scientists keep insisting that the planet needs to move away from its dependence on oil, gas and coal to effectively combat climate change, hydrocarbon development projects continue to emerge. Several countries, cities and NGOs are calling for a non-proliferation treaty on fossil fuels."

Climate Change [20]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Pollution [22]
Public [16]
International [23]
Source: France24 [24], 11/21/2022
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"Leak At Pennsylvania Gas Storage Well Spewing Methane" [25]

"A vent at an underground natural gas storage well in Western Pennsylvania has been spewing massive amounts of planet-warming methane into the atmosphere for more than 11 days and attempts to plug the leak have thus far failed."

Air [26]
Climate Change [20]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Pollution [22]
Public [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [27]
Source: AP [28], 11/21/2022
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"White House Announces $13 Billion In Grid Resilience Funds" [29]

"The Biden administration on Friday morning announced $13 billion in funds to modernize the U.S. power grid using allocations from the bipartisan infrastructure law."

Consumer [30]
Disasters [31]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Infrastructure [12]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [32]
Source: The Hill [33], 11/21/2022
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Soaring West Virginia Electricity Prices Trigger Standoff Over Coal Power [34]

"West Virginia regulators accuse American Electric Power of driving up costs with skimpy use of its coal plants. Others say the high costs of those aging plants are a growing burden to citizens in one of the nation's poorest states."

Energy & Fuel [21]
Public [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [27]
Source: Inside Climate News [35], 11/21/2022
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"How Russia Is Weaponizing The Ukrainian Winter" [36]

"The gas line was punctured by shrapnel. Plastic sheets now hang where the windows were. A single electric heat lamp is all there is to keep the home from freezing."

Disasters [31]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Military [37]
Public [16]
Europe [38]
Source: NPR [39], 11/21/2022
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"Confusion, Finger-Pointing, Opposing Views At Egypt’s COP27" [40]

"A day before UN climate talks were supposed to wrap up, negotiators appeared to be far apart on all the major issues being discussed."

Climate Change [20]
Environmental Politics [11]
Public [16]
International [23]
Source: AP [41], 11/18/2022
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"What the Unusual Midterm Elections Mean for Climate Action" [42]

"The Democrats’ strong showing in the midterm elections — both their defense of their Senate majority and their gains in important state races — essentially ensures that President Biden’s signature climate change law, passed in August, will be fully implemented despite threats from some Republicans to block or undo it."

Climate Change [20]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [32]
Source: NYTimes [43], 11/18/2022
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"‘Momentous:’ US Advances Largest Dam Demolition In History" [44]

"U.S. regulators approved a plan Thursday to demolish four dams on a California river and open up hundreds of miles of salmon habitat that would be the largest dam removal and river restoration project in the world when it goes forward."

Agriculture [45]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Justice [10]
Fish & Fisheries [46]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [32]
California [17]
Northwest (OR WA) [47]
Source: AP [48], 11/18/2022
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"EPA Orders Costly Upgrades At Troubled St. Croix Refinery" [49]

"EPA will not allow the shuttered St. Croix refinery to reopen until the owners obtain a new Clean Air Act permit accompanied by upgraded pollution controls."

Air [26]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Justice [10]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [22]
Public [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [50]
Source: E&E News [51], 11/18/2022
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"Cleanup Liability Among Concerns About EPA’s Hazardous PFAS Plan" [52]

"The EPA is vowing to move quickly to designate two “forever chemicals” as hazardous substances under the Superfund law, but has to balance the Biden administration’s desire to better protect disadvantaged communities with public and private sector fears they’ll be held liable for a problem not of their own making."

Chemicals [53]
Environmental Health [54]
Pollution [22]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [32]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [55], 11/18/2022
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"Israel And Jordan Agree To Team Up To Save Jordan River" [56]

"Israel and Jordan signed a declaration of intent on Thursday at the U.N. climate conference to conserve and protect their shared Jordan River — a sacred waterway nearly running dry because of climate change, pollution and other threats."

Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
Middle East [57]
Source: AP [58], 11/18/2022
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"Tribe Continues Fight Against Proposed Arizona Copper Mine" [59]

"The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the state Department of Environmental Quality illegally issued a Clean Water Act permit for the proposed Resolution Copper Mine, which is being opposed by the San Carlos Apache Tribe."

Environmental Justice [10]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [32]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [60]
Source: AP [61], 11/18/2022
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"Iraqi Farmers Driven To Suicide As Drought Steals Livelihoods" [62]

"The worst drought Abed Hameed al-Brahimi has ever seen has killed virtually everything around him: his rice farm, most of his livestock and chickens - and accelerated a rural exodus that is jeopardising Iraq's future stability."

Agriculture [45]
Climate Change [20]
Disasters [31]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
Middle East [57]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [63], 11/18/2022
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"Feds Grant Lesser Prairie Chicken ESA Protections" [64]

"The Fish and Wildlife Service is listing the lesser prairie chicken for protection under the Endangered Species Act after a yearslong evaluation determined immediate action is needed to save the bird."

Biodiversity [65]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Wildlife [66]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [32]
Source: E&E News [67], 11/18/2022
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