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West Braces For Extreme Heat; Phoenix Passes 100 Days Over 100 Degrees [9]

"The West Coast of the United States is bracing for extreme heat with temperatures in desert towns expected to soar as high as 120 Fahrenheit (49 Celsius) and Phoenix likely to extend its streak of 100 days over 100 degrees, forecasters said on Tuesday.

The southwestern U.S. can expect multiple days of supercharged heat beginning on Tuesday, with the homeless, elderly, children, and people with health issues at the highest risk for heat illness, the U.S. National Weather Service said.
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Reuters [14], 09/05/2024
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Photographer Captures Life In America’s Last Remaining Old-Growth Forests [15]

"“As humans, our everyday lives are sustained by the behaviors and interactions of forest organisms,” photographer David Herasimtschuk writes of old growth forests. “Yet, because these processes and relationships occur in places and at scales rarely observed, our connection with forest biodiversity and the role it plays in nurturing our well-being often goes completely unnoticed.”

Forests [16]
Journalism & Media [17]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Northwest (OR WA) [18]
Source: NPR [19], 09/05/2024
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"Algal Blooms Ravaged New York’s Finger Lakes During Final Week of August" [20]

"No other region in the state had a comparable level of outbreaks. The Hochul administration is spending millions to help farmers limit nutrient runoff."

Agriculture [21]
Biodiversity [22]
Fish & Fisheries [23]
Natural Resources [24]
Pollution [25]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [12]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [27]
Source: Inside Climate News [28], 09/05/2024
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"More EPA Buildings Face Bacteria Outbreak" [29]

"Bacteria linked to severe lung infections recently found in EPA’s Chicago office has also cropped up in three more EPA buildings, internal emails show."

Environmental Health [11]
Government [30]
Infrastructure [31]
Pollution [25]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: E&E News [32], 09/05/2024
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Haaland Announces Restoration Of Once-Endangered Apache Trout In Arizona [33]

"U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Wednesday that the Apache trout — Arizona’s state fish — has been removed from the federal list of endangered and threatened wildlife following more than five decades of recovery efforts."

Biodiversity [22]
Fish & Fisheries [23]
Laws & Regulations [34]
Natural Resources [24]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [35]
Source: AP [36], 09/05/2024
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"Biden’s Top Climate Negotiator to Visit China This Week" [37]

"John Podesta, President Biden’s top climate diplomat, is traveling to Beijing on Tuesday where he is expected to press Chinese leaders to make more ambitious plans to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving climate change."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [38]
Environmental Politics [39]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Asia [40]
Source: NYTimes [41], 09/04/2024
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"Focus: Canada's Insurance Sector Faces Climate Catastrophe Claim Deluge" [42]

"Hotter summers in Canada that have sparked wildfires in tourist areas, intense hailstorms and thunderstorms with severe flooding in major cities, all likely linked to climate change, are leading to personnel shortages and potentially claims adjustment delays, according to insurance sector insiders."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [43]
Forests [16]
Public [12]
Canada [44]
Source: Reuters [45], 09/04/2024
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Congress Members Want U.S. To Do More To Stop Record Tijuana Pollution [46]

"San Diego Congress members are calling on the U.S. State Department to press Mexico to address unprecedented levels of sewage pollution spilling over from Tijuana, causing unbearable rotten-egg odors for residents in the region."

Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [39]
Infrastructure [31]
Pollution [25]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
California [47]
Mexico [48]
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune [49], 09/04/2024
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"Dark Money Group Aiding Cornel West Has Ties To Utility Operative" [50]

"A lawyer tied to secret funding of spoiler candidates in Florida is more evidence West’s biggest backers are people who want Trump to win".

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [38]
Environmental Politics [39]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Floodlight [51], 09/04/2024
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Florida State Parks Whistleblower Fired After Exposing Ron DeSantis’ Plans [52]

"Florida’s department of environmental protection has fired a whistleblower who exposed and sank governor Ron DeSantis’s secretive plan to pave over environmentally sensitive state parks and build lucrative hotels, golf courses and pickleball courts."

Environmental Politics [39]
Journalism & Media [17]
Natural Resources [24]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [53]
Source: Guardian [54], 09/04/2024
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"Business Group Sues Texas Officials Over Law That Shields Oil Industry" [55]

"A liberal business group sued Texas officials this week in a major challenge to a 2021 law that bars state entities from doing business with investment firms that the state comptroller says are boycotting energy companies."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [56]
Environmental Politics [39]
Laws & Regulations [34]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [35]
Source: NYTimes [57], 09/04/2024
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2 States Ban PFAS From Firefighter Gear. Advocates Hope More Will Follow [58]

"Massachusetts and Connecticut are the first two states in the nation to ban PFAS from firefighter gear, citing health hazards."

Chemicals [59]
Disasters [43]
Environmental Health [11]
People & Population [60]
Technology [61]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: USA TODAY [62], 09/04/2024
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"Electric Big Rigs Are Poised to Revolutionize the Trucking Industry" [63]

"The charging yard for electric trucks at the Port of Long Beach is bright and sunny and full of semitrailer tractors—the truncated front ends of big rigs without their big-box loads. It’s also quiet. Elsewhere at the port, wherever there are trucks, there’s the near-deafening rumble of diesel engines. But the trucks here aren’t combusting; they’re filling up with electrons to power their next trip to Southern California’s Inland Empire, the constellation of cities to the east with one of the heaviest concentrations of warehouses in the world."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [38]
Infrastructure [31]
Laws & Regulations [34]
Pollution [25]
Technology [61]
Transportation [64]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
California [47]
Source: Sierra [65], 09/04/2024
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"The Country’s Biggest Electric School-Bus Fleet Will Also Feed The Grid" [66]

"San Francisco-based startup Zum wants to turn electric school-bus fleets into grid batteries. This 74-bus depot in Oakland is testing the idea at large scale."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [38]
Infrastructure [31]
Technology [61]
Transportation [64]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
California [47]
Source: Canary Media [67], 09/04/2024
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Runners Are Used To Toughing It Out. Warming Climate Can Make That Deadly [68]

"Carolyn Baker, clad in a neon pink top and matching sunglasses, smiled as she ran the Falmouth Road Race on the shore of Cape Cod, looking around for friends as she neared the end of a race she’d completed more than a dozen times before. Suddenly, Baker collapsed, as her exertion on a sunny August day sent her internal temperature soaring. As medical volunteers rushed to her aid by plunging her into a tub filled with ice water, they measured it at nearly 107 degrees (41.6 Celsius)."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [43]
Environmental Health [11]
People & Population [60]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: AP [69], 09/04/2024
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