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Senate Dems Open Inquiry Into Trump’s $1 Billion Request of Oil Industry [9]

"Senate Democrats opened an investigation on Thursday into former President Donald J. Trump’s meeting with oil and gas executives last month to determine whether Mr. Trump offered a “policies-for-money transaction” when he asked for $1 billion for his 2024 campaign so he could retake the White House and delete President Biden’s climate regulations."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NYTimes [16], 05/24/2024
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"US Forecasters See Large Number Of Major Hurricanes In 2024" [17]

"U.S. government forecasters said on Thursday up to seven major hurricanes may form in an "extraordinary" 2024 Atlantic hurricane season beginning June 1."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [18]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Reuters [20], 05/24/2024
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‘Heat Dome’ Leads To Sweltering In Mexico, Central America And US South [21]

"Extreme heat in Mexico, Central America and parts of the U.S. South has left millions of people in sweltering temperatures, strained energy grids and resulted in iconic Howler monkeys in Mexico dropping dead from trees."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [18]
Environmental Health [22]
Public [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [24]
Mexico [25]
Central America & the Caribbean [26]
Source: AP [27], 05/24/2024
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Deadline Nears. Will The Global Pandemic Treaty Be Finished In Time? [28]

"Delegates from 194 countries are racing to complete a global pandemic treaty before the World Health Assembly starts next week on Monday, May 27."

Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Politics [12]
Health [29]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
International [30]
Source: NPR [31], 05/24/2024
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"EPA Formally Denies Alabama’s Plan for Coal Ash Waste" [32]

"The Environmental Protection Agency has formally denied Alabama’s plan to allow Alabama Power and other utilities to continue storing toxic coal ash in unlined pits at sites across the state."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [33]
Waste [34]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Source: Inside Climate News [35], 05/24/2024
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House GOP Farm Bill ‘Robs Peter To Pay Paul,’ Agriculture Secretary Says [36]

"The House Agriculture committee is trying to fund its farm bill proposals with “counterfeit money,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters Wednesday morning. Vilsack spoke after a range of groups from across the political spectrum criticized House Republicans’ proposed farm bill, which seeks to direct tens of billions to subsidies for farmers of peanuts, rice and cotton."

Agriculture [37]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Food [38]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [39]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: The Hill [40], 05/24/2024
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"Bird Flu Found In Michigan Dairy Worker, Second U.S. Case In Two Months" [41]

"A Michigan dairy worker has been infected with a highly virulent bird flu, the second human case in less than two months of the H5N1 virus circulating among dairy cows."

Environmental Health [22]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Washington Post [42], 05/24/2024
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Native American Tribes Approve Proposal Securing Colorado River Water [43]

"The Navajo Nation Council has signed off on a proposed settlement that would ensure water rights for its tribe and two others in the drought-stricken Southwest -- a deal that could become the most expensive enacted by Congress."

Consumer [44]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [45]
Infrastructure [46]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [39]
People & Population [47]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [24]
Source: AP [48], 05/24/2024
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Why Are Dead Baby Sea Lions Showing Up Along California Coastal Islands? [49]

"On May 7, Patrick Robinson took a boat out to Año Nuevo Island to survey the sea lions that come to birth on this rocky outcropping north of Monterey Bay. The shore was littered with dead pups — babies that looked as though they’d been delivered too early and therefore were too weak and small to nurse, or had been dead at birth."

Biodiversity [50]
Environmental Health [22]
Natural Resources [39]
Water & Oceans [19]
Wildlife [51]
Public [14]
California [52]
Source: LA Times [53], 05/24/2024
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"The Biden Administration Throws a Lifeline to the Greater Sage-Grouse" [54]

"Public asked to weigh in on new rule to limit development on the bird's habitat across much of the West".

Agriculture [37]
Biodiversity [50]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [39]
Wildlife [51]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Sierra [55], 05/24/2024
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"Democrats Refer Big Oil Investigation To Justice Department" [56]

"Two congressional Democrats are asking the Justice Department to pick up where they’ve left off in a yearslong investigation into an alleged climate misinformation campaign perpetuated over decades by Big Oil."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [57]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Science [58]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [59], 05/23/2024
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"Top Brands Buy Amazon Carbon Credits From Suspected Timber Laundering Scam" [60]

"An analysis of two carbon credit projects in the Brazilian Amazon has found that they may be connected to illegal timber laundering."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Forests [61]
Journalism & Media [57]
Pollution [33]
Public [14]
International [30]
South America [62]
Source: Mongabay [63], 05/23/2024
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Half Of World's Pastures Degraded By Overuse, Climate Change: UN Report [64]

"Half the world's natural pasture land has been degraded by overexploitation and the impact of climate change, putting food supplies and livelihoods in peril, the United Nations body in charge of fighting desertification said on Tuesday."

Agriculture [37]
Biodiversity [50]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [18]
Natural Resources [39]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [14]
International [30]
Source: Reuters [65], 05/23/2024
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"Migratory Freshwater Fish Populations ‘Down By More Than 80% Since 1970’" [66]

"Migratory fish populations have crashed by more than 80% since 1970, new findings show." "‘Catastrophic’ global decline due to dams, mining, diverting water and pollution threatens humans and ecosystems, study warns".

Fish & Fisheries [67]
Infrastructure [46]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [14]
International [30]
Source: Guardian [68], 05/23/2024
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"Where Heat Waves Might Cause Blackouts: Look Up Your Area" [69]

"Large swaths of California, Arizona, Nevada and Texas are projected to have to endure more than four months every year in which the temperature will be high enough to compromise power transformers, new research shows. As a result, blackouts caused by overheated electrical equipment could become more frequent by mid-century."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Infrastructure [46]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Washington Post [70], 05/23/2024
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