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The Cost of Lagging Global Climate Action Is Lost Lives and Poor Health [9]

"A new report finds health harms from warming outpaced progress after the Paris Agreement and calls for climate change to be declared a global health emergency." "A decade after world leaders signed the legally binding Paris Agreement to combat climate change, the crisis’ health harms are getting worse and progress is lagging, according to a new report from leading international scientists."

Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
International [12]
Source: Inside Climate News [13], 10/29/2026
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How Texas Could End Up Paying an Israeli Company Billions for Water [14]

"Plans are advancing on the Gulf Coast of Texas for an enormous seawater desalination plant which, if built, would be part of one of the largest water infrastructure developments in the country. Unlike other projects, this one wouldn’t belong to the public, but to a private, foreign water supplier."

Climate Change [15]
Infrastructure [16]
Technology [17]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [10]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [19]
Source: Inside Climate News [20], 10/29/2026
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As Ottawa Loosens Pesticide Rules, Europe Moves To Tighten Them [21]

"Canada is relaxing its pesticide laws just as the EU is considering tightening pesticide residue limits on food imports"

Agriculture [22]
Chemicals [23]
Consumer [24]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Politics [26]
Food [27]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Public [10]
Canada [29]
Europe [30]
Source: Canadian Affairs [31], 10/29/2026
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Gone Forever [32]

"PFAS chemicals are everywhere. Can new technologies get rid of them for good?"

Chemicals [23]
Environmental Health [25]
Pollution [33]
Technology [17]
Waste [34]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Science [35], 10/29/2026
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Extreme Weather Is Creating a Perfect Storm of Misinformation [36]

"In the aftermath of the Maui fires, thousands of people across all the major social media platforms shared posts and videos alleging that the fires had a more sinister origin. They posited that the government had used a “direct energy weapon,” or a form of laser, to ignite the area."

Climate Change [15]
Disasters [37]
Journalism & Media [38]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
International [12]
Source: Grist [39], 10/29/2026
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Trump Plans To Loosen Restrictions On Methane Emissions From Oil Drilling [40]

"President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration is “terminating” a Biden-era rule that aimed to cut planet-warming emissions of methane from oil and gas drilling."

Chemicals [23]
Climate Change [15]
Energy & Fuel [41]
Environmental Politics [26]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Pollution [33]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: AP [42], 10/28/2026
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Trump’s Cuts Have Exposed US To ‘Cascade’ Of El Niño Dangers, Experts Warn [43]

"Sweeping cuts to the premier US climate agency under Donald Trump have severely hampered the country’s capacity to forecast, research and respond to extreme weather events, former government officials and scientists have warned, as the US faces a cascade of hazards fueled by a potentially historic El Niño this winter."

Climate Change [15]
Disasters [37]
Energy & Fuel [41]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Politics [26]
Science [44]
Technology [17]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Guardian [45], 10/28/2026
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High Power Bills, Blackouts Land Michigan Utilities On The Ballot [46]

"When 83-year-old Sam Getsinger thinks about the future, she pictures her five grandchildren and the world she wants to leave them. An important part of that world, Getsinger said, is a healthy democracy. So when she first heard about an initiative to limit Michigan utilities’ influence in political campaigns, she immediately volunteered to support it."

Climate Change [15]
Conflict/Corruption [47]
Consumer [24]
Energy & Fuel [41]
Environmental Politics [26]
Government [48]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Grist [49], 10/28/2026
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Anger In Finland As Google Illegally Fells 250,000 Trees For Datacentre [50]

"Behind a wire fence lies a vast gaping wound of earth. Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter of a million trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest near the town of Muhos in rural northern Finland. Now they are all gone."

Climate Change [15]
Economy & Business [51]
Energy & Fuel [41]
Environmental Politics [26]
Forests [52]
Infrastructure [16]
Technology [17]
Public [10]
Europe [30]
Source: Guardian [53], 10/28/2026
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Is Coal Really Making A Comeback? [54]

"Headlines say the dirtiest fossil fuel is “back in fashion” — but there's much more to the story."

Climate Change [15]
Energy & Fuel [41]
Environmental Politics [26]
Infrastructure [16]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Pollution [33]
Technology [17]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
International [12]
Source: Grist [55], 10/28/2026
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A ‘Bipartisan’ Bill to Dismantle the Nation’s Bedrock Environmental Law [56]

"The sponsors of the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act say it will improve energy infrastructure development. The truth is that it will fast-track environmental destruction."

Climate Change [15]
Economy & Business [51]
Energy & Fuel [41]
Environmental Politics [26]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Natural Resources [57]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: The Revelator [58], 10/28/2026
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Vital Central Valley Flood Control Levees Are Poorly Maintained: Watchdog [59]

"Nearly a third of local agencies running Central Valley levees have kept up “unacceptable” maintenance, some for years, and the state hasn’t stepped in."

Agriculture [22]
Disasters [37]
Environmental Politics [26]
Infrastructure [16]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [10]
California [60]
Source: CalMatters [61], 10/28/2026
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Oklahoma Never Punished Oil Company Linked To 1,000 Pollution Incidents [62]

"Staff at an Oklahoma regulatory agency spent over a year building a case against Citation Oil & Gas, a company notorious for oil field pollution. Instead of disciplining the company, agency leaders chose to let it resume operations."

Energy & Fuel [41]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Politics [26]
Laws & Regulations [28]
People & Population [63]
Pollution [33]
Public [10]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [19]
Source: The Frontier [64], 10/28/2026
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Americans’ Fresh Fruits And Vegetables Are Increasingly Coming From Mexico [65]

"A new Washington Post investigation has found that as fruit and vegetables are increasingly coming from Mexico, the Food and Drug Administration’s oversight of produce manufacturers in the country has been minimal. In recent years, 34 percent of fresh vegetables and 59 percent of fresh fruit available in the U.S. were imported."

Agriculture [22]
Consumer [24]
Environmental Health [25]
Food [27]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Pollution [33]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Mexico [66]
Source: Washington Post [67], 10/28/2026
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First Meeting In Over 20 Years Between First Nations And First Ministers [68]

"A historic gathering of First Nations leaders with Canadian and Provincial leaders was hosted by Prime Minister Mark Carney on October 26. It was the first such meeting in over two decades. Although it was considered a landmark gathering, the meeting was boycotted by many First Nations and skipped by a couple of provincial premiers."

Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Justice [69]
Environmental Politics [26]
People & Population [63]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [70]
Public [10]
Canada [29]
Source: ICT [71], 10/28/2026
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