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Reversing Trump, White House Moves To Weigh Climate In Infrastructure [9]

"Federal regulators have been instructed to consider planet-warming pollution before approving large projects like pipelines and airports."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Environmental Studies [13]
Infrastructure [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Transportation [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: HuffPost [19], 01/11/2023
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"U.S. Sets Up Office To Oversee Abandoned Oil Well Cleanup" [20]

"U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland on Tuesday issued an order to establish an office to ensure efficient use of the Biden administration's $4.7 billion investment in the cleanup of abandoned oil and gas wells."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Government [21]
Infrastructure [14]
Pollution [22]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Reuters [23], 01/11/2023
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"Climate Deniers Try to 'Fact Check' Real Reporting" [24]

"A prominent group of deniers with a history of dark money benefactors is now trying to claim media is biased, thanks to new funding."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [25]
Science [26]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Earther [27], 01/11/2023
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"Critic Of Fossil Fuels To Lead Key Offshore Oil Agency For Biden" [28]

"The Biden administration is using a new opening at a powerful offshore energy agency to elevate a critic of fossil fuels who previously was blocked from a top Interior Department job because of opposition from oil industry allies in the Senate."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [21]
Infrastructure [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Washington Post [30], 01/11/2023
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"EPA Urges Groups to Apply for Record Environmental Equity Grants" [31]

"The EPA invited environmental justice advocates, communities, and other groups on Tuesday to apply for $100 million in environmental justice grants, a record amount provided under last year’s climate law."

Environmental Justice [32]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [33], 01/11/2023
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"Extreme Weather Caused 18 Disasters In US Last Year, Costing $165Bn" [34]

"The US endured a particularly painful year as communities wrestled with the growing impacts of the climate crisis, with 18 major disasters wreaking havoc across the country as planet-heating emissions continued to climb."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [35]
Economy & Business [36]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Guardian [37], 01/11/2023
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The New Soldiers in Propane’s Fight Against Climate Action: TV Stars [38]

"For D.I.Y. enthusiasts, Matt Blashaw is a familiar face, judging bathroom remodels or planning surprise home makeovers on popular cable television shows. Mr. Blashaw also has an unusually strong opinion about how Americans should heat their homes: by burning propane, or liquid petroleum gas."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [39]
Economy & Business [36]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [25]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [40], 01/11/2023
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"UN Says Ozone Layer Slowly Healing, Hole To Mend By 2066" [41]

"Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says."

Air [42]
Chemicals [43]
Natural Resources [44]
Pollution [22]
Public [17]
International [45]
Source: AP [46], 01/10/2023
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Grijalva Blasts House Rules Package For Making Public Land Transfers Easier [47]

"The top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee blasted a provision in the proposed House rules package that would make it easier to transfer public lands, calling it an indication the new GOP majority intends to pursue a broadly pro-industry agenda."

Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [44]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The Hill [48], 01/10/2023
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"EPA, Pipeline Operator Reach Deal To Clean Up Kansas Spill" [49]

"The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it has reached an agreement with a pipeline operator to clean up a spill that dumped 14,000 bathtubs’ worth of crude oil into a rural Kansas creek."

Disasters [35]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Pollution [22]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [17]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [50]
Source: AP [51], 01/10/2023
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Low Salt Marsh Habitats Release More Carbon in Response to Warming: Study [52]

"Salt marshes, excellent reservoirs of carbon, are living ecosystems with vegetation and microscopic organisms that live, breathe, poop and die in the marsh mud."

Biodiversity [53]
Climate Change [10]
Natural Resources [44]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [17]
International [45]
Source: Inside Climate News [54], 01/10/2023
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"India Expects Utilities' Annual Coal Demand To Surge About 8%" [55]

"India expects its power plants to burn about 8% more coal in the fiscal year ending March 2024, according to a senior government official and a power ministry presentation, after the country missed its 2022 renewable energy goal by more than 30%."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Public [17]
Asia [56]
Source: Reuters [57], 01/10/2023
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"The Last 8 Years Were the Hottest on Record" [58]

"The world remained firmly in warming’s grip last year, with extreme summer temperatures in Europe, China and elsewhere contributing to 2022 being the fifth-hottest year on record, European climate researchers said on Tuesday."

Climate Change [10]
Science [26]
Public [17]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [59]
International [45]
Source: NYTimes [60], 01/10/2023
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"U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rose 1.3% In 2022 - Rhodium" [61]

"Greenhouse gas emissions increased slightly from the previous year in 2022 by 1.3%, keeping the U.S. just 15.5% below 2005 levels and off track to meet its global pledge to slash emissions 50-52% by 2030, according to estimates published on Tuesday by research group Rhodium."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Reuters [62], 01/10/2023
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"Global Pollinator Losses Causing 500,000 Early Deaths A Year – Study" [63]

"The global loss of pollinators is already causing about 500,000 early deaths a year by reducing the supply of healthy foods, a study has estimated."

Agriculture [64]
Biodiversity [53]
Chemicals [43]
Environmental Health [65]
Food [66]
Public [17]
International [45]
Source: Guardian [67], 01/10/2023
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