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Corps Grants Louisiana Permits To Build $2.5 Billion Sediment Diversion [9]

"Louisiana's proposed $2.5 billion Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion, designed to reconnect the Mississippi River with the Barataria Basin to create as much as 21 square miles of wetlands by 2070, was awarded key permits by the Army Corps of Engineers on Monday that could allow construction to begin in March 2023."

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Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [20], 12/20/2022
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"This Bird Is Extinct, The Government Says. Not Everyone Is So Sure." [21]

"A bevy of amateur birders and professional ornithologists is racing to prove the ivory-billed woodpecker still exists, before federal officials remove it from the endangered species list".

Biodiversity [11]
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National (U.S.) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [19]
Source: Washington Post [23], 12/20/2022
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"Cop15: Historic Deal Struck To Halt Biodiversity Loss By 2030" [24]

"Governments appear to have signed a once-in-a-decade deal to halt the destruction of Earth’s ecosystems, but the agreement seems to have been forced through by the Chinese president, ignoring the objections of some African states."

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International [29]
Source: Guardian [30], 12/19/2022
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"Report: World’s Coal Use Creeps To New High In 2022" [31]

"Coal use across the world is set to reach a new record this year amid persistently high demand for the heavily polluting fossil fuel, the International Energy Agency said Friday."

Climate Change [12]
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International [29]
Source: AP [32], 12/19/2022
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"Conservationists Hail US Plan To Ban Shark Fin Trade" [33]

"As US faces criticism at Cop15 biodiversity conference over failure to sign 30-year-old pact to protect nature, Biden poised to sign shark fin measure into law".

Biodiversity [11]
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Source: Guardian [35], 12/19/2022
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Fears Of ‘Dead Pool’ On Colorado River Grow As Drought Threatens Hoover Dam [36]

"The Colorado River’s largest reservoirs stand nearly three-quarters empty, and federal officials now say there is a real danger the reservoirs could drop so low that water would no longer flow past Hoover Dam in two years."

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Source: LA Times [39], 12/19/2022
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Illinois Failed To Act on PFAS in Mississippi River For Over a Decade [40]

"Alarmed by the threats to public health, Minnesota officials pressured 3M to dramatically reduce pollution released into the Mississippi River at its manufacturing plant southeast of Minneapolis-St. Paul, where the global conglomerate pioneered the highly toxic, almost indestructible chemicals after World War II."

Chemicals [25]
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Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [44]
Source: Chicago Tribune [45], 12/19/2022
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"UK Government Blocks Release of CO2 Figures Behind Transport Plan" [46]

"The UK government is refusing to release the carbon emission figures behind its transport decarbonisation plan, which campaigners say could make proposed road schemes financially unviable."

Climate Change [12]
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Environmental Politics [27]
Journalism & Media [47]
Transportation [48]
Public [17]
Europe [49]
Source: Guardian [50], 12/19/2022
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Tribes Accuse Calif. Water Board Of Discrimination And Urge EPA Oversight [51]

"A coalition of California tribes and environmental justice groups filed a civil rights complaint Friday against the State Water Resources Control Board, charging it with discriminatory water management practices that it says have led to the ecological decline of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta."

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California [53]
Source: LA Times [54], 12/19/2022
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AK Gov. Dunleavy Names Former Oil And Gas Lobbyist As DNR Commissioner [55]

"Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy [R] named former oil and gas lobbyist John Boyle to serve as commissioner of the agency in charge of oil and gas development in the state."

Climate Change [12]
Economy & Business [56]
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Environmental Politics [27]
Natural Resources [15]
Public [17]
Alaska and Hawaii [57]
Source: States Newsroom [58], 12/19/2022
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"Chilkat Indian Village Says Alaska Mine Poses Risk To Watershed" [59]

"The Chilkat Indian Village of Klukwan is challenging a state permit approving construction of a gold and metals mine that would tunnel under the Saksaia Glacier on 6,100-foot Flower Mountain near the headwaters of the Chilkat River watershed."

Environmental Health [41]
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Alaska and Hawaii [57]
Source: States Newsroom [61], 12/19/2022
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"In 2022, AP Photographers Captured Pain Of A Changing Planet" [62]

"In 2022, Associated Press photographers captured signs of a planet in distress as climate change reshaped many lives."

Biodiversity [11]
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Source: AP [63], 12/19/2022
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As Workers Battle Cancer, OSHA Admits Its Limit for Chemical Is Too High [64]

"Before his shift at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber plant in Niagara Falls in May 2021, a worker peed in a cup. Before he clocked out, he did it again."

Chemicals [25]
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Source: ProPublica [65], 12/16/2022
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"White House Flexes Purchasing Power to Curb Climate Emissions" [66]

"A big piece of the White House’s plan to lower government carbon emissions is drawing on an unlikely source: the federal checkbook."

Climate Change [12]
Government [67]
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National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [68], 12/16/2022
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"Keystone Pipeline Break Spilled Diluted Bitumen, Complicating Cleanup" [69]

"The oil spilled from TC Energy Corp’s ruptured Keystone pipeline was diluted bitumen, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Thursday, adding complications to the cleanup."

Energy & Fuel [13]
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National (U.S.) [18]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [70]
Source: Reuters [71], 12/16/2022
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