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Majority-Black Penn. Community Fights Proposed $6 Billion LNG Terminal [9]

"In what was once a proud and neighborly community where residents sat on their porches and looked after kids playing in the streets, the noxious smell and degraded air quality attributable to the Covanta waste incinerator — the largest in the country, burning as much as 3,500 tons of trash a day — have driven residents indoors or out of town."

Activism [10]
Chemicals [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Pollution [14]
Waste [15]
Public [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [17]
Source: EHN [18], 11/07/2023
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How Midwest Landowners Helped to Derail One of the Biggest CO2 Pipelines [19]

"Lured by billions of dollars in federal funding for carbon capture, developers are proposing huge pipelines to carry the CO2 across the Midwest. In Illinois, one retired academic united her neighbors to fight a key project."

Activism [10]
Climate Change [20]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Politics [22]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [25]
Source: Inside Climate News [26], 11/07/2023
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"In the Florida Everglades, a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Hotspot" [27]

"Drainage has exposed the fertile soils of the Everglades Agricultural Area, a region responsible for much of the nation’s sugar cane."

"ORLANDO, Fla. — It used to be the water spilled over Lake Okeechobee’s southern shore, flowing eventually into the sawgrass prairies of the Florida Everglades. For thousands of years the marsh vegetation flourished and died here in an endless cycle, the plant remains falling beneath the slow-coursing water to form a rich layer of organic soil called peat.
Agriculture [28]
Climate Change [20]
Natural Resources [29]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [31]
Source: Inside Climate News [32], 11/07/2023
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Texas Could Spend U.S. Funds Meant To Cut CO2 Emissions On Highway Projects [33]

"The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act required Texas’ transportation agency to create a carbon reduction strategy to get $641 million federal dollars. Critics say the plan is unlikely to meaningfully cut greenhouse gasses from the state’s massive transportation sector."

Climate Change [20]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [22]
Infrastructure [34]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [14]
Transportation [35]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [36]
Source: Texas Tribune [37], 11/07/2023
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Millions of US Homes Are So Overheated They Open Windows In The Winter. Why? [38]

"Nineteenth-century technology is finally being phased out in New York City, but its past is deeply entwined with American history".

Climate Change [20]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Infrastructure [34]
Technology [39]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Guardian [40], 11/07/2023
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Some Houses Being Built To Stand Up To Hurricanes And Cut Emissions, Too [41]

"When Hurricane Michael hit the Florida Panhandle five years ago, it left boats, cars and trucks piled up to the windows of Bonny Paulson’s home in the tiny coastal community of Mexico Beach, Florida, even though the house rests on pillars 14 feet above the ground. But Paulson’s home, with a rounded shape that looks something like a ship, shrugged off Category 5 winds that might otherwise have collapsed it."

Climate Change [20]
Consumer [42]
Disasters [43]
Infrastructure [34]
Planning & Growth [44]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [31]
Source: AP [45], 11/07/2023
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"A Food Historian’s Hunt For Ingredients Vanishing From US Plates" [46]

"In her new book, Endangered Eating, Sarah Lohman chronicles disappearing foods – and why they need protecting".

"The American buff goose. Amish deer tongue lettuce. The Nancy Hall sweet potato. The mulefoot hog. When food historian Sarah Lohman stumbled on these fantastical-sounding ingredients in a database of vanishing foods called the Ark of Taste, she set off on a journey across the United States to discover more ingredients and traditions that had been abandoned in the annals of history.
Agriculture [28]
Biodiversity [47]
Consumer [42]
Environmental Health [12]
Food [48]
Natural Resources [29]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Guardian [49], 11/07/2023
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"House GOP Approves Cutting EPA Budget By Nearly 40 Percent" [50]

"House Republicans approved legislation Friday that would slash nearly 40 percent of the budget for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The funding bill, passed by a 213-203 vote, cuts 39 percent of the EPA’s budget and would be the smallest budget the agency has had in three decades."

Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [22]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: The Hill [51], 11/06/2023
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"World Bank Poised To Host Climate Loss And Damage Fund, Despite Concerns" [52]

"Countries moved a step closer on Saturday to getting a fund off the ground to help poor states damaged by climate disasters, despite reservations from developing nations and the United States."

Climate Change [20]
Economy & Business [53]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [22]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Public [16]
International [54]
Source: Reuters [55], 11/06/2023
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"Toxic Pesticides Are Sprayed Next to Thousands of US Schools" [56]

"As many as 2 million children attend elementary schools near farms where pesticides are likely applied, as federal legislators aim to gut state and local health protections."

Agriculture [28]
Chemicals [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Inside Climate News [57], 11/06/2023
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"Battle Brewing Over Proposed US Laws To Protect Pesticide Companies" [58]

"Even as juries decide against a herbicide maker, proposed industry-backed measures would limit lawsuits and local use restrictions".

Agriculture [28]
Chemicals [11]
Economy & Business [53]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [22]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Guardian [59], 11/06/2023
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"First US Rule for Tire Chemical Part of Broader EPA Effort" [60]

"Companies that make or import a chemical commonly used to make tires will have to submit unpublished health and safety studies under a rule the EPA expects to finalize by the end of next year."

Biodiversity [47]
Chemicals [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Fish & Fisheries [61]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Transportation [35]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [62], 11/06/2023
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Cover Crops Help The Climate And Environment, But Most Farmers Say No [63]

"Called cover crops, they top the list of tasks U.S. farmers are told will build healthy soil, help the environment and fight climate change. Yet after years of incentives and encouragement, Midwest farmers planted cover crops on only about 7% of their land in 2021."

Agriculture [28]
Biodiversity [47]
Climate Change [20]
Natural Resources [29]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: AP [64], 11/06/2023
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Planned Deer Slaughter On Catalina Island Sparks Protest Among Residents [65]

"News had barely broken of plans to eradicate thousands of nonnative mule deer on Santa Catalina Island before conservation biologist Lauren Dennhardt found herself the target of enraged Avalon residents."

Activism [10]
Biodiversity [47]
Environmental Politics [22]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Natural Resources [29]
Wildlife [66]
Public [16]
California [67]
Source: LA Times [68], 11/06/2023
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"A Climate Change Success Story? Look at Hoboken." [69]

"This flood-prone city on the Hudson River has bundled water-absorbing infrastructure into benefits residents asked for, like parks and safer streets."

Climate Change [20]
Disasters [43]
Infrastructure [34]
Natural Resources [29]
Planning & Growth [44]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [16]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [70]
Source: NYTimes [71], 11/06/2023
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