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Romance, Politics, and Ecological Damage: Sable Island’s Wild Horses [9]

"What is it that’s so compelling about the wild horses of Sable Island? Maybe it’s that they turn up where horses have no right to be—grazing on a sand dune, or standing on a broad beach beside the speckled form of a gray seal...."

Biodiversity [10]
Water & Oceans [11]
Wildlife [12]
Public [13]
Canada [14]
Source: Hakai [15], 08/09/2022
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Senate 51-50 Vote Clinches Long-Delayed Health And Climate Bill [16]

"The Senate on Sunday approved a sweeping package to combat climate change, lower health-care costs, raise taxes on some billion-dollar corporations and reduce the federal deficit, as Democrats overcame months of political infighting to deliver the centerpiece to President Biden’s long-stalled economic agenda."

Climate Change [17]
Environmental Politics [18]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Washington Post [21], 08/08/2022
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"Manchin’s Donors Include Pipeline Giants That Win in His Climate Deal" [22]

"The controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline is one of several projects the senator has negotiated major concessions for, benefiting his financial supporters."

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Politics [18]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NYTimes [24], 08/08/2022
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"Bidens To Travel To Kentucky After Catastrophic Flooding" [25]

"President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Monday are scheduled to travel to eastern Kentucky, where deadly flooding killed more than three dozen people and caused catastrophic damage to communities."

Climate Change [17]
Disasters [26]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: CNN [27], 08/08/2022
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"Explainer: On China, US and Climate, Action, Not Talk Is Key" [28]

"The last two agreements the world made to battle climate change came only after the United States and China, by far the two biggest carbon polluters, made deals with each other. Now the successful dynamic is in jeopardy with China cutting off climate talks with the U.S. because of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan."

Climate Change [17]
Environmental Politics [18]
Public [13]
International [29]
Source: AP [30], 08/08/2022
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Swamped By Public Outcry, Oregon Withdraws Controversial Wildfire Risk Map [31]

"Oregon Department of Forestry has been inundated with complaints after releasing a map of wildfire risk on every tax lot in the state."

Climate Change [17]
Disasters [26]
Environmental Politics [18]
Forests [32]
Public [13]
Northwest (OR WA) [33]
Source: OPB [34], 08/08/2022
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"After Rockets Strike Near Nuclear Plant, Ukraine and Russia Trade Blame" [35]

"Moscow accused Ukraine of striking near spent-fuel storage at the Zaporizhzhia power plant, while Ukrainian intelligence said it was a move by Russia to destroy infrastructure."

Disasters [26]
Military [36]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [37]
Public [13]
Europe [38]
Source: NYTimes [39], 08/08/2022
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Tijuana Sewage Spill Shutters Calif. Beach And Shoreline, Yet Again [40]

"Adam Wraight pulled a blue sewage "warning" sign out of the sand near Imperial Beach Pier on Thursday morning, replacing it with the more ominous yellow and red placard telling beachgoers that waters were officially closed."

Environmental Health [41]
Pollution [42]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [13]
California [43]
Mexico [44]
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune [45], 08/08/2022
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Mexico Desperate For Water While Drinks Companies Use Billions Of Litres [46]

"As drought grips cities like Monterrey, people queue with buckets for brackish water. But Coca-Cola and other firms are still extracting groundwater".

Environmental Health [41]
Environmental Justice [47]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [13]
Mexico [44]
Source: Guardian [48], 08/08/2022
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Five More Arrested In Brazil Over Murders Of Phillips And Pereira [49]

"Brazilian police arrested another five people in connection with the murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira on Saturday, and said one of the suspects already in custody was likely the leader of an illegal fishing mafia based in the Amazon region."

Journalism & Media [50]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Public [13]
South America [51]
Source: Guardian [52], 08/08/2022
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"Peter Dykstra: The Birth of Greenwashing" [53]

"When I was growing up, I had a fascination with phonies – that certain brand of phonies that make millions off a gullible public by offering a warped reality."

Environmental Politics [18]
Journalism & Media [50]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: EHN [54], 08/08/2022
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"Sinema Agrees to Climate and Tax Deal, Clearing the Way for Votes" [55]

"Senator Kyrsten Sinema, Democrat of Arizona, announced on Thursday evening that she would support moving forward with her party’s climate, tax and health care package, clearing the way for a major piece of President Biden’s domestic agenda to move through the Senate in the coming days."

Climate Change [17]
Environmental Politics [18]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NYTimes [56], 08/05/2022
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Biden HHS Declares Monkeypox Outbreak Public Health Emergency In U.S. [57]

"The Biden administration is declaring monkeypox a public health emergency as the U.S. outbreak has grown into the largest in the world, the nation’s top health official said Thursday."

Health [58]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: CNBC [59], 08/05/2022
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History of DDT Ocean Dumping Off L.A. Even Worse Than Expected, EPA Finds [60]

"After an exhaustive historical investigation into the barrels of DDT waste reportedly dumped decades ago near Catalina Island, federal regulators concluded that the toxic pollution in the deep ocean could be far worse — and far more sweeping — than what scientists anticipated."

Chemicals [61]
Environmental Health [41]
Pollution [42]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [13]
California [43]
Source: LA Times [62], 08/05/2022
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"Despite Slow Start, NOAA Still Predicts Above-Average Hurricane Season" [63]

"Despite the meager prospects in the short term, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday that it is still expecting an above-average season, with three to five major hurricanes likely and a dozen or more named storms probable."

Climate Change [17]
Disasters [26]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Washington Post [64], 08/05/2022
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