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  • "Biden Administration Requesting Roughly $100 Billion For Disaster Relief" [9]

    "The Biden administration is sending a roughly $100 billion request to Congress to help Americans impacted by a series of major and record-breaking natural disasters in 2023 and 2024, including Hurricanes Helene and Milton, calling on lawmakers to pass the needed relief with “bipartisan and bicameral support.”"

    Climate Change [10]
    Disasters [11]
    Economy & Business [12]
    Environmental Politics [13]
    Laws & Regulations [14]
    Water & Oceans [15]
    Public [16]
    National (U.S.) [17]
    Source: CNN [18], 11/20/2024
    • Read more about "Biden Administration Requesting Roughly $100 Billion For Disaster Relief" [9]
  • ‘Bomb Cyclone’ Kills 1 And Knocks Out Power Across The Northwest US [19]

    "A major storm swept across the northwest U.S., battering the region with strong winds and rain, causing widespread power outages and downing trees that killed at least one person."

    Climate Change [10]
    Disasters [11]
    Water & Oceans [15]
    Public [16]
    National (U.S.) [17]
    California [20]
    Northwest (OR WA) [21]
    Source: AP [22], 11/20/2024
    • Read more about ‘Bomb Cyclone’ Kills 1 And Knocks Out Power Across The Northwest US [19]
  • "Trump Threatens New York Times, Penguin Random House over Critical Coverage" [23]

    "The letter, addressed to lawyers at the New York Times and Penguin Random House, arrived a week before the election. Attached was a discursive ten-page legal threat from an attorney for Donald Trump that demanded $10 billion in damages over “false and defamatory statements” contained in articles by Peter Baker, Michael S. Schmidt, Susanne Craig, and Russ Buettner."

    Environmental Politics [13]
    Journalism & Media [24]
    Laws & Regulations [14]
    Public [16]
    National (U.S.) [17]
    Source: Columbia Journalism Review [25], 11/20/2024
    • Read more about "Trump Threatens New York Times, Penguin Random House over Critical Coverage" [23]
  • "The US No Longer Supports Capping Plastic Production In UN Treaty" [26]

    "The Biden administration has backtracked from supporting a cap on plastic production as part of the United Nations’ global plastics treaty."

    Chemicals [27]
    Consumer [28]
    Energy & Fuel [29]
    Environmental Politics [13]
    Pollution [30]
    Waste [31]
    Water & Oceans [15]
    Public [16]
    National (U.S.) [17]
    International [32]
    Source: Grist [33], 11/20/2024
    • Read more about "The US No Longer Supports Capping Plastic Production In UN Treaty" [26]
  • Canada Helped Fossil Companies Improve Global ‘Perception’ Of Oilsands [34]

    "As this year’s United Nations climate summit hits the halfway mark, newly obtained documents show how the Liberal government gave Canada’s oil and gas lobbyists a platform to polish the sector’s reputation at the same event in 2022. Days later, the same government began a process of cracking down on misleading environmental messaging."

    Climate Change [10]
    Energy & Fuel [29]
    Environmental Politics [13]
    Journalism & Media [24]
    Laws & Regulations [14]
    Public [16]
    International [32]
    Canada [35]
    Source: The Narwhal [36], 11/20/2024
    • Read more about Canada Helped Fossil Companies Improve Global ‘Perception’ Of Oilsands [34]
  • "Despite Critics, Organic Farming Thrives In Heart Of US Corn Country" [37]

    "With just shy of 800 residents, West Bend, Iowa is barely a blip on a prairie landscape, but it has become home base for an uncommonly large expanse of organically grown crops- operations that have found success in challenging the popular convention that pesticides and other agricultural chemicals are needed to feed the world."

    Agriculture [38]
    Biodiversity [39]
    Chemicals [27]
    Consumer [28]
    Economy & Business [12]
    Environmental Health [40]
    Natural Resources [41]
    Pollution [30]
    Wildlife [42]
    Public [16]
    National (U.S.) [17]
    Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [43]
    Source: The New Lede [44], 11/20/2024
    • Read more about "Despite Critics, Organic Farming Thrives In Heart Of US Corn Country" [37]
  • "Granholm Warns That Cutting EV Tax Credits Would Be ‘Ceding’ To China" [45]

    "Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm warned Friday that President-elect Trump’s reported plans to cut consumer subsidies for electric vehicles (EVs) would benefit China."

    Climate Change [10]
    Economy & Business [12]
    Energy & Fuel [29]
    Environmental Politics [13]
    Laws & Regulations [14]
    Pollution [30]
    Transportation [46]
    Public [16]
    National (U.S.) [17]
    Source: The Hill [47], 11/20/2024
    • Read more about "Granholm Warns That Cutting EV Tax Credits Would Be ‘Ceding’ To China" [45]
  • "Lee To Lead Senate Energy Committee Next Year" [48]

    "Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) will lead the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee next year. He’ll take over for the panel’s current top Republican, Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), who will become the upper chamber’s No. 2 Republican next year."

    Climate Change [10]
    Energy & Fuel [29]
    Environmental Politics [13]
    Laws & Regulations [14]
    Public [16]
    National (U.S.) [17]
    Source: The Hill [49], 11/20/2024
    • Read more about "Lee To Lead Senate Energy Committee Next Year" [48]
  • "17,000 Axis Deer Were Killed On Maui This Year, But They Just Keep Coming" [50]

    "About 50 axis deer crowded around the fence line separating Maui Nui Botanical Gardens and Keopuolani Regional Park, startling the gardens staff on a recent Thursday afternoon. The threat posed by the invasive deer was alarming because the gardens serve as a seed bank and are home to some of Hawaii’s rarest endemic and native plants."

    Biodiversity [39]
    Natural Resources [41]
    Wildlife [42]
    Public [16]
    Alaska and Hawaii [51]
    Source: Honolulu Civil Beat [52], 11/20/2024
    • Read more about "17,000 Axis Deer Were Killed On Maui This Year, But They Just Keep Coming" [50]
  • "Drought Is an Immigration Issue" [53]

    "In Mexico, the conditions that have contributed to the largest sustained movement of humans across any border in the world will get only more common. This spring, at the start of the corn-growing season, 76 percent of Mexico was in drought, and the country was sweltering under a deadly heat dome."

    Agriculture [38]
    Climate Change [10]
    Disasters [11]
    People & Population [54]
    Water & Oceans [15]
    Public [16]
    National (U.S.) [17]
    Mexico [55]
    Source: Atlantic [56], 11/20/2024
    • Read more about "Drought Is an Immigration Issue" [53]
  • Trump Picks Brendan Carr, Who Set Agenda In Project 2025, As FCC Chair [57]

    "President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday he was naming Brendan Carr as the next Federal Communications Commission chairman, positioning the regulatory agency to do battle against social media companies and TV broadcasters that Republicans portray as too liberal."

    Environmental Politics [13]
    Journalism & Media [24]
    Laws & Regulations [14]
    Public [16]
    National (U.S.) [17]
    Source: Washington Post [58], 11/19/2024
    • Read more about Trump Picks Brendan Carr, Who Set Agenda In Project 2025, As FCC Chair [57]
  • Sean Duffy, Fox News Host, Gets Trump’s Nod For Transportation Secretary [59]

    "A former Wisconsin congressman and Fox Business host, Sean Duffy, was named on Monday by President-elect Donald J. Trump as his choice to lead the Transportation Department."

    Climate Change [10]
    Consumer [28]
    Energy & Fuel [29]
    Environmental Politics [13]
    Infrastructure [60]
    Laws & Regulations [14]
    Pollution [30]
    Transportation [46]
    Public [16]
    National (U.S.) [17]
    Source: NYTimes [61], 11/19/2024
    • Read more about Sean Duffy, Fox News Host, Gets Trump’s Nod For Transportation Secretary [59]
  • "The 1.5C Climate Goal Is Dead. Why Is COP29 Still Talking About It?" [62]

    "The battle to keep global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius has been a rallying cry for climate action for nearly a decade. Now, with the planet almost certain to blow past the target, diplomats and campaigners at the COP29 summit have found themselves awkwardly clinging to a goal that no longer makes sense."

    Climate Change [10]
    Energy & Fuel [29]
    Environmental Justice [63]
    Environmental Politics [13]
    Pollution [30]
    Public [16]
    International [32]
    Source: Bloomberg Green [64], 11/19/2024
    • Read more about "The 1.5C Climate Goal Is Dead. Why Is COP29 Still Talking About It?" [62]
  • "Emergency Declared as Smog Chokes Parts of India and Pakistan" [65]

    "The authorities in New Delhi closed schools and urged residents to stay home. Similar measures have been implemented in Punjab, Pakistan’s largest province."

    Air [66]
    Environmental Health [40]
    Pollution [30]
    Public [16]
    Asia [67]
    Source: NYTimes [68], 11/19/2024
    • Read more about "Emergency Declared as Smog Chokes Parts of India and Pakistan" [65]
  • "NYC Concerned About Low Reservoir Levels After Months Of Little Rain" [69]

    "New York City officials are concerned about low reservoir levels after months of little rain, saying they may postpone repairs on a temporarily out-of-service aqueduct to bring more water into the stressed system."

    Climate Change [10]
    Infrastructure [60]
    Water & Oceans [15]
    Public [16]
    Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [70]
    Source: AP [71], 11/19/2024
    • Read more about "NYC Concerned About Low Reservoir Levels After Months Of Little Rain" [69]

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