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"Smoke From 2023 Canada Fires Linked To Thousands Of Deaths: Study" [9]

"Canada's record-breaking 2023 wildfires exposed more than 350 million people in North America and Europe to air pollution that likely contributed to tens of thousands of deaths, according to new estimates published Wednesday."

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Canada [13]
Source: Phys.org [14], 09/12/2025
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"Public Lands Were Made Free to All" [15]

"Protecting wild places was once a radical idea. It still is."

Biodiversity [16]
Environmental Politics [17]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Natural Resources [19]
Wildlife [20]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Sierra [21], 09/12/2025
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Newsom Strikes Climate Deal Extending California Cap And Trade, Boosting Oil [22]

"California legislative leaders in the wee hours of Wednesday morning reached an agreement with Gov. Gavin Newsom to extend the state’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction program, known as cap and trade, through 2045 — a contentious expansion that for weeks stewed in backroom discussions, held up other critical legislation and roiled insiders."

Climate Change [23]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Politics [17]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Pollution [25]
Public [10]
California [26]
Source: CalMatters [27], 09/12/2025
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"Wright ‘Admitted’ Stalling $30B Hanford Plant, Senator Says" [28]

"Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Democratic Sen. Patty Murray that he’s looking to delay operations at a multibillion-dollar vitrification plant at the Hanford nuclear cleanup site in Washington state, despite public statements signaling otherwise, the senator said."

Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Politics [17]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [30]
Pollution [25]
Waste [31]
Water & Oceans [32]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Northwest (OR WA) [33]
Source: E&E News [34], 09/12/2025
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Network Enables Indigenous People To Show Amazon Changes For Themselves [35]

"Deep in the Amazon, sound designer Eric Terena has been capturing the sounds of the rainforest while sitting silently beneath the dense, towering treetops with his recording equipment. He has noticed some huge changes."

Activism [36]
Biodiversity [16]
Environmental Justice [37]
Environmental Studies [38]
Forests [39]
Journalism & Media [40]
Natural Resources [19]
Wildlife [20]
Public [10]
International [12]
South America [41]
Source: The Conversation [42], 09/12/2025
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Trump DOI Wants To Cancel Biden Rule For Conservation As ‘Use’ Of Public Land [43]

"Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Wednesday proposed canceling a public land management rule that put conservation on equal footing with development, as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to open more taxpayer-owned tracts to drilling, logging, mining and grazing."

Biodiversity [16]
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Forests [39]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Natural Resources [19]
Wildlife [20]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: AP [44], 09/11/2025
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Taxpayers Will Pay Billions in New Fossil Fuel Subsidies Thanks to Megabill [45]

"A report finds that President Trump’s flagship legislation will grant $40 billion in new subsidies to the oil and gas industry over the next decade."

Climate Change [23]
Economy & Business [46]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Politics [17]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Pollution [25]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: WIRED [47], 09/11/2025
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Defense Bill Would Loosen Restrictions On Pentagon’s Use Of Toxic PFAS [48]

"Provisions in the House and Senate annual Defense authorization bills reduce restrictions on the Pentagon’s use of “forever chemicals.”

Chemicals [49]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Justice [37]
Environmental Politics [17]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Military [50]
Pollution [25]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: The Hill [51], 09/11/2025
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Study Links Big Heat Waves To Pollution From Major Fossil Fuel Producers [52]

"Fifty-five heat waves over the past quarter-century would not have happened without human-caused climate change, according to a study published Wednesday."

Climate Change [23]
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Environmental Health [29]
People & Population [54]
Pollution [25]
Public [10]
International [12]
Source: AP [55], 09/11/2025
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Warming Seas Threaten Key Phytoplankton That Fuels The Food Web: Study [56]

"For decades, scientists believed Prochlorococcus, the smallest and most abundant phytoplankton on Earth, would thrive in a warmer world. But new research suggests the microscopic bacterium, which forms the foundation of the marine food web and helps regulate the planet’s climate, will decline sharply as seas heat up."

Biodiversity [16]
Climate Change [23]
Disasters [53]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Natural Resources [19]
Pollution [25]
Water & Oceans [32]
Public [10]
International [12]
Source: AP [57], 09/11/2025
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US Bans on some Fish Imports Could Help Save Marine Mammals Worldwide: Experts [58]

"The Trump administration set strict import bans on fisheries in more than 40 nations that do not meet standards for conserving marine mammals like whales and dolphins."

Biodiversity [16]
Environmental Politics [17]
Fish & Fisheries [59]
Natural Resources [19]
Water & Oceans [32]
Wildlife [20]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
International [12]
Source: Inside Climate News [60], 09/11/2025
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Many Countries Are Saying No To ‘Unthinkable’ Room Costs For Climate Talks [61]

"Brazil brought the U.N.’s COP30 climate conference to the Amazon. Then the price frenzy began." "The idea had seemed symbolically fitting at first — a global climate summit set on the edge of the threatened Amazon rainforest."

Climate Change [23]
Economy & Business [46]
Environmental Justice [37]
Infrastructure [62]
People & Population [54]
Public [10]
International [12]
South America [41]
Source: Washington Post [63], 09/11/2025
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"Geoengineering Won’t Save Us From Global Warming, New Study Says" [64]

"A team of the world’s best ice and climate researchers studied a handful of recently publicized engineering concepts for protecting Earth’s polar ice caps and found that none of them are likely to work."

Climate Change [23]
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Science [65]
Technology [66]
Public [10]
International [12]
Source: Inside Climate News [67], 09/11/2025
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MAHA Report Critics Say Corporate Pressure Wins Over Public Health [68]

"A long-awaited and highly controversial report issued on Tuesday by the Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) Commission provides a few “crumbs” for public and environmental health advocates, but big wins for powerful food and chemical industries seeking to skirt limits on their products and practices."

Agriculture [69]
Chemicals [49]
Consumer [70]
Economy & Business [46]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Politics [17]
Food [71]
Health [72]
People & Population [54]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: The New Lede [73], 09/11/2025
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"California’s First Solar-Covered Canal Is Now Fully Online" [74]

"A novel solar power project just went online in California’s Central Valley, with panels that span across canals in the vast agricultural region." "The 1.6-MW pilot system is among a growing number of initiatives to put solar over waterways. The approach could generate gigawatts of power nationwide."

Climate Change [23]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Infrastructure [62]
Technology [66]
Water & Oceans [32]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
California [26]
Source: Canary Media [75], 09/11/2025
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