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Climate Groups Accept Millions From Charity Linked To Fossil Fuels [9]

"Some of the world’s best-known climate campaign groups have taken millions of pounds in donations from a foundation run by billionaire hedge fund bosses whose investment fund has invested in fossil fuel companies, the Guardian has learned."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Public [12]
International [13]
Source: Guardian [14], 06/30/2023
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"Biden Administration Announces $7 Billion Residential Solar Grant Program" [15]

"The Biden administration on Wednesday announced a $7 billion grant competition to expand access to residential solar energy in low-income communities."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [16]
Economy & Business [17]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Environmental Justice [19]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: The Hill [21], 06/30/2023
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New Mexico Regulators Fine Oil Producer $40 Million For Flaring Gas [22]

"New Mexico oilfield and air quality regulators on Thursday announced unprecedented state fines against a Texas-based oil and natural gas producer on accusations that the company flouted local pollution reporting and control requirements by burning off vast amounts of natural gas in a prolific energy-production zone in the southeast of the state."

Chemicals [23]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [18]
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Public [12]
National (U.S.) [20]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [25]
Source: AP [26], 06/30/2023
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"Texas Heat Wave Invigorates Calls For Worker Heat Protections" [27]

"When he works at his job as a painter in Texas’s extreme heat, Maynor Alvarez can feel the toll the weather takes on him. He and his colleagues have suffered symptoms from cramps to headaches, feeling like they’re going to throw up. He’s felt his heart racing and needed to take breaks."

Climate Change [10]
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National (U.S.) [20]
Source: The Hill [29], 06/30/2023
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"Pressure Builds For FEMA To Declare Deadly Heat Events As Disasters" [30]

"Proponents say a federal disaster designation could save lives by providing vital services and reimbursing states for being proactive".

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [31]
Environmental Health [28]
Environmental Justice [19]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Washington Post [33], 06/30/2023
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"Extreme Heat Is Already Straining the Mexican Power Grid" [34]

"During the heat wave that hit Mexico and Texas in the last two weeks, some states in Mexico saw temperatures exceed 113 degrees, and more than 20 people died from heat stroke. The record-high temperatures have put enormous pressure on the country’s electric system, increasing the electricity demand."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [16]
Disasters [31]
Infrastructure [35]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [20]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [25]
Source: Inside Climate News [36], 06/30/2023
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"Microbes Play Leading Role In Soil Carbon Capture, Study Shows" [37]

"More carbon is stored in the soil than in all plants, animals and the atmosphere combined, making it among the most critical conservation frontiers as we face the climate crisis."

Agriculture [38]
Climate Change [10]
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Natural Resources [40]
Public [12]
International [13]
Source: Mongabay [41], 06/30/2023
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"Auto-Industry Group Assails Biden’s Plan to Electrify America’s Cars" [42]

"The auto industry’s largest lobbying organization has come out against the Biden administration’s most ambitious climate change regulation, a proposed rule designed to ensure that two-thirds of new passenger cars sold in the United States are all-electric by 2032."

Air [43]
Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [17]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Pollution [24]
Transportation [44]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NYTimes [45], 06/29/2023
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"Joshua Trees Win Long Term Protection In Environmental Victory" [46]

"California lawmakers have voted to permanently protect the iconic western joshua tree, delivering a hard-won victory for environmentalists who have warned that the climate crisis has imperilled these fixtures of the high desert."

Biodiversity [47]
Forests [39]
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Public [12]
National (U.S.) [20]
California [48]
Source: Guardian [49], 06/29/2023
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"EPA Closes Civil Rights Probe Into Louisiana Over ‘Cancer Alley’ Pollution" [50]

"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said Tuesday it did not find discrimination by the state of Louisiana against Black residents who face high levels of air pollution, closing a probe into actions by state departments."

Air [43]
Chemicals [23]
Environmental Health [28]
Environmental Justice [19]
Environmental Politics [11]
Public [12]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [51]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [52]
Source: The Hill [53], 06/29/2023
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Top Nuclear Regulator Faces Tough Reconfirmation Battle In The Senate" [54]

"Biden wants to keep Jeff Baran on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, but the GOP and pro-nuclear activists say he's holding back an atomic renaissance."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [16]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [55]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: HuffPost [56], 06/29/2023
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"Solar Helps Texas Carry Energy Load As Heatwave Puts Power Grid To Test" [57]

"As a deadly, record-breaking heatwave puts Texas’s grid to the test, renewable power sources are helping the state maintain energy reliability, contrary to some of the state’s lawmakers claims that clean energy is less reliable."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [20]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [25]
Source: Guardian [58], 06/29/2023
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Coal Ash Sinkhole Expands In NC, Contaminating Stream Amid Legal Dispute [59]

"For the past three years, a sinkhole in a Mooresville parking lot has released coal ash into a tributary of Lake Norman, in part because of a legal impasse about who is responsible — the property owners or Duke Energy — for repairing the damage."

Disasters [31]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Environmental Health [28]
Laws & Regulations [32]
Pollution [24]
Water & Oceans [60]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [20]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [52]
Source: States Newsroom [61], 06/29/2023
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"Farm Boom, Fires Make Bolivia No. 3 In World For Forest Loss" [62]

"Forest loss in Bolivia accelerated by about a third last year with clearances in the country trailing only giant neighbor Brazil and the Democratic Republic of Congo, a forest monitoring project report shows, blaming farm expansion and fires."

Public [12]
Central America & the Caribbean [63]
Source: Reuters [64], 06/29/2023
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A Toxic Metal Is In A US City’s Air – And May Be Harming Children’s Brains [65]

"The Guardian finds children in Portland, Oregon, could have lower test scores due to lead emissions from nearby racetrack, one of dozens across the US to use toxic leaded gasoline".

Chemicals [23]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Pollution [24]
Transportation [44]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [20]
Northwest (OR WA) [66]
Source: Guardian [67], 06/29/2023
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