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Death Toll Rises From Helene While Supplies Are Rushed To N.C., Fla. [9]

"Authorities struggled to get water and other supplies to isolated, flood-stricken areas across the U.S. Southeast in the wake of Hurricane Helene as the death toll from the storm rose. A North Carolina county that includes the mountain city of Asheville reported 30 people killed due to the storm, and several other fatalities reported in North Carolina Sunday pushed the overall death toll to at least 91 people across several states."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Infrastructure [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [17]
Source: AP [18], 09/30/2024
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"Helene Dumps Rain on Millions of US Homes That Lack Flood Insurance" [19]

"On Thursday night Helene crashed into Florida’s coast as a Category 4 hurricane. ... The disaster underscores Americans’ dangerously low levels of flood insurance coverage, especially away from coastal areas."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Economy & Business [20]
People & Population [21]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [17]
Source: Bloomberg Green [22], 09/30/2024
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"Leonard Leo-Linked Group Attacking Efforts To Educate Judges On Climate" [23]

"A rightwing organization is attacking efforts to educate judges about the climate crisis. The group appears to be connected to Leonard Leo, the architect of the rightwing takeover of the American judiciary who helped select Trump’s supreme court nominees, the Guardian has learned."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Science [26]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Guardian [27], 09/30/2024
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Residents Near Atlanta Evacuate Due To A Chemical Plant Fire [28]

"Some residents east of Atlanta were evacuated while others were told to shelter in place Sunday to avoid contaminants from a chemical plant fire that sent a massive plume of dark smoke high into the sky that could be seen from miles away."

Chemicals [29]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Pollution [30]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [17]
Source: AP [31], 09/30/2024
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"End Of An Era As Britain’s Last Coal-Fired Power Plant Shuts Down" [32]

"Britain’s only remaining coal power plant at Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire will generate electricity for the last time on Monday after powering the UK for 57 years."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Public [15]
Europe [34]
Source: Guardian [35], 09/30/2024
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We Made An Emergency Alert Guide To Help Calif. Make One For Your State. [36]

"CalMatters and The Markup reported on how residents in each of California’s 58 counties can sign up for local emergency alerts, and found a few surprises along the way. Here’s how you can build the same guide in your state."

Disasters [11]
Infrastructure [13]
Journalism & Media [37]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: CalMatters [38], 09/30/2024
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"If Trump Wins The Election, This Is What's At Stake" [39]

"Imagine, for a moment, oil and gas infrastructure carving up Alaska’s far northern tundra, a refuge for migrating caribou and polar bears. Copper-nickel mines on the doorstep of one of the largest wilderness areas east of the Rockies, a nearly 1.1m-acre (450,000-hectare) expanse of pristine lakes and forests full of loons, wolves and moose. Or uranium and coal exploration in once-protected landscapes, including areas bordering the Grand Canyon."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [24]
Natural Resources [40]
People & Population [21]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Guardian [41], 09/30/2024
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As Logging Intensifies Wildfires, Wet’suwet’en Fight To Protect Old Growth [42]

"Members of Wet’suwet’en Nation in British Columbia want to conserve a pristine old-growth watershed, Caas Tl’aat Twah, in its traditional territory. The nation has obtained a logging deferral for Caas Tl’aat Twah and is planning how to protect it permanently."

Environmental Justice [43]
Forests [44]
Natural Resources [40]
People & Population [21]
Public [15]
Canada [45]
Source: Mongabay [46], 09/30/2024
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Reporter Who Revealed Deforestation In Cambodia Now Charged Himself [47]

"A journalist who covered the land grab and deforestation of a community forest by a mining company has himself been charged with deforestation."

Forests [44]
Journalism & Media [37]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Natural Resources [40]
Public [15]
Asia [48]
Source: Mongabay [49], 09/30/2024
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"Newsom Signs Bill To Ban Octopus Farming In California" [50]

"Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bipartisan bill Friday making it a crime to farm octopuses for human consumption in California."

Biodiversity [51]
Fish & Fisheries [52]
Food [53]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Water & Oceans [14]
Wildlife [54]
Public [15]
California [55]
Source: LA Times [56], 09/30/2024
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"Helene Makes Landfall: 3 Dead, 2 Million Plus Without Power" [57]

"Hurricane Helene has made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane near Perry, Florida, bringing devastating storm surge, severe winds and heavy rain. At least three people have died as a result."

Tim Harris and Jan Wesner Childs report for the Weather Channel September 27, 2024. [58]

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Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
People & Population [21]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [17]
Source: Weather Channel [58], 09/27/2024
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Harris Backs Minerals Stockpile, Permitting Reform, Climate Tax Credits [59]

"Laying out her economic agenda this week, Vice President Harris backed increasing domestic minerals production and creating a minerals stockpile."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Politics [24]
Natural Resources [40]
Policy [60]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: The Hill [61], 09/27/2024
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US Company Uses Government Funds To Suppress Global Pesticide Opposition [62]

"In 2017, two United Nations experts called for a treaty to strictly regulate dangerous pesticides, which they said were a “global human rights concern”, citing scientific research showing pesticides can cause cancers, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s, and other health problems. Publicly, the industry’s lead trade association dubbed the recommendations “unfounded and sensational assertions”. In private, industry advocates have gone further."

Agriculture [63]
Chemicals [29]
Economy & Business [20]
Environmental Politics [24]
Journalism & Media [37]
Science [26]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [64]
Source: The New Lede [65], 09/27/2024
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"How The Fossil Fuel Industry Helps Spread Anti-Protest Laws Across The US" [66]

"Fossil fuel lobbyists coordinated with lawmakers behind the scenes and across state lines to push and shape laws that are escalating a crackdown on peaceful protests against oil and gas expansion, a new Guardian investigation reveals."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [20]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Politics [24]
Journalism & Media [37]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Natural Resources [40]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Guardian [67], 09/27/2024
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"Parts of Appalachia Are Under Landslide Warnings In Hurricane Helene’s Wake" [68]

"The National Hurricane Center has warned of the risk of significant landslides through Friday in parts of Tennessee, Georgia and the Carolinas."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Natural Resources [40]
Public [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [17]
Source: NYTimes [69], 09/27/2024
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