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As Paradise, California, Rebuilds, Nobody Can Afford Home Insurance [9]

"The soaring cost of home insurance has consumed the town of Paradise, residents and officials say, as it prepares to commemorate the five-year anniversary of the Nov. 8, 2018, Camp Fire. Residents have received annual premiums that near or exceed $10,000 — leaving many to wonder how they’re supposed to rebuild their hard-hit community when insurance is so shockingly high for houses in an area that is supposed to be among the most affordable in California."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [11]
Disasters [12]
Economy & Business [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
California [16]
Source: AP [17], 11/08/2023
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"Boiling Point: Trump Is Lying About California And Clean Energy Again" [18]

"This time he’s claiming the state had lots of blackouts this summer. It did not."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Politics [20]
Journalism & Media [21]
Science [22]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
California [16]
Source: LA Times [23], 11/08/2023
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"As Climate Talks Near, Calls Mount for a ‘Phaseout’ of Fossil Fuels" [24]

"With UN climate negotiations set for next month, a growing number of nations and business leaders are calling for a phaseout of fossil fuels. But with major fossil fuel expansion projects moving ahead around the globe, advocates of strong action face a daunting challenge."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Pollution [25]
Public [14]
International [26]
Source: YaleE360 [27], 11/07/2023
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"EPA Watchdog Accused Of Creating A Hostile Work Environment" [28]

"The top watchdog tasked with overseeing EPA faced accusations that he abused his authority, wasted government money and showed partisan favor. EPA Inspector General Sean O’Donnell denied the allegations, which an oversight body ultimately deemed not worthy of further investigation, according to documents obtained by E&E News."

Environmental Justice [29]
Environmental Politics [20]
Laws & Regulations [30]
People & Population [31]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [32], 11/07/2023
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"This County Could Create The Strictest Workplace Heat Rules In The U.S." [33]

"Miami-Dade County commissioners on Tuesday will decide whether to establish the first county-level workplace heat protections in the United States, a test of whether local governments can protect workers from increasingly dangerous temperatures in the absence of federal rules."

Agriculture [34]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [35]
Environmental Justice [29]
Laws & Regulations [30]
People & Population [31]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [36]
Source: Washington Post [37], 11/07/2023
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Majority-Black Penn. Community Fights Proposed $6 Billion LNG Terminal [38]

"In what was once a proud and neighborly community where residents sat on their porches and looked after kids playing in the streets, the noxious smell and degraded air quality attributable to the Covanta waste incinerator — the largest in the country, burning as much as 3,500 tons of trash a day — have driven residents indoors or out of town."

Activism [39]
Chemicals [40]
Environmental Health [35]
Environmental Justice [29]
Pollution [25]
Waste [41]
Public [14]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [42]
Source: EHN [43], 11/07/2023
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How Midwest Landowners Helped to Derail One of the Biggest CO2 Pipelines [44]

"Lured by billions of dollars in federal funding for carbon capture, developers are proposing huge pipelines to carry the CO2 across the Midwest. In Illinois, one retired academic united her neighbors to fight a key project."

Activism [39]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Politics [20]
Laws & Regulations [30]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [45]
Source: Inside Climate News [46], 11/07/2023
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"In the Florida Everglades, a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Hotspot" [47]

"Drainage has exposed the fertile soils of the Everglades Agricultural Area, a region responsible for much of the nation’s sugar cane."

"ORLANDO, Fla. — It used to be the water spilled over Lake Okeechobee’s southern shore, flowing eventually into the sawgrass prairies of the Florida Everglades. For thousands of years the marsh vegetation flourished and died here in an endless cycle, the plant remains falling beneath the slow-coursing water to form a rich layer of organic soil called peat.
Agriculture [34]
Climate Change [10]
Natural Resources [48]
Pollution [25]
Water & Oceans [49]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [36]
Source: Inside Climate News [50], 11/07/2023
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Texas Could Spend U.S. Funds Meant To Cut CO2 Emissions On Highway Projects [51]

"The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act required Texas’ transportation agency to create a carbon reduction strategy to get $641 million federal dollars. Critics say the plan is unlikely to meaningfully cut greenhouse gasses from the state’s massive transportation sector."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Health [35]
Environmental Politics [20]
Infrastructure [52]
Laws & Regulations [30]
Pollution [25]
Transportation [53]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [54]
Source: Texas Tribune [55], 11/07/2023
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Millions of US Homes Are So Overheated They Open Windows In The Winter. Why? [56]

"Nineteenth-century technology is finally being phased out in New York City, but its past is deeply entwined with American history".

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Infrastructure [52]
Technology [57]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Guardian [58], 11/07/2023
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Some Houses Being Built To Stand Up To Hurricanes And Cut Emissions, Too [59]

"When Hurricane Michael hit the Florida Panhandle five years ago, it left boats, cars and trucks piled up to the windows of Bonny Paulson’s home in the tiny coastal community of Mexico Beach, Florida, even though the house rests on pillars 14 feet above the ground. But Paulson’s home, with a rounded shape that looks something like a ship, shrugged off Category 5 winds that might otherwise have collapsed it."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [11]
Disasters [12]
Infrastructure [52]
Planning & Growth [60]
Water & Oceans [49]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [36]
Source: AP [61], 11/07/2023
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"A Food Historian’s Hunt For Ingredients Vanishing From US Plates" [62]

"In her new book, Endangered Eating, Sarah Lohman chronicles disappearing foods – and why they need protecting".

"The American buff goose. Amish deer tongue lettuce. The Nancy Hall sweet potato. The mulefoot hog. When food historian Sarah Lohman stumbled on these fantastical-sounding ingredients in a database of vanishing foods called the Ark of Taste, she set off on a journey across the United States to discover more ingredients and traditions that had been abandoned in the annals of history.
Agriculture [34]
Biodiversity [63]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [35]
Food [64]
Natural Resources [48]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Guardian [65], 11/07/2023
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"House GOP Approves Cutting EPA Budget By Nearly 40 Percent" [66]

"House Republicans approved legislation Friday that would slash nearly 40 percent of the budget for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The funding bill, passed by a 213-203 vote, cuts 39 percent of the EPA’s budget and would be the smallest budget the agency has had in three decades."

Environmental Health [35]
Environmental Justice [29]
Environmental Politics [20]
Laws & Regulations [30]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: The Hill [67], 11/06/2023
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"World Bank Poised To Host Climate Loss And Damage Fund, Despite Concerns" [68]

"Countries moved a step closer on Saturday to getting a fund off the ground to help poor states damaged by climate disasters, despite reservations from developing nations and the United States."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [13]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Justice [29]
Environmental Politics [20]
Laws & Regulations [30]
Public [14]
International [26]
Source: Reuters [69], 11/06/2023
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"Toxic Pesticides Are Sprayed Next to Thousands of US Schools" [70]

"As many as 2 million children attend elementary schools near farms where pesticides are likely applied, as federal legislators aim to gut state and local health protections."

Agriculture [34]
Chemicals [40]
Environmental Health [35]
Environmental Justice [29]
Laws & Regulations [30]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Inside Climate News [71], 11/06/2023
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