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PHMSA Raises Safety Concerns Over Mountain Valley Pipeline in Formal Notice [9]

"Federal regulators have sent a proposed safety order to the developers of the contentious and highly politicized Mountain Valley Pipeline citing concerns over potential pipe corrosion and land movement in the steep mountain terrain the pipeline will cross in West Virginia and Virginia."

Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [17]
Source: Inside Climate News [18], 08/23/2023
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Storm Harold Triggers Floods, Outages And Tornado Warnings As It Hits Texas [19]

"Tropical Storm Harold is plowing through Texas, triggering flash flooding and tornado warnings as the gusty storm pushes toward Mexico."

Climate Change [20]
Disasters [21]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [23]
Source: CNN [24], 08/23/2023
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Some States Reject Federal Money To Find, Replace Dangerous Lead Pipes [25]

"As the Biden administration makes billions of dollars available to remove millions of dangerous lead pipes that can contaminate drinking water and damage brain development in children, some states are turning down funds."

Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [12]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: AP [27], 08/23/2023
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"Biden Administration Approves 4th Commercial-Scale Offshore Wind Project" [28]

"The Biden administration on Tuesday approved a wind energy project off Rhode Island, the fourth major commercial-scale offshore wind energy project approved by the Biden Interior Department."

Climate Change [20]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [29]
Source: The Hill [30], 08/23/2023
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How A Mix Of Natural And Human-Caused Factors Cooked Up Storm Hilary Mess [31]

"A natural El Nino, human-caused climate change, a stubborn heat dome over the nation’s midsection and other factors cooked up Tropical Storm Hilary’s record-breaking slosh into California and Nevada, scientists figure."

Climate Change [20]
Disasters [21]
Science [32]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: AP [33], 08/23/2023
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"PragerU Says It's Approved In Texas Schools. It's Not." [34]

"The conservative group's big announcement that its climate denial videos were approved in Texas public schools appears to be a lie, the Texas State Board of Education tells HEATED."

Climate Change [20]
Environmental Politics [11]
Journalism & Media [35]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Science [32]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [23]
Source: HEATED [36], 08/23/2023
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"The Next Pandemic Could Strike Crops, Not People" [37]

"Genetic uniformity is central to modern farming. It leaves us vulnerable to plant disease breakouts."

Technology [38]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Grist [39], 08/23/2023
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"After Hilary, A Big Clean-Up And Lots Of Water But Lives Spared" [40]

"Tropical Storm Hilary drenched the American Southwest before fading Monday to a mere rainstorm, leaving communities from the Pacific Coast to inland Nevada with a substantial cleanup effort but no reported deaths in the United States."

Climate Change [20]
Disasters [21]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
California [41]
Source: Washington Post [42], 08/22/2023
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"The Latest on Hilary, Emily, Franklin, Gert, and a Texas-Mexico Threat" [43]

"[I]t’s not often that a tropical storm from the Eastern Pacific moves through Southern California on the same weekend that three tropical storms erupt in the Atlantic. That’s where things stood on Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023."

Climate Change [20]
Disasters [21]
Forests [44]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [45]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [46], 08/22/2023
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"Ecuador Votes To Ban Oil Drilling In Part Of Amazon, Mining Outside Quito" [47]

"Ecuadorean referendums to ban oil drilling in a part of the Amazon and mining in a forest outside Quito easily passed, drawing cheers on Monday from Indigenous leaders and environmentalists despite warnings from oil and mining groups about billions of dollars in lost income."

Biodiversity [48]
Environmental Politics [11]
Forests [44]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [49]
Water & Oceans [22]
Wildlife [50]
Public [15]
South America [51]
Source: Reuters [52], 08/22/2023
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"850 People Missing After Maui Wildfires, Mayor Says Ahead Of Biden’s Visit" [53]

"A total of 850 people remain missing following the devastating wildfires in Maui, the Hawaiian county’s mayor said Monday, with this latest count coming ahead of President Joe Biden’s visit to the island."

Climate Change [20]
Disasters [21]
Forests [44]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Alaska and Hawaii [54]
Source: HuffPost [55], 08/22/2023
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"EPA Punts Ozone Standard Review" [56]

"EPA is restarting review of a high-stakes decision on ground-level ozone standards in a step that short-circuits the prospects for any imminent action to tighten limits on the lung-damaging pollutant."

Air [57]
Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Justice [58]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [59], 08/22/2023
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"Oil Giants Fight Climate Deception Suit at Hawaii Supreme Court" [60]

"Oil companies including Sunoco LP, Chevron Corp., and Exxon Mobil Corp. urged justices to dismiss a climate lawsuit they say falls outside of the scope of local law during oral arguments Thursday at the Hawaii Supreme Court."

Climate Change [20]
Economy & Business [61]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Journalism & Media [35]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Science [32]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [62], 08/22/2023
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Enviros Sue To Keep Virginia In Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative [63]

"A coalition of environmental groups filed a lawsuit Monday in Virginia that challenges Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s move to pull the state out of a regional carbon cap-and-trade initiative."

Climate Change [20]
Economy & Business [61]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [15]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [17]
Source: AP [64], 08/22/2023
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Suicide Watch Incidents in Louisiana Prisons Spike on Extreme Heat Days [65]

"The number of suicide watch incidents in Louisiana prisons increased by 30 percent on extreme heat days, a recently published study in the JAMA Journal found."

Climate Change [20]
Disasters [21]
Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Justice [58]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [66]
Source: , 08/22/2023
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