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Largest Audubon Chapter Yet Is Changing Its Name, Rebuking An Enslaver [1]

"One of the largest chapters in the National Audubon Society network is changing its name to distance itself from John James Audubon, the famed naturalist who was also an enslaver and a strong critic of those who sought to free African Americans from bondage."

Source: Washington Post [2], 07/28/2022

DOE Gives Major Loan To Facility For Processing Electric Vehicle Materials [3]

"The Energy Department announced Wednesday that it will give a $102 million loan to expand a processing facility for materials used in electric vehicle batteries."

Source: The Hill [4], 07/28/2022

These Hurricane Flood Maps Reveal Climate Future For Miami, NYC and DC [5]

"Rising seas and stronger winds mean the punishing waves pushed ashore by tropical storms and hurricanes will make their way farther and farther inland. That inland march would expose a larger swath of the U.S. coast to the kind of flooding unleashed during Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, and put more people at risk of drowning, the leading cause of death in hurricanes."

Source: NPR [6], 07/28/2022

Wildfire Pollution May Play Surprising Role in Fate of Arctic Sea Ice [7]

"Scientists say changes in the amounts of wildfire smoke mixing with clouds over the Arctic Ocean may play a key role in determining how fast the Arctic sea ice cover will shrink during the next few decades, and when it will disappear completely in summer."

Source: Inside Climate News [8], 07/28/2022

"Biden Administration Announces Initiatives To Boost Solar Energy Use" [9]

"The Biden administration is announcing several initiatives aimed at boosting the deployment of solar energy."

Source: The Hill [10], 07/28/2022

"Temperatures Could Hit Triple Digits Again In Northwest" [11]

"Heat wave duration records could be broken in the Pacific Northwest this week and authorities are expanding capacity at some cooling centers as temperatures near triple digits are forecast to extend into the weekend."

Source: AP [12], 07/28/2022

"Hidden Menace: Massive Methane Leaks Speed Up Climate Change" [13]

"To the naked eye, the Mako Compressor Station outside the dusty West Texas crossroads of Lenorah appears unremarkable, similar to tens of thousands of oil and gas operations scattered throughout the oil-rich Permian Basin. What’s not visible through the chain-link fence is the plume of invisible gas, primarily methane, billowing from the gleaming white storage tanks up into the cloudless blue sky."

Source: AP [14], 07/28/2022

"Manchin, in Reversal, Agrees to Quick Action on Climate and Tax Plan" [15]

"Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, a key centrist Democrat, announced on Wednesday that he had agreed to include hundreds of billions of dollars for climate and energy programs and tax increases in a package to subsidize health care and lower the cost of prescription drugs, less than two weeks after abruptly upending hopes for such an agreement this summer."

Source: NYTimes [16], 07/28/2022

"The Barbados Rebellion" [17]

"Caribbean nations are trapped between the global financial system and a looming climate disaster. One country’s leaders have been fighting to find a way out."

Source: NYTimes Magazine [18], 07/27/2022

Oak Fire Tops 18,000 Acres, Destroys 41 Structures As Crews Battle Blaze [19]

"Since Friday, the Oak fire has consumed more than 18,000 acres of the sparsely populated mountain community. And by Tuesday morning, the blaze, located near Yosemite National Park, had destroyed 41 structures and forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes."

Source: LA Times [20], 07/27/2022

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