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Calif. Fires: PG&E Shuts Off Power To Thousands Of Bay Area Residents [1]

Hotter temperatures and strengthening winds raised wildfire risk in California and prompted power shutoffs.

Source: San Francisco Chronicle [2], 10/15/2020

"Barrett's Climate Answers Raise Question: Is She A Denier?" [3]

"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett called climate change 'a contentious matter' and declined to acknowledge the existence of the scientifically established phenomenon during the third day of her confirmation hearing."

Source: E&E News [4], 10/15/2020

IJA Tribal Nations Media Guide [5]

The Native American Journalists Association's Guide offers a context checklist to consider when reporting on Indigenous communities: government, economy, geography, treaties, people and culture.

Once Abundant Shark Species Nearly Vanishes in Just 40 Years [6]

"Smalltail shark populations have declined by 90% in Brazil, and new research finds that overfishing has pushed the species perilously close to extinction."

Source: The Revelator [7], 10/14/2020

"Solar Expected To Dethrone Coal, Become ‘New King Of Electricity,’" [8]

"In 2010, the International Energy Agency called coal “the backbone of global electricity generation” in its outlook for the next decade of worldwide energy markets. On Tuesday, the Paris-based intergovernmental organization said renewables would make up 80% of new power generation by 2030, overtaking the fossil fuels that presently dominate electricity production."

Source: HuffPost [9], 10/14/2020

"Minnesota Supreme Court Weighs Fate of PolyMet Mine Permits" [10]

"Lawyers for the proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine and state regulators urged the Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday to defer to the judgment of the state Department of Natural Resources and reinstate three critical permits for the project."

Source: AP [11], 10/14/2020

"Under Trump, Criminal Prosecutions for Pollution Dropped Sharply" [12]

"Prosecutions of environmental crimes have “plummeted” during the Trump administration, according to a new report."

Source: NYTimes [13], 10/14/2020

"Trump’s ‘Frack’ Attack on Biden Seems to Be Falling Short" [14]

"During the Democratic presidential primaries, James T. Kunz, who leads the operating engineers union in Western Pennsylvania, worried the party would choose a nominee determined to cripple the natural gas industry that has boosted the livelihoods of thousands of fellow Pennsylvanians."

Source: NYTimes [15], 10/14/2020

"Work on Mountain Valley Pipeline Can Resume, FERC Rules" [16]

"Mountain Valley Pipeline was given another two years Friday to complete a natural gas pipeline already marked by six years of community opposition, environmental damage, legal fights and delays."

Source: Roanoke Times [17], 10/14/2020

Warming Has Killed Half The Coral On The Great Barrier Reef: Study [18]

"Half of the coral populations on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef — from “big mamas” to the little baby coral they spawn — have been wiped out in the warming ocean, a new study says."

Source: Washington Post [19], 10/14/2020

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