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[2] https://phys.org/news/2024-07-biden-administration-drilling-alaska-petroleum.html
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[4] https://www.desmog.com/2024/07/10/meet-the-labour-governments-new-climate-team/
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/prisoners-are-uniquely-vulnerable-extreme-heat-and-flooding
[6] https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/prisoners-are-uniquely-vulnerable-extreme-heat-and-flooding
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/sewage-gushing-sea-us-and-mexican-border-towns-plead-help
[8] https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/with-sewage-gushing-into-sea-us-mexican-border-towns-plead-help-2024-07-17/
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[10] https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/farmworker-hunger-crisis-climate-inflation-grocery-costs/
[11] https://www.sej.org/calendar/selc-webinar-power-plants-public-lands-key-decisions-shaping-our-future
[12] https://www.sej.org/calendar/fuel-foul-air-and-fallout-health-tolls-energy-and-defense-us
[13] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-iliiaitchik-indigenous-correspondents-program
[14] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-eppy-awards
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/heavy-gear-brutal-terrain-backbreaking-work-now-firefighters-face-heat
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