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"PragerU Says It's Approved In Texas Schools. It's Not." [1]

"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."

Source: HEATED [2], 08/23/2023

How A Mix Of Natural And Human-Caused Factors Cooked Up Storm Hilary Mess [3]

"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."

Source: AP [4], 08/23/2023

"Biden Administration Approves 4th Commercial-Scale Offshore Wind Project" [5]

"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."

Source: The Hill [6], 08/23/2023

Some States Reject Federal Money To Find, Replace Dangerous Lead Pipes [7]

"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."

Source: AP [8], 08/23/2023

Storm Harold Triggers Floods, Outages And Tornado Warnings As It Hits Texas [9]

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

Source: CNN [10], 08/23/2023

PHMSA Raises Safety Concerns Over Mountain Valley Pipeline in Formal Notice [11]

"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."

Source: Inside Climate News [12], 08/23/2023

"Greece Discovers 18 Charred Bodies As Southern Europe Wildfires Spread" [13]

"Eighteen charred bodies were found in a remote village in northeastern Greece on Tuesday where wildfires have been raging for days, the fire brigade said, as a heatwave that has seen red alerts issued across southern Europe turned deadly."

Source: Reuters [14], 08/23/2023

"Japan To Release Fukushima Water Into Ocean From Aug. 24" [15]

"Japan said on Tuesday it will start releasing into the sea more than 1 million metric tons of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant on Aug. 24, going ahead with a plan heavily criticised by China."

Source: Reuters [16], 08/23/2023

Biden Revives Rules to Prevent Another Deepwater Horizon Disaster [17]

"The Department of Interior announced on Tuesday that it had reinstated Obama-era safety rules for offshore drilling that were created in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe that killed 11 people and fouled the Gulf of Mexico."

Source: NYTimes [18], 08/23/2023

SEJ Remembers Terri Hansen [19]

SEJ members were saddened to learn that Terri Crawford Hansen, who first joined SEJ in 1994, recently passed away. Terri, "a powerful and big-hearted truth teller," was a member of the Winnebago tribe of Nebraska and a long-time journalist, covering environment, climate, science, tribal and Indigenous issues for multiple publications.

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