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"Election Roundup: Results In 4 States Set To Shape Energy Sector" [1]

"Voters in a handful of off-year elections across the country green-lighted incentives for new power plants in Texas, rejected a Maine attempt to create a public electric utility and kept incumbent governors in Kentucky and Mississippi."

Source: E&E News [2], 11/09/2023

"Boiling Point: Trump Is Lying About California And Clean Energy Again" [3]

"This time he’s claiming the state had lots of blackouts this summer. It did not."

Source: LA Times [4], 11/08/2023

As Paradise, California, Rebuilds, Nobody Can Afford Home Insurance [5]

"The soaring cost of home insurance has consumed the town of Paradise, residents and officials say, as it prepares to commemorate the five-year anniversary of the Nov. 8, 2018, Camp Fire. Residents have received annual premiums that near or exceed $10,000 — leaving many to wonder how they’re supposed to rebuild their hard-hit community when insurance is so shockingly high for houses in an area that is supposed to be among the most affordable in California."

Source: AP [6], 11/08/2023

Baltimore, Maryland Dept. of Environment Settle Lawsuits Over Sewage Plants [7]

"Environmental advocates hope an agreement negotiated earlier this month by Baltimore City, the state Department of the Environment and the nonprofit Blue Water Baltimore to upgrade the city’s two wastewater treatment plants will help meet the state’s Chesapeake Bay restoration goals."

Source: Inside Climate News [8], 11/08/2023

"Greenland’s Ice Shelves Hold Back Sea Level Rise. There Are Just 5 Left." [9]

"The vast floating ice platforms of northern Greenland, unrivaled features of the Northern Hemisphere that keep our seas lower by holding back many trillion tons of ice, are in stark decline, according to new scientific research published Tuesday."

Source: Washington Post [10], 11/08/2023

Numerous Miles-Long Oil Spills Seen On Pittsburgh’s Iconic Mon River [11]

"Oil sheens up to 18 miles long have repeatedly been reported by an environmental advocacy group on the Monongahela River over the last six months. The site of the recurring pollution is only a few miles from where the Monongahela River merges with the Ohio River, which provides drinking water to more than five million people."

Source: EHN [12], 11/08/2023

"Lawsuit: Southern Co. Lied To DOE Over Kemper CCS Plant" [13]

"A former employee of the utility said she was ordered to prepare documents with false information on the now-canceled Kemper carbon capture project."

Source: E&E News [14], 11/08/2023

EPA Has Found More Than a Dozen Unregulated Contaminants in Drinking Water [15]

"The inaction on regulating contaminants — including those that likely cause cancer, reproductive or developmental issues — found in the water of millions of Americans illustrates shortcomings in the U.S. response to environmental threats, say experts."

Source: ProPublica [16], 11/08/2023

India Court Tells States To Stop Crop Burning Amid Hazardous New Delhi Air [17]

"India's Supreme Court ordered authorities in the states surrounding New Delhi on Tuesday to stop farmers burning crop residue, as the air quality from smog engulfing the world's most polluted capital during the past week reached hazardous levels."

Source: Reuters [18], 11/08/2023

"US Agency Proposes Allowing Carbon Capture Projects In National Forests" [19]

"The U.S. Forest Service wants to allow carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects on national forest land, according to a proposed rule published by the agency on Friday"

Source: Reuters [20], 11/08/2023

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