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"Companies Are Claiming To Be ‘Plastic Neutral.’ Is It Greenwashing?" [1]

"Plastic credits can help fund waste cleanup, but they can also justify making more plastic."

Source: Grist [2], 09/12/2023

Red Fire Ant Colonies Found In Italy Could Spread Across Europe: Study [3]

"An invasive non-native ant species has become established in Italy and could rapidly spread through Europe to the UK with global heating, a study warns."

Source: Guardian [4], 09/12/2023

Laurel Peltier Took On Utilities Scamming Baltimore’s Low-Income Households [5]

"Policymakers hoped deregulated energy markets would lower utility bills through open competition. Energy advocates found the opposite: retail energy companies are fleecing low-income communities of color in cities like Baltimore."

Source: Inside Climate News [6], 09/12/2023

"How the Land Back Movement is Unraveling Manifest Destiny" [7]

"Across Indian Country, tribal nations are buying back their land one parcel at a time".

Source: Sierra [8], 09/12/2023

"Island Nations Hope for Court’s Help on Climate’s Effects" [9]

"A tribunal is expected to issue an advisory opinion on behalf of Pacific and Caribbean countries on whether greenhouse gases are pollutants that violate international law."

Source: NYTimes [10], 09/12/2023

"Climate Change Is Causing an Insurance Crisis in Louisiana" [11]

"A little over a year ago, Peter Gardner, a Louisiana developer, completed rehabbing an apartment building with 144 units and got a surprise so ugly it made him decide to move his business out of town."

Source: Bloomberg Green [12], 09/12/2023

2023 Had More Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Than Any Year On Record [13]

"New government data released Monday revealed that the U.S. has already experienced more billion-dollar weather disasters in 2023 than in any other year since authorities started tracking such data 40-plus years ago." "The staggering tally comes with four months of the year still remaining."

Source: HuffPost [14], 09/12/2023

"Congress Enters Pivotal Week On Spending" [15]

"How to prevent a looming potential government shutdown will dominate the conversation on Capitol Hill this week, with the House and Senate considering divergent strategies for keeping agencies running."

Source: E&E News [16], 09/12/2023

Free Press Nearly Impossible With Corporate Business Model [17]

It may seem like fast-moving technology that’s undermining traditional news outlets. But for WatchDog Opinion, it may be more about the notion of news as property, rather than a public good. Could nonprofit newsrooms — many of which cover energy and the environment — be a better model? And is there a funding mechanism that would support them sustainably … and permanently?

One Grant, Multiple Stories [18]

Seattle-based correspondent Brett Walton has a habit of adding extra days to his reporting schedules. In this FEJ StoryLog, Walton shares how he used one such buffer to stretch a grant and produce not just one story on California’s small drinking water systems, but a second on the aftermath of wildfire on another town’s water system, plus finish a third pending project on household water debt.

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