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"Extreme Weather Caused 18 Disasters In US Last Year, Costing $165Bn" [1]

"The US endured a particularly painful year as communities wrestled with the growing impacts of the climate crisis, with 18 major disasters wreaking havoc across the country as planet-heating emissions continued to climb."

Source: Guardian [2], 01/11/2023

"EPA Urges Groups to Apply for Record Environmental Equity Grants" [3]

"The EPA invited environmental justice advocates, communities, and other groups on Tuesday to apply for $100 million in environmental justice grants, a record amount provided under last year’s climate law."

Source: Bloomberg Environment [4], 01/11/2023

"Critic Of Fossil Fuels To Lead Key Offshore Oil Agency For Biden" [5]

"The Biden administration is using a new opening at a powerful offshore energy agency to elevate a critic of fossil fuels who previously was blocked from a top Interior Department job because of opposition from oil industry allies in the Senate."

Source: Washington Post [6], 01/11/2023

"Climate Deniers Try to 'Fact Check' Real Reporting" [7]

"A prominent group of deniers with a history of dark money benefactors is now trying to claim media is biased, thanks to new funding."

Source: Earther [8], 01/11/2023

"U.S. Sets Up Office To Oversee Abandoned Oil Well Cleanup" [9]

"U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland on Tuesday issued an order to establish an office to ensure efficient use of the Biden administration's $4.7 billion investment in the cleanup of abandoned oil and gas wells."

Source: Reuters [10], 01/11/2023

Reversing Trump, White House Moves To Weigh Climate In Infrastructure [11]

"Federal regulators have been instructed to consider planet-warming pollution before approving large projects like pipelines and airports."

Source: HuffPost [12], 01/11/2023

"N.Y. Weighs East Coast’s First Statewide Building Gas Ban" [13]

"New York’s Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul called yesterday for the nation’s most aggressive ban on fossil fuels in new buildings, setting the stage for a possible showdown with the gas industry and state lawmakers."

Source: E&E News [14], 01/11/2023

"Governments Urged To Confront Effects Of Climate Crisis On Migrants" [15]

"Governments must get to grips with the links between the climate crisis and the plight of migrants around the world, experts have said, as increasingly extreme weather is a mounting danger to already vulnerable displaced people, and is potentially pushing more people to flee their homes."

Source: Guardian [16], 01/11/2023

California Death Toll Reaches 17 As Floods And Extreme Wind Wreak Havoc [17]

"The latest in a series of intense winter storms continued to lash Northern California on Tuesday, bringing thunderstorms, heavy rain, wind and hail to the waterlogged region as the death toll from the extreme weather climbs."

Source: LA Times [18], 01/11/2023

Winning Over Editors and Others with Award Winners’ Multimedia Nuggets [19]

If you’re looking to engage key constituencies for your journalism — whether editors, sources, students or people who have been marginalized — a new set of short videos from award-winning journalists (like KESQ's Angela Chen, at left) can serve as a helpful resource. Inside Story has a roadmap of how to make smart use of these video nuggets to, for instance, convince newsroom powerbrokers to give you more time and support for ambitious stories.

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