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"Weather Extremes: What Happens To People After A Disaster?" [1]

"These readings explore what happens when the TV cameras leave and rebuilding is all that’s left."

"Natural disasters are increasingly linked to climate change, and our awareness of them follows a now-familiar pattern. In the words of Inside Climate News Publisher David Sassoon, “A disaster strikes. The news reaches every home for a few days, perhaps a week. A debate erupts over whether climate change is to blame. Victims are profiled. There’s a tally of lives lost and property destroyed, and then the disaster is forgotten.”

Source: Yale Climate Connections [2], 05/18/2023

"A Billion New Air Conditioners Will Save Lives But Cook the Planet" [3]

"Demand for air conditioners is surging in markets where both incomes and temperatures are rising, populous places like India, China, Indonesia and the Philippines."

Source: Bloomberg [4], 05/18/2023

Report Finds Methane Mitigation in Texas Could Create Thousands of Jobs [5]

"Texas officials have vowed to oppose federal regulations aimed at reducing methane emissions from oil and gas operations. But the report says plugging leaks and upgrading wells is poised to be a big business in the Lone Star State."

Source: Inside Climate News [6], 05/18/2023

“Halliburton Loophole” Lets Fracking Firms Pollute Water Without Oversight [7]

"Fracking companies used 282 million pounds of hazardous chemicals that should have been regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act from 2014 to 2021."

Source: EHN [8], 05/18/2023

Federal Rules Fail to Contain Methane Emissions from Landfills: Report [9]

"Methane emissions from landfills—one of the largest sources of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions—could be reduced through stronger regulations and better emissions monitoring, according to a new report by the Environmental Integrity Project, an environmental organization based in Washington."

Source: Inside Climate News [10], 05/18/2023

US Power Grids Vulnerable To Extreme Heat Conditions This Summer: NERC [11]

"Large parts of the United States and some areas in Canada, home to around 165 million people, could face energy shortfalls during periods of extreme heat this summer, a group that sets reliability standards for North American electric grids warned."

Source: Reuters [12], 05/18/2023

"Manchin Blocks DOE Nominee Over Gas Stoves" [13]

"Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chair Joe Manchin scrapped a planned vote on a prominent Department of Energy nominee Wednesday morning. The West Virginia Democrat pulled Jeff Marootian, nominee to lead the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, from a markup agenda because of the agency’s proposed rules on gas stoves."

Source: E&E News [14], 05/18/2023

"Canada’s Wildfires Have Been Disrupting Lives. Now, Oil and Gas Take a Hit." [15]

"Wildfires sweeping across western Canada that have driven thousands of people from their homes are also striking the heart of Canadian oil and gas country, forcing companies to curb production."

Source: NYTimes [16], 05/18/2023

Earth May Briefly Hit Key Warming Threshold, UN Forecasts [17]

"There’s a two-out-of-three chance that the world will temporarily hit a key warming limit within the next five years, the United Nations weather agency said Wednesday."

Source: AP [18], 05/18/2023

"E.P.A. Announces Crackdown on Toxic Coal Ash From Landfills" [19]

"The Biden administration is moving to close a loophole that had exempted hundreds of inactive coal ash landfills from rules designed to prevent heavy metals like mercury and arsenic from seeping into groundwater, the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday."

Source: NYTimes [20], 05/18/2023

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