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World’s Poorest People Won’t Be Able To Migrate To Escape Climate Disasters [1]

"Climate change-driven heat waves, droughts, and floods will push vulnerable people into more extreme poverty, Harvard researcher says."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
People & Population [5]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
International [8]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [9], 09/29/2023
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"As Waters Rise, a Community Must Decide: Do We Stay or Go?" [10]

"Faced with more frequent flooding and worse to come, the Philadelphia environmental justice community of Eastwick is grappling with difficult questions about its future: Will levees and flood walls protect them, or should residents abandon their homes and move to higher ground?"

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [11]
Source: YaleE360 [12], 09/29/2023
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"Despite Climate Promises, Insurance Companies Are Still Covering Coal" [13]

"A new report finds that five major global insurers are still backing U.S. coal mines, even when they've promised not to."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Economy & Business [14]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [8]
Source: Grist [17], 09/29/2023
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"Shutdown Could Hinder Infrastructure Projects, Permits" [18]

"Concerns are mounting over impacts of a possible federal government shutdown on critical infrastructure projects and permitting activities."

Disasters [3]
Environmental Politics [19]
Government [20]
Infrastructure [21]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Natural Resources [23]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [24], 09/28/2023
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WA Prisoners Struggle With Wildfire Smoke As Ventilation Upgrades Go Unfunded [25]

"When the wildfire smoke arrives, Harry Whitman has nowhere to go. “When there’s smoke or there’s a fire, they lock you in,” Whitman said. Whitman, president of the advocacy group Black Prisoners’ Caucus, is incarcerated at Airway Heights Corrections Center."

Air [26]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Pollution [27]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [16]
Northwest (OR WA) [28]
Source: Washington State Standard [29], 09/27/2023
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"‘We Can’t Drink Oil’: How A 70-Year-Old Pipeline Imperils The Great Lakes" [30]

"Tribes say Line 5 is a ‘ticking time bomb’ for the Great Lakes, which contain a fifth of the Earth’s surface fresh water, and risks destroying their relationship with land and water".

Disasters [3]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Infrastructure [21]
Natural Resources [23]
People & Population [5]
Pollution [27]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [16]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [31]
Canada [32]
Source: Guardian [33], 09/27/2023
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"The Human Limit: The Inequality Of Heat" [34]

"After the third day without power, the residents of Kasia Bagan had had enough. Their city of Kolkata was in the midst of a blistering heat wave, with temperatures rising to 105 degrees, making life in the narrow lanes and in their tiny one-room homes nearly unbearable."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Health [35]
Environmental Justice [4]
People & Population [5]
Public [7]
International [8]
Asia [36]
Source: Washington Post [37], 09/26/2023
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Biden Tells Pacific Islands Leaders That He Will Act On Climate [38]

"President Joe Biden on Monday told leaders from the 18-member Pacific Islands Forum that he has heard their warnings about the impact of climate change on their region and that his administration is committed to helping them meet the challenge."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [19]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [8]
Source: AP [39], 09/26/2023
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FERC Recommends Revising Reliability Standards For Extreme Weather [40]

"The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday recommended revising reliability standards for power grid and natural gas infrastructure to avoid issues during extreme weather, as part of findings from a report on winter storm Elliott in 2022."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Infrastructure [21]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Reuters [41], 09/25/2023
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"90% of U.S. Counties Had A Weather Disaster Between 2011 And 2021" [42]

"Very few parts of the U.S. have been untouched by extreme weather. According to a recent report, 90% of U.S. counties had a federally declared weather disaster between 2011 and 2021."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [43], 09/25/2023
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