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Firms Profit From Climate Disaster Clean-Up – While Investing In Fossil Fuels [1]

"Private equity firms are increasingly profiting from cleaning up climate disasters in the US, while failing to better protect workers and often also investing in the fossil fuels that are causing the climate emergency, new research has found."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Justice [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
International [9]
Source: Guardian [10], 09/08/2023
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"Green Groups Sue, Say Farmers Are Drying Up Great Salt Lake" [11]

"The state of Utah is not doing enough to save its imperiled Great Salt Lake and stop an impending ecological collapse, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by national and western environmental groups."

Agriculture [12]
Biodiversity [13]
Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [7]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [16]
Source: NPR [17], 09/08/2023
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"Adriana Carillo’s Life’s Work Is To Find Migrants Lost In The Desert" [18]

"She and her team of volunteers brave extreme heat to search for people left behind on the perilous journey from Mexico to the U.S."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [6]
People & Population [20]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [21]
International [9]
Mexico [22]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [23], 09/08/2023
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Heat Brings Texas Grid Closest It Has Been To Outages Since 2021 Winter [24]

"Texas’ power grid manager on Thursday again asked residents to cut their electricity use as the state endures another stretch of sizzling summer heat."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Health [19]
Public [7]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [21]
Source: AP [25], 09/08/2023
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"Hong Kong, Shenzhen Deluged By Heaviest Rain On Record" [26]

"The Asian financial hub of Hong Kong was drenched on Friday by the heaviest rain since records began 140 years ago, killing one person and injuring 83, media reported, as unusually wet weather caused by typhoons brought more disruption to southern China."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [7]
Asia [27]
Source: Reuters [28], 09/08/2023
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"Climate-Linked Ills Threaten Humanity" [29]

"The floods came, and then the sickness.

Muhammad Yaqoob stood on his concrete porch and watched the black, angry water swirl around the acacia trees and rush toward his village last September, the deluge making a sound that was like nothing he had ever heard. “It was like thousands of snakes sighing all at once,” he recalled.

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Health [19]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [7]
International [9]
Source: Washington Post [30], 09/06/2023
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"Why The United States Undercounts Climate-Driven Deaths" [31]

"The system of death surveillance wasn’t designed for a climate-changed world."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Health [19]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Grist [32], 09/06/2023
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"Marathon Refinery Fire Illustrates How Industry Goes Quiet During a Crisis" [33]

"Recent industrial disaster at Louisiana’s Marathon refinery shows how difficult it is to get information during dangerous events."

Chemicals [34]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [6]
Journalism & Media [35]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: DeSmog [36], 09/06/2023
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"The Summer From Hell Was Just A Warning" [37]

"It’s been a summer of norm-shattering extremes — with temperatures beyond human memory, catastrophic floods from Beijing to Vermont, choking wildfires and climate records tumbling on every continent. Welcome to the rest of our lives."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
International [9]
Source: E&E News [38], 09/05/2023
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"The Never-Ending Nightmare of Ukraine’s Dam Disaster" [39]

"Environmentally, economically and in terms of pure human suffering, the destruction of the Kakhovka dam unleashed untold damage. Months later, many communities are still reeling."

Disasters [3]
Infrastructure [40]
Military [41]
Natural Resources [42]
People & Population [20]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [7]
Europe [43]
Source: NYTimes [44], 09/05/2023
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