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Oil Train Derails, Burns in Saskatchewan [1]

"RCMP say no injuries reported, local highway closed after Canadian Pacific Railway derailment"

"Melanie Loessl says she's never seen anything like it.

Early Monday morning, Loessl received a phone call from her daughter, just down the road from her farmstead near Guernsey, Sask., roughly 110 kilometres east of Saskatoon.

Her daughter told her a train had derailed and caught fire.

"When I looked out my window, all I could see was flames and crazy smoke," she said. "I thought our whole place was on fire.""

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Source: CBC News [8], 12/10/2019
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"PG&E Announces $13.5 Billion Deal to Resolve Wildfire Claims" [9]

"PG&E has reached a $13.5 billion deal to settle claims stemming from recent catastrophic fires blamed on its equipment, marking a key milestone in the utility's plan to exit from Chapter 11 bankruptcy."

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California [13]
Source: KQED [14], 12/09/2019
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"Huge Waves And Disease Turn Marshall Islands Into ‘A War Zone,’" [15]

"The level of alarm is already high in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, as the Pacific island nation struggles with rising sea levels and the after-effects of decades of U.S. nuclear testing on its atolls."

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Water & Oceans [17]
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Australia & Oceania [18]
Source: LA Times [19], 12/06/2019
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2nd Evacuation Order Lifted In Tex. City Hit By Blast, Chemical Fire [20]

"Authorities on Thursday lifted a second evacuation order in a week for thousands of people in a Texas city as U.S. safety officials began examining what caused the latest in a series of chemical plant fires in the state."

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Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [23]
Source: Reuters [24], 12/06/2019
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Calif. Bans Insurers From Dropping Policies Made Riskier by Climate [25]

"California’s wildfires have grown so costly and damaging that insurance companies — a homeowner’s last hope when disaster strikes — have increasingly been canceling people’s policies in fire-prone parts of the state."

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Source: NY Times [27], 12/06/2019
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Fla. Keys Deliver Hard Message: As Seas Rise, Some Places Can’t Be Saved [28]

"Officials in the Florida Keys announced what many coastal governments nationwide have long feared, but few have been willing to admit: As seas rise and flooding gets worse, not everyone can be saved."

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Public [6]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: NY Times [29], 12/05/2019
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Climate Impacts: Insurers Cherry-Pick Homes, Leave Flooded Ones For Feds [30]

"Taxpayers could be forced to spend billions of dollars to bail out the federal government's flood program as private-sector insurers begin covering homes with little risk of flooding while clustering peril-prone properties in the indebted public program."

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Environmental Politics [31]
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Water & Oceans [17]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: ClimateWire [33], 12/04/2019
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Soiled Skies Incite ‘Choked’ Author To Pursue Air Pollution Story  [34]

The data on dirty air is devastating. But it wasn’t just the numbers that prompted freelance journalist Beth Gardiner to chase the story of worsening air pollution around the globe. It was also the impact on human lives and the intersection with politics, power and money. She explains in our latest feature story. Plus, resources for your own reporting.

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Climate Change Forces 1 Person From Their Home Every 2 Seconds: Report [44]

"Climate-fueled disasters have forced 20 million people -- or one person every two seconds -- from their homes every year for the last decade, according to a new global report."

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Public [6]
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Source: ABC News [45], 12/03/2019
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"Coal Power Becoming 'Uninsurable' As Firms Refuse Cover" [46]

"The number of insurers withdrawing cover for coal projects more than doubled this year and for the first time US companies have taken action, leaving Lloyd’s of London and Asian insurers as the “last resort” for fossil fuels, according to a new report."

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Source: Guardian [47], 12/03/2019
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