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"Spending Package Would Extend Nuclear Insurance Backstop" [1]

"The fiscal 2024 spending package released Thursday proposes to prolong and expand a critical lifeline for the domestic nuclear energy industry."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [9]
Pollution [10]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: E&E News [13], 03/28/2024
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Lawsuit Over Kentucky Mining Disaster That Killed Dozens And Destroyed Homes [14]

"Chase Hays and more than 50 neighbors are suing Blackhawk Mining after a silt retention pond burst and killed 43 people".

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Infrastructure [15]
Natural Resources [16]
People & Population [17]
Waste [18]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [20]
Source: Guardian [21], 03/28/2024
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"New Warning System Could Save Lives During Wildfires" [22]

"The system got its biggest test yet in February 2024 as a million-acre blaze ripped through the Texas Panhandle."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Forests [23]
Government [24]
Technology [25]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [26], 03/27/2024
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Accidents Involving Toxic Vinyl Chloride Are Commonplace, New Report Finds [27]

"A year after a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, the study found vinyl chloride accidents have happened on average “once every five days since 2010.” An industry group says the chemical is safe and “makes modern life possible.”"

Chemicals [28]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Health [6]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Pollution [10]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: Inside Climate News [29], 03/27/2024
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"Water Is Disappearing From Mexico's Vital Desert Oasis Cuatro Cienegas" [30]

"Alfalfa plants sway under a thin veil of mist as towering irrigation equipment rolls above the crops, spraying the vast fields with water. It's an important agriculture product in Mexico's northern state of Coahuila, grown there for hundreds of years."

Agriculture [31]
Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [11]
Mexico [32]
Source: Reuters [33], 03/26/2024
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Chevron Will Pay Record $13M Fines for Oil Spills in California [34]

"Chevron has agreed to pay a record-setting $13 million to two California agencies in the wake of investigations by The Desert Sun and ProPublica of dozens of oil spills, and of lax enforcement by the state's oil and gas division. But the announcement late Wednesday masks ongoing issues."

Disasters [3]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Pollution [10]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
California [35]
Source: Palm Springs Desert Sun [36], 03/26/2024
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"Reading The Ruins Of Amazon Fires, Scientists See Crisis Ahead" [37]

"The Amazon is battling record early-year fires, fuelling fears of a worse climate crisis to come as blazes kill vegetation that is key to absorbing planet-warming carbon dioxide. Fanned by drought, high winds and human felling, the forest is suffering unprecedented fires this early in the year, satellite images show, with the dry season still to reach critical parts of the Amazon."

Agriculture [31]
Biodiversity [38]
Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Forests [23]
Natural Resources [16]
Public [11]
International [39]
South America [40]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [41], 03/26/2024
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"America Is on Fire, Says One Climate Writer. Should You Flee?" [42]

"In “On the Move,” Abrahm Lustgarten predicts a massive demographic shift in response to an increasingly unlivable world."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
People & Population [17]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
International [39]
Source: NYTimes [43], 03/25/2024
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California Effort To Protect Indoor Workers From Heat Is Now In Limbo [44]

"Over the past 20 years, Victor Ramirez has worked in warehouse after warehouse across southern California. And in almost all of them, he's felt painful, unbearable, oppressive heat. A few years ago, he fainted on the job."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Health [6]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
California [35]
Source: NPR [45], 03/25/2024
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Warm, Dry Spring Has US Forecasters Worried About Upcoming Wildfire Season [46]

"Most of the United States is expected to see warmer-than-average temperatures this spring, federal forecasters say, with dry conditions likely in the West. That's raising concerns about wildfires, especially in parts of the Southwest, Great Plains, and the Upper Mississippi River Valley, said Jon Gottschalck, operations branch chief at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center."

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National (U.S.) [12]
Source: NPR [47], 03/25/2024
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