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FERC Blames Texas Energy Policies For Severity Of February Blackouts [1]

"The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission released some findings on Thursday from an investigation into February’s deadly winter storm and blackouts. Regulators faulted Texas energy policy for much of the disaster."

Energy & Fuel [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [7]
Source: Houston Public Media [8], 09/24/2021
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"Drilling on the Arctic Beach" [9]

"Russian Arctic oil is moving north into territories previously untouched by man. The latests lands up for industrial expansion might be the shorelines and delta areas of several Arctic rivers and bays."

Disasters [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [2]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [5]
Antarctica & Arctic [13]
Source: Barents Observer [14], 09/24/2021
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Entergy Resisted Upgrading New Orleans' Power Grid. Residents Suffered [15]

"The day after Wilma Banks lost power, the stale summer air inside her New Orleans apartment became suffocating."

Climate Change [16]
Disasters [10]
Energy & Fuel [2]
Environmental Health [17]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: NPR [18], 09/23/2021
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"WHO Slashes Guideline Limits on Air Pollution From Fossil Fuels" [19]

"The World Health Organization has cut its recommended limits for air pollution and urged nations to tackle dirty air and save millions of lives. In the first update for 16 years, the guideline limit for the most damaging pollution – tiny particles from burning fossil fuels – has been halved."

Air [20]
Energy & Fuel [2]
Environmental Health [17]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [21]
Public [5]
International [22]
Source: Guardian [23], 09/23/2021
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"Tar Sands Pipeline Is Sucking Water From Minnesota Watersheds" [24]

"The Anishinaabe people are rallying to save their lakes and their traditional wild rice harvests".

Agriculture [25]
Biodiversity [26]
Energy & Fuel [2]
Environmental Justice [27]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Natural Resources [28]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [29]
Source: Guardian [30], 09/22/2021
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"Michigan Plans 1st U.S. Charging Road For Electric Vehicles" [31]

"Plans are underway for Michigan to construct a first in the nation segment of road that will charge electric vehicles while they’re driving, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Tuesday at the Motor Bella auto show in Pontiac."

Consumer [32]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Infrastructure [33]
Transportation [34]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [29]
Source: AP [35], 09/22/2021
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Will Taxpayers Bear Cost Of Cleaning Up America’s Abandoned Oil Wells? [36]

"Oil and gas companies have a century-old bad habit of drilling wells and ditching them. And while Congress finally has a plan to plug some abandoned wells, new proposals effectively pass the fossil fuel industry’s cleanup costs on to taxpayers and may even enable more drilling."

Climate Change [16]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Infrastructure [33]
Pollution [21]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Guardian [37], 09/22/2021
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"China Pledges to Stop Building Coal-Burning Power Plants Abroad" [38]

"In a move designed to bolster Beijing’s climate credentials, President Xi Jinping of China said Tuesday that his country would stop building coal-burning power plants overseas, ending its support for construction projects that rely on the world’s dirtiest fossil fuel."

Climate Change [16]
Energy & Fuel [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Public [5]
International [22]
Source: NYTimes [39], 09/22/2021
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Powerful Democrat Linked to Fossil Fuels Will Craft U.S. Climate Plan [40]

"Joe Manchin, the powerful West Virginia Democrat who chairs the Senate energy panel and earned half a million dollars last year from coal production, is preparing to remake President Biden’s climate legislation in a way that tosses a lifeline to the fossil fuel industry — despite urgent calls from scientists that countries need to quickly pivot away from coal, gas and oil to avoid a climate catastrophe."

Climate Change [16]
Energy & Fuel [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Infrastructure [33]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: NYTimes [41], 09/21/2021
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Dakota Access Pipeline Asks Supreme Court To Scrap Environmental Study [42]

"Dakota Access on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit whether the largest pipeline out of the North Dakota oil basin requires additional environmental review."

Energy & Fuel [2]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Reuters [43], 09/21/2021
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