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Oil Companies Quietly Scoring Big Money for Carbon Capture and Storage [1]

"Over the last year, energy companies, electrical utilities and other industrial sectors have been quietly pushing through a suite of policies to support a technology that stands to yield tens of billions of dollars for corporate polluters, but may do little to reduce greenhouse gas emissions."

Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Inside Climate News [9], 08/18/2021
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National Park Service Mandates Masks In Buildings, Crowded Public Spaces [10]

"The National Park Service on Monday reinstated mask requirements, ordering visitors at national parks around the country to don face coverings when they are inside buildings or in crowded outdoor spaces."

Environmental Health [11]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Natural Resources [12]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: The Hill [13], 08/18/2021
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"‘Defiant’ Interior Unlikely to Lease Oil Soon, Despite Injunction" [14]

"Attorneys say they aren’t expecting the Interior Department to announce an immediate oil and gas lease sale, after the agency said Monday that it’ll proceed with leasing following a federal court injunction."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [15], 08/18/2021
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"Explainer: Western Water Projects In Infrastructure Deal" [16]

"Included in the sweeping $1 trillion infrastructure bill approved by the Senate is funding for Western water projects that farmers, water providers and environmentalists say are badly needed across the parched region."

Climate Change [2]
Environmental Politics [5]
Infrastructure [17]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: AP [19], 08/18/2021
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"Fishers Struggle as Fish Head for the Poles" [20]

"As climate change raises the ocean’s temperature, some fish species are moving poleward to cooler waters. In the United States, as elsewhere, commercial fishers are trying to adapt. But as a new study of trawler communities along the US east coast documents, fishers’ efforts to adjust are being constrained by a regulatory environment that isn’t adapting with them."

Climate Change [2]
Fish & Fisheries [21]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Hakai [22], 08/17/2021
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DOI To Review Federal Coal Leasing, Appeal Injunction For Oil Leasing Pause [23]

"The Biden administration will review coal leasing on federal lands this week, officials said Monday while also announcing a plan to appeal an order that halted a moratorium on oil and gas leasing."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: The Hill [24], 08/17/2021
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"Chlorine Shortage Spurs Unprecedented Requests for EPA Help" [25]

"Local water systems are asking the EPA—for the first time in the Safe Drinking Water Act’s history—for help obtaining chlorine-based water treatment chemicals amid a nationwide shortage."

Chemicals [26]
Environmental Health [11]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [27]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [28], 08/17/2021
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Industry Paid Residents To Support Gas Trucks At Public Meetings [29]

"Residents around the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach were paid to show support for natural gas trucks at community hearings".

Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Journalism & Media [30]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Transportation [31]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Floodlight/LATimes [32], 08/17/2021
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100s Of Workers Died From Heat In Past Decade — And It's Getting Worse [33]

"As the temperature in Grand Island, Neb., soared to 91 degrees that July day in 2018, two dozen farmworkers tunneled for nine hours into a thicket of cornstalks, snapping off tassels while they crossed a sunbaked field that spanned 206 acres — the equivalent of 156 football fields."

Climate Change [2]
Environmental Health [11]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: NPR [34], 08/17/2021
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"Storm Brings Floods As Haitians Seek Help At Overloaded Hospitals" [35]

"Doctors in Haiti on Monday battled in makeshift tents to save the lives of hundreds of injured people, including young children and the elderly, outside hospitals overwhelmed by an earthquake that killed at least 1,419 people."

Agriculture [36]
Climate Change [2]
Disasters [37]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Reuters [38], 08/17/2021
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