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"Judge Issues Injunction Blocking Wisconsin Fall Wolf Hunt" [1]

"A judge on Friday halted Wisconsin’s fall wolf season two weeks before hunters were set to take to the woods, siding with wildlife advocacy groups who argued that holding the hunt would be unconstitutional."

Biodiversity [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Wildlife [5]
Public [6]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [7]
Source: AP [8], 10/25/2021
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"UN Warns World 'Way Off Track' As Greenhouse Gases Grow" [9]

"Greenhouse gas concentrations hit a new record in 2020, the U.N. weather agency said on Monday, warning that the world was "way off track" for capping rising temperatures."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [6]
International [12]
Source: Reuters [13], 10/25/2021
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"Biden Crafts a Climate Plan B: Tax Credits, Regulation and State Action" [14]

"After losing the centerpiece of his climate agenda just a week before heading to a major global warming summit, President Biden intends to make the case that the United States has a new plan that will still meet its ambitions to sharply cut greenhouse gases that are warming the planet."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [3]
Infrastructure [16]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [18], 10/25/2021
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"Planned Fossil Fuel Output ‘Vastly Exceeds’ Climate Limits, Says UN" [19]

"Fossil fuel production planned by the world’s governments “vastly exceeds” the limit needed to keep the rise in global heating to 1.5C and avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis, a UN report has found."

Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [6]
International [12]
Source: Guardian [20], 10/22/2021
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"California Seeks Strict Limits On New Oil Drilling Near Communities" [21]

"California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday unveiled a plan to ban new permitting of oil wells within 3,200 feet (975 meters) of communities, calling it a move that will both protect public health and further the state’s goals to combat climate change."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [15]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [6]
California [23]
Source: Reuters [24], 10/22/2021
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"Billions In Environmental Justice Funds Hang In The Balance" [25]

"Tens of billions of dollars for U.S. environmental justice initiatives originally proposed in a $3.5 trillion domestic spending package now hang in the balance as Democrats decide how to trim the bill down to $2 trillion."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [3]
Infrastructure [16]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: AP [26], 10/22/2021
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"U.S. Warns Climate Poses ‘Emerging Threat’ to Financial System" [27]

"Climate change is an “emerging threat” to the stability of the U.S. financial system, top federal regulators warned in a report on Thursday, setting the stage for the Biden administration to take more aggressive regulatory action to prevent climate change from upending global markets and the economy."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [28]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [29], 10/22/2021
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People Exposed to PFAS Criticize EPA Action Plan as Too Little, Too Late [30]

"Community advocates and environmental groups pointed out that the EPA has promised action on toxic PFAS pollution for many years."

Chemicals [31]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [32]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: The Intercept [34], 10/21/2021
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"Feds Hit Brakes — Again — On Mining Near Boundary Waters" [35]

"President Joe Biden's administration is seeking a 20-year moratorium on mining in Superior National Forest near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, restarting a process that started, and stopped, under previous administrations."

Laws & Regulations [4]
Natural Resources [36]
Pollution [32]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [6]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [7]
Canada [37]
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune [38], 10/21/2021
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"How Chemical Companies Avoid Paying for Pollution" [39]

"DuPont factories pumped dangerous substances into the environment. The company and its offspring have gone to great lengths to dodge responsibility."

"FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — One humid day this summer, Brian Long, a senior executive at the chemical company Chemours, took a reporter on a tour of the Fayetteville Works factory.

Mr. Long showed off the plant’s new antipollution technologies, designed to stop a chemical called GenX from pouring into the Cape Fear River, escaping into the air and seeping into the ground water.

Chemicals [31]
Environmental Health [22]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [32]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [40]
Source: NYTimes [41], 10/21/2021
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