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"Fires Fuel New Risks to California Farmworkers" [1]

"As climate change amplifies the health risks of extreme heat and pollution from wildfires, researchers scramble to protect farmworkers."

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Climate Change [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Justice [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
People & Population [8]
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Source: Inside Climate News [12], 09/22/2021
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"6 Tribes Sue Wisconsin To Try To Stop November Wolf Hunt" [13]

"Six Native American tribes sued Wisconsin on Tuesday to try to stop its planned gray wolf hunt in November, asserting that the hunt violates their treaty rights and endangers an animal they consider sacred."

Biodiversity [14]
Environmental Justice [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Wildlife [15]
Public [10]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [16]
Source: AP [17], 09/22/2021
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September 28, 2021

Freelance Contracts: A Public-Interest Roundtable [18]

Join Mother Jones CEO Monika Bauerlein, former Bloomberg News Global Media Counsel Charles Glasser, freelance investigative reporter Alexandria Bordas and Freelance Investigative Reporters and Editors executive director Laird Townsend for a virtual roundtable on solving freelancer liability. 4:00 p.m. ET.

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"New Evidence of Corruption at EPA Chemicals Division" [21]

"Scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency have provided The Intercept with new information showing that senior staff have made chemicals appear safer — sometimes dodging restrictions on their use — by minimizing the estimates of how much is released into the environment."

Chemicals [22]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [23]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Science [24]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: The Intercept [25], 09/21/2021
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Powerful Democrat Linked to Fossil Fuels Will Craft U.S. Climate Plan [26]

"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 [4]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Politics [23]
Infrastructure [28]
Laws & Regulations [7]
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National (U.S.) [11]
Source: NYTimes [29], 09/21/2021
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"Interior Secretary Signs Montana Tribes Water Rights Compact" [30]

"Interior Secretary Deb Haaland signed the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes water rights compact on Friday, settling a decades-long battle over thousands of individual water rights in Montana and on the Flathead Indian Reservation. The deal also created a $1.9 billion trust to settle claims and refurbish the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project in Montana."

Environmental Justice [6]
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Natural Resources [31]
Water & Oceans [32]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [33]
Source: AP [34], 09/21/2021
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Dakota Access Pipeline Asks Supreme Court To Scrap Environmental Study [35]

"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 [27]
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Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Reuters [36], 09/21/2021
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U.N. Chief, UK PM Increase Pressure On Leaders For Climate Change Funds [37]

"UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged leaders of the world's major economies including the United States to deliver on their commitments toward a $100 billion per year climate fund with less than six weeks to go before a U.N. climate summit."

Activism [38]
Climate Change [4]
Environmental Justice [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Public [10]
International [39]
Source: Reuters [40], 09/21/2021
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"Biden Confronts Extreme Heat, A Silent Climate Killer" [41]

"President Biden launched a government-wide strategy Monday to combat extreme heat, including the development of new federal labor standards aimed at protecting workers from the impact of rising temperatures linked to climate change."

Agriculture [2]
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Disasters [42]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Justice [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Washington Post [43], 09/21/2021
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The 9/11 Legacy — Fear Drew Curtain Over Environmental Information [44]

Twenty years after the attacks on 9/11, the war on terror has left many risks in the built environment under a cloak of secrecy. For WatchDog Opinion, keeping vital information about such preventable hazards under wraps from the public and journalists is not just wrong, but bad policy. Here’s why. Plus, a rundown for environment reporters of where exactly this secrecy reigns.

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Infrastructure [28]
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