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America’s Home Insurance Affordability Crunch: See What’s Happening Near You [1]

"Insurance premiums are rising fast in the parts of the United States most exposed to climate-related disasters like wildfires and hurricanes. New research shows that, as insurance has sharply pushed up the cost of owning a home, the price shock is starting to reverberate through the broader real estate market."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Economy & Business [4]
Infrastructure [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
People & Population [7]
Water & Oceans [8]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: NYTimes [11], 11/20/2025
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The Risk And Promise Of Offshore Wind Energy In Nova Scotia [12]

"As the federal government considers fast-tracking Wind West Atlantic Energy, residents hope for economic transformation, while some worry about impacts to seafood industry and marine ecosystems"

Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [15]
Fish & Fisheries [16]
Infrastructure [5]
Technology [17]
Water & Oceans [8]
Public [9]
Canada [18]
Source: The Narwhal [19], 11/20/2025
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"Trump’s Anti-Green Agenda Could Lead to 1.3 Million More Climate Deaths" [20]

"Trump’s anti-climate agenda could result in 1.3 million more deaths globally, analysis finds. Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change."

"New advances in environmental science are providing a detailed understanding of the human costs of the Trump administration’s approach to climate change.

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Justice [22]
People & Population [7]
Water & Oceans [8]
Public [9]
International [23]
Source: ProPublica [24], 11/20/2025
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Ecuador’s Voters Protect Rights of Nature, Reject Constitution Rewrite [25]

"Ecuadorians on Sunday rejected their president’s attempt to rewrite the constitution, a move that would likely have doomed the world’s only constitutional recognition of the rights of nature."

Activism [26]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Natural Resources [27]
Water & Oceans [8]
Public [9]
South America [28]
Source: Inside Climate News [29], 11/19/2025
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"Trump Plan Waives Protection At +80% Of Wetlands" [30]

"In some states, more than 90 percent of wetlands could be excluded from safeguards provided by the Clean Water Act."

Agriculture [31]
Biodiversity [32]
Climate Change [2]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [15]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [33]
Water & Oceans [8]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: E&E News [34], 11/19/2025
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"UN Maritime Chief Links Rise Of Dark Fleet To Worker Abuses" [35]

"The head of the United Nations' maritime agency warned of a disturbing rise in the criminalisation of seafarers, driven by geopolitical tensions and a surge in substandard shipping practices linked to the so-called dark fleet operating outside international norms."

Disasters [3]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Justice [22]
Laws & Regulations [6]
People & Population [7]
Pollution [33]
Transportation [36]
Water & Oceans [8]
Public [9]
International [23]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [37], 11/19/2025
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"Environmentalists Sue to Stop Oil Lease Sales in the Gulf of Mexico" [38]

"Environmental groups sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over a plan to sell oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico. The groups say the sale violates a core environmental law and threatens coastal communities and endangered whales."

Activism [26]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Fish & Fisheries [16]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [33]
Water & Oceans [8]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [39]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [40]
Source: NYTimes [41], 11/19/2025
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Alberta Wants To Release Treated Oilsands Waste Into The Athabasca River [42]

"Seven months after the Liberal Party vowed to “immediately introduce and pass legislation” affirming the right of First Nations to clean drinking water, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government says they’re still working on it."

Energy & Fuel [13]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [33]
Water & Oceans [8]
Public [9]
Canada [18]
Source: The Narwhal [43], 11/19/2025
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Middle Class Is Struggling As Disaster And Insurance Costs Are Rising [44]

"Three years after Hurricane Ian slammed into Fort Myers Beach, jackhammers still echo along the barrier island's main road, where new houses and businesses are going up next to vacant lots and the shells of buildings gutted by the storm."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Economy & Business [4]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [5]
People & Population [7]
Water & Oceans [8]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: NPR [45], 11/18/2025
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"FEMA Chief Steps Down As Trump Administration Prepared To Oust Him" [46]

"The embattled acting chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency will step down after hurricane season following months of public controversy and internal frustration."

Disasters [3]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [14]
People & Population [7]
Water & Oceans [8]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: CNN [47], 11/18/2025
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