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Obsolete Rainfall Records Are Blocking Cities' Climate Change Prep [1]

"American cities are poised to spend billions of dollars to improve their water systems under the federal infrastructure bill, the largest water investment in the nation's history."

Climate Change [2]
Infrastructure [3]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: NPR [7], 02/11/2022
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"US Coal Communities Get Historic $11B To Clean Up Abandoned Mines" [8]

"The U.S. Department of the Interior announced the release of nearly $725 million in funding for cleaning up old coal-mining facilities. It’s the first tranche of a record $11.3 billion dedicated to coal cleanup in last year’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, to be disbursed over the next 15 years."

Energy & Fuel [9]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Natural Resources [11]
Pollution [12]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Canary Media [13], 02/11/2022
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"Call To Reroute Major Shipping Lanes To Protect Blue Whales" [14]

"Unique colony of blue whales increasingly at risk from tankers and container ships, say marine campaigners".

"Scientists and conservation groups are calling for one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes to be rerouted in an effort to protect the world’s largest animal.

Transportation [15]
Water & Oceans [4]
Wildlife [16]
Public [5]
International [17]
Source: Guardian [18], 02/10/2022
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"Dissolving in Toxic Oceans: How an Ancient Extinction Happened" [19]

"Scientists say rocks on the English coast contain clues of the processes that drove the end-Triassic event that killed as much as a quarter of all life on Earth."

Biodiversity [20]
Fish & Fisheries [21]
Science [22]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
International [17]
Source: NYTimes [23], 02/10/2022
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"Oregon Bill Tackles Megaquake Nightmare At Fuel Storage Site" [24]

"A river on fire with millions of gallons of spilled oil, jet fuel and gasoline. An environmental disaster ranking with the worst in America. No fuel for a state trying to recover from a major earthquake."

Disasters [25]
Energy & Fuel [9]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
Northwest (OR WA) [26]
Source: AP [27], 02/10/2022
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Mountain Glaciers May Have Less Ice Than Estimated, Straining Supply [28]

"Glaciers could be tapped dry sooner than expected as climate change melts ice fields faster".

Climate Change [2]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
International [17]
Source: Washington Post [29], 02/09/2022
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World Leaders Descend On France For Ocean Summit [30]

"Up to 40 world leaders are due to make “ambitious and concrete commitments” towards combating illegal fishing, decarbonising shipping and reducing plastic pollution at what is billed as the first high-level summit dedicated to the ocean."

Climate Change [2]
Fish & Fisheries [21]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Transportation [15]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
International [17]
Source: Guardian [31], 02/09/2022
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New U.N. Treaty Effort Could Cap Skyrocketing Plastics Production [32]

"Negotiators from around the world will start work this month on a treaty to reduce plastic pollution, in what diplomats say is the most ambitious round of climate diplomacy since the 2015 Paris agreement that focuses on global warming."

Chemicals [33]
Consumer [34]
Environmental Politics [35]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Waste [36]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
International [17]
Source: Washington Post [37], 02/09/2022
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"Biden Plan To Spend $725M To Clean Up Abandoned Coal Mines" [38]

"Nearly $725 million in federal funding is available this fiscal year to 22 states and the Navajo Nation for the reclamation of abandoned coal mines and cleanup of acid mine drainage, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced Monday."

Energy & Fuel [9]
Fish & Fisheries [21]
Infrastructure [3]
Natural Resources [11]
Pollution [12]
Waste [36]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: AP [39], 02/08/2022
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Calif. Board Says Oil Wastewater Is Safe for Irrigation; Experts Doubt It [40]

"Studies in Kern County, performed by oil industry consultants, cannot answer fundamental safety questions about irrigating crops with “produced water,” the board’s own panel of experts concedes."

Agriculture [41]
Energy & Fuel [9]
Environmental Health [42]
Food [43]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [12]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
California [44]
Source: Inside Climate News [45], 02/07/2022
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