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"Workers Exposed to Extreme Heat Have Few Protections" [1]

"Tens of millions of Americans are struggling to cope with soaring temperatures. OSHA is developing new workplace safety standards, but they are not yet complete."

Climate Change [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
People & Population [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: NYTimes [9], 10/06/2023
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"Greenland's Inuit Falling Through Thin Ice Of Climate Change" [10]

"The thunder of icebergs crashing into the turquoise sea of eastern Greenland is the sound of one of the planet's most important ecosystems teetering on the edge of collapse."

Environmental Health [3]
Food [11]
Natural Resources [12]
People & Population [6]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [7]
International [14]
Antarctica & Arctic [15]
Source: AFP [16], 10/05/2023
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"Flood Threats Are Rising. Here’s Where People Are Moving Into Harm’s Way." [17]

"Worldwide, humans now occupy more than twice as much land in flood-prone areas as they did four decades ago, according to a new study in the journal Nature. The findings highlight the degree to which rapid development along coasts and in floodplains has increased the need for disaster preparedness around the globe."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [18]
Environmental Health [3]
People & Population [6]
Planning & Growth [19]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [7]
International [14]
Source: NYTimes [20], 10/05/2023
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NDP Win Cements Kinew As 1st First Nations Premier In Manitoba History [21]

"The NDP sailed to victory Tuesday night with a solid win that cements leader Wab Kinew as Manitoba's first First Nations premier and also nets the party enough seats to form a majority government."

Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [23]
Laws & Regulations [5]
People & Population [6]
Public [7]
Canada [24]
Source: CBC News [25], 10/05/2023
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"In the Ambitious Bid to Reinvent South Baltimore, Justice Concerns Remain" [26]

"Parks, trails, housing, commercial development, flood resiliency efforts and new community amenities are supposed to turn the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River into the next Inner Harbor. But some activists worry about gentrification and more injustice."

Environmental Justice [4]
Infrastructure [27]
People & Population [6]
Planning & Growth [19]
Public [7]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [28]
Source: Inside Climate News [29], 10/02/2023
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Unique Podcast Team Gives Voice to Troubled Communities Near Declining Salton Sea [30]

In the Coachella Valley east of Los Angeles, the massive Salton Sea is rapidly drying up, threatening vulnerable immigrant communities in a growing toxic environment. The Living Downstream podcast reported extensively on these hazards, winning third place in the Society of Environmental Journalists’ Awards for Reporting on the Environment’s explanatory reporting, small, category, in 2022. Inside Story spoke with one of the prizewinners.

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Activism [32]
Agriculture [33]
Climate Change [2]
Disasters [18]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [23]
Health [34]
Journalism & Media [35]
Natural Resources [12]
People & Population [6]
Water & Oceans [13]
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National (U.S.) [8]
California [36]
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World’s Poorest People Won’t Be Able To Migrate To Escape Climate Disasters [37]

"Climate change-driven heat waves, droughts, and floods will push vulnerable people into more extreme poverty, Harvard researcher says."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [18]
Environmental Justice [4]
People & Population [6]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [7]
International [14]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [38], 09/29/2023
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"Houston OKs $5M To Relocate Residents Near Polluted Union Pacific Yard [39]

"Houston officials on Wednesday approved $5 million for a fund to help relocate residents from neighborhoods located near a rail yard polluted by a cancer-linked wood preservative that has been blamed for an increase in cancer cases."

Chemicals [40]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [23]
People & Population [6]
Pollution [41]
Public [7]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [42]
Source: AP [43], 09/28/2023
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Report Clears Alberta Officials After Oilsands Leak Went Unreported For 9 Months [44]

"A review commissioned by the board of directors at the Alberta Energy Regulator says there are no concerns with the way the organization handled seepage and a subsequent spill at Imperial Oil’s Kearl oilsands mine in northern Alberta."

Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Justice [4]
Natural Resources [12]
People & Population [6]
Pollution [41]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [7]
Canada [24]
Source: The Narwhal [45], 09/28/2023
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"‘We Can’t Drink Oil’: How A 70-Year-Old Pipeline Imperils The Great Lakes" [46]

"Tribes say Line 5 is a ‘ticking time bomb’ for the Great Lakes, which contain a fifth of the Earth’s surface fresh water, and risks destroying their relationship with land and water".

Disasters [18]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Infrastructure [27]
Natural Resources [12]
People & Population [6]
Pollution [41]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [47]
Canada [24]
Source: Guardian [48], 09/27/2023
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