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Climate Resiliency — When a Disaster Becomes a Cascade [1]

It sometimes feels like journalists lurch from one catastrophe (or hurricane, flood, wildfire, heat wave) to the next. But that can mean missing the bigger story: Disasters, increasingly linked to climate extremes, are often interlocking events, in which one system failure causes the next and the next. The latest Backgrounder explores three case studies, and how news media can focus attention on steps toward resilience.

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Climate Change [3]
Disasters [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Justice [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Government [8]
Health [9]
Infrastructure [10]
Journalism & Media [11]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [12]
People & Population [13]
Planning & Growth [14]
Technology [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [18]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [19]
International [20]
Asia [21]
Europe [22]
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Public [23]
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How Climate Attribution Science Went Mainstream, and What It Means [24]

A growing body of research shows the links between global warming and extreme weather. And that knowledge can help communities prepare, and assign responsibility for damages. Veteran climate journalist Bob Berwyn lays out the science of climate attribution — for heat waves, flooding, wildfires and, ironically, crop-killing freezes — and discusses its implications for future climate change policy.

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Features [25]
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Activism [26]
Agriculture [27]
Climate Change [3]
Disasters [4]
Economy & Business [28]
Environmental Justice [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Environmental Studies [29]
Food [30]
Government [8]
Infrastructure [10]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Planning & Growth [14]
Policy [32]
Science [33]
Water & Oceans [16]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [17]
International [20]
Europe [22]
South America [34]
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"An 'Attack On American Cities' Is Freezing Climate Action In Its Tracks" [35]

"The natural gas industry was losing in cities across the US. Then came an obscure partisan tactic called preemption."

Climate Change [3]
Consumer [36]
Economy & Business [28]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [7]
Infrastructure [10]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Vox [37], 10/04/2021
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"Manchin Clashes With Fellow Democrats Over Fossil-Fuel Demands" [38]

"Centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is insisting that natural gas be allowed to have a central role in President Biden’s clean energy agenda, which puts him on a collision course with Democratic lawmakers who worry he will have the power to water down what they see as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to address climate change."

Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [7]
Infrastructure [10]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: The Hill [39], 10/04/2021
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October 12, 2021

The Potential of Artificial Ocean Upwelling and Downwelling in CDR [40]

This webinar, co-hosted by the Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy and the Environmental Policy & Culture Program, will examine the prospects for two potential ocean-based carbon removal approaches, artificial ocean upwelling and downwelling, to effectuate large-scale sequestration of carbon dioxide. 5 p.m. ET.

Other Events [41]
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Climate Change [3]
Environmental Politics [7]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Natural Resources [42]
Policy [32]
Pollution [43]
Water & Oceans [16]

Biden DOI Sets November Date For Gulf Lease Sale Canceled In February [44]

"The Biden administration on Thursday announced a November oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico, months after a federal court blocked its moratorium on new federal lease sales."

Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [7]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: The Hill [45], 10/01/2021
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"UN Rules That Steven Donziger House Arrest Violates International Laws" [46]

"The United Nations human rights body said Thursday that a former environmental lawyer’s house arrest on contempt charges was illegal and called on the U.S. to release him."

Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Justice [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: The Hill [47], 10/01/2021
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Some Utilities Support, and Others Doubt, Dem Clean Electricity Proposal [48]

"One of the sticking points in the $3.5 trillion spending bill in Congress is a clean energy policy that would use financial incentives and penalties to get utilities to accelerate their shift to carbon-free electricity."

Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [7]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Inside Climate News [49], 10/01/2021
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"Senate Confirms Biden’s Pick to Lead the Bureau of Land Management" [50]

"After a party-line vote, Tracy Stone-Manning became the leader of an agency that manages oil and gas drilling on public lands."

Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [7]
Government [8]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Natural Resources [42]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [51], 10/01/2021
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In Your Facebook Feed: Oil Industry Pushback Against Biden Climate Plans [52]

"The ads appear on Facebook millions of times a week. They take aim at vulnerable Democrats in Congress by name, warning that the $3.5 trillion budget bill — one of the Biden administration’s biggest efforts to pass meaningful climate policy — will wreck the United States economy."

Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [7]
Journalism & Media [11]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Public [23]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [53], 10/01/2021
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