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Fossil Fuel Industry Pitches Carbon Capture As Climate Cure. But Is It? [1]

Carbon capture and storage technology has been around for years, but is being repositioned as a way to continue using fossil fuels in the face of climate change. Backgrounder takes a close look at how it works, its history and its politics. But even as the technology is taken up by Congress, the question is: Does the math add up?

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Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Government [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Natural Resources [8]
Policy [9]
Pollution [10]
Science [11]
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"The Race To Rescue Florida’s Diseased Corals" [16]

"Several years ago, a mysterious coral disease began decimating the Florida Reef. The only way to save the animals from extinction? An unprecedented mission to relocate them to facilities across the country."

Biodiversity [17]
Climate Change [3]
Natural Resources [8]
Science [11]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [19]
Source: Washington Post [20], 09/02/2021
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"How Biden’s Team Rushed To Dump A Trump-Era PFAS Assessment" [21]

"Trump-era EPA appointees engaged in "considerable political level interference" on an assessment for a controversial "forever chemical," documents obtained by E&E News indicate."

Chemicals [22]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [5]
Journalism & Media [24]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Science [11]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: E&E News [25], 09/02/2021
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EPA Falsifying Risk Assessments For Dangerous Chemicals: Whistleblowers [26]

"Whistleblowers say the US Environmental Protection Agency has been falsifying dangerous new chemicals’ risk assessments in an effort to make the compounds appear safe and quickly approve them for commercial use."

Chemicals [22]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Science [11]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Guardian [28], 08/31/2021
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"How Climate Change Helped Make Hurricane Ida One Of Louisiana’s Worst" [29]

"By the time Hurricane Ida made landfall in Port Fourchon, La., on Sunday, it was the poster child for a climate change-driven disaster."

Climate Change [3]
Disasters [30]
Science [11]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Washington Post [31], 08/31/2021
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September 1, 2021

SciLine Media Briefing on Wildfires: Climate Connections and Community Impacts [32]

Learn how climate, vegetation and other factors play a role in wildfire activity; how forest managers can assess vulnerability, and increase resilience, to wildfires; and what scientists know about the health effects of proximity to wildfires. Scientific experts will brief reporters and take questions on the record. 3:00 p.m. ET.

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"Group’s Allegations of Destroying Records Spur EPA Investigation" [34]

"The EPA says it will fully investigate allegations from a public interest group that it illegally destroys the original versions of its internal communications and draft documents once they’re edited, according to an agency spokesman."

Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [5]
Environmental Studies [35]
Journalism & Media [24]
Science [11]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [36], 08/30/2021
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"Trump EPA Ignored Scientists’ Warnings On Miss. Project: Docs" [37]

"EPA senior scientists say they were shoved aside last year by Trump appointees racing to revive a massive Mississippi flood control project vetoed in 2008 by the George W. Bush administration, according to documents obtained by E&E News under the Freedom of Information Act."

Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [5]
Journalism & Media [24]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Natural Resources [8]
Science [11]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [19]
Source: E&E News [38], 08/30/2021
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"EPA Scrutinizes Neonicotinoids' Effects on Endangered Species" [39]

"Three common neonicotinoid insecticides were ruled "likely to adversely affect" thousands of endangered species and critical habitats, according to draft biological evaluations released by EPA on Thursday, Aug. 26."

Agriculture [40]
Biodiversity [17]
Chemicals [22]
Environmental Health [23]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Science [11]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Progressive Farmerr [41], 08/27/2021
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"EPA Rebuffed Warnings Its Auto Emissions Plan Was Too Weak" [42]

"White House and other administration officials told the Environmental Protection Agency that its industry-backed plan for tightening auto emissions limits was too lax, but the agency rebuffed those warnings and released the proposal with provisions that could lessen its bite."

Air [43]
Climate Change [3]
Economy & Business [44]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Pollution [10]
Science [11]
Transportation [45]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Bloomberg [46], 08/25/2021
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