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Heat Brings Texas Grid Closest It Has Been To Outages Since 2021 Winter [1]

"Texas’ power grid manager on Thursday again asked residents to cut their electricity use as the state endures another stretch of sizzling summer heat."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Public [6]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [7]
Source: AP [8], 09/08/2023
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"States Withhold Cooling Aid For The Poor As Heat Gets Deadlier" [9]

"More than 30 million low-income households that are eligible for federal funding to defray the cost of air conditioning have not received any money from a government program that was created to protect vulnerable people from dangerous temperatures, an E&E News analysis shows."

Climate Change [2]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Justice [10]
Laws & Regulations [11]
People & Population [12]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: E&E News [14], 09/07/2023
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Why Extreme Heat Is So Dangerous For Those With Schizophrenia [15]

"On July 12, 2022, Stephan Goodwin left his home with a drawstring bag and a gallon of water, fleeing the voices in his head. He never came back."

Climate Change [2]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Justice [10]
People & Population [12]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [13]
International [16]
Source: Washington Post [17], 09/07/2023
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"Climate-Linked Ills Threaten Humanity" [18]

"The floods came, and then the sickness.

Muhammad Yaqoob stood on his concrete porch and watched the black, angry water swirl around the acacia trees and rush toward his village last September, the deluge making a sound that was like nothing he had ever heard. “It was like thousands of snakes sighing all at once,” he recalled.

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Health [5]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [6]
International [16]
Source: Washington Post [20], 09/06/2023
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West Texas Residents Forge Their Own Solution To Undrinkable Water [21]

"The water in these four unincorporated communities near Lubbock has been undrinkable for years, residents say. They hope to win $3 million in state grants to improve their systems."

Activism [22]
Consumer [23]
Environmental Health [5]
Infrastructure [24]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [6]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [7]
Source: Texas Tribune [25], 09/06/2023
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"Why The United States Undercounts Climate-Driven Deaths" [26]

"The system of death surveillance wasn’t designed for a climate-changed world."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Health [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Grist [27], 09/06/2023
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"Marathon Refinery Fire Illustrates How Industry Goes Quiet During a Crisis" [28]

"Recent industrial disaster at Louisiana’s Marathon refinery shows how difficult it is to get information during dangerous events."

Chemicals [29]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Justice [10]
Journalism & Media [30]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: DeSmog [31], 09/06/2023
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Shuttered EPA Probe Could’ve Brought 'Meaningful Reform' In Cancer Alley [32]

"As industrial plants have overtaken historic Black communities and burdened neighborhoods with toxic air pollution, environmental advocates and residents of Louisiana’s chemical corridor have spent decades calling for change."

Chemicals [29]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Justice [10]
Environmental Politics [33]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Pollution [34]
Public [6]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [35]
Source: WWNO [36], 09/05/2023
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Burning Tires: PA Residents ‘Shocked’ By Firm’s Bitcoin-Mining Plan [37]

"A crypto-mining company in Pennsylvania is seeking to burn tires to produce bitcoin, prompting an outcry from residents and environmental groups."

Air [38]
Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [39]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Pollution [34]
Public [6]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [40]
Source: Guardian [41], 09/01/2023
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Mindblowing: California Allows More Gas Storage At Aliso Canyon Leak Site [42]

"State officials voted Thursday to let Southern California Gas Co. store far more fuel at the Aliso Canyon gas storage field, eight years after a record-breaking leak spewed more than 100,000 metric tons of planet-warming methane into the atmosphere and prompted thousands of San Fernando Valley residents to evacuate their homes for months."

Disasters [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Laws & Regulations [11]
People & Population [12]
Public [6]
California [43]
Source: LA Times [44], 09/01/2023
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