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"They Fled Climate Chaos. Asylum Law Made Decades Ago Might Not Help" [1]

"“We need protection,” one migrant at the U.S. border said. But the legal system for refugees never envisioned the millions displaced by global warming."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Natural Resources [7]
People & Population [8]
Water & Oceans [9]
Public [10]
International [11]
Source: NYTimes [12], 11/29/2023
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"Former Coal Towns Get Money for Clean-Energy Factories" [13]

"An Energy Department program designed to create jobs and manufacturing in communities reliant on fossil fuels is backing projects in West Virginia, Colorado and elsewhere."

Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [14]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Justice [5]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NYTimes [17], 11/28/2023
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What Francis' Latest Climate Text Means for Upcoming UN Summit [18]

Pope Francis’ planned history-making trip to the latest global climate conference has been thwarted by illness. But his passionate advocacy for the environment still will be felt through his hot-off-the-press apostolic exhortation about the climate crisis. National Catholic Reporter’s environment correspondent Brian Roewe unpacks the pope’s new eco-document and explains how it relates to international climate diplomacy at and beyond Dubai.

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Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [20]
Climate Change [2]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [21]
Government [22]
Natural Resources [7]
Policy [23]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [24]
Science [25]
Technology [26]
Region: 
International [11]
Europe [27]
Middle East [28]
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Public [10]
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Black Women Face Risks From Toxics in Beauty and Personal Care Products [29]

"The FDA has finally proposed a ban on formaldehyde in hair straighteners, and new regulations on the cosmetics industry take effect next month. But one activist called them “a floor, not a ceiling.”"

Chemicals [30]
Consumer [31]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Inside Climate News [32], 11/27/2023
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Between the Lines — Author Explores Experience of Living Through Climate Change [33]

To make climate change less abstract and more direct, writer Madeline Ostrander traveled the country to speak to those living with its impacts in the places they call home. In a BookShelf “Between the Lines” Q&A, Ostrander discusses her resulting book, “At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth,” and addresses the lenses she used, the characters she portrayed and the surprises she encountered.

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BookShelf [34]
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Activism [20]
Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Economy & Business [14]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [21]
Forests [35]
Health [36]
Journalism & Media [37]
People & Population [8]
Policy [23]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [24]
Science [25]
Wildlife [38]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [16]
Alaska and Hawaii [39]
California [40]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [41]
International [11]
Canada [42]
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Public [10]
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Musk’s X Sues Media Matters Over Its Report On Ads Next To Hate Posts [43]

"Elon Musk’s social media company X filed a lawsuit against liberal advocacy group Media Matters for America on Monday, saying it manufactured a report to show advertisers’ posts alongside neo-Nazi and white nationalist posts in order to “drive advertisers from the platform and destroy X Corp.” Media Matters, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit, called the lawsuit “frivolous.”"

Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [21]
Journalism & Media [37]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [11]
Source: AP [44], 11/22/2023
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Dirty Water and Dead Rice: The Cost of Clean Energy Transition in Minnesota [45]

"Mining the critical minerals needed for electric vehicle batteries could threaten local water supply and Indigenous culture."

Agriculture [46]
Environmental Justice [5]
Food [47]
Natural Resources [7]
Pollution [48]
Water & Oceans [9]
Public [10]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [49]
Source: Inside Climate News [50], 11/22/2023
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EPA Offers $2B To Clean Up Pollution, Energy In Poor And Minority Communities [51]

"The Biden administration is making $2 billion available to community groups, states and tribes to clean up pollution and develop clean energy in disadvantaged communities in what officials called the largest-ever investment in environmental justice."

Environmental Justice [5]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: AP [52], 11/22/2023
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'We Didn't Know We Were Poisoning Ourselves': Deadly Legacy Of Uranium Boom [53]

"The Diné helped dig the raw materials to build the US’s nuclear arsenal, but were never told of the danger".

Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [54]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [55]
Source: Guardian [56], 11/21/2023
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Gathering Offers Sobering Look Ahead at 2024, But With Glimmers of Hope [57]

Top environmental journalists and others at the Society of Environmental Journalists annual “Journalists’ Guide to Environment and Energy” program foresee some challenging realities to cover in 2024, most notably with the ongoing impacts of climate change. Bright signs emerged as well. Read our take, watch the event video [58] and visit our full “2024 Journalists’ Guide to Environment + Energy [59]” special report.

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Air [61]
Biodiversity [62]
Chemicals [30]
Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [21]
Fish & Fisheries [63]
Forests [35]
Health [36]
Journalism & Media [37]
Natural Resources [7]
People & Population [8]
Policy [23]
Pollution [48]
Water & Oceans [9]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [16]
Alaska and Hawaii [39]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [41]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [55]
International [11]
South America [64]
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Public [10]
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