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Deadly Heat Wave In Central US Strains Infrastructure, Transport, Grid [1]

"Deadly heat that has gripped Texas for much of the summer has spread into other parts of the central U.S. this week where it is forecast to stay for days, with triple-digit temperatures buckling roads, straining water systems and threatening the power grid of the nation’s energy capitol."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Infrastructure [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: AP [9], 08/24/2023
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"The Next Pandemic Could Strike Crops, Not People" [10]

"Genetic uniformity is central to modern farming. It leaves us vulnerable to plant disease breakouts."

Technology [11]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Grist [12], 08/23/2023
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"PragerU Says It's Approved In Texas Schools. It's Not." [13]

"The conservative group's big announcement that its climate denial videos were approved in Texas public schools appears to be a lie, the Texas State Board of Education tells HEATED."

Climate Change [2]
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Science [17]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [18]
Source: HEATED [19], 08/23/2023
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How A Mix Of Natural And Human-Caused Factors Cooked Up Storm Hilary Mess [20]

"A natural El Nino, human-caused climate change, a stubborn heat dome over the nation’s midsection and other factors cooked up Tropical Storm Hilary’s record-breaking slosh into California and Nevada, scientists figure."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Science [17]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: AP [22], 08/23/2023
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"Biden Administration Approves 4th Commercial-Scale Offshore Wind Project" [23]

"The Biden administration on Tuesday approved a wind energy project off Rhode Island, the fourth major commercial-scale offshore wind energy project approved by the Biden Interior Department."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Infrastructure [6]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [24]
Source: The Hill [25], 08/23/2023
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Some States Reject Federal Money To Find, Replace Dangerous Lead Pipes [26]

"As the Biden administration makes billions of dollars available to remove millions of dangerous lead pipes that can contaminate drinking water and damage brain development in children, some states are turning down funds."

Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [6]
Pollution [27]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: AP [28], 08/23/2023
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Storm Harold Triggers Floods, Outages And Tornado Warnings As It Hits Texas [29]

"Tropical Storm Harold is plowing through Texas, triggering flash flooding and tornado warnings as the gusty storm pushes toward Mexico."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [18]
Source: CNN [30], 08/23/2023
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PHMSA Raises Safety Concerns Over Mountain Valley Pipeline in Formal Notice [31]

"Federal regulators have sent a proposed safety order to the developers of the contentious and highly politicized Mountain Valley Pipeline citing concerns over potential pipe corrosion and land movement in the steep mountain terrain the pipeline will cross in West Virginia and Virginia."

Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [6]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [27]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [32]
Source: Inside Climate News [33], 08/23/2023
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Biden Revives Rules to Prevent Another Deepwater Horizon Disaster [34]

"The Department of Interior announced on Tuesday that it had reinstated Obama-era safety rules for offshore drilling that were created in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe that killed 11 people and fouled the Gulf of Mexico."

Disasters [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [35]
Pollution [27]
Water & Oceans [21]
Wildlife [36]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: NYTimes [37], 08/23/2023
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SEJ Remembers Terri Hansen [38]

SEJ members were saddened to learn that Terri Crawford Hansen, who first joined SEJ in 1994, recently passed away. Terri, "a powerful and big-hearted truth teller," was a member of the Winnebago tribe of Nebraska and a long-time journalist, covering environment, climate, science, tribal and Indigenous issues for multiple publications.

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