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Climate Change May Force More Farmers And Ranchers To Costly Irrigation [1]

"The Texas ranch where Gilda Jackson trains and sells horses has been plagued by grasshoppers this year, a problem that only gets worse when the hatch quickens in times of heat and drought."

Agriculture [2]
Climate Change [3]
Disasters [4]
Natural Resources [5]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [8]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [9]
Source: AP [10], 08/24/2023
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"Texas Permits Lignite Mine Expansion Despite Water Worries" [11]

"Texas regulators on Tuesday approved a 12,000-acre coal mine expansion despite objections from local governments and a river authority concerned about their water supplies."

Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [9]
Source: Inside Climate News [15], 08/24/2023
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"PragerU Says It's Approved In Texas Schools. It's Not." [16]

"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 [3]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [17]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Science [18]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [19]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [9]
Source: HEATED [20], 08/23/2023
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Storm Harold Triggers Floods, Outages And Tornado Warnings As It Hits Texas [21]

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

Climate Change [3]
Disasters [4]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [19]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [9]
Source: CNN [22], 08/23/2023
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The Spread of Harmful Algal Blooms Makes News in Multitude of Locales [23]

As algal blooms (think “red tides” or “dead zones”) grow larger and more frequent, they are emerging not just on the coasts and major estuaries, but in inland lakes and streams. And they cause all kinds of harm, to humans and to the environment. The latest TipSheet has details on how to cover the problem locally, including story ideas and reporting resources.

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Agriculture [2]
Climate Change [3]
Environmental Health [25]
Fish & Fisheries [26]
Health [27]
Journalism & Media [17]
Pollution [28]
Water & Oceans [6]
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National (U.S.) [19]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [29]
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Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [9]
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"Standards Still Murky for Disposing Oilfield Wastewater in Texas Rivers" [32]

"Researchers are still studying the chemical makeup of produced water from the Permian Basin. But regulators say they’re ready to issue permits to discharge the water into rivers and creeks."

Energy & Fuel [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [28]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [9]
Source: Inside Climate News [33], 08/18/2023
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Texans Must Fight "State-Regulated" Oilfield Waste Dumps By Themselves [34]

"Some Texans who challenge oil and gas waste sites must spend significant sums and time on investigating what they say the Texas Railroad Commission should examine. Will new regulations for handling waste increase oversight or just maintain the status quo?"

Air [35]
Chemicals [36]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Justice [37]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [28]
Public [7]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [9]
Source: Public Health Watch [38], 08/16/2023
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"Texas’ Brazos River, Captive and Contaminated" [39]

"Dow-Freeport, the largest chemical plant complex in the Western Hemisphere, dominates—and pollutes—the Lower Brazos Watershed."

Chemicals [36]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Justice [37]
Pollution [28]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [9]
Source: Texas Observer [40], 08/15/2023
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"Uranium Hunters in US West Face Partial Ban, Pollution Fears" [41]

"Five weeks before President Joe Biden announced a historic new ban on new uranium mining around the Grand Canyon, Sarana Riggs approached the barbed-wire fence surrounding an inactive mine in an Arizona national forest, a Geiger counter in her hand."

Chemicals [36]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Justice [37]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [42]
Pollution [28]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [19]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [9]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [43], 08/15/2023
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"Biden Protects Land by Grand Canyon but Will Still Allow Mining" [44]

"President Joe Biden on Tuesday [announced] plans to block expanded uranium mining around the Grand Canyon by declaring the area a new national monument."

Environmental Justice [37]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [5]
People & Population [45]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [46]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [19]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [9]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [47], 08/09/2023
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