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Banks Put $1.9 Trillion Into Fossil Fuels Since The Paris Climate Deal [1]

Since the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, the 33 largest global banks collectively provided $1.9 trillion in financing for fossil fuels, a study by environmental groups says.

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Source: Fast Company [7], 03/21/2019
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"U.S. Farmers Face Devastation Following Midwest Floods" [8]

"Midwestern farmers have been gambling they could ride out the U.S.-China trade war by storing their corn and soybeans anywhere they could - in bins, plastic tubes, in barns or even outside. Now, the unthinkable has happened."

Agriculture [9]
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Food [11]
Public [5]
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Source: Reuters [13], 03/21/2019
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Oil Leases Broke the Law by Not Assessing Climate Impact, Judge Rules [14]

"The Obama administration violated federal law by failing to adequately take into account the climate change impact of leasing public land for oil gas drilling in Wyoming, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. But the decision by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia could also present a legal threat to President Trump’s agenda to quickly expand oil and gas drilling and coal mining across the nation’s public lands and waters."

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Source: NY Times [16], 03/21/2019
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May 3, 2019

DEADLINE: IJNR's Water Quality Institute [17]

The Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources invites journalists on an expenses-paid learning expedition through Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois, June 23-29, 2019, to use water-quality stories in the Great Lakes Basin to highlight similar water-quality issues across the United States. Apply by May 3.

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Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [22]
Water & Oceans [23]
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Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [24]

Not Trusting FEMA Flood Maps, More Hurricane-Hit Cities Set Own Rules [25]

"A growing number of cities are looking beyond the usual 100-year floodplain and requiring more homes to be built higher for their own protection. "

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Laws & Regulations [15]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: InsideClimate News [26], 03/20/2019
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Western States Finalize Landmark Drought Plan For Colorado River Water [27]

"Faced with reservoirs less than half full along the Colorado River, federal authorities and negotiators for Colorado and six other Western states on Tuesday finalized a landmark plan to share the burden of voluntarily using less water as growing cities and warming temperatures deplete the supply for 40 million people."

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Environmental Politics [28]
Fish & Fisheries [29]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [30]
People & Population [31]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: Denver Post [32], 03/20/2019
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Record Snowfall, Bomb Cyclone Are Forces Behind Nebraska Floods [33]

"An eerie, thick fog settled over Nebraska and Iowa on Tuesday."

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Source: Omaha World-Herald [35], 03/19/2019
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"Courts: D.C. Girds For Exxon Climate Battle" [36]

"The District of Columbia's top lawyer is preparing for a potential courtroom fight against one of the biggest oil companies in the world."

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Source: ClimateWire [37], 03/19/2019
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From Himalayas to Arctic, Herders Share Knowledge To Cope With Climate [38]

"Yak, reindeer and entire ways of life in the “Third Pole” and Scandinavia face new threats in a warming world."

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People & Population [31]
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International [6]
Source: Ensia [39], 03/18/2019
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Geoengineering: U.S. Blocks Global Resolution On Efforts To Cool Earth [40]

"The United States joined Saudi Arabia to derail a U.N. resolution that sought to improve the world's understanding of potential efforts to lace the sky with sunlight-reflecting aerosols or use carbon-catching fans."

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Source: ClimateWire [42], 03/18/2019
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