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"Over 190 Countries Adopt Plan to Offset Air Travel Emissions" [1]

"Governments from more than 190 countries on Thursday adopted a measure that for the first time will reduce the climate impact of international jet travel."

Climate Change [2]
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Transportation [4]
Public [5]
International [6]
Source: NY Times [7], 10/07/2016
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"'We Have Nothing To Survive On;' Desperation As Haiti Toll Hits 339" [8]

"The number of people killed by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti rose rapidly into the hundreds on Thursday, mainly in villages making contact with the outside world days after the cyclone ripped through the impoverished nation's picturesque western peninsula."

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Public [5]
Central America & the Caribbean [10]
Source: Reuters [11], 10/07/2016
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Cat 3 Matthew Batters Fla. Space Coast; Some 600,000 Lose Power [12]

"The first major hurricane threatening a direct hit on the United States in more than 10 years lashed Florida on Friday with heavy rains and winds after killing at least 339 people in Haiti on its destructive march north through the Caribbean."

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SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [13]
Source: Reuters [14], 10/07/2016
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"Debate Simmers Over Name Of Devils Tower Monument In Wyoming" [15]

"CHEYENNE, Wyo. — When President Theodore Roosevelt designated the country’s first national monument 110 years ago, the proclamation inadvertently left out a punctuation mark, and what was supposed to be Devil’s Tower became Devils Tower instead."

Environmental Politics [16]
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Public [5]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [19]
Source: AP [20], 10/06/2016
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"Calling Out Pollution, Two Dozen Are Arrested In Virginia" [21]

"Twenty-three people were arrested Wednesday as the fight to stop fossil fuel infrastructure erupted in  Virginia, according to groups staging the civil disobedience."

Activism [22]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Politics [16]
Public [5]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [24]
Source: EHN [25], 10/06/2016
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"Big Food Strikes Back" [26]

"Why Did the Obamas Fail to Take On Corporate Agriculture?"

Agriculture [27]
Environmental Politics [16]
Food [28]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [29]
Source: NY Times [30], 10/06/2016
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"Invasive Insects Cause Tens Of Billions In Damage: Study" [31]

"PARIS - Invasive insects cause at least $77 billion (69 billion euros) in damage every year, according to a study released Tuesday that says this figure is 'grossly underestimated' because it covers only a fraction of the globe."

Economy & Business [32]
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Public [5]
International [6]
Source: AFP [34], 10/06/2016
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"Polluter Preps Passaic River For Decade-Long Clean-Up" [35]

"NEWARK — A $165 million agreement reached by the federal government with one of the companies potentially responsible for contaminating a stretch of the Passaic River will allow early stages of cleanup to begin on one of the nation's most polluted bodies of water, officials said."

Laws & Regulations [3]
Pollution [36]
Water & Oceans [37]
Public [5]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [38]
Source: Newark Star-Ledger [39], 10/06/2016
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"PHMSA Issues Interim Final Rule on Emergency Orders" [40]

"The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) on Monday issued an interim final rule that will allow it to issue emergency orders on oil and natural gas pipelines, satisfying a requirement from a comprehensive pipeline safety bill enacted last summer."

Disasters [9]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [29]
Source: Natural Gas Intelligence [41], 10/06/2016
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"Dakota Access: Judges Appear Skeptical Of Freezing Pipeline" [42]

"In the latest legal showdown over the Dakota Access pipeline, federal judges seemed skeptical today of American Indian tribes' arguments for extending a work freeze on a contentious stretch of land in North Dakota."

Activism [22]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Laws & Regulations [3]
People & Population [18]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [29]
Source: Greenwire [43], 10/06/2016
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