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December 4, 2025

DEADLINE: J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards [1]

These Awards recognize excellence in nonfiction that exemplifies the literary grace and commitment to serious research and social concern that characterized the work of the awards' Pulitzer Prize-winning namesake, J. Anthony Lukas. Four awards are given, all with cash prizes. Deadline: Dec 4, 2025.

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In California, the World’s Largest Battery Storage System Gets Even Larger [5]

"The largest battery storage facility in the world, located along Monterey Bay in California, has completed an expansion, demonstrating how storage systems can exist on a gigantic scale and can easily expand."

Climate Change [6]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Infrastructure [8]
Technology [9]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Inside Climate News [11], 09/03/2021
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"Climate Change Is Bankrupting America’s Small Towns" [12]

"Repeated shocks from hurricanes, fires and floods are pushing some rural communities, already struggling economically, to the brink of financial collapse."

Climate Change [6]
Disasters [13]
Economy & Business [14]
Planning & Growth [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: NYTimes [17], 09/03/2021
  • Read more about "Climate Change Is Bankrupting America’s Small Towns" [12]

Climate-Driven Extreme Heat Threatens $500 Bln In New U.S. Costs By 2050 [18]

"Threats to agriculture, construction and service workers could cause hefty annual setbacks to the U.S. economy - and more deaths - by mid-century, researchers warn".

Agriculture [19]
Climate Change [6]
Disasters [13]
Environmental Health [20]
Public [3]
International [21]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [22], 09/03/2021
  • Read more about Climate-Driven Extreme Heat Threatens $500 Bln In New U.S. Costs By 2050 [18]

"Pennsylvania’s Carbon Plan Clears Last Regulatory Hurdle" [23]

"The centerpiece of Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to fight climate change passed its last regulatory hurdle Wednesday, in a hard-fought bid to make Pennsylvania the first major fossil fuel state to adopt a carbon pricing policy."

Climate Change [6]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Public [3]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [25]
Source: AP [26], 09/03/2021
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NYC's Subway Flooding Not Fluke, But Reality For Cities In Warming World [27]

"Global warming is driving dangerous and disruptive flooding in underground rail systems around the world. Flooded tunnels and stations have disrupted service and stranded passengers in Boston, London, San Francisco, Taipei, Bangkok, Washington, D.C., and a host of other cities in recent years."

Climate Change [6]
Disasters [13]
Infrastructure [8]
Transportation [28]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [3]
International [21]
Source: NPR [29], 09/03/2021
  • Read more about NYC's Subway Flooding Not Fluke, But Reality For Cities In Warming World [27]

"Climate Change Will Hit Racial Minorities Harder, Analysis Finds" [30]

"Racial minorities in the United States will bear a disproportionate burden of the negative health and environmental impacts from a warming planet, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday, including more deaths from extreme heat and property loss from flooding in the wake of sea-level rise."

Climate Change [6]
Disasters [13]
Environmental Justice [31]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: AP [32], 09/03/2021
  • Read more about "Climate Change Will Hit Racial Minorities Harder, Analysis Finds" [30]

"Offshore Drilling Ban and Mining Curbs Edge Closer to Passage" [33]

"Legislation to block oil drilling in most U.S. waters and Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge edged closer to passage Thursday, as the House Natural Resources Committee rejected more than a dozen changes sought by Republicans."

Energy & Fuel [7]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Bloomberg [34], 09/03/2021
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"Feds Responding To Reports Of Oil, Chemical Spills After Ida" [35]

"Federal and state agencies say they are responding to reports of oil and chemical spills resulting from Hurricane Ida following the publication of aerial photos by The Associated Press."

Chemicals [36]
Climate Change [6]
Disasters [13]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Environmental Health [20]
Pollution [37]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: AP [38], 09/03/2021
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"St. John Residents Plead For Housing Aid Ahead Of Joe Biden's Visit" [39]

"Neisha Perrilloux sat in 93 degree heat outside her powerless, storm-damaged apartment on Thursday trying to catch a breeze and wishing she were anywhere but LaPlace."

Climate Change [6]
Disasters [13]
Energy & Fuel [7]
Environmental Health [20]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [40], 09/03/2021
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