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Do Home Buyers Have a Right to Flood Risk Disclosure? [1]

In the second of a two-parter for our 2024 Journalists’ Guide to Environment + Energy [2], the latest TipSheet considers how local environmental journalists can make news out of the state-by-state patchwork of flood risk disclosure laws amid rising climate extremes. A dozen-and-a-half story ideas and reporting resources on the topic. Plus, see part one [3] on climate and insurance.

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TipSheet [4]
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Climate Change [5]
Consumer [6]
Disasters [7]
Government [8]
Infrastructure [9]
Journalism & Media [10]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Planning & Growth [12]
Policy [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
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National (U.S.) [15]
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Public [16]
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"‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Opens Across US (Finally!)" [17]

"Spellbinding, heartbreaking and exhaustingly researched, director Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating epic look into the mass murders of the Osage over oil rights in the 1920s opens Oct. 20 in wide release across the United States."

Energy & Fuel [18]
Environmental Justice [19]
Journalism & Media [10]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Natural Resources [20]
People & Population [21]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: ICT [22], 10/20/2023
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GOP AGs, Industry Ask For Emergency Supreme Court Stay Of Biden Smog Rule [23]

"A coalition of Republican attorneys general on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to stay the federal “Good Neighbor” interstate smog rule while they appeal a lower court ruling."

Air [24]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Politics [26]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Pollution [27]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: The Hill [28], 10/20/2023
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UN Countries Agreed To Support Climate Reparations, Now Deadlocked On Details [29]

"The celebrated “loss and damage” fund is stalled over disagreements about who should pay in, who should receive funds, and the role of the World Bank."

Climate Change [5]
Disasters [7]
Environmental Justice [19]
Environmental Politics [26]
Public [16]
International [30]
Source: Grist [31], 10/20/2023
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New York's Gas Stove Ban an 'Existential Threat,' Trade Group Lawsuit Says [32]

"Construction and gas trade groups have filed a lawsuit to block a law passed by New York officials that would ban furnaces and gas stoves in newly constructed buildings."

Climate Change [5]
Consumer [6]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Pollution [27]
Public [16]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [33]
Source: Earther [34], 10/20/2023
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"USDA Working With Ranchers Toward Indigenous Food Sovereignty" [35]

"Since the near extinction of the buffalo mostly by White settlers, the animal has become a symbol of both Indigenous resilience and food sovereignty. Now, buffalo are central to a new pilot program to improve food distribution on Native land."

Agriculture [36]
Biodiversity [37]
Environmental Justice [19]
People & Population [21]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: ICT [38], 10/20/2023
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‘It’s Never Too Late’: Canada Sued Over Near-Extinction Of Spotted Owls [39]

"As the species hangs on to survival in the country, the federal government will defend its role in delaying emergency measures that could have helped the raptor from disappearing in B.C.’s heavily logged forests".

Biodiversity [37]
Forests [40]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Natural Resources [20]
Wildlife [41]
Public [16]
Canada [42]
Source: The Narwhal [43], 10/20/2023
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"In Florida, Gen Z Activists Step Into the Fight Against Sugarcane Burning" [44]

"Every year, farmers in South Florida set fire to more than 400,000 acres of sugarcane fields pre-harvest, creating a “black snow” of ash and soot that falls on the low-income communities nearby."

Agriculture [36]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Justice [19]
Pollution [27]
Public [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [45]
Source: Youthcast Media Group [46], 10/20/2023
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Ships Speeding Through US 'Go Slow' Zones Meant To Protect Endangered Whale [47]

"More than 80% of ships are speeding through "go slow" zones set by environmental regulators along the U.S. East Coast to protect endangered North Atlantic Right Whales, according to a report released on Thursday by environmental group Oceana."

Biodiversity [37]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Transportation [48]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Reuters [49], 10/20/2023
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"Norma And Tammy Gain Strength En Route To Mexico, Leeward Islands" [50]

"Two potentially impactful tropical cyclones, both of which could reach land areas as hurricanes over the next several days, were roiling the waters on Thursday west of Mexico and east of the Leeward Islands: Hurricane Norma in the eastern Pacific and Tropical Storm Tammy in the Atlantic."

Climate Change [5]
Disasters [7]
People & Population [21]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [15]
Mexico [51]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [52], 10/20/2023
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