"Populations In High-Risk Climate Areas Grow: Redfin"
"Populations in areas of the United States at high risk for climate disasters are growing, according to an analysis done by real estate listing service Redfin."
Source: The Hill, 08/27/2021
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"Indoor Air Pollution Remains a Deadly—and Unregulated—Problem"
"Harmful indoor air quality has been listed as one of the top five environmental risks to public health, according to Environmental Protection Agency comparative risk studies. Yet there’s no comprehensive regulation that addresses those harms outside of a patchwork of protections and standards of care."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 08/26/2021
"Heat Kills. This Underfunded Program Could Help."
"Heat kills in the big city. So does lack of air conditioning. Of the roughly 70 New Yorkers directly killed by heat exposure in their own homes over the past decade, the majority — some 80% — did not own air conditioners, and those who did weren’t running them when they died."
Source: E&E News, 08/24/2021
"Denser Cities Could Be A Climate Boon – But Nimbyism Stands In The Way"
"Drawing people into cities could cut emissions and combat housing crises. But even progressives are hard to convince".
Source: Guardian, 08/23/2021
In Fire Scorched California, Town Aims To Buy At-Risk Properties
Paradise, California has "a new, ambitious town effort to identify the most high risk properties in the burn area and, if there are willing sellers, buy them and turn them into fire resistant green spaces."
Source: NPR, 08/23/2021
Democrats Spar This Week Over $3.5 Trillion Budget Plan
"House Democrats are preparing to take the first steps Monday toward adopting a roughly $3.5 trillion spending plan that would enable sweeping changes to the nation’s health care, education and tax laws, but new rifts among party lawmakers threaten to stall the package’s swift advance."
Source: Washington Post, 08/23/2021
Mapping a Course to Shrink the Heat Gap Between New York Neighborhoods
"Community organizers and New York residents hope high-resolution maps of hot spots in the Bronx and Manhattan will result in more equitable development."
Source: Inside Climate News, 08/20/2021
Thousands More Evacuated As California Wildfire Explodes
"The Caldor Fire burning in California has grown 24 times its size in two days, forcing another 10,000 residents to evacuate."
Source: CNN, 08/19/2021
Postcard From Thermal: Surviving the Climate Gap in Coachella Valley
"The first thing to know about Thermal, California, is: It’s really damn hot. Already, at this early date in our planetary crisis, 139 days a year are over 95 degrees Fahrenheit in Thermal. Over the next 30 years, temperatures will rise 4 to 5 degrees more, and by the end of the century, more than half the year there will be hotter than 95 and nearly a quarter will be hotter than 112."
Source: ProPublica, 08/18/2021
"Amid Extreme Weather, a Shift Among Republicans on Climate Change"
"Many Republicans in Congress no longer deny that Earth is heating because of fossil fuel emissions. But they say abandoning oil, gas and coal will harm the economy."
Source: NYTimes, 08/18/2021
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