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Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ Gets Even More Toxic — Residents Fight Back [1]

"One of the most polluted regions of the country is being overrun by a new glut of oil and gas facilities, including one that will emit as much carbon as three coal-fired power plants".

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Environmental Health [3]
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SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [8]
Source: Rolling Stone [9], 10/31/2019
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"Congress Eyes Protections Near Historical Park In New Mexico" [10]

"Chaco Culture National Historical Park is at the center of a decades-long debate over how to manage oil and gas development in a sprawling area of northwestern New Mexico that is dotted by sites tied to the park but that lie outside its boundaries. The U.S. House is set to vote Wednesday on legislation that would prohibit drilling on the checkerboard of federal land that borders the park."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Natural Resources [12]
People & Population [6]
Public [7]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [13]
Source: AP [14], 10/30/2019
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"No Bowhead Sightings Yet For Alaskan Whalers. Some Blame Climate Change" [15]

"The bowhead whale hunt is an essential cultural and subsistence tradition for the Inupiat of Alaska's North Slope. It dates back at least 1,500 years, and annual harvests can supply families with hundreds of pounds of meat."

Climate Change [16]
Food [17]
People & Population [6]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [7]
Alaska and Hawaii [19]
Source: NPR [20], 10/30/2019
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"Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows" [21]

"Rising seas could affect three times more people by 2050 than previously thought, according to new research, threatening to all but erase some of the world’s great coastal cities."

Climate Change [16]
Disasters [22]
People & Population [6]
Planning & Growth [23]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [7]
International [24]
Source: NY Times [25], 10/30/2019
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"Climate Change Is Wiping Out Harriet Tubman’s Homeland" [26]

"In 1849, Harriet Tubman escaped from the Eastern Shore farm where she was enslaved. Over the next several years, she would return 13 times, rescuing more than 70 enslaved relatives and friends, ... She has become a hero, with two national parks established in her honor, ... . But time has not been as kind to the lands that Tubman left behind, or the descendants of the first free African-American communities that called them home."

Climate Change [16]
Natural Resources [12]
People & Population [6]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [7]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [27]
Source: Boston Globe [28], 10/29/2019
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15 Canadian Kids Sue Government for Failing to Address Climate Change [29]

"Fifteen children and teenagers from across Canada sued their government on Friday for supporting fossil fuels that drive climate change, which they say is jeopardizing their rights as Canadian citizens."

Activism [30]
Climate Change [16]
Laws & Regulations [5]
People & Population [6]
Public [7]
Canada [31]
Source: InsideClimate News [32], 10/28/2019
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Winds Drive Multiple Raging Fires Across California. Residents Flee [33]

"A new fire early Monday threatened homes and prompted evacuations in Los Angeles while 400 miles to the north, the Kincade Fire nearly doubled in size as it neared the city of Santa Rosa."

Climate Change [16]
Disasters [22]
Forests [34]
People & Population [6]
Public [7]
California [35]
Source: Weather Channel [36], 10/28/2019
  • Read more about Winds Drive Multiple Raging Fires Across California. Residents Flee [33]

Gullah Geechee Culture Risks Losing Island Home To Climate Crisis [37]

"Fierce storms and rising seas are causing existential angst for communities in Alaska, Arizona and other states on the front line of the climate crisis"

Climate Change [16]
Disasters [22]
People & Population [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [38]
Source: Guardian [39], 10/23/2019
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"Southwest Tribes Oppose Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Plans" [40]

"Native American leaders from New Mexico are opposing plans that call for storing in the desert Southwest tons of spent nuclear fuel from power plants around the U.S."

Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Natural Resources [12]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [41]
People & Population [6]
Waste [42]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [38]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [13]
Source: AP [43], 10/23/2019
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