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"Environmental Groups Cut Programs as Funding Shifts to Climate Change"

"The Natural Resources Defense Council is eliminating its longstanding program promoting nuclear safety and cleanup as donors focus on the climate crisis." "A significant shift in donor contributions to nonprofits fighting climate change in recent years has left some of the nation’s biggest environmental organizations facing critical shortfalls in programs on toxic chemicals, radioactive contamination and wildlife protection."

Source: NYTimes, 11/09/2023

"Alaska Natives Say Secretary Haaland Is Stonewalling Them"

"Alaska Native leaders are fuming at Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, saying she has ignored or rejected at least eight of their invitations for in-person meetings about the administration’s energy policies impacting their communities."

Source: E&E News, 11/09/2023

"Planned Fossil Fuel Production Vastly Exceeds the World’s Climate Goals"

"The world’s top fossil-fuel producing nations are still planning to increase their output of oil, gas and coal far beyond what the world’s climate targets would allow, according to a new United Nations report."

Source: Inside Climate News, 11/09/2023

Fossil Fuel Interests Have Large, Often Murky, Presence At Climate Talks

"The badges said they were there to participate in negotiations to curb climate change. They stated affiliations like the government of Brazil, Indigenous organi"zations of the Amazon, the Climate Registry. But in reality, the livelihoods of these participants were more aligned with what’s keeping the problem going: fossil fuels."

Source: AP, 11/09/2023

"Election Roundup: Results In 4 States Set To Shape Energy Sector"

"Voters in a handful of off-year elections across the country green-lighted incentives for new power plants in Texas, rejected a Maine attempt to create a public electric utility and kept incumbent governors in Kentucky and Mississippi."

Source: E&E News, 11/09/2023

"Boiling Point: Trump Is Lying About California And Clean Energy Again"

"This time he’s claiming the state had lots of blackouts this summer. It did not."

Source: LA Times, 11/08/2023

Numerous Miles-Long Oil Spills Seen On Pittsburgh’s Iconic Mon River

"Oil sheens up to 18 miles long have repeatedly been reported by an environmental advocacy group on the Monongahela River over the last six months. The site of the recurring pollution is only a few miles from where the Monongahela River merges with the Ohio River, which provides drinking water to more than five million people."

Source: EHN, 11/08/2023

"Lawsuit: Southern Co. Lied To DOE Over Kemper CCS Plant"

"A former employee of the utility said she was ordered to prepare documents with false information on the now-canceled Kemper carbon capture project."

Source: E&E News, 11/08/2023

Some Houses Being Built To Stand Up To Hurricanes And Cut Emissions, Too

"When Hurricane Michael hit the Florida Panhandle five years ago, it left boats, cars and trucks piled up to the windows of Bonny Paulson’s home in the tiny coastal community of Mexico Beach, Florida, even though the house rests on pillars 14 feet above the ground. But Paulson’s home, with a rounded shape that looks something like a ship, shrugged off Category 5 winds that might otherwise have collapsed it."

Source: AP, 11/07/2023

Millions of US Homes Are So Overheated They Open Windows In The Winter. Why?

"Nineteenth-century technology is finally being phased out in New York City, but its past is deeply entwined with American history".

Source: Guardian, 11/07/2023

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