"As Seas Rise, U.S. Coastal Landowners Urged To Let The Water In"
"Led by Maryland, governments and green groups are offering incentives to allow threatened saltwater marshes to 'migrate' inland".
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 09/12/2022
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"As Wildfires Grow, Millions of Homes Are Being Built in Harm’s Way"
"Across the Western United States, wildfires are growing larger and more severe as global warming intensifies. At the same time, new data shows, more Americans than ever are moving to parts of the country more likely to burn, raising the odds of catastrophe."
Source: NYTimes, 09/12/2022
Will Congress Pass Manchin’s Energy Permitting 'Side Deal'?
In the fine print of the historic Biden climate bill is a controversial commitment to pass legislation on fossil fuel permitting, a measure deeply opposed by the environmental community and calling for heavy political muscle to move through Congress this month. Issue Backgrounder details what’s in it, and what’s not, and takes the measure of the measure’s prospects.
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Fill Your Plate With Chicken Stories
Chicken production in the United States is a colossal industry controlled by a few vertically integrated companies. On a much smaller scale, it’s also heritage breeds and increasingly popular backyard flocks. As the latest avian flu outbreak makes headlines, journalist Christine Heinrichs looks at environmental reporting opportunities related to poultry pathogens, pollution and more.
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Burgeoning National EV Trend Helps Drive Local Environment, Climate Stories
The auto market is getting supercharged by California’s recent decision to require all-electric vehicle sales in a little over a decade. The latest TipSheet looks at how this big national trend will affect climate change by cutting CO2 emissions, how California came to have such an outsized impact on the U.S. market and how local environmental reporters can plug in for stories around their communities.
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US Lobster Put On ‘Red List’ To Protect Endangered N. Atlantic Right Whales
"Lobster nets and pots have become such a threat to the survival of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales that the crustaceans have been “red-listed” as seafood to avoid by a major fish sustainability guide."
Source: Guardian, 09/09/2022
"Carbon Capture Has A Long History. Of Failure"
"Carbon capture and storage is an old technology, first commercialized in the 1970s. Back then it was called enhanced oil recovery, because the carbon dioxide recovered from oil and gas production was injected into depleted oil and gas reservoirs to re-pressurize them and extract more hydrocarbons."
Source: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 09/09/2022
"Chemical Safety Investigations Impeded by Staffing, Leadership"
"The federal agency that investigates chemical accidents was hampered by unfilled positions and leadership disputes, a new watchdog report says."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 09/09/2022
"No September On Record In The West Has Seen A Heat Wave Like This"
"The heat wave that’s been gripping California and other parts of the West for 10 days and counting is the most severe ever recorded in September, weather experts have said... ."
Source: Washington Post, 09/09/2022
"Rising Seas Could Swallow Millions Of U.S. Acres Within Decades"
"New research finds an estimated 25,000 properties in Louisiana could slip below tidal boundary lines by 2050. Florida, Texas and North Carolina also face profound economic risks."
Source: Washington Post, 09/09/2022
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