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"Heat, Smoke and Covid Are Battering the Workers Who Feed America"

"STOCKTON, Calif — Work began in the dark. At 4 a.m., Briseida Flores could make out a fire burning in the distance. Floodlights illuminated the fields. And shoulder to shoulder with dozens of others, Ms. Flores pushed into the rows of corn. Swiftly, they plucked. One after the other. First under the lights, then by the first rays of daylight."

Source: NYTimes, 08/26/2020

"Senate Democrats Recommend Trillions In Climate Investments"

"Senate Democrats today issued a 260-page climate report recommending trillions of dollars in investments and a wide-ranging federal effort to slash greenhouse gas emissions, a preview of the party's priorities if it's able to claw back control of government in November."

Source: E&E News, 08/26/2020

Indigenous 'Women Warriors' Fight for Amazon Forest Conservation

"On an early December morning last year in the state of Maranhão, Brazil, half a dozen members of the Indigenous Guajajara people packed their bags with food, maps and drone equipment to get ready for a patrol. They said goodbye to their children, uncertain when, or whether, they would see them again. Then, they hoisted their bags over their shoulders and set out to patrol a section of the 173,000 hectares (428,000 acres) of the primary rainforest they call home."

Source: Mongabay, 08/25/2020

"Trump’s Arctic Drilling Plan Challenged Over Polar Bear Threat"

"Environmentalists and Alaska natives are challenging the Trump administration’s decision to sell drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, arguing the government gave short shrift to the impact on polar bears and the region’s other wildlife. The groups said they filed a pair of lawsuits Monday in a U.S. district court in Alaska, setting up an election-year battle over the controversial plan, even as the Interior Department prepares for a possible auction."

Source: Bloomberg, 08/25/2020

"Half Million Acres on Oil Auction Block as Greens Fear Land Rush"

"The Interior Department is set to auction oil and gas drilling rights to an area of federal land roughly twice the size of Los Angeles over the next six weeks, as part of its first oil and gas lease sales since March."

Source: Bloomberg Environment, 08/25/2020

How Maryland's Trash-Burning Bias Galvanized Activists in Baltimore

"Shashawnda Campbell became an environmental activist at 15, when she learned that a company had proposed building the country's largest waste-to-energy incinerator less than a mile from her high school, in the Curtis Bay section of Baltimore."

Source: InsideClimate News, 08/25/2020

"How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering"

"In the 1930s, federal officials redlined these neighborhoods in Richmond, Va., marking them as risky investments because residents were Black. Today, they are some of the hottest parts of town in the summer, with few trees and an abundance of heat-trapping pavement."

Source: NYTimes, 08/25/2020

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