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"Climate Change Fuels U.S. Dust Storms With Dire Health Consequences"

"Dust storms—those billowing walls of sand and dirt often seen seen in the more arid regions of the world—doubled in the American Southwest between the 1990s to 2000s." "Respiratory ICU admissions spike in the wake of such storms, which are becoming more common across the American Southwest."

Source: Bloomberg, 07/03/2020

BP, Shell Write-Off Billions in Assets, Citing Covid and Climate Change

"Two of the world's largest energy companies have sent their strongest signals yet that the coronavirus pandemic may accelerate a global transition away from oil, and that billions of dollars invested in fossil fuel assets could go to waste."

Source: InsideClimate News, 07/03/2020

Rocket’s Red Glare: Trump’s Mount Rushmore Fireworks Anger Tribes

"Tribal leaders in South Dakota plan to protest President Trump’s appearance Friday at an elaborate Mount Rushmore fireworks display, arguing that the event could worsen the state’s coronavirus outbreak and violates Native Americans’ claims to the Black Hills."

Source: Washington Post, 07/03/2020

Watchdog Says Commerce Dept. Is Blocking Probe Into Trump's "Sharpiegate"

"The Department of Commerce is preventing the release of an investigation’s findings into whether it coerced the head of a federal agency into supporting President Trump’s erroneous claim that Hurricane Dorian would hit Alabama last year, the department’s inspector general said on Wednesday."

Source: NYTimes, 07/03/2020

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