"How Climate Migration Will Reshape America"
"Millions will be displaced. Where will they go?"
Source: ProPublica/NYTimes Magazine, 09/16/2020
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"20 States Sue EPA Over Methane Emissions Standards Rollback"
"A coalition of 20 states and four municipalities sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday over its rollback of methane emissions standards for oil and gas production."
Source: The Hill, 09/15/2020
"A Climate Reckoning in Fire-Stricken California"
"Multiple mega fires burning more than three million acres. Millions of residents smothered in toxic air. Rolling blackouts and triple-digit heat waves. Climate change, in the words of one scientist, is smacking California in the face."
Source: NYTimes, 09/11/2020
"Nothing To See Here, Folks"
"News outlets continue to ignore climate change in articles about California's record-breaking weather."
Source: HEATED, 09/09/2020
California Temperatures Break Records, Wildfires Rage
"A record-smashing heat wave sent temperatures in areas across the Bay Area well over 100 degrees Sunday, choking the region with the smoke of weeks’ worth of wildfires and putting more than 2 million customers under the threat of rolling blackouts as the state’s energy grid neared capacity."
Source: San Jose Mercury News, 09/07/2020
House Democrats Demand Climate Be ‘Centerpiece’ Of 2020 Debates
"Dozens of House Democrats are calling for the climate crisis to be a central focus of the upcoming presidential and vice presidential debates." "In 2016, debate moderators did not ask a single question about the climate crisis. Dozens of lawmakers want to make sure that doesn’t happen again."
Source: HuffPost, 09/03/2020
Calif. To Let 4 Gas Plants Stay Open As Time Runs Low For Climate Action
"State officials threw a lifeline to four fossil fueled power plants along the Southern California coast, deciding the facilities are still needed to provide reliable electricity even as they contribute to the climate crisis."
Source: LA Times, 09/02/2020
"Poor Neighborhoods Feel Brunt Of Rising Heat. Cities Are Mapping Them"
"This summer volunteers are fanning out in 13 cities across the U.S. to — quite literally — take the temperature of their neighborhoods. It's part of a project to help protect people as the world warms, and in many places it's highlighting how the poorest areas suffer most from rising urban heat."
Source: NPR, 08/31/2020
"States Take Action to Curb Oil Industry’s Most Glaring Problem"
"“Routine flaring” from oil wells produces emissions that harm the climate and human health. Two states have proposed new rules to reduce it, just as the true scope of the problem emerges."
Source: The Revelator, 08/28/2020
"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
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