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Book review: “On the Move” is a must-read account of U.S. climate migration » Yale Climate Connections - Propublica (Apr 11) |
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Apr 11 · Another great American migration is now underway, this time forced by the warming that is altering how and where people can live. For now, it’s just a trickle. But in the corners of the country’s most vulnerable landscapes - on the shores of its sinking bayous and on the eroding bluffs of its coastal defenses - populations are already in disarray.
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A couple of miles west of downtown Slidell, Louisiana, and just upstream from the ... | By Jeremy Schwartz, April 25, 6 p.m. EDT Read more ...
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The Next Deadly Pandemic Is Just a Forest Clearing Away - Propublica (Feb 27, 2023) |
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Feb 27, 2023 · How the Next Pandemic Could Start
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This story discusses pregnancy loss.
We’re investigating the cause of viruses spilling over from animals to humans - and what can be done to stop it. Read more in the series ?
Generations ago, families fleeing tribal violence in southern Guinea settled in a lush, humid forest. They took solace among the trees, which offered cover from intruders, and carved a life out of the land. Their descendants call it Meliandou, which elders there say comes from words in the Kissi language that mean “this is as far as we go.”
By 2013, a village had bloomed where trees once stood - 31 homes, surrounded by a ring of ... Read more ...
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What to know about the risks of gas stoves and appliances - Propublica (Jan 23, 2023) |
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After learning her gas stove was leaking methane, one reporter consulted public health experts to learn about the scope of the problem and what people can do to reduce these risks at home.
As a climate reporter, I was well aware of the growing concern about the gas stoves in people’s homes leaking dangerous pollutants, like methane, a potent greenhouse gas and explosive hazard; nitrogen dioxide, which worsens asthma; and benzene, which causes cancer. But I was a renter who had no control over my appliances. So I mostly ignored it - until one day last fall when I smelled the rotten-egg odor of leaking natural gas while baking focaccia.
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'An exodus unlike any other: Why half the people in this community moved away after Hurricane Katrina - Propublica (Dec 12, 2022) |
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After Hurricane Katrina devastated St. Bernard Parish, many residents didn’t receive enough money from the state to rebuild. Nearly half made the difficult decision to start over somewhere else.
Growing Storms, Faltering Aid
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Once, Mark Benfatti couldn’t imagine living anywhere but St. Bernard Parish, a close-knit, working-class community perched precariously between New Orleans and the wetlands leading to the Gulf of Mexico. Read more ...
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How a billionaire's 'attack philanthropy' secretly funded climate denialism and right-wing causes - Propublica (Sep 06, 2022) |
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Emails and interviews reveal privacy-obsessed electronics magnate Barre Seid’s long history of backing efforts to attack climate science, fight Medicaid expansion, and remake the higher education system in a conservative mold.
This story was co-published with The Lever.
In the mid-2000s, Barre Seid had begun thinking about how to leave a legacy. Riding the personal computer boom, the Chicago-based electronics magnate was on his way to becoming a billionaire. Seid, who considers himself a libertarian, now had the means to pursue a bold project: “attack philanthropy.”
To Seid, that meant looking for ways to place financial bets that had ... Read more ...
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ENVIRONMENTAL - Propublica (Sep 01, 2022) |
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By the spring of 2020, the century-old industrial plant on Birmingham’s 35th Avenue was literally falling apart. Chunks of the metal doors fronting several of the 1,800-degree ovens - which heat coal to produce a fuel called coke - had broken off and tumbled to the ground.
With the doors damaged, the toxic chemicals they were supposed to contain within the ovens leaked out at an accelerated rate. The fumes should still have been captured by a giant ventilation hood that had been put in place to suck up emissions. But that system was broken, too, causing plumes of noxious smoke to drift across the city’s historically Black north side, as they had ... Read more ...
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Joe Manchin’s Price for Supporting the Climate Change Bill: A Natural Gas Pipeline in His Home State - Propublica (Aug 05, 2022) |
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To accommodate the West Virginia senator, Democratic leadership agreed to legislation streamlining permits for the often-stalled Mountain Valley Pipeline and removing jurisdiction from a court that keeps ruling against the project.
West Virginia’s Natural Gas Industry
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Mountain State Spotlight. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published.
From his Summers County, West Virginia, farmhouse, Mark Jarrell can see the Greenbrier River and, beyond it, the ridge that marks the Virginia border. Jarrell moved here nearly 20 ... Read more ...
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The Southwest's drought and fires are a window to our climate change future - Propublica (May 11, 2022) |
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In a Q&A with ProPublica, experts describe how a new climate reality threatens the Southwest, the fastest-growing region in the U.S.
The concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has reached its highest level in recorded human history. Again.
In April, the level of CO2 was 27% higher than it was 50 years ago, according to the latest data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. (Methane, a gas with about 85 times the near-term warming effect of CO2, has risen more than 16% since 1984, the first full year that NOAA collected data.)
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There's no cheap way to deal with the climate crisis - Propublica (Oct 28, 2021) |
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Warming will bring enormous economic costs. Cutting emissions now will save money later.
This article was co-published with The New York Times.
There will be no bargains with an overheating climate.
As President Joe Biden takes an unfinished plan for U.S. emissions cuts to a global climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, next week, Congress and the country remain hung up on what that agenda, wrapped in the Build Back Better Act, might cost.
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'Half of the family just disappeared overnight' - Propublica (Aug 19, 2021) |
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Following a 911 call about a family that had fainted, first responders arrived at the house and knocked on the door. No one answered, so they left. Inside, an entire family was being poisoned by carbon monoxide.
This article is co-published with The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan local newsroom that informs and engages with Texans. Sign up for The Brief weekly to get up to speed on their essential coverage of Texas issues.
It was also produced in partnership with NBC News.
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HOUSTON - It was 9:08 p.m. when Michael Negussie’s phone rang. Twenty minutes had passed since he called 911 asking for emergency ... Read more ...
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We reported on how California rarely cracks down on oil companies - Propublica (Jun 02, 2021) |
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After years of lax enforcement, California regulators slapped hefty fines on an oil company for nearly 600 violations. But concerns remain whether that penalty will ever be paid.
This story was co-published with The Desert Sun, a former member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network.
A south Los Angeles oil producer has been ordered by California’s top oil regulator to pay almost $1.5 million in fines for nearly 600 violations of state regulations, including continuing to operate aging, dangerous wells for nearly a year after losing approvals.
The actions against Nasco Petroleum come two months after The Desert Sun and ProPublica ... Read more ...
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The California Air Resources Board challenges our carbon credits investigations - Propublica (May 12, 2021) |
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The California Air Resources Board wrote a letter critiquing ProPublica stories that showed flaws in its carbon offset program. Here’s where we disagree with the points the board made.
The California Air Resources Board sent a letter to ProPublica challenging our recent stories on flaws with that state’s forest carbon offset program. Our investigation, which was co-reported and published with MIT Technology Review, reported on a recent study from the nonprofit CarbonPlan, which found that the program had issued up to 39 million carbon credits without real climate benefits.
The first story focused on the study’s main conclusions, and the ... Read more ...
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[The Massachusetts Audubon Society] promised to preserve wildlife - Propublica (May 10, 2021) |
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The Massachusetts Audubon Society has managed its land as wildlife habitat for years. Here’s how the carbon credits it sold may have fueled climate change.
This story was co-published with MIT Technology Review.
The Massachusetts Audubon Society has long managed its land in western Massachusetts as crucial wildlife habitat. Nature lovers flock to these forests to enjoy bird-watching and quiet hikes, with the occasional bobcat or moose sighting.
But in 2015, the conservation nonprofit presented California’s top climate regulator with a startling scenario: It could heavily log 9,700 acres of its preserved forests over the next few ... Read more ...
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Clean-energy loans trapped Black homeowners in debt - Propublica (May 06, 2021) |
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Lawmakers in Missouri are exploring ways to rein in the state’s clean-energy loan program, which ProPublica found disproportionately harms Black homeowners.
Officials in Missouri have begun to examine and are considering measures to rein in programs that make high-interest “clean energy” loans to homeowners in the state, after a ProPublica investigation found the programs disproportionately burden borrowers in predominantly Black neighborhoods.
The Missouri Senate on Tuesday voted 31-1 on a bill to require that residential Property Assessed Clean Energy programs be reviewed by the state Division of Finance at least every other year. ... Read more ...
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Natural gas is getting cheaper. Thousands are paying more to heat their homes anyway. - Propublica (Apr 17, 2021) |
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Charlotte Lane was a top lobbyist for utility companies. Now she regulates them. A little-known law she previously pushed has allowed them to charge West Virginians for expensive pipeline projects with little oversight and few consumer protections.
This story was co-published with Mountain State Spotlight, a new nonprofit newsroom covering West Virginia.
In September 2020, West Virginia’s chief utility regulator told the state’s natural gas customers that she had good news: Their bills were about to drop significantly thanks to the state’s drilling boom and the declining price of wholesale gas.
“I hope that this news will brighten your ... Read more ...
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Why there's so much investigative journalism about utility companies - Propublica (Mar 25, 2021) |
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Power and water touch the lives of everyone. Someone has to hold the companies that deliver them to account.
Examining the News
This column was originally published in Not Shutting Up, a newsletter about the issues facing journalism and democracy. Sign up for it here.
I have a confession to make. I love stories about utility companies. Always have. Always will.
There are several reasons. First, and perhaps foremost, they check the most important box for being the focus of investigative reporting: The services they deliver – electricity and water – touch the lives of nearly everyone. And, they are almost always monopolies. When the ... Read more ...
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Lawsuit reveals new allegations against PG&E contractor accused of fraud - Propublica (Feb 26, 2021) |
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Former PG&E employees are accused of taking bribes to funnel business to a waste-hauling company.
Inside California’s Toxic Hauling Industry
This article was produced in partnership with The Bay City News Foundation, which was a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network.
Utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric accused two of its former employees of accepting bribes to funnel business to a waste-hauling company after the Camp Fire, the deadliest wildfire in California history.
One supervisor for PG&E allegedly had his driveway paved on the power company’s dime. A subordinate is accused of having received a bribe in an ... Read more ...
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'Power companies get exactly what they want': how Texas repeatedly failed to protect its power grid against extreme weather - Propublica (Feb 22, 2021) |
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Texas regulators and lawmakers knew about the grid’s vulnerabilities for years, but time and again they furthered the interests of large electricity providers.
This article is co-published with The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan local newsroom that informs and engages with Texans. Sign up for The Brief weekly to get up to speed on their essential coverage of Texas issues.
In January 2014, power plants owned by Texas’ largest electricity producer buckled under frigid temperatures. Its generators failed more than a dozen times in 12 hours, helping to bring the state’s electric grid to the brink of collapse.
The incident was the ... Read more ...
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The EPA refuses to reduce pollutants linked to coronavirus deaths - Propublica (Oct 21, 2020) |
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Oct 21, 2020 · Particulate matter kills people. That was true before the pandemic, and new research has tied it to coronavirus deaths. But the EPA is ignoring scientists who say stricter particulate matter limits could prevent tens of thousands of early deaths.
This story was co-published with The Times-Picayune and The Advocate.
In April, as coronavirus cases multiplied across the country, the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rejected scientists’ advice to tighten air pollution standards for particulate matter, or soot.
In the next few weeks, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler likely will reaffirm that decision with a final ruling, despite emerging evidence that ... | By Lisa Song and Lylla Younes Read more ...
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Cap and trade is supposed to solve climate change, but oil and gas company emissions are up - Propublica (Nov 18, 2019) |
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Nov 18, 2019 · ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica's Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published.
Gov. Jerry Brown took the podium at a July 2017 press conference to lingering applause after a steady stream of politicians praised him for helping to extend California's signature climate policy for another decade. Brown, flanked by the U.S. and California flags, with a backdrop of the gleaming San Francisco Bay, credited the hard work of the VIPs seated in the crowd. "It's people in industry, and they're here!" he said. "Shall we mention them? People representing oil, agriculture, ... | By Lisa Song Read more ...
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The Word Nobody Wanted to Say at the UN Climate Action Summit - Propublica (Oct 02, 2019) |
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Oct 02, 2019 · ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica's Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published.
The leaders of more than 70 countries have made a promise that sounds nothing short of revolutionary. By 2050, they say they will reach "net zero," putting no more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than can be somehow canceled out.
While the net zero buzzword was as ubiquitous at last week's United Nations Climate Action Summit as the presence of teenage activist Greta Thunberg, the details of how the countries would reach their ambitious goals were elusive. There was little talk ... | By Lisa Song Read more ...
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Welcome to the Greenbrier, the Governor-Owned Luxury Resort Filled With Conflicts of Interest ProPublica - Propublica (Aug 15, 2019) |
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Aug 15, 2019 · This article was produced in partnership with the Charleston Gazette-Mail, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network.
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On a sunny Monday afternoon two and a half years ago, Jim Justice, the wealthiest man in West Virginia, took the oath of office as the state's 36th governor.
Standing at the base of the Capitol steps in Charleston, he assured his fellow West Virginians that his vast business empire of coal mines, vacation resorts and agricultural companies — ... | By Ken Ward Jr Read more ...
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When fracking companies own the gas beneath your land - Propublica (Jul 11, 2019) |
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Jul 11, 2019 · This article was produced in partnership with the Charleston Gazette-Mail, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network.
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When Beth Crowder and David Wentz bought their 351-acre property in West Virginia in 1975, they knew that they would only own the surface land, not the minerals beneath it. But it didn't bother them.
"They showed us gas wells, which were these two tracks in a field where a vehicle would go to, to check on them monthly or even less often," ... | By Mayeta Clark Read more ...
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Court to big fracking company: trespassing still exists — even for you - Propublica (Jun 06, 2019) |
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Jun 06, 2019 · This article was produced in partnership with the Charleston Gazette-Mail, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network.
Seven years ago this month, Beth Crowder and David Wentz told natural gas giant EQT Corp. that it did not have permission to come onto their West Virginia farm to drill for the natural gas beneath neighboring properties.
EQT had a lease that entitled the company to the gas directly beneath their farm, but it also wanted to use a new, 20-acre well pad to gather gas from 3,000 acres of adjacent or nearby leases.
The company ignored their warnings. It built roads and drilled a well, and it put in horizontal pipes stretching for miles ... | By Kate Mishkin, Ken Ward Jr Read more ...
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New Jersey's $300 million nuclear power bailout is facing a court challenge--does it have a chance? - Propublica (May 16, 2019) |
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May 16, 2019 · ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom based in New York. Sign up for ProPublica's Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published.
When the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities approved $300 million in subsidies last month for nuclear plants operated by the energy company PSEG, it wasn't a surprise. The company had pumped millions into lobbying, and it threatened to close the facilities, which are seen as a vital piece of the state's clean energy agenda.
But some of the board members who voted for subsidies had openly questioned the need for them, echoing concerns expressed by the board's staff and objections raised by ... | By Talia Buford Read more ...
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In a time of cheap fossil fuels, nuclear power companies are seeking- and getting- big subsidies - Propublica (Apr 17, 2019) |
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Apr 17, 2019 · The energy company PSEG had a simple message for the New Jersey Legislature as it weighed the fate of three nuclear plants in the state.
"What's good for New Jersey is what's good for PSEG," Ralph Izzo, the company's chairman, president and CEO, told the Legislature at a December 2017 hearing in Trenton. "What's bad for New Jersey is bad for PSEG."
And with rock bottom natural gas prices, costly safety upgrades looming and energy usage flat, the outlook for the plants was bleak, he said. Within two years, the Salem 1, Salem 2 and Hope Creek nuclear plants in South Jersey would be "cash negative" and the company would have to close them, Izzo said.
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"Jobs Alliance" Backed by Coal Giant Loses Bid To Stop West Virginia Natural Gas Plant - Propublica (Mar 09, 2019) |
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Mar 09, 2019 · Series: The New Power Brokers
A group backed by Murray Energy has tried to block gas plants in West Virginia. The state Supreme Court rejected arguments against one plant, saying it will help the local economy.
West Virginia's Natural Gas Industry
This article was produced in partnership with the Charleston Gazette-Mail, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network.
A group funded by coal giant Murray Energy has lost its latest court battle to block construction of new natural gas power plants in West Virginia.
The state Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed the state Public Service Commission's approval of Brooke County Power LLC's gas ... | By Ken Ward Jr Read more ...
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Large Natural Gas Producer to Pay West Virginia Plaintiffs $53.5 Million to Settle Royalty Dispute - ProPublica - Propublica (Feb 13, 2019) |
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Feb 13, 2019 · Settlement payments will be calculated based on such factors as the amount of gas produced and sold from each well, as well as how much was deducted from royalty payments. The number of people who submit claims could also affect settlement payments. Each member of the class that submits a claim will receive a minimum payment of at least $200. The settlement allows lawyers to collect up to one-third of the settlement, or roughly $18 million, subject to approval from the court.
The settlement is pending before U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey in the Northern District of West Virginia. The judge gave it preliminary approval on Monday, which begins a process for public ... | By Kate Mishkin, Ken Ward Jr Read more ...
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"Jobs Alliance Backed by Coal Giant Loses Bid To Stop West Virginia Natural Gas Plant - ProPublica - Propublica (Nov 02, 2018) |
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Nov 02, 2018 · This article was produced in partnership with the Charleston Gazette-Mail, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network.
A group funded by coal giant Murray Energy has lost its latest court battle to block construction of new natural gas power plants in West Virginia.
The state Supreme Court on Thursday affirmedthe state Public Service Commission's approval of Brooke County Power LLC's gas plant, turning aside objections by the Ohio Valley Jobs Alliance and saying the plant's developers had "substantially complied" with state power plant siting rules.
Separately, the jobs alliance appears to have abandoned challenges of gas plant permits issued to ... | By Ken Ward Jr Read more ...
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Undercooked: An Expensive Push to Save Lives and Protect the Planet Falls Short - ProPublica - Propublica (Jul 12, 2018) |
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Jul 12, 2018 · For many decades, it was one of the globe's most underappreciated health menaces: household pollution in developing countries, much of it smoke from cooking fires.
The dangerous smoke - from wood, dung or charcoal fires used by 3 billion people in villages and slums across Africa, Central America and Asia - was estimated by health officials to shorten millions of lives every year. The World Health Organization in 2004 labeled household pollution, "The Killer in the Kitchen." Women and children nearest the hearth paid the greatest price.
If the health costs were not ominous enough, many environmental advocates worried that what was known as "biomass" cooking also had ... | By Sara Morrison Read more ...
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What Its Like Inside the Trump Administrations Regulatory Rollback at the EPA ProPublica - Propublica (Dec 18, 2017) |
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Dec 18, 2017 · The 45th President and His Administration
Betsy Southerland knew something was wrong the moment she walked into her office at the Environmental Protection Agency.
It was 8 a.m. on a Thursday in April and already, her team was waiting at her door, computer printouts in hand.
For months, staffers in the Office of Water had been in help-desk mode, fielding calls from states implementing a federal rule that set new limits on water-borne pollution released by coal-fired power plants. The rule on what is known as "effluent” had been hammered out over a decade of scientific study and intense negotiations involving utility companies, White House officials and environmental ... | By Talia Buford Read more ...
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Has the moment for environmental justice been lost? - Propublica (Jul 24, 2017) |
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Jul 24, 2017 · Given how President Donald Trump has taken aim at the Environmental Protection Agency with regulatory rollbacks and deep proposed budget cuts, it may come as no surprise that the Office of Environmental Justice is on the chopping block.
This tiny corner of the EPA was established 24 years ago to advocate for minorities and the poor, populations most likely to face the consequences of pollution and least able to advocate for themselves.
It does so by acting as a middleman, connecting vulnerable communities with those who can help them. It heads a group that advises EPA officials about injustices and another that brings together representatives from other federal agencies ... | By Talia Buford Read more ...
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There Are Lots of Climate Uncertainties. Let's Acknowledge and Plan for Them With Honesty - Propublica (May 02, 2017) |
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May 02, 2017 · Last fall, I attended a meeting of the Society for Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty, hosted by the World Bank. The small, somewhat ad-hoc organization has a quirky name but an urgent goal — helping governments, companies and international agencies grapple with complicated problems with enormous and enduring consequences, from forging climate change policy to avoiding the collapse of a financial system.
Given that the workshop took place one week after the 2016 election, and given the dismissive stance on climate change of the president-elect, climate policy was a big theme, as were the limits of predictability.
What was rare about the conversations and ... | By Andrew Revkin Read more ...
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As seas around Mar-a- Lago rise, Trump's cuts could damage local climate work - Propublica (Mar 31, 2017) |
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Mar 31, 2017 · Climate change isn't a nebulous threat for Palm Beach County, Florida, where sea creatures swim through driveways during seasonal king tides that flood low-lying streets. For years, the county has worked to address the problem by mapping flood risk, upgrading coastal storm protections and creating a regional climate action plan with three other counties. Later this year, local officials hope to host a sea level workshop by Thomas Ruppert, an attorney with the National Sea Grant College Program.
But if the most prominent resident of Palm Beach County has his way, Sea Grant would cease to exist. President Trump's proposed 2018 budget seeks to eliminate the $73 million program, ... | By Lisa Song Read more ...
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Trump’s Defense Secretary Cites Climate Change as National Security Challenge - Propublica (Mar 15, 2017) |
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Mar 15, 2017 · Trump’s secretary of defense James Mattis believes climate change is a threat to American interests abroad and the Pentagon’s assets everywhere, a position that appears at odds with the views of the US president and many in his administration, ProPublica reports. Mattis told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he believes in climate change and recognises it as a threat, in unpublished written testimony in response to questions submitted to him by Democratic members of the committee. “Climate change is impacting stability in areas of the world where our troops are operating today”, he wrote, continuing, “It is appropriate for the Combatant Commands to ... | By Andrew Revkin Read more ...
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Will Trump's climate team accept any 'Social Cost of Carbon'? - Propublica (Jan 11, 2017) |
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Jan 11, 2017 · President-elect Donald Trump and members of his proposed cabinet and transition team have taken aim at many of President Obama's climate and clean-energy policies, programs and legacies — from the Paris Agreement to the Clean Power Plan.
But there's probably no more consequential and contentious a target for the incoming administration than an arcane metric called the "social cost of carbon."
This value is the government's best estimate of how much society gains over the long haul by cutting each ton of the heat-trapping carbon-dioxide emissions scientists have linked to global warming.
Currently set at $36 per ton of carbon dioxide, the metric is produced using a ... | By Andrew Revkin Read more ...
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