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    Rising Rents, Hurricane Damage Drive Homelessness Crisis in Louisiana

    February 26, 2021
     
    February 26, 2021
    Only six months after seeing their homes destroyed by back-to-back hurricanes, many renters in the industrial heartland of southwest Louisiana have found themselves literally ...
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    Russian Veto Blocks UN Security Council Action on Climate

    February 24, 2021
     
    February 24, 2021
    The sitting president of the United Nations Security Council was left “stabbing at a broken panic button” yesterday after Russia’s veto threat prevented the ...
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    Off-Gassing Upholstery, Highway Emissions Make Cars Toxic Inside and Out

    February 24, 2021
     
    February 24, 2021
    The average commute time in California is 30 minutes, and growing. And according to a new study, the half-hour spent in vehicles that off-gas ...
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    UN Report Urges End to ‘Suicidal’ War on Nature

    February 22, 2021
     
    February 22, 2021
    A landmark UN report has delivered a shattering synopsis of the three intertwined emergencies facing humanity—the climate crisis, a devastated natural world, and catastrophic ...
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    Texas Blackouts Highlight Disaster Risk for U.S., Canadian Utilities

    February 22, 2021
     
    Primary Author Compiled by Mitchell Beer @mitchellbeer
    February 22, 2021
    With many Texans still scrambling to recover from a week of freezing cold weather, power blackouts, and water shortages, early analysis in the United ...
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    BREAKING: Texas Was ‘Seconds and Minutes’ from Months-Long Blackouts, Grid Operator Admits

    February 19, 2021
     
    Primary Author Compiled by Mitchell Beer @mitchellbeer
    February 19, 2021
    At least 47 people were dead, hundreds of thousands of homes were still without power, half of the state was under a boil water ...
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    Missouri Solar Installer Reports ‘Overwhelming’ Interest as Customers Face Rolling Blackouts

    February 19, 2021
     
    February 19, 2021
    Though politicians in Texas might insist on wrongly blaming renewable energy for the devastated condition of the state’s power grid, people in northwestern Missouri ...
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    Brutal Cold Snap Triggers Rolling Blackouts, Drives Up Power Costs as Texas Gas Plants Fail

    February 17, 2021
     
    February 17, 2021
    A brutal blast of cold, winter weather this week killed at least 14 people in four U.S. states, dropped snow and ice on an ...
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    Bar Association Resolution Calls for ‘Climate-Conscious Lawyering’

    Full Story: Lawyers for Climate Justice @Lawyers4Climate

    February 17, 2021
     
    Primary Author David Estrin
    February 17, 2021
    The Canadian Bar Association is expected to vote on a climate leadership resolution at its annual meeting later today. In this guest post, an ...
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    Climate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDrought, Famine & WildfiresFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationInternationalInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatorySevere Storms & FloodingUnited States

    Deliver Real Protections for Climate Migrants, Refugee Group Urges Biden Administration

    February 17, 2021
     
    February 17, 2021
    As work begins on a new climate change and migration report commissioned by the Biden administration, Refugees International is urging the White House to ...
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    Citizen ‘Climate Brigades’ in Ecuador Build Resilience, Cohesion

    February 17, 2021
     
    February 17, 2021
    The citizen brigades of Guayaquil, Ecuador, were established to help the city’s poor find safety during extreme weather events. But the results have gone ...
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    Amtrak One? With a Rail Enthusiast in the White House, Transit Advocate Eyes a Renaissance

    February 17, 2021
     
    February 17, 2021
    Through a three-decade career in the U.S. Senate, President Joe Biden famously made the commute from Delaware to Washington, DC by rail, and his ...
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    Appalachia Counties Lose Jobs, Population Despite Massive Fracking Boom

    February 15, 2021
     
    February 15, 2021
    The 22 counties in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio that have been at the centre of an extraordinary, decade-long fracking boom have seen very ...
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    Indigenous Clean Energy Seeks Federal Endowment to Build ‘Decolonized Energy Future’

    February 15, 2021
     
    February 15, 2021
    With nearly 200 renewable energy projects in progress, each of them generating more than a megawatt of electricity at full capacity, Indigenous Clean Energy ...
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    Alberta, B.C. Receive New Funding Under Federal Oil Well Cleanup Program

    Full Story: The Canadian Press @CdnPressNews

    February 14, 2021
     
    February 14, 2021
    The Alberta, British Columbia, and federal governments have unveiled a new round of funding to help clean up inactive oil and gas sites in ...
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    Wildfires Deliver Economic Hit After Flames Go Out

    February 25, 2021
     
    February 25, 2021
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    U.S. Flood Damage Costs to Rise 61% by 2051

    February 25, 2021
     
    February 25, 2021
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    Survey Shows Australians Fear Climate More than Catching COVID-19

    February 25, 2021
     
    February 25, 2021
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    India’s Himalayan Flood Points to Looming Climate Emergency

    February 25, 2021
     
    February 25, 2021
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    Coastal GasLink Restarts Construction with Approved Pandemic Plan

    February 23, 2021
     
    February 23, 2021
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    Sea Level Rise Threatens U.S. Nuclear Waste Sites

    February 23, 2021
     
    February 23, 2021
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    Illegal Logging Adds to Malaria Threat in Venezuela

    February 23, 2021
     
    February 23, 2021
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    Delayed Rains Point to Future Drought Risk in Vulnerable Regions

    February 21, 2021
     
    February 21, 2021
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    Pandemic Shows Path for Countries to Tackle Climate, but ‘Fractures’ International Cooperation

    February 21, 2021
     
    February 21, 2021
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    Cities Coping with Waves of Incoming Climate Migrants

    February 21, 2021
     
    February 21, 2021
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    Agencies Aren’t Disclosing COVID Hospitalizations among U.S. Wildfire Fighters

    February 18, 2021
     
    February 18, 2021
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    Trump Environmental Policies Caused 22,000 Deaths, Lancet Study Shows

    February 16, 2021
     
    February 16, 2021
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    Work-from-Home Has Power Corp. Dumping Penthouse Suite in Downtown Toronto Office Tower

    February 16, 2021
     
    February 16, 2021
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    Air Pollution Increases Risk of Irreversible Vision Loss

    February 16, 2021
     
    February 16, 2021
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    SolarAid Delivers Radios for Vulnerable Students in Malawi

    February 14, 2021
     
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