Reversing Trump, White House Moves To Weigh Climate In Infrastructure
"Federal regulators have been instructed to consider planet-warming pollution before approving large projects like pipelines and airports."
Source: HuffPost, 01/11/2023
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"N.Y. Weighs East Coast’s First Statewide Building Gas Ban"
"New York’s Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul called yesterday for the nation’s most aggressive ban on fossil fuels in new buildings, setting the stage for a possible showdown with the gas industry and state lawmakers."
Source: E&E News, 01/11/2023
"Governments Urged To Confront Effects Of Climate Crisis On Migrants"
"Governments must get to grips with the links between the climate crisis and the plight of migrants around the world, experts have said, as increasingly extreme weather is a mounting danger to already vulnerable displaced people, and is potentially pushing more people to flee their homes."
Source: Guardian, 01/11/2023
California Death Toll Reaches 17 As Floods And Extreme Wind Wreak Havoc
"The latest in a series of intense winter storms continued to lash Northern California on Tuesday, bringing thunderstorms, heavy rain, wind and hail to the waterlogged region as the death toll from the extreme weather climbs."
Source: LA Times, 01/11/2023
Winning Over Editors and Others with Award Winners’ Multimedia Nuggets
If you’re looking to engage key constituencies for your journalism — whether editors, sources, students or people who have been marginalized — a new set of short videos from award-winning journalists (like KESQ's Angela Chen, at left) can serve as a helpful resource. Inside Story has a roadmap of how to make smart use of these video nuggets to, for instance, convince newsroom powerbrokers to give you more time and support for ambitious stories.
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NASA Set To Ditch Satellite-Based Environmental Data Source
Instrumentation on the International Space Station that gathers 3-D images of forest canopies and other environmental data is scheduled to soon be junked. But the move is provoking an outcry from scientists and pushback from some politicians. Reporter’s Toolbox examines what the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation does and how journalists might make use of it, while it lasts.
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Water-Sharing in the West: An Urgent and Complicated Environmental Story
Water has always been a precious commodity in the western states. Now, with rapid population growth and a drying climate, the way this resource is shared and distributed is becoming more contentious across the region. Freelance journalist Jennifer Oldham talks about the tensions between supply and demand and how to drill down into water rights laws and policies.
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On Flooded Island Of Homeless People, Climate Change Gets Real
"The raft to Bannon Island does not inspire confidence. But Dyrone Woods climbed aboard the piece of crumbling Styrofoam secured to the remains of a wood pallet anyway."
Source: LA Times, 01/10/2023
Louisiana Coastal Plan Update Promises Billions In Hurricane-Damage Savings
"A draft update of the state’s $50 billion coastal master plan predicts that 61 new projects to build or protect land, a dozen new levees, and new efforts to elevate, flood-proof or relocate flood-prone homes will reduce annual hurricane storm surge damages by at least $11 billion per year by 2073."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 01/10/2023
"U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rose 1.3% In 2022 - Rhodium"
"Greenhouse gas emissions increased slightly from the previous year in 2022 by 1.3%, keeping the U.S. just 15.5% below 2005 levels and off track to meet its global pledge to slash emissions 50-52% by 2030, according to estimates published on Tuesday by research group Rhodium."
Source: Reuters, 01/10/2023
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