"Inside The War Against Southern California’s Urban Coyotes"
"Kristin Muller said she was sickened by the sight of the half-eaten remains of her cherished cat, Milkshake, on a neighbor’s lawn."
Source: LA Times, 09/21/2022
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"Fiona Barrels Toward Turks And Caicos As Cat. 3 Hurricane"
"Hurricane Fiona barreled toward the Turks and Caicos Islands on Tuesday as a Category 3 storm, prompting the government to impose a curfew."
Source: AP, 09/20/2022Vulnerable Nations Demand Global Tax To Pay For Climate Loss And Damage
"The world’s most vulnerable countries are preparing to take on the richest economies with a demand for urgent finance – potentially including new taxes on fossil fuels or flying – for the irrecoverable losses they are suffering from the climate crisis, leaked documents show."
Source: Guardian, 09/20/2022"Even Before Fiona, Puerto Rico’s Power Grid Was Poised For Failure"
"The hurricane winds that knocked out power to the entire island of Puerto Rico over the weekend encountered an electrical grid that experts liken to a house of cards: a fragile, decrepit, patchwork system running on old equipment that has failed to substantially modernize since the U.S. territory’s deadliest storm, Hurricane Maria, swept through five years before."
Source: Washington Post, 09/20/2022"Climate Law Spurs CCS At New West Virginia Gas Plant"
"Competitive Power Ventures Inc. announced plans Friday to build a multibillion-dollar natural gas power plant in West Virginia with carbon capture technology, saying the project would not be possible without the new climate and energy law."
Source: E&E News, 09/20/2022"GOP’s Bad Blood Threatens Manchin Side Deal"
"Senate Republicans are threatening to sink Sen. Joe Manchin’s side deal on permitting reform, partly because they are still angry over the West Virginia Democrat’s flip-flop on the sweeping climate, health and tax bill that Congress passed last month."
Source: The Hill, 09/20/2022"GAO: Government Must Boost Climate Resilience"
"The federal government faces increasing fiscal exposure from climate change, according to a new watchdog report released Monday."
Source: E&E News, 09/20/2022"Pentagon Shift to PFAS-Free Foam Spurring ‘Tidal Wave’ of Change"
"Kevin Ferrara spent his career working around a wispy white chemical foam that could douse the hottest jet-fuel fires he fought, and was still considered harmless."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 09/20/2022"State of Unease: Colorado Basin Tribes Without Water Rights"
"Garnett Querta slips on his work gloves as he shifts the big rig he’s driving into park. Within seconds, he unrolls a fire hose and opens a hydrant, sending water flowing into one of the plastic tanks on the truck’s flat bed."
Source: AP, 09/20/2022World’s Oldest Winged Insect Is in Trouble. How Frightened Should We Be?
"Mayflies are among nature’s best environmental sentinels — and their current message to us is grim".
Source: Washington Post, 09/20/2022"This Map Can Tell You When Fall Foliage Is Peaking In 2022"
"Fall's dazzling colors will soon transform woods and forests around the U.S., delighting spectators — if they can figure out when to see the fall foliage at the peak of their transformation."
Source: NPR, 09/20/2022Puerto Rico: Hurricane Fiona Causes Territory-Wide Blackout, Flooding
"A fragile power grid in Puerto Rico in the path of Hurricane Fiona has created an island-wide crisis, as the territory's electrical system went completely out of service due to Fiona, Governor Pedro Pierluisi announced."
Source: AccuWeather, 09/19/2022Storm Lashes Alaskan Shore, Bringing Severe Flooding And Evacuations
"The remnants of Typhoon Merbok have been battering Alaska’s western coast since late Friday, bringing flooding powerful enough to uproot buildings and forcing residents to seek shelter."
Source: CNN, 09/19/2022"Permitting Overhaul In Peril As Funding Deadline Looms"
"The Democrats’ permitting overhaul plans hangs in the balance this week as lawmakers inch toward the Sept. 30 deadline to pass a government funding bill to prevent a shutdown."
Source: E&E News, 09/19/2022"The U.S. Forgot Lake Charles, And It Could Happen Again Elsewhere"
"Two years after Hurricane Laura, federal aid to help with long-term rebuilding still has not arrived".
Source: Nola.com, 09/19/2022
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