"Climate Change Is Already Rejiggering Where Americans Live"
"Some Hurricane Ida survivors may have no choice but to leave. Sooner or later, people across the country will be in the same bind."
Source: Atlantic, 09/06/2021
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"Nearly 1 In 3 Americans Experienced A Weather Disaster This Summer"
"Nearly 1 in 3 Americans live in a county hit by a weather disaster in the past three months, according to a new Washington Post analysis of federal disaster declarations. On top of that, 64 percent live in places that experienced a multiday heat wave — phenomena that are not officially deemed disasters but are considered the most dangerous form of extreme weather."
Source: Washington Post, 09/06/2021"Joe Manchin’s Dirty Empire"
"The West Virginia Senator Reaps Big Financial Rewards From a Network of Coal Companies With Grim Records of Pollution, Safety Violations, and Death"
Source: The Intercept, 09/06/2021Dutch Watchdog Tells Shell to Stop ‘Carbon Neutral' Greenwashing Ads
"In the Netherlands, officials ruled that Shell has to halt ads that claim customers can render their fuel purchases “carbon neutral” by paying for carbon offsets. The reasoning is pretty straightforward: Shell has, uh, no proof that their claims were true."
Source: Earther, 09/06/2021"Living In A Sea Of Trash: Roma Fight Environmental Racism In Romania"
"Roma communities driven from Romania's booming city of Cluj-Napoca say the authorities treat them like human garbage. Pollution from a nearby landfill is damaging their health."
Source: DW, 09/06/2021"Komodo Dragon In Danger Of Extinction As Sea Levels Rise"
"The komodo dragon, the world’s largest lizard, is threatened with extinction as rising water levels driven by the climate crisis shrink its habitat, according to the latest “red list” update."
Source: Reuters, 09/06/2021"43 Die as Deadliest Storm Since Sandy Devastates the Northeast"
"Three days after Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana, its weakened remnants tore into the Northeast and claimed at least 43 lives across New York, New Jersey and two other states in an onslaught that ended Thursday and served as an ominous sign of climate change’s capacity to wreak new kinds of havoc."
Source: NYTimes, 09/03/2021"St. John Residents Plead For Housing Aid Ahead Of Joe Biden's Visit"
"Neisha Perrilloux sat in 93 degree heat outside her powerless, storm-damaged apartment on Thursday trying to catch a breeze and wishing she were anywhere but LaPlace."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 09/03/2021"Feds Responding To Reports Of Oil, Chemical Spills After Ida"
"Federal and state agencies say they are responding to reports of oil and chemical spills resulting from Hurricane Ida following the publication of aerial photos by The Associated Press."
Source: AP, 09/03/2021"Offshore Drilling Ban and Mining Curbs Edge Closer to Passage"
"Legislation to block oil drilling in most U.S. waters and Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge edged closer to passage Thursday, as the House Natural Resources Committee rejected more than a dozen changes sought by Republicans."
Source: Bloomberg, 09/03/2021"Climate Change Will Hit Racial Minorities Harder, Analysis Finds"
"Racial minorities in the United States will bear a disproportionate burden of the negative health and environmental impacts from a warming planet, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday, including more deaths from extreme heat and property loss from flooding in the wake of sea-level rise."
Source: AP, 09/03/2021NYC's Subway Flooding Not Fluke, But Reality For Cities In Warming World
"Global warming is driving dangerous and disruptive flooding in underground rail systems around the world. Flooded tunnels and stations have disrupted service and stranded passengers in Boston, London, San Francisco, Taipei, Bangkok, Washington, D.C., and a host of other cities in recent years."
Source: NPR, 09/03/2021"Pennsylvania’s Carbon Plan Clears Last Regulatory Hurdle"
"The centerpiece of Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to fight climate change passed its last regulatory hurdle Wednesday, in a hard-fought bid to make Pennsylvania the first major fossil fuel state to adopt a carbon pricing policy."
Source: AP, 09/03/2021Climate-Driven Extreme Heat Threatens $500 Bln In New U.S. Costs By 2050
"Threats to agriculture, construction and service workers could cause hefty annual setbacks to the U.S. economy - and more deaths - by mid-century, researchers warn".
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 09/03/2021"Climate Change Is Bankrupting America’s Small Towns"
"Repeated shocks from hurricanes, fires and floods are pushing some rural communities, already struggling economically, to the brink of financial collapse."
Source: NYTimes, 09/03/2021
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