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08/03/2020
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Life and Death in Our Hot Future Will Be Shaped by Today’s Income Inequality
Where someone lives and the income inequality that they face today will determine, more than anything else, whether that person dies from heat, a new paper from the Climate Impact Lab warns. People in poor regions who benefit less from investment in air conditioning, protective infrastructure and elder care will die from extreme heat at much higher rates compared to wealthier peers.
(Bloomberg)
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Big Oil Took a Big Hit from the Coronavirus, Earnings Reports Show
The world's leading oil companies have reported billions in losses and are cutting billions more in spending as global oil demand remains low. Those latest earnings reports reveal the scale of the damage inflicted on the industry by the coronavirus pandemic and highlight the rift between American and European companies over the risks from climate change, and how to address them.
(InsideClimate News)
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More Coal Power Generation Closed Than Opened Around the World This Year, Research Finds
The number of coal-fired power plants operating around the world fell for the first time on record over the first six months of the year, new research found, with plant closures mostly in the U.S. and Europe outstripping new plants being commissioned, primarily in Asia. China continues to dominate coal power development, hosting almost 90 percent of the plants under construction.
(The Guardian)
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With Big Rallies Cancelled, Young Climate Activists Are Adapting Election Tactics
Nearly a year has passed since millions of people around the globe marched with youth to demand immediate action on curbing climate change. But with the pandemic forcing people indoors, youth climate activists have turned their attention to the presidential election, campaigning with phone banks, social media and friend-to-friend organizing, The Guardian reports.
(The Guardian)
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Tired of Wells That Threaten Residents’ Health, a Small California Town Takes on the Oil Industry
For years, residents of Arvin, California—most of whom are low-income and Latino—have been fighting to keep oil and gas development out of their neighborhoods. Now they're taking their fight statewide, where more than two million Californians live within a quarter mile of operational oil and gas wells, which release a toxic mix of air pollutants.
(InsideClimate News)
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Major News Outlets Are Handing the Mic to Big Business on Climate Issues
While the days of false equivalency in climate change journalism appear to be in the past, mainstream media outlets still disproportionately amplify the views of businesses and coalitions pushing back on climate action, a new study says. The media trend allows a few powerful and wealthy groups to define the debate on how to address global warming, researchers say.
(Popular Science)
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Latest Trump Proposal on Endangered Species Could Limit Future Habitat, Critics Say
A new proposal from the Trump administration that defines habitat under the Endangered Species Act would limit the areas species will have to recover, environmental groups say. The groups say the new definition being proposed by the Fish and Wildlife Service will allow the agency to block attempts to set aside land that isn't currently habitat, but might be needed in the future as the climate changes.
(The Hill)
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Tropical Storm Isaias Grazes Florida, Heads up East Coast
The Florida coast looked set to avoid major damage late on Sunday, with Tropical Storm Isaias keeping offshore as it rumbles north. But forecasters warn that it could strengthen to a hurricane by the time it reaches the Carolinas on Monday night, packing heavy winds and rain.
(Reuters)
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