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PHOTOS FROM THE FIELD: Week of March 1 – 5, 2021
PHOTOS FROM THE FIELD
Bloomberg – Living With Yesterday’s Tech, Built for Last Century’s Climate
Extreme weather is starting to reveal how older infrastructure isn’t designed for the new normal.
People seeking shelter from freezing temperatures at a makeshift warming shelter at San Antonio’s Travis Park Methodist Church on Feb. 16. Photographer: Eric Gay/AP Photo
TOP STORIES/HEADLINES: Week of March 1 – 5, 2021
TOP STORIES
Indian Country Today – USDA puts brakes on Oak Flat transfer – for now
NY Times – Haaland, With a Key Vote in Her Column, Appears Headed for Confirmation
US EPA – EPA Announces Availability of Up to $6 Million in Annual Environmental Justice Grants
US News – Johnson & Johnson Virus Vaccine Ships
Greenwire – Environmental Justice advisors eye more muscular agency role
Vox – The Fauci of climate change? Gina McCarthy is in charge of Biden’s massive climate agenda.
Ambient Air Quality/EPA/NTAA/Tribes
Smithsonian Magazine – How Navajo Physicians are Battling the COVID-19 Pandemic
Grist – Inside Biden’s uphill battle to restore the EPA after Trump
Indianz.com – Southern Ute Tribe confirms discovery of COVID-19 variant
US News – What to Know About the Variant in California
NPR – As Fires Worsen, A Mental Health Crisis For Those Battling Them
E&E – Biden raises key metric for greenhouse gases
High Country News – Mountaintop removal threatens traditional Blackfoot territory
Vice – Carbon Monoxide Poisonings Skyrocket in Texas as People Seek Warmth
National Association of Clean Air Agencies – Washington Update
Climate Change/Energy
NY Times – Reversing Trump, Interior Department Moves Swiftly on Climate Change
The Washington Post – Biden is hiking the cost of carbon. It will change how the U.S. tackles global warming.
The Atlantic – Texas’s Disaster Is Over. The Fallout Is Just Beginning.
Gizmodo – A Huge Red Flag Just Popped Up in a Little-Studies Region of Antarctica
Yale Climate Connections – COVID recovery packages should include climate solutions, researchers say
AP – InvestigateWest: Cascadia mapping shows climate inequities
The Wall Street Journal – Texas Electric Bills Were $28 Billion Higher Under Deregulation
Nexus – Extreme Heat, Driven by Climate Change, Threatens Postal Workers
AP – USPS selects Oshkosh Defense to Build greener mail truck
Toxics/Mobile Sources
Reuters – Betting on death of petrol cars, Volvo to go all electric by 2030
Indian Country Today – Sex trafficking sting nets Enbridge pipeline workers
High Country News – A crude virus: How ‘man camps’ can cause a COVID surge
The Washington Post – A lesson in electric school buses
NY Times – How Green Are Electric Vehicles?
The Verge – Left out of boil water orders, some Texans may need to test wells
Inside Climate News – Maryland’s Capital City Joins a Ling Line of Litigants Seeking Climate-Related Damages from the Fossil Fuel Industry
Indoor Air Quality
NY Times – Why Opening Windows Is a Key to Reopening Schools
Green and Save – CDC Guidance for IAQ
KHTS Radio – Get Healthier Indoor Air Quality In Your Home
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PHOTOS FROM THE FIELD: Week of February 24, 2021
PHOTOS FROM THE FIELD
NPR – Interior Nominee Deb Haaland Faces Tough Questions on Climate Goals
Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., during her Senate hearing Tuesday to be Interior Secretary. If confirmed, she would be the first Native American to hold the post. Jim Watson/AP
TOP STORIES/HEADLINES: Week of February 24, 2021
TOP STORIES
AP – Indian Country gripped by Haaland hearing for top US post
The Guardian – Air Pollution Significantly Raises Risk of Infertility Study Finds
The White House – Executive Order on tackling the climate crisis at home and abroad
Ambient Air Quality/EPA/NTAA/Tribes
The Guardian – ‘Piecing together a broken heart’: Native Americans rebuild territories they lost
EDF – Millions of Pounds of Air Pollution Released Because of Grid Failure, Freeze in Texas
Grist – Air pollution kills. Making that official can help us tackle it.
Stanford News – Air pollution puts children at higher risk of disease in adulthood, according to Stanford researchers and others
Air Quality News – Transforming humans’ relationship with nature is key
Sonoma Index-Tribune – EPA contest seeks ideas for a cheap air cleaner for wildfire season
Pollution Online – Colorado Air Quality Control Commission Lower Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Wellpads
NY Market Reports – Air Quality Monitoring Software Market Trends, Top Players, Market Demands, Industry Growth Forecast: 2026
National Association of Clean Air Agencies – Washington Update
Climate Change/Energy
AP – Maryland capital sues oil, gas companies over climate change
Reuters – U.S. energy regulator to examine climate change’s threat to power reliability
Reuters – Biden, Trudeau pledge to counter China, climate change, in warm first ‘meeting’
NY Times – What’s really behind Corporate Promises on Climate Change?
NPR – As Cities Grapple with Climate Change Gas Utilities Fight to Stay in Business
Politico – Tribes see familiar pattern in Haaland Opposition
Toxics/Mobile Sources
AP – EPA changes stand, sides with ethanol industry in court case
Mother Jones – A Nevada Lithium Mine Kicks Off a New Era of U.S. Extraction
EIN Presswire – State awards grants to reduce air pollution from mobile sources
American Journal of Transportation – Ports of LA and Long Beach: Can clean air action plan transition harbor trucks to zero emission by 2035
Indoor Air Quality
My San Antonio – Why Indoor Air Quality Is So Important
PR Newswire – United States Indoor Air Quality Market Report 2021: Data from 2019, Estimates for 2020, and Projections of CAGRs through 2025
EurekAlert! – How outdoor pollution affects indoor air quality
The Guardian – Hearths on Fire: UK Residents Incensed by Pollution from Wood Burners
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