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2 weeks ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Anna Phillips |Jake Spring |Kevin Crowe |Dan Diamond
States caught unprepared for Trump’s threats to FEMA (washingtonpost.com) States caught unprepared for Trump’s threats to FEMA By Anna Phillips; Jake Spring; Kevin Crowe; Dan Diamond 2025040511005600 Torrential rain fell on Eastern Kentucky in July 2022, turning creeks into rivers that roared through the valleys and hollows, wrecking hundreds of homes and killing 45 people.
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3 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Maxine Joselow |Anna Phillips
Across the country, fossil fuel firms are ramping up a decades-long fight against policymakers, academics, and activists who have sought to make them pay for their role in causing climate change. They are taking particular aim at so-called climate Superfund laws, which seek billions of dollars from oil companies to help cover the costs of coping with stronger storms, rising seas, and other weather disasters fueled by rising global temperatures.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
unionleader.com | Anna Phillips
On a warming planet, deaths in the United States related to cold weather are going up. Although it may seem counterintuitive, new research shows that even as climate change fuels hotter temperatures, cold weather is becoming an increasing risk in the United States. As a second winter storm in a week is forecast to pummel parts of the United States, experts cautioned that risk factors making people more susceptible to the cold — such as homelessness and social isolation — are on the rise.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
adn.com | Anna Phillips |Molly Hennessy-Fiske |Evan Halper |Joshua Partlow
In Los Angeles’s chaparral-covered ecosystem, wildfires in the mountains are an annual ritual. But when those fires leaped into residential neighborhoods earlier this week, killing 11 people and destroying thousands of homes, the city suddenly found itself in survival mode. A critical question became why the largest city in California, a state that has spent years fortifying itself against wildfires, couldn’t stop the fires this time.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
msn.com | Anna Phillips |Molly Hennessy-Fiske |Evan Halper |Josh Partlow
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
torontosun.com | Anna Phillips |Molly Hennessy-Fiske |Evan Halper |Joshua Partlow
A critical question became why the largest city in California, a state that has spent years fortifying itself against wildfires, couldn’t stop the fires this time. State regulations required residents in high-risk neighbourhoods to create vegetation-free buffers around their homes. California had invested billions of dollars to reduce the amount of woody fuel for fires to burn. It boasted the largest firefighting force in the nation.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
phillytrib.com | Anna Phillips
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
texarkanagazette.com | Anna Phillips
On a warming planet, deaths in the United States related to cold weather are going up. Although it may seem counterintuitive, new research shows that even as climate change fuels hotter temperatures, cold weather is becoming an increasing risk in the United States. As a second winter storm in a week is forecast to pummel parts of the United States, experts cautioned that risk factors making people more susceptible to the cold -- such as homelessness and social isolation -- are on the rise.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Anna Phillips
On a warming planet, deaths in the United States related to cold weather are going up. Although it may seem counterintuitive, new research shows that even as climate change fuels hotter temperatures, cold weather is becoming an increasing risk in the United States. As a second winter storm in a week is forecast to pummel parts of the United States, experts cautioned that risk factors making people more susceptible to the cold - such as homelessness and social isolation - are on the rise.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
post-gazette.com | Amudalat Ajasa |Anna Phillips
Some of Trump’s allies, including some members of Congress, have targeted environmental justice programs for elimination Over the past four years, the Biden administration said it has funneled hundreds of billions of dollars to help towns and neighborhoods most harmed by pollution. The money, largely through the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, paid for electric school buses to replace diesel-burning vehicles, brought solar to tribal lands and funded local groups to...
