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We’re Naming Summer “Danger Season” in the US. Here’s Why.

Union of Concerned Scientists

Then there’s the heat—Phoenix endured 53 days of 110° temperatures in 2020 and logged more than 300 heat-related deaths that year; the 2021 Pacific Northwest heatwave would have been virtually impossible without the “help” of climate change. And, of course, the fires.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

EPA unveiled a proposed rule that would take the Navigable Waters Protection Rule off the books and reinstate long-standing regulations defining which streams and wetlands are subject to federal protection, a category known as “Waters of the U.S.,” million acres of critical habitat for the northern spotted owl in the Pacific Northwest.

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