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• White House announces new oil and gas drilling off California and Florida

  But Sunshine state Republicans might oppose drilling off state’s famous beaches that keep tourism dollars coming in

  The Trump administration on Thursday announced new oil and gas drilling off California’s and Florida’s coasts, setting the stage for a political showdown – including with Sunshine state Republicans who have largely opposed petroleum development in the Gulf of Mexico.

  This announcement comes as the US petroleum industry, despite contending with low crude prices, has been pushing for an entree to additional offshore drilling areas. The industry’s move for increased access also marks an effort to increase jobs and US energy independence, according to the Associated Press.

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• Pelosi calls Trump ‘the biggest con job in American history’ in reply to climate comment

  US speaker emerita criticizes Trump’s anti-climate stance and his remarks to the UN general assembly

  “President Trump is the biggest con job in American history,” said Nancy Pelosi, the US speaker emerita, to reporters on Thursday while criticizing his anti-climate agenda.

  Donald Trump told the UN general assembly in September that the climate crisis was “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world”. But he was “projecting”, Pelosi said at a press conference. The meeting was convened by Democrats on the Senate committee on environment and public works to comment on the US’s official absence from the United Nations Cop30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, where 195 countries are represented.

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• Trump officials reveal plan to roll back regulations in Endangered Species Act

  Experts fear plan, one of many attempts Trump’s made to dismantle wildlife protection, will speed up extinction crisis

  The Trump administration presented a new plan to roll back regulations in the Endangered Species Act (ESA) on Wednesday, a move experts fear will accelerate the extinction crisis if adopted.

  The proposedchanges would allow the federal government more power to weigh economic impact against habitat designations, remove safeguards against future events – including the impacts from the climate crisis – and rescind the “blanket rule” that automatically grants threatened species the same protections as those designated as endangered.

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• Thousands of toxic sites across US face risk of coastal flooding

  Study finds rising seas could flood facilities handling waste, sewage, and oil and gas – and coastal states most at risk

  More than 5,500 toxic sites nationwide could face coastal flooding by 2100 due to rising sea levels, according to new research.

  The study, published on Thursday in Nature Communications and led by scientists at the University of California, warns that if heat-trapping pollution continues unabated, rising seas will flood a wide range of hazardous facilities including those handling sewage, toxic waste, oil and gas, as well as other industrial pollutants.

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• People in the US: tell us how the climate crisis has affected your life in small ways this year

  We want to hear about how these shifts showed up in your everyday lives this year

  The climate crisis is reshaping our lives: extreme weather events are intensifying, extinctions are accelerating and the urgency for both adaptation and intervention only increase.

  But there are also the smaller, more personal impacts. Perhaps it’s not being able to fish with your kids in the place where your childhood memories were made because the river has dried up. Maybe it’s not being able to gather around a campfire in the summer, due to wildfire risks and restrictions. It can be the loss of a favorite tree, a personal sacrifice you’ve made for the greater good, or a change you’ve observed through the seasons.

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