Climate crisis

‘People saw dollar signs’: a year after devastating wildfires, an LA community is fighting displacement (The Guardian)

Trump’s mass federal cuts disrupt LA wildfire recovery: ‘It’s coming tumbling down’ (The Guardian)

‘We surpassed human limits to stop this’: LA megafires show our approach to fire needs to change (The Guardian)

Why hurricane flooding is about to get even more dangerous in Florida (National Geographic)

California inmates say they urgently need workplace heat standards (Capital & Main)

Extreme heat due to climate crisis puts people at greater risk of kidney disease (The Guardian)

Climate change driving demand for predatory loans (The Guardian)

Insurance crisis leaves homeowners vulnerable in hurricane-prone Louisiana (Al Jazeera)

Oil wells guzzle precious California water. Next door, residents can’t use the tap (The Guardian)

Will California’s new oil and gas laws protect people from toxic pollution? (EHN)

Alaska Native community relocates as climate crisis ravages homes (Al Jazeera)

How toxic wildfire smoke affects pregnant people (EHN)

How prisons in a US state botched wildfire evacuations (Al Jazeera)

Flames, smoke and heat: California grape workers push for change (Al Jazeera)

Clean energy transition

Is Trump winning or losing his war on offshore wind? (The Guardian)

LA wildfire survivors want to rebuild all-electric, but a utility is using customer funds to incentivize gas appliances (Inside Climate News)

‘Putting profit over people’: Big Gas is waging war on California clean air rule (The Guardian/Floodlight)

‘Shooting ourselves in the foot’: how Trump is fumbling geothermal energy (The Guardian)

How the Inflation Reduction Act is playing out in the ‘most biased’ state for renewables (Floodlight)

Gas pipeline expansion could fuel Pacific Northwest climate emergencies (The Guardian)

Immigration

Haitians in America worry they’re Trump’s next target (Vox)

Inside the neighborhood patrols watching for ICE: ‘They thought they could scare us - but this is LA’ (The Guardian)

‘Exploitative’ contracts and hazardous conditions: life for the immigrants cleaning up wildfire-stricken LA (The Guardian)

Undocumented workers prepare to clean up L.A.’s fires amid ICE raids (Capital & Main)

How sanctuary laws could throw a wrench into Trump’s deportation plans (Capital & Main)

‘It doesn’t work’: Migrants struggle with US immigration app (Al Jazeera)

As Title 42 ends in US, asylum seekers wait for relief on border (Al Jazeera)

‘Never sleeps, never even blinks’: the high-tech Anduril towers spreading along the US border (The Guardian)

Refugees decry Title 42 as ‘absurd excuse’ as it stays in place (Al Jazeera)

The Anguish of Watching the Election From the Purgatory of a Border Camp (The New Republic)

The Ghoulish, Bipartisan Tradition of Death at the Southern Border (The New Republic)

Indigenous rights

How the climate crisis threatens Indigenous traditions in Canada (The Guardian)

A fossil fuel group is working with US tribes to boost LNG exports (Floodlight)

How solar geoengineering is clouding issues of tribal consent (High Country News)

Indigenous advocacy leads to largest dam removal project in US history (Al Jazeera)

Nevada lithium mine breaks ground despite Indigenous opposition (Al Jazeera)

‘Historical pattern of disregard’: inside one of the last remaining US Indigenous boarding schools (The Guardian)

‘We’re still here’: past and present collide at a Native American boarding school (The Guardian)

US gov’t: at least 53 burial sites at Indigenous boarding schools (Al Jazeera)

New California law affirms Indigenous right to controlled burns (Al Jazeera)

The activists sabotaging railways in solidarity with Indigenous people (The Guardian)

Sexual violence along pipeline route follows Indigenous women’s warnings (The Guardian)

‘Reclaiming the land’: Indigenous fight against Line 3 ramps up (Al Jazeera)

People at the front lines of Standing Rock tell us the toll it has taken (VICE)

US politics

Can Trump repeat his 2016 victory by rallying working class voters? (Al Jazeera)

In a close presidential race, Trump is strategically ambiguous on abortion (Al Jazeera)

‘A lack of trust’: How deepfakes and AI could rattle the US election (Al Jazeera)

How much will the Supreme Court shape the 2024 presidential election? (Al Jazeera)

Canada and Mexico prepare to accept Americans seeking abortions (The Guardian)

Roe v Wade: What happens when people are denied abortions? (Al Jazeera)

Amid US abortion crackdown, California seeks to be a ‘sanctuary’ (Al Jazeera)