River of News
The River of News is an aggregation of news feeds about environment-related topics from a wide variety of sources. While SEJ selects the individual feeds, SEJ does not select the stories that the feeds provide. SEJ neither endorses nor bears responsibility for their content. They are provided as a service to SEJ members who many want to glean story ideas from them. SEJ urges all users to check the accuracy of assertions made in these feeds.
The feeds in the River of News span many content types — from professional news services and newspaper blogs to government agency press releases and public relations or activist group releases. Some are grouped topically.
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Climate activists blocked hundreds of employees from entering the headquarters of French bank Societe Generale, state-run utility EDF and oil giant Total on Friday, environmental group Greenpeace said.Origin: Reuters Environment
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Teenage protesters staged an emotional protest at political inaction on climate change near London's Heathrow Airport on Friday, a further day of actions that have caused transport snarl-ups in the British capital.Origin: Reuters Environment
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A second wave of tornadoes and thunderstorms to hit the U.S. South and Midwest this week turned deadly on Thursday with three people reported killed, as the storms pushed eastward on Friday, officials and media accounts said.Origin: Reuters Environment
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A second wave of tornadoes and thunderstorms to hit the U.S. South and Midwest this week turned deadly on Thursday with three people reported killed, as the storms pushed eastward on Friday, officials and media accounts said.Origin: Reuters Environment
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China on Friday said it would promote using energy generated by the wind to help power heating systems during the bitterly cold winters seen in many parts of the country.Origin: Reuters Environment
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South Korea plans to boost the share of its energy output generated from renewable sources to as much as 35 percent by 2040, a draft revision to government policy showed on Friday, over four times the current amount.Origin: Reuters Environment
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Tokyo Electric Power plans to allow overseas workers coming to Japan under a new visa program to work on the cleanup of its wrecked Fukushima nuclear power station north of Tokyo, a spokeswoman said on Friday.Origin: Reuters Environment
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As the rest of the country continues to go back and forth over the possibility of a nationwide Green New Deal, New York City is forging ahead with its own version. The Climate Mobilization Act passed the city council on Thursday with a vote of 45 to...Origin: Grist News Links
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The U.S. is divided over coal: Coal plants and mines have been shuttering, with miners held up as the casualties of environmental regulation, despite the fact that it’s cheap natural gas and automation that’s been siphoning most coal jobs. Still, it...Origin: Grist News Links
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Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday that he wanted the country's vast Amazon rainforest to be exploited "in a reasonable way" and criticized the creation of new indigenous reserves by previous governments.Origin: Reuters Environment
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So far, 18 Democrats have announced bids to tussle with Donald Trump for the presidency in 2020, with more expected to throw their caps in the ring. In such a crowded field, it’s hard to decipher where each candidate stands on any issue, including...Origin: Grist News Links
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CenterPoint Energy, the Houston-based utility, named Xia Liu as chief financial officer and executive vice president.Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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Exxon Mobil said Thursday it made its 13th oil discovery offshore of Guyana, increasing its rapidly rising tally of finds by the tiny South American nation.Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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President Donald Trump's Wednesday afternoon visit to Houston drew statements of praise from members of the oil and gas industry as well as the ire of environmentalists.Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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House speaker Nancy Pelosi, Korean boy-band BTS, Egyptian soccer player Mohamed Salah, and Christine Blasey Ford were just some of the individuals selected for this year’s edition of TIME 100, the magazine’s annual list of the most influential...Origin: Grist News Links
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The number of rigs drilling drilling for oil and gas plunged by 10 nationwide this week with dips ranging from Texas to Alaska.Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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A top executive at NRG Energy warned the Senate Thursday against committing to clean energy policies that inherently favored one technology over another.Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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To keep up with the surge in demand for wind power, the Labor Department predicts the second fastest growing job in the United States through 2026 will be for wind turbine service technicians.Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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Thousands of Amazon employees are pushing back against the company's courtship of the oil and gas industry, and calling for the Seattle tech giant to assume ambitious plans to combat climate change. The letter comes as Amazon Web Services and other...Origin: Houston Chronicle -- Energy
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A powerful computational study of southern California seismic records has revealed detailed information about a plethora of previously undetected small earthquakes, giving a more precise picture about stress in the earth's crust.
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