Impacts www.nytimes.com Hurricane chasers: An immigrant work force on the trail of extreme weather Itinerant, largely undocumented workers devoted to hurricane recovery in the U.S. have endured shabby housing and haphazard payments.
Impacts www.wbur.org 2 weeks after Hurricane Michael, homeowners on Florida's Panhandle begin to rebuild For those able to return to their homes, the area between Mexico Beach and Port Saint Joe is one big construction site.
Newsletter www.tallahassee.com Hurricane Michael: A likely $4 billion dollar blow to Georgia, Florida farms and timber The storm decimated Florida and Georgia's cotton and pecan crops, the timber industry, and knocked over dozens of poultry houses, elevators and silos.
www.nytimes.com $2.5 billion in storm losses, but don’t ask Georgia farmers about climate change Cotton farms across Georgia were set to produce their best yields in years. But that was before Hurricane Michael left a trail of devastation.
Newsletter www.nytimes.com Exposed by Michael: Climate threat to warplanes at coastal bases The devastation of Tyndall Air Force Base, where 17 grounded F-22 stealth fighters were damaged in the storm, points to American air power’s vulnerability in major hurricanes.
Impacts newrepublic.com What was Mexico Beach? The Florida town, largely wiped out by Hurricane Michael, was marked by its resistance to corporations and overdevelopment.
Politics www.nytimes.com ‘I don’t know that it’s man-made,’ Trump says of climate change. It is. On “60 Minutes,” President Trump backed off his claim that global warming is a hoax. But he also made several new assertions unsupported by science.
A controversial facility that would process plastic waste to be burned in steel mills has been cancelled
Trump administration halts work on national climate report, dismissing hundreds of volunteer scientists
