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Energy & Climate

The Fuel Shock Everyone Is Paying For Has an Opposite: Sun and Wind Ran 80 Percent of Australia's Grid, and Household Rooftops Supplied Half of It

On 18 September renewables supplied 79.5% of demand on Australia's National Electricity Market, beating the previous record of 78.6%. The next day the Australian Energy Market Operator recorded 80.4%, with household rooftop solar alone meeting more than half of all demand for around 30 minutes at lunchtime. At the moment the first record was set, 26,316MW of renewable power was on the grid against just over 2,000MW from fossil fuels.

Source: The Independent

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Governance & Rights

Three Newsrooms Were Banned From the White House. The Networks That Were Not Banned Refused to Take Their Seats — and the Case Landed With the Judge Who Gave Jim Acosta His Pass Back.

After CNN, MS NOW and Politico were barred from White House grounds on 19 September, the television networks that were not banned refused to step in and provide pool coverage of the president's activities on Monday 21 September. The three outlets sued the same day; the emergency motion to restore their hard passes was randomly assigned to US District Judge Timothy Kelly, who in 2018 ruled that the White House could not revoke Jim Acosta's credential without notice. A hearing was set for Wednesday.

Source: NBC News

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Health & Medicine

Fentanyl Has Defined a Decade of American Loss. Alabama Has Just Recorded 46 Percent Fewer Overdose Deaths Than Two Years Ago.

The Alabama Department of Mental Health reports that substance-related overdose deaths in the state have fallen 46 percent against provisional figures for March 2024. The state decline sits inside a national turn: CDC's provisional count for April 2025 to March 2026 was 67,798 drug overdose deaths, 12.3 percent fewer than the previous year.

Source: Yellowhammer News

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Environment & Water

An El Nino Forecast Called Off the Charts Is Coming for the West's Water. Colorado Springs Added Thousands of Residents and Is Using Less Water Than Before.

Colorado Springs has taken on thousands of additional residents while its total water use has fallen, the result of conservation rules and a steady replacement of thirsty lawn with native grass. The city sits in the same drought-exposed river basin now facing an El Nino the World Meteorological Organization calls exceptionally strong.

Source: Colorado Sun

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Health & Medicine

Bangladesh's Measles Outbreak Has Taken More Than a Thousand Lives. The Same Country Has Now Put Vaccine Into 19.8 Million Children's Arms — and on Saturday It Starts Going House to House.

Directorate General of Health Services figures show 19,771,720 children vaccinated against measles and rubella since the emergency campaign began on 5 April, about 10 percent above the 18,015,064 target. A further intensified campaign for 3.4 million children aged six to 59 months begins on 26 September, with 4.3 million doses collected from UNICEF on 10 September and 1.5 million already in stock. Health workers will go into villages rather than wait at campaign centres.

Source: The Business Standard

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