Supplemental General Security & Resilience Highlights – July 11, 2024

The following posts are useful for general awareness of current physical security threats, natural disaster resilience, preparedness resources, mitigation guidance, and other security-related news or updates. These resources have been curated by the WaterISAC analyst team as items of broad relevance and benefit that do not need supplemental analysis at this time.

Natural Hazards/Climate Change

• Downpours to douse US East Coast in wake of Beryl – Accu Weather
• Wildfire risk rises as Western states dry out amid ongoing heat wave baking most of the US – AP
• Americans coast-to-coast sweat out historic heat wave – ABC News
• Extreme heat has killed at least 28 in the past week — and the toll is rising – Washington Post
• Dangerous heat threatens millions of Texans without power for days in largest outage in utility’s history – CNN
• Disaster revisits Vermont as Beryl’s remnants flood the state a year after catastrophic rainfall – AP
• New Mexico village ravaged by wildfire gets another pounding by floodwaters – AP
• Beryl Sets off Alarm Bells Among Hurricane Experts – Columbia University
• Assessing the U.S. Climate in June 2024 – NOAA
• Bird flu: How US states are testing cattle and humans for the virus – Reuters

Operational Resilience

• Climate events, construction spend drive U.S. stormwater market forecast to US$54.5B in 2030 – Smart Water Magazine
• Amid Rising Heat Deaths, U.S. Department of Labor Proposes Extreme Heat Safety Rule – Security Management Magazine
• Hundreds of deaths, thousands of injuries, billions of dollars is cost of extreme heat in California – AP
• How forest fires also have an impact on lakes – The Conversation
• ‘Very concerning position’: Mercer Island nears crisis with water shortage –  MyNorthwest.com
• Los Angeles Moves Forward With Reward System to Curb Copper Thefts – California Insider
• Future climate change will impact opportunities for prescribed fires – Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Startup aims to transform the power grid with superconducting transmission lines – MIT News
• Boosting battery research – Sandia National Laboratories
• A Modern Take on An Age-Old Biological Weapon – Domestic Preparedness
• Iran encourages Gaza war protests in US to stoke outrage and distrust, intelligence chief says – AP

Extremism/Terrorism

• Man fatally shot by park rangers at Yellowstone National Park allegedly threatened mass shooting – ABC News
• Nebraska shooting that wounded 7 immigrants may be racially motivated, police say – Reuters
• What we know about the White nationalist group Patriot Front – CNN
• US’s terrorist listing of European far-right group signals fears of rising threat − both abroad and at home – The Conversation
• Intelligence on Russian sabotage threat prompted increase in security at US military bases in Europe – CNN
• ISKP’s Latest Campaign: Expanded Propaganda and External Operations – Global Network on Extremism and Technology