Trump Admin Dashes Hopes Of Anti-Pollution Plan For JD Vance’s Home Town
"The $1.6bn Biden-era plan for a gas-powered blast furnace at a steel mill in Middletown, Ohio, is indefinitely on hold"
Source: Guardian, 07/21/2025
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"An Ohio Solar Project Overcomes Local Opposition And Misinformation"
"A contested solar agrivoltaics project avoided having its permit denied by Ohio regulators, likely thanks to the neutral stances of a county board and one of its townships."
Source: Canary Media, 07/15/2025
"Unhealthy Smoke From Canadian Wildfires Blankets The Upper Midwest"
"Much of the Upper Midwest on Saturday was dealing with swaths of unhealthy air because of drifting smoke from Canadian wildfires, covering the northern region of the U.S. at a time when people want to be enjoying lakes, trails and the great outdoors."
Source: AP, 07/14/2025
Wildfire Smoke Is Showing Up Everywhere. It Can Be Fatal
Wildfire’s immensely destructive power is not just about what it burns. The smoke from more frequent fires, too, has real potential to harm human health, the new Backgrounder explains, releasing particulate matter, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides and worse. Learn more about the hazards and historical perspective, along with what journalists should tell their communities can be done.
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Flint’s Still-Unfinished Lead Pipe Replacement Serves As Cautionary Tale
"Jeffrey Bell watched as crews dug up and replaced neighbors’ lead water pipes, hoping his mother’s house would be next. Workers told him it wasn’t on their list but probably assigned to another contractor."
Source: AP, 07/02/2025
Chicago’s Plan to Replace Lead Pipes Puts It 30 Years Behind EPA Deadline
"Banking for now on an outdated EPA rule from the first Trump administration, the city with the most lead service lines in the country doesn’t plan to finish replacing them until 2076."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/27/2025
Wisconsin Supreme Court Delivers Win For Enviros In Fight Over PFAS
"The Wisconsin Supreme Court delivered a victory for environmentalists on Tuesday in the fight over “forever chemicals” known as PFAS, issuing a ruling that advocates said will hold polluters accountable."
Source: AP, 06/27/2025
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