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USDA Has Ability To Respond To PFAS Crisis On Farmland: NAS Report [9]

"Federal regulators have a range of solutions available to tackle the widespread contamination of farmland with toxic chemicals, according to a new report by US academics."

Agriculture [10]
Chemicals [11]
Consumer [12]
Food [13]
Science [14]
Technology [15]
Waste [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The New Lede [19], 02/24/2026
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"USA Has A Looming Sewage Nightmare, Potomac Wastewater Spill Shows" [20]

"While the average lifespan of a wastewater system is 40 to 50 years, many of the plants and pipes across the nation could be twice that old or more."

Environmental Health [21]
Infrastructure [22]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [24]
Technology [15]
Waste [16]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: USA TODAY [26], 02/24/2026
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"U.S. Forest Service Stops Issuing Firefighter Pants That Contain PFAS" [27]

"Following a ProPublica article revealing that the U.S. Forest Service had for years issued clothing to wildland firefighters that it knew contained potentially dangerous “forever chemicals,” the agency has stopped distributing those garments."

Chemicals [11]
Climate Change [28]
Disasters [29]
Environmental Health [21]
Laws & Regulations [23]
People & Population [30]
Technology [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: ProPublica [31], 02/24/2026
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"Documents Shed New Light On Interior Official's Growing Ethics Scandal" [32]

"President Donald Trump’s Interior Department is withholding key ethics disclosure information for Karen Budd-Falen, a high-ranking agency appointee who is facing calls for an investigation into her financial ties to a massive lithium mining project, Public Domain has learned."

Economy & Business [33]
Environmental Politics [34]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Natural Resources [35]
People & Population [30]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Public Domain [36], 02/24/2026
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"Virginia Senate Proposes to End Data Center Tax Exemption in January" [37]

"The Virginia Senate’s Finance and Appropriations Committee approved budget legislation for the coming fiscal year that ends a tax exemption for data centers on January 1."

Climate Change [28]
Energy & Fuel [38]
Environmental Politics [34]
Infrastructure [22]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Technology [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [39]
Source: Inside Climate News [40], 02/24/2026
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"Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Tariffs" [41]

"The ruling is expected to have broad implications for the energy sector."

Climate Change [28]
Economy & Business [33]
Energy & Fuel [38]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [42]
Source: E&E News [43], 02/23/2026
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Tijuana River Sewage Crisis is a Long-Lasting Public Health Calamity [44]

"Political gridlock has allowed the situation to worsen for decades"

Forests [45]
Infrastructure [22]
Laws & Regulations [23]
People & Population [30]
Pollution [24]
Waste [16]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Mexico [46]
Source: Sierra [47], 02/23/2026
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"House GOP Targets Green Groups Over Willow Fight" [48]

"House Republicans are investigating environmental groups over their efforts to stop a major oil and natural gas project in Alaska."

Biodiversity [49]
Environmental Politics [34]
Journalism & Media [50]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Natural Resources [35]
People & Population [30]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Alaska and Hawaii [51]
Source: E&E News [52], 02/23/2026
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"Jesse Jackson’s Vision For America Embraced Environmental Justice" [53]

"Peggy Shepard walked into her living room on Tuesday morning when her husband told her Jesse Jackson, the civil rights titan from South Carolina, had died. “Immediately tears started coming,” said Shepard, co-founder and executive director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice, a New York City-based nonprofit."

Activism [54]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Justice [55]
Environmental Politics [34]
People & Population [30]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Grist/WBEZ [56], 02/23/2026
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Groundbreaking Indigenous Treaty on Whales’ Rights Could Change Laws [57]

"A declaration recognizing whales as legal rights-holders is influencing legislation in New Zealand and sparking an international push to translate Indigenous customs into binding protections."

Activism [54]
Biodiversity [49]
Environmental Politics [34]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Water & Oceans [25]
Wildlife [58]
Public [17]
International [42]
Australia & Oceania [59]
Source: Inside Climate News [60], 02/23/2026
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Trump Approves Federal Emergency Declaration For Potomac River Sewage Spill [61]

"Donald Trump approved a federal emergency declaration Saturday related to a sewer main break north of Washington DC that threatens to put a stink on the US’s 250th anniversary celebrations in the US capital this summer."

Disasters [29]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Politics [34]
Infrastructure [22]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [24]
Waste [16]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [39]
Source: Guardian [62], 02/23/2026
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Research Uncovers Shocking Level of Trade in Protected Chambered Nautiluses [63]

"The beautiful marine mollusks have international protections, but sale of their shells continues by the tens of thousands."

Biodiversity [49]
Economy & Business [33]
Fish & Fisheries [64]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [42]
Source: The Revelator [65], 02/23/2026
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As Climate Crisis Upended Homeowners Insurance, Industry Resisted Regulation [66]

"When an international organization sought to create guidelines on climate risk, insurance lobbying groups pushed back."

Climate Change [28]
Disasters [29]
Economy & Business [33]
Environmental Politics [34]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Capital & Main [67], 02/23/2026
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"Group Files Suit Over Lack Of Saltmarsh Sparrow Action" [68]

"The Center for Biological Diversity filed suit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Feb. 11 for failing to make a preliminary decision about whether to expand protection for the saltmarsh sparrow, a bird whose population is in sharp decline around the Chesapeake Bay and the marshes along the East Coast."

Biodiversity [49]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Wildlife [58]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [39]
Source: Bay Journal [69], 02/23/2026
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‘There Has To Be Glitter’: Rio Carnival Loves Beach-Polluting Microplastics [70]

"A bill banning the sale and use of plastic and metallic glitter has yet to go through in Brazil as the capital’s sandy shores bear cost of carnival’s shine"

Chemicals [11]
Laws & Regulations [23]
People & Population [30]
Pollution [24]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [71]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [17]
South America [72]
Source: Guardian [73], 02/23/2026
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