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Carbon Credits: How One Company’s Plan To Help The Planet Went Off The Rails [9]

"C-Quest Capital claimed it could improve people’s lives in Africa with cleaner cookstoves. But an investigation by The Post shows it promised more than it could deliver."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [17]
Africa [18]
Source: Washington Post [19], 09/03/2024
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"Something’s Poisoning America’s Land. Farmers Fear ‘Forever’ Chemicals." [20]

"Fertilizer made from city sewage has been spread on millions of acres of farmland for decades. Scientists say it can contain high levels of the toxic substance."

Agriculture [21]
Chemicals [22]
Consumer [23]
Environmental Health [12]
Food [24]
Pollution [25]
Waste [26]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NYTimes [27], 09/03/2024
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Pa. Will Monitor Private Wells Near The East Palestine Site For 10 Years [28]

"A year and a half after a catastrophic Norfolk Southern train derailment and chemical fire in East Palestine, Ohio, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has announced plans to monitor private drinking water wells for Pennsylvania residents living within one mile of the accident site for the next decade."

Chemicals [22]
Consumer [23]
Disasters [29]
Environmental Health [12]
Infrastructure [30]
Pollution [25]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [32]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [33]
Source: EHN [34], 09/03/2024
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"Countries Still Far Apart On COP29 Finance Goal" [35]

"With less than three months until this year's COP29 UN climate negotiations, countries remain far from agreement on the summit's biggest task: to agree a new funding target to help developing countries cope with climate change."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [36]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [15]
International [17]
Source: Reuters [37], 09/03/2024
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"Brazil's Amazon Rainforest Fires In August Reach 14-Year High" [38]

"The number of fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region for the month of August surged to the highest level since 2010, government data showed on Sunday, after a record drought that has been plaguing the biome."

Agriculture [21]
Biodiversity [39]
Climate Change [10]
Forests [40]
Natural Resources [41]
Pollution [25]
Public [15]
South America [42]
Source: Reuters [43], 09/03/2024
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"The Rural Americans Too Poor for Federal Flood Protections" [44]

"On the day he would become homeless, Wesley Bryant was awoken by his wife, Alexis. “Get up,” she told him. “There’s a flood outside.”"

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [29]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [45]
Environmental Politics [36]
People & Population [14]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Daily Yonder/Climate Central [46], 09/03/2024
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Indigenous Cultural Fire Practitioner Sees Beyond Park Fire Destruction [47]

"California’s latest historic wildfire serves as a stark reminder of the regenerative promise of Indigenous cultural burning, practitioners say."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [29]
Forests [40]
Natural Resources [41]
People & Population [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
California [48]
Source: Inside Climate News [49], 09/03/2024
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Navajo Nation Strengthens Law On Transportation Of Uranium Across Its Land [50]

"The Navajo Nation has approved emergency legislation meant to strengthen a tribal law that regulates the transportation of radioactive material across the largest Native American reservation in the U.S."

Chemicals [22]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [45]
Environmental Politics [36]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [41]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [51]
Pollution [25]
Waste [26]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [52]
Source: AP [53], 09/03/2024
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Climate Change Can Cause Bridges to ‘Fall Apart Like Tinkertoys,’ Experts Say [54]

"Extreme heat and flooding are accelerating the deterioration of bridges, engineers say, posting a quiet but growing threat."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [29]
Infrastructure [30]
Transportation [55]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NYTimes [56], 09/03/2024
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"Too Hot For Trout: Why Some Fly Fishers Are Rethinking Their Approach [57]

"In the early season, when the rivers are still running high and cool from snowmelt, KynsLee Scott loves trout fishing. As a fishing guide and conservationist, her life revolves around it, she says, standing in the shade of tall pines on the banks of the Blackfoot River."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [12]
Fish & Fisheries [58]
Natural Resources [41]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [59]
Source: NPR [60], 09/03/2024
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"Former Nevada Official Gets Life Sentence For Murder Of Reporter" [61]

"A Las Vegas, Nevada, jury on Wednesday found a former elected county official guilty of killing an investigative reporter who wrote critical articles about him, sentencing him to life in prison with eligibility for parole after 20 years."

Journalism & Media [62]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Reuters [63], 08/30/2024
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"Haaland Revokes Trump Orders, Protects 28M Alaska Acres" [64]

"Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has revoked a Trump-era decision that would have opened millions of acres of federal land in Alaska to energy development and mining."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [41]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Alaska and Hawaii [65]
Source: E&E News [66], 08/30/2024
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EPA Rejects Plastics Industry’s Misleading Math About Recycled Content [67]

"The plastics industry uses a controversial accounting method to inflate the recycled content it advertises in products. A new EPA policy won’t allow it for any products it endorses as a “Safer Choice.”"

Chemicals [22]
Consumer [23]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [25]
Waste [26]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: ProPublica [68], 08/30/2024
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"Seabed Mining Leader Vows To Investigate Predecessor" [69]

"One of Leticia Reis de Carvalho’s top priorities when she steps up in four months to lead an international agency overseeing deep-sea mining for electric vehicle battery metals: investigating her predecessor."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [41]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [15]
International [17]
Source: E&E News [70], 08/30/2024
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Kennedy Says Trump Will ‘Make Americans Healthy.’ The Record Disagrees. [71]

"As president, Donald J. Trump slashed protections for clean air and water and weakened school nutrition standards."

Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [45]
Environmental Politics [36]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NYTimes [72], 08/30/2024
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