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Calif. Will Require Insurers To Increase Home Coverage In Fire-Prone Areas [9]

"Insurance companies that stopped providing home coverage to hundreds of thousands of Californians in recent years as wildfires became more destructive will have to again provide policies in fire-prone areas if they want to keep doing business in California under a state regulation announced Monday."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [11]
Disasters [12]
Economy & Business [13]
Forests [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [16]
California [17]
Source: AP [18], 01/02/2025
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Oil Industry Playbook: How Drillers Offload Costly Cleanup Onto the Public [19]

"Oil executive Tom Ragsdale walked away from his old wells, making the pollution left behind the state of New Mexico’s problem. His tactics, however, are ubiquitous in the industry."

Chemicals [20]
Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [13]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Health [22]
Infrastructure [23]
Pollution [24]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: ProPublica [26], 01/02/2025
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"The E.P.A. Promotes Toxic Fertilizer. 3M Told It of Risks Years Ago." [27]

"The agency obtained research from 3M in 2003 revealing that sewage sludge, the raw material for the fertilizer, carried toxic “forever chemicals.”"

Agriculture [28]
Biodiversity [29]
Chemicals [20]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [22]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [30]
Pollution [24]
Waste [31]
Water & Oceans [32]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: NYTimes [33], 01/02/2025
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"Big Oil Backtracks On Renewables Push As Climate Agenda Falters" [34]

"Major European energy companies doubled down on oil and gas in 2024 to focus on near-term profits, slowing down - and at times reversing - climate commitments in a shift that they are likely to stick with in 2025."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Pollution [24]
Public [16]
International [35]
Europe [36]
Source: Reuters [37], 01/02/2025
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"Jimmy Carter’s Conservation Legacy" [38]

"The 39th U.S. president led the fight to preserve vast swaths of Alaskan wilderness. It forever changed the state and the National Park Service."

Biodiversity [29]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Health [22]
Forests [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [30]
Policy [39]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: E&E News [40], 01/02/2025
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Toxic Benzene Plagued Channelview, Tex. Regulators Never Told Residents. [41]

"The highest levels exceed even Texas’ benzene guideline — the weakest in the nation — but aren’t being recorded by a state monitor. That means the community’s cancer risk could be higher than previously thought."

Air [42]
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Environmental Justice [43]
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Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [24]
Public [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [45]
Source: Public Health Watch [46], 01/02/2025
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Florida Debates Where To Build The Nation’s Largest Trash Incinerator [47]

"Residents argue the project will disproportionately impact majority-Black and -Hispanic communities in the Miami-Dade area."

Activism [48]
Air [42]
Chemicals [20]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [43]
Environmental Politics [49]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [24]
Waste [31]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [25]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [50]
Source: KFF Health News [51], 01/02/2025
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Oil And Gas Firms In Colorado Falsified Environmental Impact Reports [52]

"State’s energy and carbon management commission said fraudulent pollution data was reported for at least 344 wells"

Chemicals [20]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Health [22]
Pollution [24]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: Guardian [53], 01/02/2025
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"Chemtrail Conspiracy Theories: Why RFK Jr Is Watching The Skies" [54]

"Belief in a supposed US government plot linked to aircraft condensation trails has been boosted by confusion over proposals to geoengineer a response to the climate crisis"

Environmental Politics [49]
Journalism & Media [44]
Science [55]
Transportation [56]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: Guardian [57], 01/02/2025
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"Agricultural Poisons Tell a Tale of Two Californias" [58]

"The Golden Rule doesn’t apply in the Golden State when it comes to protecting Latino and Indigenous farmworker communities from toxic pesticides."

Agriculture [28]
Chemicals [20]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [43]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [24]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [25]
California [17]
Source: Inside Climate News [59], 12/23/2024
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More Than 3,100 Students Died At Indian Boarding Schools [60]

"The Washington Post has found more than three times as many deaths as the U.S. government documented in its investigation of Indian boarding schools."

Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [43]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [61]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [62]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: Washington Post [63], 12/23/2024
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Activists Sue NOAA For Images Of Dead Orcas Entangled By Fishing Boats [64]

"Activists sued the federal government Thursday to release images of dead orca whales, sea lions and other marine mammals entangled by commercial fishing boats off the U.S. West Coast."

Activism [48]
Biodiversity [29]
Fish & Fisheries [65]
Journalism & Media [44]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: AP [66], 12/23/2024
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Group Says New Jersey Toxic Waste Dumping Caused $1B In Harm, Sues [67]

"Years of toxic waste dumping in a Jersey Shore community where childhood cancer rates rose caused at least $1 billion in damage to natural resources, according to an environmental group trying to overturn a settlement between New Jersey and the corporate successor to the firm that did the polluting."

Chemicals [20]
Economy & Business [13]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [43]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [24]
Waste [31]
Water & Oceans [32]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [25]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [68]
Source: AP [69], 12/23/2024
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Senator Urges EPA to Release Report on Formaldehyde Health Risks [70]

"Citing a recent ProPublica investigation, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., urged the Environmental Protection Agency in a letter this week to issue a final report on the health risks of formaldehyde that is “science-based” and “as strong as possible,” adding that “the agency has an obligation to protect the public from the chemical.”"

Chemicals [20]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [43]
Environmental Politics [49]
Journalism & Media [44]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [24]
Science [55]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: ProPublica [71], 12/23/2024
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Maryland Sues GORE-TEX Company For Polluting Water With PFAS Chemicals [72]

"Maryland is suing Cecil County-based manufacturing giant W.L. Gore & Associates for knowingly polluting the air and surrounding water with toxic Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)."

Chemicals [20]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [22]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [24]
Water & Oceans [32]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [25]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [73]
Source: CBS News [74], 12/23/2024
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