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Communities Of Color Disproportionately Exposed To PFAS In Drinking Water [9]

"Residents of communities with bigger Black and Hispanic populations are more likely to be exposed to harmful levels of “forever chemicals” in their water supplies, a new study has found."

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: The Hill [18], 05/17/2023
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"Burning Man Becomes Latest Adversary in Geothermal Feud" [19]

"Festival organizers are trying to block plans to build a clean energy plant in the Nevada desert, highlighting the struggle to combat climate change and the cost of clean power."

"One of the darkest towns in America lies roughly 100 miles north of Reno, where the lights are few and rarely lit until one week each summer when pyrotechnics and LEDs set the sky and mountains aglow.
Climate Change [20]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Politics [22]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Natural Resources [24]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [25]
Source: NYTimes [26], 05/17/2023
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"Biden Nominates National Cancer Institute Director To Lead NIH" [27]

"President Biden on Monday nominated cancer surgeon Monica M. Bertagnolli to be head of the National Institutes of Health, seeking to fill the leadership role atop the $46 billion health agency that has sat empty for more than a year."

Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [22]
Government [28]
Science [29]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Washington Post [30], 05/16/2023
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"Wind Is Main Source of UK Electricity for First Time" [31]

"Wind turbines have generated more electricity than gas for the first time in the UK.

In the first three months of this year a third of the country's electricity came from wind farms, research from Imperial College London has shown.

National Grid has also confirmed that April saw a record period of solar energy generation.

By 2035 the UK aims for all of its electricity to have net zero emissions."

Esme Stallard reports for BBC News May 12, 2023. [32]

Climate Change [20]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Public [16]
Europe [33]
Source: BBC News [32], 05/16/2023
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"EPA Looks To Toss ‘Deceptive’ Plastics Recycling Symbol" [34]

"EPA is urging the Federal Trade Commission to ditch the iconic chasing arrows recycling symbol for plastics, a move the environmental agency says will help prevent more plastic material from entering landfills and incinerators."

Chemicals [10]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Waste [35]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [36], 05/16/2023
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Ads Claiming Products Are Carbon Neutral By Using Offsetting Face UK Ban [37]

"Adverts that claim products are carbon neutral using offsets are to be banned by the UK’s advertising watchdog unless companies can prove they really work, the Guardian can reveal, as Gucci becomes the latest company to struggle with a high-profile environmental commitment based on offsetting."

Climate Change [20]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Politics [22]
Journalism & Media [38]
Public [16]
Europe [33]
Source: Guardian [39], 05/16/2023
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"Intensive Farming Is Biggest Cause Of Bird Decline In Europe, Study Says" [40]

"The use of pesticides and fertilisers in intensive agriculture is the biggest cause of the dwindling number of birds in the UK and the rest of Europe, scientists have said."

Agriculture [41]
Biodiversity [42]
Chemicals [10]
Wildlife [43]
Public [16]
Europe [33]
Source: Guardian [44], 05/16/2023
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"Exxon Targets Standing in Largest-Ever Citizen Lawsuit Penalty" [45]

"Exxon Mobil Corp. and environmental groups will square off once again in circuit court on Tuesday in a 13-year-old lawsuit over pollution from the energy giant’s Baytown, Texas, refinery."

Chemicals [10]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Justice [13]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [46]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [47], 05/16/2023
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Maker Of Graphite For Batteries Plans $800 Million Factory in SW Georgia [48]

"A company that’s trying to become a major American-based supplier of graphite for electric batteries announced Monday it will invest $800 million to build a factory in southwest Georgia, hiring 400 workers."

Climate Change [20]
Economy & Business [49]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [50]
Source: AP [51], 05/16/2023
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Transportation ‘Revolution’? How The Infrastructure Law Fuels Freeways [52]

"The Biden administration is supporting a nearly $10 billion highway expansion in Houston that ignited a yearlong debate about its climate effects and the demolition of almost 1,000 homes."

Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [22]
Infrastructure [53]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Transportation [54]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [46]
Source: E&E News [55], 05/16/2023
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Enviro, Oil Companies Battle Ohio Over Dumping of Fracking Wastewater [56]

"Ten years ago, Tim Kettler asked local officials to stop spreading liquid waste from fracking on the road near his home in Warsaw, Ohio, because he was worried that the fluid would contaminate a pond where he gets his drinking water."

Chemicals [10]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [57]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [58]
Source: Inside Climate News [59], 05/16/2023
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Herders In Kenya Kill 10 Lions, Including Loonkiito, One Of The Oldest [60]

"One of Kenya’s oldest wild lions was killed by herders and the government has expressed concern as six more lions were speared at another village on Saturday, bringing to 10 the number killed last week alone."

Biodiversity [42]
Wildlife [43]
Public [16]
Africa [61]
Source: AP [62], 05/16/2023
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"Unusually Early Heat Wave In Pacific Northwest Tests Records" [63]

"An early heat wave took hold Saturday in parts of the Pacific Northwest, with temperatures nearing or breaking records in some areas and heat advisories in place through Monday. The historically temperate region has grappled with scorching summer temperatures and unprecedented wildfires fueled by climate change in recent years."

Climate Change [20]
Disasters [64]
Environmental Health [12]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Northwest (OR WA) [65]
Canada [66]
Source: AP [67], 05/15/2023
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"Cyclone Mocha: Deadly Storm Hits Myanmar And Bangladesh Coasts" [68]

"A powerful cyclone has hit the coastlines of Bangladesh and Myanmar after intensifying into the equivalent of a category-five storm. Cyclone Mocha did not make landfall at the sprawling refugee camp in Cox's Bazar as earlier feared, but still tore apart hundreds of makeshift shelters."

Climate Change [20]
Disasters [64]
People & Population [69]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
Asia [70]
Source: BBC News [71], 05/15/2023
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Kerry Challenges Oil Industry To Prove Its Promised Tech Rescues [72]

"Oil and gas producers talk up technological breakthroughs they say will soon allow the world to drill and burn fossil fuels without worsening global warming. U.S. climate envoy John Kerry says the time is here for the industry to prove it can make the technology happen — at scale, affordably and quickly — to stave off climate disaster."

Climate Change [20]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Politics [22]
Pollution [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: AP [73], 05/15/2023
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