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Chemical Industry Scientists Plan To Derail PFAS Rule On Drinking Water [9]

"Scientists with financial ties to industry and histories of producing controversial research to derail chemical regulations are mobilizing to attack strict new federal drinking water limits for toxic PFAS, or “forever chemicals”, documents reviewed by the Guardian reveal."

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Science [17]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: HuffPost [21], 08/28/2024
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Nearly 300,000 Bangladeshis In Emergency Shelters After Monsoon Flooding [22]

"More than 4 million people have been affected by flooding caused by heavy monsoon rains in Bangladesh, with almost 300,000 taking refuge in emergency shelters on Saturday, the ministry of disaster management said."

Climate Change [23]
Disasters [24]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
Asia [25]
Source: AFP [26], 08/28/2024
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"Extreme Rain Is a Growing Climate Threat to the Northeastern US" [27]

"As high temperatures break records around the US and wildfires rip through the West, another climate-driven weather hazard — extreme rainfall — is pummeling the country’s Northeast and scientists say it will get worse as the climate changes. That will bring more rain-induced flooding to a region of millions that isn’t prepared."

Climate Change [23]
Disasters [24]
Infrastructure [28]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [29]
Source: Bloomberg Green [30], 08/28/2024
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"How A Sweet-Smelling Chemical Upended Life In Salinas, Puerto Rico" [31]

"An industrial worker got one whiff of ethylene oxide. Twenty years later, he still hasn’t recovered — and his community is searching for answers."

Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [32]
Source: Grist [33], 08/28/2024
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"As Seen on TV: Big Oil’s Dystopian View of California’s Climate Agenda" [34]

"A $5 million prime-time ad campaign is aimed at climate policies the industry claims make life miserable for Californians."

Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [23]
Energy & Fuel [35]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [36]
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [37]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
California [38]
Source: Capital & Main [39], 08/28/2024
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"With Dams Removed, Salmon Will Have the Run of a Western River" [40]

"The nation’s largest dam removal project is nearly complete after a lengthy campaign by Native tribes to restore the river at the California-Oregon border."

Biodiversity [41]
Environmental Justice [36]
Fish & Fisheries [42]
Food [43]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [44]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
California [38]
Northwest (OR WA) [45]
Source: NYTimes [46], 08/28/2024
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Newsom Axes Funding To Enforce California Oil Well Protection Law [47]

"Gavin Newsom’s late session proposal to extend deadlines — by more than four years in one case — for oil companies to comply with a new law fizzled and died late this week."

Air [48]
Energy & Fuel [35]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [36]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [19]
California [38]
Source: CalMatters [49], 08/28/2024
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"Unauthorized Drones Are Making Wildfires More Destructive" [50]

"An alarming trend, and confusing regulations, hamper firefighting efforts across the country"

Climate Change [23]
Disasters [24]
Forests [51]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Technology [52]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Sierra [53], 08/28/2024
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"The Big Lie In The Montana Senate Race" [54]

"Montana GOP Senate hopeful Tim Sheehy has spent the last several months defending himself against accusations that he poses a threat to America’s federal public lands — a mess that the multimillionaire businessman and former Navy SEAL created when, shortly after launching his campaign, he explicitly called for federal lands to be “turned over to state agencies, or even counties.”

Environmental Politics [14]
Forests [51]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [44]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [55]
Source: HuffPost [56], 08/28/2024
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RFK Jr Faces Call For Probe Into Claim He Chainsawed Whale’s Head Off [57]

"An environmental group is calling for a federal investigation into the former presidential candidate for an episode in which he allegedly severed the head of a washed-up whale with a chainsaw – and drove home with it strapped to his car’s roof."

Biodiversity [41]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Guardian [58], 08/28/2024
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"Record Number Of Americans Killed By Heat In 2023: Research" [59]

"Extreme heat killed more Americans in 2023 than any other year over nearly a quarter century of records, according to research published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association."

Climate Change [23]
Disasters [24]
Environmental Health [13]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: The Hill [60], 08/27/2024
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Rare, Deadly Mosquito Virus Has Massachusetts Towns Urging Vigilance [61]

"A rare but deadly disease spread by mosquitoes has one town in Massachusetts closing its parks and fields each evening. Four other towns are urging people to avoid going outdoors at night."

Climate Change [23]
Environmental Health [13]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [29]
Source: AP [62], 08/27/2024
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"National Parks Nonprofit Receiving Largest Grant In Its History" [63]

"An Indiana-based philanthropic endowment will give $100 million to the official nonprofit of the National Park Service (NPS), the largest gift the organization has ever received."

Biodiversity [41]
Natural Resources [44]
Public [19]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: The Hill [64], 08/27/2024
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"At Least 30 Dead, Many Missing After Dam Bursts In Eastern Sudan" [65]

"Surging waters have burst through a dam, wiped out at least 20 villages and left at least 30 people dead but probably many more in eastern Sudan, the United Nations said on Monday, devastating a region already reeling from months of civil war."

Disasters [24]
Infrastructure [28]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [19]
Africa [66]
Source: Reuters [67], 08/27/2024
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"Tanzania's Maasai Protest Eviction In The Name Of Conservation" [68]

"For a week, the green hills around Tanzania's famous Ngorongoro crater have been chequered with the blood red shuka cloths of tens of thousands of Maasai herdsman protesting their eviction from their land - all in the name of conservation."

Environmental Justice [36]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [44]
People & Population [69]
Public [19]
Africa [66]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [70], 08/27/2024
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