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West Virginia Factory’s Pollution Could Trouble Louisville’s Drinking Water [9]

"Louisville’s drinking water utility says a West Virginia factory’s PFAS pollution could cause problems locally. The facility faces a lawsuit for violating its permit."

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
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Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [19]
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Source: Louisville Public Media [21], 07/21/2025
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"White House Says MAHA Won't Restrict Pesticide Use" [22]

"Trump administration officials say the White House has no plans to crack down on pesticides in farming, despite a report led by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that called crop protection chemicals a danger to people’s health."

Agriculture [23]
Chemicals [10]
Consumer [11]
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Environmental Politics [24]
Food [25]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [26]
Pollution [15]
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National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Politico [27], 07/21/2025
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"After Devastating Winter Losses, Another Threat Looms for U.S. Beekeepers" [28]

"Every January, Charles Linder travels from Illinois to Idaho to retrieve thousands of bee hives from a temperature-controlled storage facility. He loads boxes of hives onto a semi truck headed west for almond season, the first of many stops his bees will make on a cross-country pollination tour. But two winters ago, Mr. Linder opened those boxes and discovered that around 90 percent of his bees were dead."

Agriculture [23]
Biodiversity [29]
Disasters [30]
Environmental Health [12]
Natural Resources [31]
Wildlife [32]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [33], 07/21/2025
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Trump Names New Energy Regulator To Replace Democrat He Asked To Step Down [34]

"President Trump on Thursday announced a new nominee to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to fill the seat of a previous Democratic commissioner who stepped down at the White House’s request."

Climate Change [35]
Consumer [11]
Economy & Business [36]
Energy & Fuel [37]
Environmental Politics [24]
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Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [26]
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National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The Hill [39], 07/21/2025
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"US Wetlands ‘Restored’ Using Treated Sewage Tainted With Forever Chemicals" [40]

"Many of the nation’s wetlands are being filled with toxic Pfas “forever chemicals” as wastewater treatment plant effluent tainted with the compounds is increasingly used to restore swampland and other waters. The practice threatens wildlife, food and drinking water sources, environmental advocates warn."

Biodiversity [29]
Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [24]
Fish & Fisheries [41]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [31]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Wildlife [32]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Guardian [42], 07/21/2025
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"Brazil Lawmakers Gut Environmental Permitting Ahead Of COP30 Summit" [43]

"Brazil's Congress voted Thursday to weaken environmental permitting rules despite fierce opposition from environmentalists."

Climate Change [35]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [17]
International [44]
South America [45]
Source: Religion News Service [46], 07/21/2025
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Trump Admin Dashes Hopes Of Anti-Pollution Plan For JD Vance’s Home Town [47]

"The $1.6bn Biden-era plan for a gas-powered blast furnace at a steel mill in Middletown, Ohio, is indefinitely on hold"

Climate Change [35]
Energy & Fuel [37]
Environmental Politics [24]
Infrastructure [48]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Technology [49]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [50]
Source: Guardian [51], 07/21/2025
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Wyoming’s Crowded Lonesome Lake Tops EPA’s US List For Fecal Contamination [52]

"Environmental regulators have launched an investigation into a heavily trafficked lake below the Cirque of the Towers in the Wind River Range, with an Enterococci reading 384 times the safety threshold."

Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [31]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [53]
Source: WyoFile [54], 07/21/2025
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"Can Grizzly Bears Survive Without The Endangered Species Act?" [55]

"Decades of work that has steered grizzly bears away from extinction in the Greater Yellowstone region could be lost if House Republicans succeed in weakening the powerful law that protects them. Progress by the iconic bruins under the Endangered Species Act is not yet enough to keep them safe, in the eyes of environmental advocates."

Biodiversity [29]
Environmental Politics [24]
Environmental Studies [56]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [31]
Wildlife [32]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: National Parks Traveler [57], 07/21/2025
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"Trump Exempts Scores of Plants From Biden’s Pollution Rules" [58]

"President Donald Trump is allowing chemical makers, coal-fired power plants and other facilities to bypass a range of environmental regulations on grounds that the waivers are needed for national security purposes."

Air [59]
Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [35]
Economy & Business [36]
Energy & Fuel [37]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Bloomberg [60], 07/18/2025
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"E.P.A. Delays Required Cleanups of Toxic Coal Ash Landfills" [61]

"The Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday that it would give utility companies an additional year to begin cleaning up contamination from toxic coal ash landfills across the country."

Chemicals [10]
Energy & Fuel [37]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [24]
Infrastructure [48]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Waste [62]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [63], 07/18/2025
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Interior to Put Wind and Solar Projects Through Stricter Political Review [64]

"The Trump administration said on Thursday that it would apply new layers of political review to wind and solar projects, potentially creating hurdles for renewable energy developments across the country."

Climate Change [35]
Energy & Fuel [37]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [24]
Infrastructure [48]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Technology [49]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [65], 07/18/2025
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"The West’s Megadrought Might Not Let Up for Decades, Study Suggests" [66]

"A megadrought has sapped water supplies, ravaged farms and ranches, and fueled wildfires across the American Southwest for going on 25 years. Not in 12 centuries has the region been so dry for so long."

Agriculture [23]
Climate Change [35]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Studies [56]
Natural Resources [31]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [67], 07/18/2025
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Trump’s Budget Would End 7 Decades of Mauna Loa Greenhouse Gas Measurements [68]

"Closing Mauna Loa and three other U.S. sites that track greenhouse gases would disrupt a decades-long record of the planet’s changing atmosphere."

Air [59]
Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [35]
Environmental Politics [24]
Environmental Studies [56]
Government [38]
Pollution [15]
Science [69]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Alaska and Hawaii [70]
Source: NYTimes [71], 07/18/2025
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EPA Plows Ahead With Reorganization, Giving Employees Less Choice [72]

"EPA has resumed its efforts to reorganize the agency after the Supreme Court earlier this month lifted a lower court’s injunction that stalled the Trump administration’s restructuring efforts. But EPA employees will have less say in where they end up under the restructuring because of the time lost while the injunction was in place, an EPA official told colleagues in an internal email obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News."

Climate Change [35]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [24]
Government [38]
Journalism & Media [73]
People & Population [26]
Pollution [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [74], 07/18/2025
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