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Recurrent Wildfires Across The Mediterranean Region Changing Landscape [9]

"Multiple countries in the Mediterranean region have been battling intense wildfires this summer, including France, Greece, Syria and Turkey. These aggressive, recurring fires suggests a new normal of altered lives, landscapes and economies in the Mediterranean basin."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Public [12]
International [13]
Europe [14]
Middle East [15]
Source: France24 [16], 07/15/2025
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"An Ohio Solar Project Overcomes Local Opposition And Misinformation" [17]

"A contested solar agrivoltaics project avoided having its permit denied by Ohio regulators, likely thanks to the neutral stances of a county board and one of its townships."

Energy & Fuel [18]
Environmental Politics [19]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Public [12]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [21]
Source: Canary Media [22], 07/15/2025
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"US Delays Rule On Gulf Of Mexico Whale Protections By Two Years" [23]

"U.S. President Donald Trump's administration will delay by two years a final rule designating protections for the endangered Rice's whale in the oil and gas drilling region of the Gulf of Mexico, according to an agreement with environmental groups filed in a federal court."

Biodiversity [24]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [25]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: Reuters [28], 07/15/2025
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"Before Tragedy, Texas Repeatedly Rejected Pleas for Flood Alarm Funding" [29]

"Kerr County failed to secure a warning system, even as local officials remained aware of the risks and as billions of dollars were available for similar projects."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Infrastructure [30]
Journalism & Media [31]
People & Population [32]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [12]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [33]
Source: NYTimes [34], 07/15/2025
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New Natural Food Dye OKd as FDA Pressures Industry To Drop Red Dye No. 3 [35]

"The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved another naturally derived food dye on Monday, making good on one of its key promises in the effort to rid the US food system of petroleum-based synthetic dyes."

Chemicals [36]
Consumer [37]
Food [38]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: The New Lede [39], 07/15/2025
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"FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show" [40]

"Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [41]
Environmental Politics [19]
Government [42]
People & Population [32]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [27]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [33]
Source: NYTimes [43], 07/14/2025
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"Trump Is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster Response" [44]

"In an effort to shrink the federal government, President Trump and congressional Republicans have taken steps that are diluting the country’s ability to anticipate, prepare for and respond to catastrophic flooding and other extreme weather events, disaster experts say."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [41]
Environmental Justice [45]
Environmental Politics [19]
Environmental Studies [46]
Government [42]
Infrastructure [30]
People & Population [32]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: NYTimes [47], 07/14/2025
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"FEMA Approved Camp Mystic Appeals To Exempt Buildings From Flood Zone" [48]

"The Federal Emergency Management Agency approved appeals from Camp Mystic to exempt several structures from a flood zone designation over a decade before extreme flooding in Central Texas swamped the Christian girls camp and killed 27 campers and counselors, according to FEMA records."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [41]
Environmental Politics [19]
Government [42]
Laws & Regulations [20]
People & Population [32]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [27]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [33]
Source: Washington Post [49], 07/14/2025
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Cancer Risk Doubles For Iowa, NC Pesticide Applicators Who Used Carbaryl [50]

"Pesticide applicators in North Carolina and Iowa who sprayed the insecticide carbaryl often during their career have a higher risk of getting stomach, esophageal, tongue and prostate cancers, according to new research led by the National Cancer Institute (NCI)."

Agriculture [51]
Chemicals [36]
Environmental Health [41]
Laws & Regulations [20]
People & Population [32]
Pollution [52]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: The New Lede [53], 07/14/2025
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"Union Demands EPA Reinstate Workers, Charging Illegal Retaliation" [54]

"A union for employees at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is demanding the agency reinstate workers who were placed on leave for signing a letter critical of the Trump administration’s environmental and personnel policies."

Activism [55]
Environmental Health [41]
Environmental Justice [45]
Environmental Politics [19]
Government [42]
Journalism & Media [31]
Laws & Regulations [20]
People & Population [32]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: The Hill [56], 07/14/2025
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"DuPont Agrees To Settle Lawsuit Over Hoosick Falls Water Pollution" [57]

"DuPont Co. has agreed to settle a federal class-action lawsuit that was filed nearly a decade ago on behalf of residents in and around the village of Hoosick Falls, where the drinking water had been contaminated for decades by factories that used manufacturing chemicals produced by the company."

Chemicals [36]
Environmental Health [41]
Laws & Regulations [20]
People & Population [32]
Pollution [52]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [12]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [58]
Source: Albany Times Union [59], 07/14/2025
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"Sierra Club’s Executive Director Is on Leave After a Rocky Tenure" [60]

"Ben Jealous, the executive director of the Sierra Club, is on leave as of Friday afternoon, the organization confirmed, after less than three years leading the environmental nonprofit group."

Activism [55]
Environmental Politics [19]
People & Population [32]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: NYTimes [61], 07/14/2025
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"Unhealthy Smoke From Canadian Wildfires Blankets The Upper Midwest" [62]

"Much of the Upper Midwest on Saturday was dealing with swaths of unhealthy air because of drifting smoke from Canadian wildfires, covering the northern region of the U.S. at a time when people want to be enjoying lakes, trails and the great outdoors."

Air [63]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [41]
Forests [64]
Natural Resources [25]
Pollution [52]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [27]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [21]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [65]
Source: AP [66], 07/14/2025
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Utility Says It Can’t Supply Water for Alabama Data Center Without Upgrades [67]

"BESSEMER, Ala. — Developers of a proposed hyperscale data center may find themselves lacking a resource essential for the operation of what would be one of the largest such facilities in the United States: water."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Environmental Politics [19]
Infrastructure [30]
Technology [68]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [12]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [69]
Source: Inside Climate News [70], 07/14/2025
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"Parks Gift Shops Directed To Remove Items That ‘Disparage Americans’" [71]

"Trump officials have directed staff at national parks to review all items in gift shops for anti-American content, according to an internal directive reviewed by The Washington Post. The move is part of the administration’s wider campaign to scrub federal institutions of “corrosive ideology” recognizing historical racism and sexism."

Environmental Justice [45]
Environmental Politics [19]
Environmental Studies [46]
Journalism & Media [31]
Natural Resources [25]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: Washington Post [72], 07/14/2025
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