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Tyson Foods Dumps Millions Of Pounds Of Pollutants Into US Rivers And Lakes [9]

"Tyson Foods dumped millions of pounds of toxic pollutants directly into American rivers and lakes over the last five years, threatening critical ecosystems, endangering wildlife and human health, a new investigation reveals."

Agriculture [10]
Food [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Guardian [17], 05/03/2024
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"Methane Emissions From Gas Flaring Being Hidden From Satellite Monitors" [18]

"Energy companies operating in countries such as the US, UK, Germany and Norway appear to have installed technology that could stop researchers from identifying methane, carbon dioxide emissions and pollutants at industrial facilities involved in the disposal of unprofitable natural gas, known in the industry as flaring."

Climate Change [19]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [13]
Technology [21]
Public [15]
International [22]
Europe [23]
Source: Guardian [24], 05/03/2024
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"Chimps Are Dying Of The Common Cold. Is Great Ape Tourism To Blame?" [25]

"There was something wrong with the chimpanzees. For weeks, a community of 205 animals in Uganda’s Kibale national park had been coughing, sneezing and looking generally miserable. But no one could say for sure what ailed them, even as the animals began to die."

Biodiversity [26]
Environmental Health [27]
Wildlife [28]
Public [15]
Africa [29]
Source: Guardian [30], 05/03/2024
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"A Wild Orangutan Used A Medicinal Plant To Treat A Wound, Scientists Say" [31]

"An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists reported Thursday."

Biodiversity [26]
Environmental Health [27]
Natural Resources [32]
Technology [21]
Wildlife [28]
Public [15]
Africa [29]
Source: AP [33], 05/03/2024
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New California Bill Could Allow Developers To Cut Down More Joshua Trees [34]

"Environmentalists warn that a California Democrat’s bill “drives a bulldozer” through the state’s new law that protects imperiled Joshua trees from commercial development. But the lawmaker says his impoverished desert region desperately needs the economic boost."

Biodiversity [26]
Economy & Business [35]
Environmental Politics [36]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [32]
Planning & Growth [37]
Public [15]
California [38]
Source: CalMatters [39], 05/03/2024
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Pier Pressure: Over 1,000 Sea Lions Assemble At San Francisco Dockside [40]

"More than 1,000 sea lions have gathered at San Francisco’s Pier 39 this spring, the largest herd in at least 15 years. Mounds of floppy, delightfully ungraceful marine mammals have plopped themselves on to rafts along the city’s pier, displaying themselves to the thousands of tourists who pass by the area each day."

Biodiversity [26]
Fish & Fisheries [41]
Water & Oceans [14]
Wildlife [28]
Public [15]
California [38]
Source: Guardian [42], 05/03/2024
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"Big Oil Hearing: Dems Make Their Case Against The Industry" [43]

"A Senate Budget Committee hearing Wednesday gave Democrats the chance to highlight new findings in an ongoing congressional investigation seeking to prove that major oil companies waged a decadeslong climate disinformation campaign."

Climate Change [19]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Politics [36]
Journalism & Media [44]
Science [45]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [46], 05/02/2024
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"US Senate Approves Bill To Ban Russian Uranium Imports" [47]

"The U.S. Senate approved on Tuesday legislation to bar imports of Russian uranium, as the United States continues to seek to disrupt Russia's efforts in its war against Ukraine."

Economy & Business [35]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Military [48]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [49]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [22]
Source: Reuters [50], 05/02/2024
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"Biden To Expand California Monuments At White House Event" [51]

"President Joe Biden will add a combined 120,000 acres Thursday to a pair of national monuments in California at a White House ceremony, the administration announced."

Environmental Politics [36]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [32]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
California [38]
Source: E&E News [52], 05/02/2024
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EQT Says Fracked Gas Is a Climate Solution; Scientists Call Greenwashing [53]

"The Pittsburgh corporation says its natural gas is saving the world, countering Russian aggression and solving the climate crisis. Numerous experts say that’s not true."

Climate Change [19]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Politics [36]
Journalism & Media [44]
Pollution [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [22]
Source: PublicSource [54], 05/02/2024
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"Increasingly Frequent Ocean Heat Waves Trigger Mass Die-Offs of Sealife" [55]

"Over the past several years, the temperature of the Earth’s oceans have been spiking high enough to trigger numerous die-offs of marine species, killing millions of corals, fish, mammals, birds and plants. Those mass die-offs also have sent a wave of emotional trauma washing over some researchers watching their life’s work vanish before their eyes."

Biodiversity [26]
Climate Change [19]
Disasters [56]
Environmental Studies [57]
Fish & Fisheries [41]
Natural Resources [32]
Science [45]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [22]
Source: Inside Climate News [58], 05/02/2024
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"Minnesota’s Biggest Solar Project Will Help Replace A Huge Coal Plant" [59]

"One of the largest solar projects in the country is moving closer to completion, and it’s not in a famously sunny state like California, Texas, or even Florida. It’s in Minnesota, on former potato farms near the site of a retiring coal plant."

Climate Change [19]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Infrastructure [60]
Technology [21]
Public [15]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [61]
Source: Canary Media [62], 05/02/2024
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"Florida Says No to Federal Funding Aimed at Greenhouse Gas Emissions" [63]

"Florida gave up $3 million in federal grant funding and as much as $500 million more by declining to participate in a Biden administration program aimed at helping states address the human-caused emissions warming the global climate."

Climate Change [19]
Environmental Politics [36]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [64]
Source: Inside Climate News [65], 05/02/2024
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"The Impacts Of Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Aren’t The Same For Women, Men" [66]

"While “forever chemicals” have been linked to numerous adverse health impacts from cancers to kidney disease, they also may have disparate impacts on male and female bodies."

Chemicals [67]
Consumer [68]
Environmental Health [27]
People & Population [69]
Science [45]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: The Hill [70], 05/02/2024
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Muscogee Lands In Georgia Would Become A National Park Under Bills [71]

"Georgia’s congressional delegation introduced legislation Wednesday to protect some of the ancestral lands of the Muscogee tribe as a national park and preserve."

Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [32]
People & Population [69]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [64]
Source: AP [72], 05/02/2024
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