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Shutdown Will Deepen Hunger In America As Trump Ag Dept. Stops Tracking It [9]

"Millions of women and children are at risk of losing food benefits during the shutdown. The USDA just killed the long-running survey that would track the fallout."

Agriculture [10]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Food [14]
Government [15]
People & Population [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Grist [19], 10/15/2025
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"Nations Meet To Consider Regulations To Drive A Green Transition In Shipping" [20]

"The world’s largest maritime nations gathered in London on Tuesday to consider adopting regulations that would move the shipping industry away from fossil fuels to slash emissions."

Climate Change [21]
Economy & Business [22]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [24]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Pollution [26]
Transportation [27]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [29]
Source: AP [30], 10/15/2025
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"Saudi-Owned Corporate Farms Are Draining Arizona’s Desert Dry" [31]

"Arizona’s lax water laws let corporate farms pump unlimited groundwater to grow alfalfa for cattle overseas, even as local families spend their savings drilling new wells."

Agriculture [10]
Climate Change [21]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [24]
Laws & Regulations [25]
People & Population [16]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [32]
Middle East [33]
Source: Sentient [34], 10/15/2025
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AZ Hopi Planned To Connect 600 Homes To Electricity, But Funding Was Cut [35]

"For as long as 55-year-old Hopi Chairman Tim Nuvangyaoma has been alive, high-voltage power lines have cut across Hopi lands in northeast Arizona, carrying vast amounts of power long distances throughout the Southwest. But residents of the Hopi Reservation have never been connected to that grid."

Consumer [11]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [24]
People & Population [16]
Technology [36]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [32]
Source: NPR [37], 10/15/2025
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"‘Dismal’ Health Of World’s Forests Is Threat To Humanity, Report Warns" [38]

"Global forest health has plunged to “dismal” levels and threatens the wellbeing of humanity, warns a damning report that highlights how financial systems are pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to reduce destruction."

Agriculture [10]
Biodiversity [39]
Climate Change [21]
Environmental Politics [13]
Forests [40]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Natural Resources [41]
Wildlife [42]
Public [17]
International [29]
Source: Guardian [43], 10/15/2025
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Booming Data Centers Pose Big Energy And Environmental Risks [44]

"Google recently courted the township of Franklin, Ind., so that it could construct a giant campus to house the computer hardware that powers its internet business. But the company needed to rezone more than 450 acres in the Indianapolis suburb, and residents weren't having it."

Climate Change [21]
Economy & Business [22]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Health [45]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [24]
Pollution [26]
Technology [36]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NPR [46], 10/15/2025
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It’s Brown And Burns Your Eyes. Clean Water Elusive in Small Texas Town [47]

"The water isn’t always brown, but Scarlet Weathers lives like it is. Not once has she drank the tap water from her kitchen sink in her house in Sweeny, Texas. She knows, like everyone else in the town, that it can’t be trusted. Even her small grandchildren have noticed it during bathtime. Why is the water brown?"

Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [45]
Environmental Justice [12]
Infrastructure [24]
Pollution [26]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [32]
Source: Capital & Main [48], 10/15/2025
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"Pentagon Retreats From Climate Fight Even As Heat And Storms Slam Troops" [49]

"Retired Marine Corps gunnery sergeant Vida Rivera knows heat can be as dangerous as any enemy."

Climate Change [21]
Disasters [50]
Environmental Health [45]
Military [51]
People & Population [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [29]
Source: Floodlight [52], 10/15/2025
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Elevated Levels Of Dangerous Chrome 6 Found Near Two L.A. County Factories [53]

"Southern California air regulators issued violations to two foundries in southeast Los Angeles County after air sampling revealed elevated levels of a highly toxic metal near the facilities."

Chemicals [54]
Environmental Health [45]
Laws & Regulations [25]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [26]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [17]
California [55]
Source: LA Times [56], 10/15/2025
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"Wild Oysters Make a Comeback in Maine" [57]

"After more than a century, these shellfish have reappeared along the Damariscotta River. Their return is a boon — and a warning of climate change."

Biodiversity [39]
Climate Change [21]
Consumer [11]
Fish & Fisheries [58]
Food [14]
Natural Resources [41]
Water & Oceans [28]
Wildlife [42]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [59]
Source: Civil Eats [60], 10/15/2025
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"Mexico Floods Leave At Least 64 Dead And 65 Missing, Authorities Say" [61]

"Overflowing rivers swept through entire villages, triggered landslides and swept away roads and bridges"

Climate Change [21]
Disasters [50]
People & Population [16]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [17]
Mexico [62]
Source: AFP [63], 10/14/2025
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"Judge Orders Halt To DHS Agents’ Targeting Of Journalists In Chicago" [64]

"A federal judge Thursday temporarily blocked federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security from using riot control weapons against journalists covering protests and immigration enforcement operations in the Chicago area."

Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [15]
Journalism & Media [65]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Military [51]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [29]
Source: Washington Post [66], 10/14/2025
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US Threatens Visa Curbs, Sanctions For Nations That Back IMO Emissions Plan [67]

"The United States on Friday threatened to use visa restrictions and sanctions to retaliate against nations that vote in favor of a plan put forward by a United Nations agency to reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from ocean shipping."

Climate Change [21]
Economy & Business [22]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [24]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Pollution [26]
Transportation [27]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [29]
Source: Reuters [68], 10/14/2025
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"A Short-Lived Win in a Never-Ending Fight Over Forever Chemicals" [69]

"For seven years N.C. activists overcame political and scientific hurdles to convince the EPA to enact PFAS regulations in drinking water. Now they’re confronting a Trump administration intent on quashing their success."

Chemicals [54]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [45]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [26]
Water & Oceans [28]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [70]
Source: Inside Climate News [71], 10/14/2025
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"Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump" [72]

"President Trump has been a cheerleader for coal miners. But these miners say his administration is failing to enforce limits on a lethal workplace hazard."

Climate Change [21]
Economy & Business [22]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Health [45]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Natural Resources [41]
People & Population [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [73], 10/14/2025
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