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Mass. Gov. Healey Signs Ban on PFAS in Firefighters' Gear" [9]

"It was a different kind of phone call that Fall River fire Lt. Jason Burns made on the morning of Aug. 1, after the passage of a bill by Massachusetts lawmakers to ban the use of chemicals linked to cancer in firefighting protective gear."

Chemicals [10]
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Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [14]
Source: Worcester Telegram & Gazette [15], 08/19/2024
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"How Your Cat or Dog Could Warn of a Bird Flu Outbreak" [16]

"Like most countries, the U.S. has no comprehensive national system for monitoring disease in companion animals — which leaves pets and people at risk."

Environmental Health [11]
People & Population [17]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [19], 08/19/2024
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"How Extreme Heat Is Threatening Education Progress Worldwide" [20]

"The continued burning of fossil fuels is closing schools around the world for days, sometimes weeks at a time, and threatening to undermine one of the greatest global gains of recent decades: children’s education."

Climate Change [21]
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Public [13]
International [24]
Source: NYTimes [25], 08/19/2024
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"Keeping The Homeless Hydrated In America's Hottest Big City" [26]

"A Context photographer rode along with medics bringing vital heat relief to people living on the streets of Phoenix, Arizona"

Climate Change [21]
Disasters [22]
Environmental Health [11]
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Public [13]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [27], 08/19/2024
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Feeding Seaweed Supplement To Cattle Halved Methane Emissions In Aussie Study [28]

"Cattle at a Queensland feedlot were fed red seaweed for 200 days in one of the longest trials of the additive – but experts say it’s not farm-ready"

Agriculture [29]
Climate Change [21]
Food [30]
Pollution [31]
Public [13]
International [24]
Australia & Oceania [32]
Source: Guardian [33], 08/19/2024
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"Shell Oil Non-Profit Donated To Anti-Climate Groups Behind Project 2025" [34]

"A US foundation associated with the oil company Shell has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to religious right and conservative organizations, many of which deny that climate change is a crisis, tax records reveal."

Activism [35]
Climate Change [21]
Economy & Business [36]
Energy & Fuel [37]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [38]
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Science [40]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Guardian [41], 08/16/2024
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California Cuts Safety Enforcement As Farmworkers Toil In Extreme Heat [42]

"California has sharply cut its enforcement of heat-protection laws for outdoor laborers while extreme heat has intensified in recent years — endangering farmworkers, construction workers and others who toil in scorching temperatures — an investigation by the Los Angeles Times and Capital & Main has found."

Agriculture [29]
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Public [13]
National (U.S.) [18]
California [43]
Source: LA Times [44], 08/16/2024
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"Record-Setting Heat Waves Are Baking The Arctic Region" [45]

"Parts of the Arctic are enduring exceptionally high temperatures — up 30 to 40 degrees above normal — because of multiple intense heat domes."

Climate Change [21]
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Natural Resources [46]
Wildlife [47]
Public [13]
Alaska and Hawaii [48]
Antarctica & Arctic [49]
Source: Washington Post [50], 08/16/2024
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"Plastic Pellets Known As “Nurdles” Are Accumulating Along Texas Coasts" [51]

"On a humid summer afternoon in July, about 40 minutes from Houston, children are running up and down the Texas coastline of Sylvan Beach. Families make camps for the day with coolers filled with drinks and snacks. It doesn’t take more than a few steps near the shore to realize plastics have overtaken the beach."

Chemicals [10]
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Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [54]
Source: EHN [55], 08/16/2024
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When Is “Recyclable” Not Really Recyclable? Don't Ask the Plastics Industry [56]

"Companies whose futures depend on plastic production are trying to persuade the federal government to allow them to put the label “recyclable” on plastic shopping bags and other items virtually guaranteed to end up in landfills and incinerators."

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [57]
Economy & Business [36]
Energy & Fuel [37]
Environmental Politics [38]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [31]
Waste [58]
Water & Oceans [52]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [24]
Source: ProPublica [59], 08/16/2024
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As Millions of Acres Burn, Firefighters Say USFS Has Left Them With Shortages [60]

"The agency recently said that it had reached 101% of its firefighter hiring goal for 2024, but those on the front lines say the agency is understating how badly depleted their ranks are, especially for experienced firefighters."

Climate Change [21]
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Forests [61]
Government [62]
Natural Resources [46]
People & Population [17]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: ProPublica [63], 08/16/2024
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EPA Faults Miss. State Communications On Water Risks Before Jackson Crisis [64]

"Mississippi’s state health department did not adequately enforce the Safe Drinking Water Act in Jackson, contributing to the 2022 crisis that left 150,000 residents without drinking water, according to a report released Tuesday by the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Inspector General (OIG)."

Consumer [57]
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Source: The Hill [66], 08/16/2024
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"Wind Beat Coal Two Months in a Row for U.S. Electricity Generation" [67]

"Wind turbines generated more electricity than coal-burning power plants across the United States in March and April, outstripping the dirtiest fuel for two consecutive months for the first time, according to the Energy Information Administration."

Climate Change [21]
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Environmental Health [11]
Pollution [31]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [68], 08/16/2024
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WHO Declares New Mpox Outbreaks In Africa A Global Health Emergency [69]

"The World Health Organization declared the mpox outbreaks in Congo and elsewhere in Africa a global emergency on Wednesday, with cases confirmed among children and adults in more than a dozen countries and a new form of the virus spreading. Few vaccine doses are available on the continent."

Biodiversity [70]
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Wildlife [47]
Public [13]
International [24]
Africa [71]
Source: AP [72], 08/16/2024
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"How The World’s Last Wild Red Wolves Are Avoiding Extinction" [73]

"ALLIGATOR RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, N.C. — In April, the latest glimmer of hope appeared here in the only spot on Earth where endangered red wolves remain in the wild. Five pups were born to a pair of wolves — a female known as 2413, and a male known as 2444 — marking the third year in a row that at least one new litter began life in this corner of coastal North Carolina."

Biodiversity [70]
Natural Resources [46]
Wildlife [47]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [53]
Source: Washington Post [74], 08/16/2024
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