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Weather Extremes Caused by Climate Change Are Driving Up Food Prices: Report [9]

"Extreme weather has stoked food prices around the world in recent years and could lead to more political instability and inflation, with the world’s poor bearing most of the economic pain and health impacts, according to new research."

Agriculture [10]
Climate Change [11]
Consumer [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Food [14]
Natural Resources [15]
People & Population [16]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
International [19]
Source: Inside Climate News [20], 07/22/2025
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"Former BP Spokesperson Is Now EPA Region 6 Chief of Staff" [21]

"Wynn Radford IV, chief of staff for the Environmental Protection Agency Region 6, previously worked as a spokesperson for the multinational oil company BP following the Deepwater Horizon disaster."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Politics [23]
Government [24]
Laws & Regulations [25]
People & Population [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [26]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [27]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [28]
Source: Inside Climate News [29], 07/22/2025
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Iowa Agriculture Runs on 110 Billion Pounds of Manure, Impairing Its Water [30]

"In the nation’s leading pork-producing state, animal waste fuels crop growth but impairs water quality in a leaky circular system."

Agriculture [10]
Pollution [31]
Waste [32]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [26]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [33]
Source: Inside Climate News [34], 07/22/2025
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"With Help From AI, This Threatened Frog Is Making A Comeback" [35]

"If you were a miner in California during the Gold Rush, you might have dined on a California red-legged frog."

Biodiversity [36]
Natural Resources [15]
Technology [37]
Wildlife [38]
Public [18]
California [39]
Source: NPR [40], 07/22/2025
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Some Australian Dolphins Use Sponges To Hunt Fish. It’s Harder Than It Looks [41]

"Some dolphins in Australia have a special technique to flush fish from the seafloor. They hunt with a sponge on their beak, like a clown nose."

Biodiversity [36]
Environmental Studies [42]
Fish & Fisheries [43]
Natural Resources [15]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
International [19]
Australia & Oceania [44]
Source: AP [45], 07/22/2025
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"E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm" [46]

"The Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday that it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, after denying for months that it intended to do so."

Biodiversity [36]
Chemicals [47]
Climate Change [11]
Consumer [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [48]
Environmental Politics [23]
Environmental Studies [42]
Government [24]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Natural Resources [15]
Pollution [31]
Science [49]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: NYTimes [50], 07/21/2025
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West Virginia Factory’s Pollution Could Trouble Louisville’s Drinking Water [51]

"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 [47]
Consumer [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [48]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Pollution [31]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [26]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [33]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [52]
Source: Louisville Public Media [53], 07/21/2025
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"White House Says MAHA Won't Restrict Pesticide Use" [54]

"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 [10]
Chemicals [47]
Consumer [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [23]
Food [14]
Laws & Regulations [25]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [31]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Politico [55], 07/21/2025
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"After Devastating Winter Losses, Another Threat Looms for U.S. Beekeepers" [56]

"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 [10]
Biodiversity [36]
Disasters [57]
Environmental Health [13]
Natural Resources [15]
Wildlife [38]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: NYTimes [58], 07/21/2025
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Trump Names New Energy Regulator To Replace Democrat He Asked To Step Down [59]

"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 [11]
Consumer [12]
Economy & Business [60]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Politics [23]
Government [24]
Laws & Regulations [25]
People & Population [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: The Hill [61], 07/21/2025
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"US Wetlands ‘Restored’ Using Treated Sewage Tainted With Forever Chemicals" [62]

"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 [36]
Chemicals [47]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [23]
Fish & Fisheries [43]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Natural Resources [15]
Pollution [31]
Water & Oceans [17]
Wildlife [38]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Guardian [63], 07/21/2025
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"Brazil Lawmakers Gut Environmental Permitting Ahead Of COP30 Summit" [64]

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

Climate Change [11]
Environmental Politics [23]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Public [18]
International [19]
South America [65]
Source: Religion News Service [66], 07/21/2025
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Trump Admin Dashes Hopes Of Anti-Pollution Plan For JD Vance’s Home Town [67]

"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 [11]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Politics [23]
Infrastructure [68]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Pollution [31]
Technology [37]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [26]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [69]
Source: Guardian [70], 07/21/2025
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Wyoming’s Crowded Lonesome Lake Tops EPA’s US List For Fecal Contamination [71]

"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 [13]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Natural Resources [15]
Pollution [31]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [72]
Source: WyoFile [73], 07/21/2025
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"Can Grizzly Bears Survive Without The Endangered Species Act?" [74]

"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 [36]
Environmental Politics [23]
Environmental Studies [42]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Natural Resources [15]
Wildlife [38]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: National Parks Traveler [75], 07/21/2025
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