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DOE Conditionally Approves $2.26 Billion Loan For Huge Nevada Lithium Mine [9]

"President Joe Biden’s administration has conditionally agreed to loan more than $2 billion to the company building a controversial lithium mine in Nevada with the largest known U.S. deposit of the metal critical to making batteries for electric vehicles key to his renewable energy agenda."

Biodiversity [10]
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Climate Change [12]
Economy & Business [13]
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Environmental Justice [15]
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National (U.S.) [21]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [22]
Source: AP [23], 03/18/2024
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"Navajos Worry Uranium Superfund Addition Is a False EPA Promise" [24]

"Trust is in short supply that the EPA will follow through on promises to clean up uranium mine contamination that has sickened generations of Navajo people, tribal members told agency officials visiting a contaminated mining area on Friday in Arizona."

Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Justice [15]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Natural Resources [18]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [26]
Pollution [27]
Waste [28]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [29], 03/18/2024
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United States Has Its First Large Offshore Wind Farm, With More To Come [30]

"America’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm is officially open, a long-awaited moment that helps pave the way for a succession of large wind farms."

Climate Change [12]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Infrastructure [31]
Water & Oceans [32]
Public [20]
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Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [33]
Source: NPR [34], 03/18/2024
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Neighbors Sick. Should Developers Dig Up Toxic Soil In Florida Suburb? [35]

"Residents already hit with disease are fighting the multibillion-dollar corporation DR Horton, America’s largest homebuilder".

Activism [36]
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Source: Guardian [38], 03/18/2024
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Clean Electricity? These Are The Overlooked Elected Officials Who Decide. [39]

"On a Tuesday morning in January, college student Aurora Gray stepped up to the podium in a windowless room in Atlanta, around the corner from the state capitol building. In front of her sat a five-member panel of elected officials that oversees how and where nearly every Georgia resident gets their power."

Climate Change [12]
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Environmental Politics [16]
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Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [41], 03/18/2024
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Fishers Who Catch Baby Eels For $2,000 A Pound Hope For Years Of Fishing [42]

"Baby eels, also called elvers, are likely the most valuable fish in the United States on a per-pound basis - worth orders of magnitude more money at the docks than lobsters, scallops or salmon."

Fish & Fisheries [43]
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National (U.S.) [21]
International [44]
Asia [45]
Source: AP [46], 03/18/2024
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"BLM Releases Long-Awaited Sage Grouse Protections" [47]

"The Biden administration released its proposal Thursday to protect the greater sage grouse across the West, incorporating tough restrictions on oil and gas drilling and other land uses near the bird’s habitat."

Agriculture [48]
Biodiversity [10]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Politics [16]
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Natural Resources [18]
Wildlife [19]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: E&E News [49], 03/15/2024
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"EPA Cracks Down On Carcinogenic Pollution From Medical Plants" [50]

"EPA on Thursday announced new regulations to slash releases of a cancer-causing compound used by dozens of medical equipment sterilization plants, often located in heavily populated and marginalized communities." "The rule would cut ethylene oxide releases at sterilization facilities by more than 90 percent."

Chemicals [11]
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Pollution [27]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: E&E News [51], 03/15/2024
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Toxic Air Lingers In Texas Latino Community, As Air Monitoring Fails [52]

"Public data from a network of state air monitors around the Houston Ship Channel is hard to interpret and is often inadequate, leaving Latino-majority neighborhoods like Cloverleaf unaware of whether the air they breathe is safe."

Air [53]
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Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [37]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [54]
Source: EHN [55], 03/15/2024
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Gulf Petrochemical Buildout Draws Tax Breaks Despite Pollution Violations [56]

"A booming petrochemical buildout on the Gulf Coast has drawn billions of dollars in public subsidies from state tax abatement programs despite regular violations of pollution permits, according to a new report released Thursday."

Chemicals [11]
Economy & Business [13]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Infrastructure [31]
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Pollution [27]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Inside Climate News [57], 03/15/2024
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"Turf Fields May Have ‘Forever Chemicals.’ Should Kids Be Playing On Them?" [58]

"The three 6-year-old girls stood on the sidelines as their coach swabbed their hands. Then they ran onto a lush green turf field and played soccer for 90 minutes straight — no stepping off the pitch. This wasn’t just a practice. It was part of a small experiment conducted in the suburban foothills of San Diego last summer."

Chemicals [11]
Consumer [40]
Environmental Health [25]
Infrastructure [31]
Laws & Regulations [17]
People & Population [59]
Pollution [27]
Technology [60]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Washington Post [61], 03/15/2024
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"Sick Because of Roundup? These Bills Could Make Suing Impossible." [62]

"High-profile lawsuits have accused pesticides of causing cancer and Parkinson’s. But three states are now considering bills that would prevent these lawsuits."

Agriculture [48]
Chemicals [11]
Consumer [40]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Pollution [27]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: New Republic [63], 03/15/2024
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"Americans Move To Climate-Risky Areas As Real Estate Booms" [64]

"How growing battles over real estate development and flood risk are playing out in one community on the U.S. East Coast".

Climate Change [12]
Disasters [65]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Planning & Growth [66]
Water & Oceans [32]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [67]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [37]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [68], 03/15/2024
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Chemicals In Plastics Far More Numerous Than Previous Estimates: Report [69]

"At least 3,000 more chemicals are in plastics — from food packaging to toys to medical devices — than previously estimated by environmental agencies, a report published on Thursday found, raising questions over pollution and consumer safety."

Chemicals [11]
Pollution [27]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
International [44]
Source: Reuters [70], 03/15/2024
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"Failed Oil Well Plugs Are Silent Polluters That No One Watches" [71]

"Sarah Stogner plucked a piece of cement off a rusted steel pipe jutting from the ground on a West Texas ranch. The chunk, part of the plug for a long-dormant oil well, crumbled in her hand."

Air [53]
Chemicals [11]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Health [25]
Pollution [27]
Public [20]
National (U.S.) [21]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [54]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [72], 03/15/2024
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