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EPA Has Found More Than a Dozen Unregulated Contaminants in Drinking Water [9]

"The inaction on regulating contaminants — including those that likely cause cancer, reproductive or developmental issues — found in the water of millions of Americans illustrates shortcomings in the U.S. response to environmental threats, say experts."

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: ProPublica [19], 11/08/2023
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"Lawsuit: Southern Co. Lied To DOE Over Kemper CCS Plant" [20]

"A former employee of the utility said she was ordered to prepare documents with false information on the now-canceled Kemper carbon capture project."

Climate Change [21]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [23]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [24]
Source: E&E News [25], 11/08/2023
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Numerous Miles-Long Oil Spills Seen On Pittsburgh’s Iconic Mon River [26]

"Oil sheens up to 18 miles long have repeatedly been reported by an environmental advocacy group on the Monongahela River over the last six months. The site of the recurring pollution is only a few miles from where the Monongahela River merges with the Ohio River, which provides drinking water to more than five million people."

Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [27]
Source: EHN [28], 11/08/2023
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"Greenland’s Ice Shelves Hold Back Sea Level Rise. There Are Just 5 Left." [29]

"The vast floating ice platforms of northern Greenland, unrivaled features of the Northern Hemisphere that keep our seas lower by holding back many trillion tons of ice, are in stark decline, according to new scientific research published Tuesday."

Climate Change [21]
Disasters [30]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
International [31]
Antarctica & Arctic [32]
Source: Washington Post [33], 11/08/2023
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Baltimore, Maryland Dept. of Environment Settle Lawsuits Over Sewage Plants [34]

"Environmental advocates hope an agreement negotiated earlier this month by Baltimore City, the state Department of the Environment and the nonprofit Blue Water Baltimore to upgrade the city’s two wastewater treatment plants will help meet the state’s Chesapeake Bay restoration goals."

Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [35]
Infrastructure [36]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [27]
Source: Inside Climate News [37], 11/08/2023
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As Paradise, California, Rebuilds, Nobody Can Afford Home Insurance [38]

"The soaring cost of home insurance has consumed the town of Paradise, residents and officials say, as it prepares to commemorate the five-year anniversary of the Nov. 8, 2018, Camp Fire. Residents have received annual premiums that near or exceed $10,000 — leaving many to wonder how they’re supposed to rebuild their hard-hit community when insurance is so shockingly high for houses in an area that is supposed to be among the most affordable in California."

Climate Change [21]
Consumer [11]
Disasters [30]
Economy & Business [39]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
California [40]
Source: AP [41], 11/08/2023
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"Boiling Point: Trump Is Lying About California And Clean Energy Again" [42]

"This time he’s claiming the state had lots of blackouts this summer. It did not."

Climate Change [21]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [23]
Science [43]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
California [40]
Source: LA Times [44], 11/08/2023
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"As Climate Talks Near, Calls Mount for a ‘Phaseout’ of Fossil Fuels" [45]

"With UN climate negotiations set for next month, a growing number of nations and business leaders are calling for a phaseout of fossil fuels. But with major fossil fuel expansion projects moving ahead around the globe, advocates of strong action face a daunting challenge."

Climate Change [21]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Pollution [15]
Public [17]
International [31]
Source: YaleE360 [46], 11/07/2023
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"EPA Watchdog Accused Of Creating A Hostile Work Environment" [47]

"The top watchdog tasked with overseeing EPA faced accusations that he abused his authority, wasted government money and showed partisan favor. EPA Inspector General Sean O’Donnell denied the allegations, which an oversight body ultimately deemed not worthy of further investigation, according to documents obtained by E&E News."

Environmental Justice [35]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [48]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [49], 11/07/2023
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"This County Could Create The Strictest Workplace Heat Rules In The U.S." [50]

"Miami-Dade County commissioners on Tuesday will decide whether to establish the first county-level workplace heat protections in the United States, a test of whether local governments can protect workers from increasingly dangerous temperatures in the absence of federal rules."

Agriculture [51]
Climate Change [21]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [35]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [48]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [24]
Source: Washington Post [52], 11/07/2023
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Majority-Black Penn. Community Fights Proposed $6 Billion LNG Terminal [53]

"In what was once a proud and neighborly community where residents sat on their porches and looked after kids playing in the streets, the noxious smell and degraded air quality attributable to the Covanta waste incinerator — the largest in the country, burning as much as 3,500 tons of trash a day — have driven residents indoors or out of town."

Activism [54]
Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [35]
Pollution [15]
Waste [55]
Public [17]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [27]
Source: EHN [56], 11/07/2023
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How Midwest Landowners Helped to Derail One of the Biggest CO2 Pipelines [57]

"Lured by billions of dollars in federal funding for carbon capture, developers are proposing huge pipelines to carry the CO2 across the Midwest. In Illinois, one retired academic united her neighbors to fight a key project."

Activism [54]
Climate Change [21]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [58]
Source: Inside Climate News [59], 11/07/2023
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"In the Florida Everglades, a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Hotspot" [60]

"Drainage has exposed the fertile soils of the Everglades Agricultural Area, a region responsible for much of the nation’s sugar cane."

"ORLANDO, Fla. — It used to be the water spilled over Lake Okeechobee’s southern shore, flowing eventually into the sawgrass prairies of the Florida Everglades. For thousands of years the marsh vegetation flourished and died here in an endless cycle, the plant remains falling beneath the slow-coursing water to form a rich layer of organic soil called peat.
Agriculture [51]
Climate Change [21]
Natural Resources [61]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [24]
Source: Inside Climate News [62], 11/07/2023
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Texas Could Spend U.S. Funds Meant To Cut CO2 Emissions On Highway Projects [63]

"The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act required Texas’ transportation agency to create a carbon reduction strategy to get $641 million federal dollars. Critics say the plan is unlikely to meaningfully cut greenhouse gasses from the state’s massive transportation sector."

Climate Change [21]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [36]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Transportation [64]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [65]
Source: Texas Tribune [66], 11/07/2023
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Millions of US Homes Are So Overheated They Open Windows In The Winter. Why? [67]

"Nineteenth-century technology is finally being phased out in New York City, but its past is deeply entwined with American history".

Climate Change [21]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Infrastructure [36]
Technology [68]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Guardian [69], 11/07/2023
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