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Lula Wins Historic Fourth Term As Brazilian President, Defeats Bolsonaro [9]

"Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian president, has staged a dramatic election fightback, defeating his far-right opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro, to claim a historic fourth term in power."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [11]
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South America [18]
Source: Guardian [19], 10/26/2026
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West Virginia Attorney General Subpoenas Environmental Groups [20]

"West Virginia’s attorney general has sent investigative subpoenas to environmental advocacy organizations — something the groups are describing as a retaliatory attack on their First Amendment rights."

Activism [21]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [22]
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Public [17]
National (U.S.) [23]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [24]
Source: The Hill [25], 10/26/2026
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Locations of N. Carolina Poultry CAFOs Have Been a Secret — Until Now [26]

"A few days before Christmas in 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency received a complaint through its National Response Center: “There has been a horrible smell in the air for almost a week,” the caller said, according to state records. “It’s so bad it’s making people throw up.”"

Activism [21]
Agriculture [27]
Environmental Health [28]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [22]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [29]
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Public [17]
National (U.S.) [23]
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Source: Inside Climate News [32], 10/26/2026
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Europe’s Intense Summer Heat May Have Led To 50K Deaths, Report Says [33]

"About 50,000 more people died in European cities between June and August than would have if temperatures had not been abnormally hot, researchers estimate."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [34]
Environmental Health [28]
People & Population [35]
Public [17]
Europe [36]
Source: Washington Post [37], 10/26/2026
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How Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass [38]

"The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether."

Air [39]
Chemicals [40]
Environmental Health [28]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [35]
Pollution [29]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: New York Times [41], 10/26/2026
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Oil and Tech Money Back Measure to Limit California Environmental Law [42]

"Proposition 45 would ease development of a wide range of projects, including some fossil-fuel facilities and possibly AI data centers."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [43]
Environmental Health [28]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [29]
Technology [44]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [23]
California [45]
Source: Capital & Main [46], 10/23/2026
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W. Va. Investigates Green Groups Over ‘Deceptive’ Climate Change Advocacy [47]

"West Virginia’s Republican attorney general has launched a broad investigation of the state’s leading environmental groups, demanding a decade of internal records involving “unfair or deceptive acts” in their fundraising and climate change advocacy."

Activism [21]
Climate Change [11]
Conflict/Corruption [48]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [22]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [49]
People & Population [35]
Public [17]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [24]
Source: AP [50], 10/23/2026
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Brazil’s Supreme Court Suspends Permit For Major Amazon Gold Mine [51]

"Brazil’s Supreme Court has suspended an environmental permit for a major gold mining project in the Amazon rainforest, dealing a setback to a Canadian company’s plans to develop an open-pit mine along a river already affected by one of the country’s largest hydroelectric dams."

Chemicals [40]
Environmental Health [28]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [49]
Pollution [29]
Water & Oceans [52]
Public [17]
South America [18]
Source: AP [53], 10/23/2026
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Pakistan Workers Swelter In Extreme Heat Despite Brands' Safety Pledges [54]

"Machines whirred around Siddiqui as her vision blurred and her heart hammered. The garment factory on the outskirts of Karachi was sweltering."

Climate Change [11]
Environmental Health [28]
Environmental Justice [12]
People & Population [35]
Public [17]
Asia [55]
Source: AP [56], 10/23/2026
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Court Blocks Ohio GOPers From Killing A Clean Air Law Opposed By Polluter [57]

"A Franklin County judge overturned Ohio lawmakers’ effort to eliminate a clean air enforcement rule that’s used against polluters. She said the legislation unconstitutionally spanned multiple subjects."

Environmental Health [28]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [29]
Public [17]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [58]
Source: Signal Ohio [59], 10/23/2026
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Maryland CAFO Fund Wastes Taxpayer Dollars As Pollution Persists: Report [60]

"Maryland is spending millions in taxpayer dollars on technology designed to protect people and water from animal manure pollution at large-scale livestock farms — but has wasted money on fruitless projects and shown little evidence that the investments are working, according to a new report."

Agriculture [27]
Environmental Health [28]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [29]
Water & Oceans [52]
Public [17]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [24]
Source: The New Lede [61], 10/23/2026
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New Washington Cooling Law Protects Farm Workers - If They Know About It [62]

"Renters in Washington State now have expanded rights to air conditioning under a state law that recently went into effect. Awareness of the law, however, has yet to reach the farmworker community, which could benefit from the new protections."

Agriculture [27]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Health [28]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [22]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [35]
Public [17]
Northwest (OR WA) [63]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [64], 10/23/2026
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Map Shows US Drinking Water Contaminated With ‘Forever Chemicals’ [65]

"Federal monitoring data has revealed where two extensively studied PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” have been found in drinking water across the U.S."

Chemicals [40]
Consumer [66]
Environmental Health [28]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [35]
Pollution [29]
Water & Oceans [52]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: Newsweek [67], 10/23/2026
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A New Ice Age Was Beginning. Then Humans Started Burning Fossil Fuels [68]

"Ancient plants reveal that the vestiges of the North American ice sheet started expanding a few thousand years ago, but that climate change caused it to reverse course."

Climate Change [11]
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Science [69]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [23]
International [70]
Canada [71]
Source: WIRED [72], 10/23/2026
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The Hidden History Of How Big Oil Invented The American Dream [73]

"From the family car to the dream kitchen, fossil fuel companies sold a vision of prosperity that depended on their own products. Grist dug up a century of evidence that shows how they did it."

Climate Change [11]
Consumer [66]
Energy & Fuel [43]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [22]
Laws & Regulations [16]
People & Population [35]
Pollution [29]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: Grist [74], 10/23/2026
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