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Wealthy Nations Pledge Record Release Of Oil Reserves To Calm Surging Prices [9]

"A group representing many of the world’s wealthiest countries agreed Wednesday to release the largest volume of emergency oil reserves in its history, in a bid to counter the effects of the Iran war on energy markets and the halt of cargo shipping through the Strait of Hormuz."

Energy & Fuel [10]
Military [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
International [14]
Middle East [15]
Source: AP [16], 03/12/2026
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EPA Chief Met With Bayer CEO Over Supreme Court Fight, Agency Records Show [17]

"Top US regulators met with Bayer’s CEO last year to discuss “litigation” issues – including “Supreme Court Action” over its glyphosate weed killer – just months before the Trump administration took a series of steps to boost Bayer’s case at the high court, internal government records show."

Agriculture [18]
Chemicals [19]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [21]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Pollution [23]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: The New Lede [24], 03/12/2026
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"EPA Axes Union Contract" [25]

"EPA is canceling its collective bargaining agreement with its second-biggest union, a fierce critic of the Trump administration."

Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [26]
Environmental Politics [21]
Government [27]
Laws & Regulations [22]
People & Population [28]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: E&E News [29], 03/12/2026
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"Civil Rights Case Probes Racism Behind Cancer Alley Pollution" [30]

"A major environmental justice case tying slavery’s legacy to Cancer Alley reached a new phase after a judge rejected defendants’ motion to dismiss last month."

Chemicals [19]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [26]
Environmental Politics [21]
Laws & Regulations [22]
People & Population [28]
Pollution [23]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [31]
Source: DeSmog [32], 03/12/2026
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40% Of Produce From Nation’s Largest Supplier Contains ‘Forever’ Pesticides [33]

"Nearly 40% of nonorganic fruits and vegetables grown in California contain traces of pesticides that are also PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” according to a new investigation."

Agriculture [18]
Chemicals [19]
Consumer [34]
Environmental Health [20]
Food [35]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Pollution [23]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
California [36]
Source: CNN [37], 03/12/2026
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"Zeldin Disciplined EPA Dissenters After Ethics Office Found No ‘Concern’" [38]

"Ethics staff at EPA found last summer that employees who signed an open dissent letter were within their rights to do so, internal emails show. Nevertheless, the agency suspended most and fired some, a controversial move seen as silencing their criticism and is now being challenged by litigation."

Activism [39]
Environmental Health [20]
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Government [27]
People & Population [28]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: E&E News [40], 03/12/2026
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"Iran Shocks Could Spur a Shift to Clean Energy — but Also to Coal" [41]

"Environmentalists say the war’s effects on oil and gas prices are an argument for countries to get off fossil fuels. But the reality is likely to be messier."

Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Health [20]
Military [11]
Pollution [23]
Public [12]
Middle East [15]
Source: NYTimes [42], 03/12/2026
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Human Waste Backing Up In Basements Shows US Infrastructure Problems [43]

"At least 18.7 million people are served by one of roughly 1,000 utilities that are in serious violation of pollution limits. At least 2.7 million live with a system that violated federal clean water rules continually over the last three years, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal data."

Consumer [34]
Disasters [44]
Environmental Health [20]
Infrastructure [45]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Pollution [23]
Water & Oceans [46]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: AP [47], 03/12/2026
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"RFK Jr.’s Advisers Had A Plan To Target Covid Shots. Then It Fell Apart." [48]

"A key federal vaccine advisory panel has abandoned an attack on the covid-19 mRNA vaccines — a shift that comes as some Republicans warn that any more changes to vaccine policy could damage the party in the midterms."

Environmental Health [20]
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Science [49]
Technology [50]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Washington Post [51], 03/12/2026
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“Report Card” Measures Congress Members’ Commitment To Wildlife Conservation [52]

"Defenders of Wildlife released its 2025 Conservation Report Card for the 119th Congress, measuring members’ commitment to upholding federal laws that protect wildlife conservation during its first session."

Biodiversity [53]
Environmental Politics [21]
Laws & Regulations [22]
People & Population [28]
Wildlife [54]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: National Parks Traveler [55], 03/12/2026
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"War Brings New Water Crises to an Already-Parched Iran" [56]

"Iran has accused the United States of bombing a desalination plant on Qeshm Island. The country was already facing a severe water shortage." "The war in Iran has exposed the country’s water woes, which had been pushed to the brink by climate change, excessive agricultural use and decades of mismanagement."

Agriculture [18]
Chemicals [19]
Climate Change [57]
Disasters [44]
Infrastructure [45]
Military [11]
Water & Oceans [46]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Middle East [15]
Source: NYTimes [58], 03/11/2026
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Iran War Unites Americans In Aggravation Over Sticker Shock At Gas Pump [59]

"Standing alongside his son’s Ford pickup truck at a central Iowa gas station off Interstate 80, Francisco Castillo was not happy."

Climate Change [57]
Economy & Business [60]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Politics [21]
People & Population [28]
Transportation [61]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: AP [62], 03/11/2026
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UN Climate Change Report: ‘Parts Of The Planet Will Become Uninhabitable’ [63]

"The U.N. report warns climate change will likely make the world sicker, hungrier, poorer and more dangerous in the next 18 years with an “unavoidable” increase in risks."

Climate Change [57]
Disasters [44]
Environmental Health [20]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
International [14]
Source: AP [64], 03/11/2026
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"Air Pollution Spikes As Trump Doubles Down On Coal Power" [65]

"Air pollution from coal-fired power plants spiked in 2025, a striking reversal of long-term progress in air quality as the Trump administration boosted coal use." "EPA data shows pollution bumps that are among the largest in decades, just as the agency rolls back rules cracking down on pollution from coal-fired power plants."

Air [66]
Climate Change [57]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Health [20]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Natural Resources [67]
Pollution [23]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: E&E News [68], 03/11/2026
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North Carolina Complaint System For Factory Farms Doesn't Work Very Well [69]

"Complaints become part of the record only if a violation is found, but the state has only 14 inspectors for thousands of hog, poultry and cattle farms known as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs."

Agriculture [18]
Consumer [34]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [26]
Environmental Politics [21]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Pollution [23]
Waste [70]
Water & Oceans [46]
Public [12]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [31]
Source: Inside Climate News [71], 03/11/2026
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