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Scientists And Activists Are Being Censored Over Water Woes In Guadeloupe [9]

"U.N. independent experts are denouncing chronic water cuts in the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, adding that they are concerned about tap water pollution, excessive prices and attempts to silence critics."

Consumer [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [13]
Journalism & Media [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
Central America & the Caribbean [17]
Source: AP [18], 04/02/2024
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FWS Tightens Rules On African Elephant Imports, Stops Short Of Ban [19]

"The Biden administration released updated rules Friday for importation of live African elephants and trophies derived from them."

Biodiversity [20]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Wildlife [22]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [23]
Africa [24]
Source: The Hill [25], 04/02/2024
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"Forever Chemicals From a Forever Fire" [26]

"Alabama residents aim to test blood or urine for PFAS amid underground Moody Landfill fire."

Air [27]
Chemicals [28]
Environmental Health [11]
Pollution [29]
Public [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [30]
Source: Inside Climate News [31], 04/02/2024
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"US Appeals Court Kills Ban On Plastic Containers Contaminated With PFAS" [32]

"A federal appeals court in the US has killed a ban on plastic containers contaminated with highly toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” found to leach at alarming levels into food, cosmetics, household cleaners, pesticides and other products across the economy."

Chemicals [28]
Consumer [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [29]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: Guardian [33], 04/02/2024
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"The Fescue Fighters" [34]

"A toxic grass that threatens a quarter of U.S. cows is spreading. Can it be stopped?"

Agriculture [35]
Biodiversity [20]
Environmental Health [11]
Natural Resources [36]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: Grist/FERN [37], 04/02/2024
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Cicada-Geddon Invaders Coming. It’s The Biggest Bug Emergence In Centuries [38]

"Trillions of evolution’s bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas that have pumps in their heads and jet-like muscles in their rears, are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries."

Biodiversity [20]
Natural Resources [36]
Wildlife [22]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: AP [39], 04/02/2024
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"Inside Bayer’s State-by-State Efforts to Stop Pesticide Lawsuits" [40]

"As the agrichemical giant lays groundwork to fend off Roundup litigation, its use of a playbook for building influence in farm state legislatures has the potential to benefit pesticide companies nationwide."

Agriculture [35]
Chemicals [28]
Environmental Health [11]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: Civil Eats [41], 04/01/2024
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"EPA Cracks Down On Truck Emissions" [42]

"The Biden administration rolled out another rulemaking central to its climate agenda with a regulation slashing pollution from heavy-duty trucks."

Climate Change [43]
Energy & Fuel [44]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [29]
Transportation [45]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: E&E News [46], 04/01/2024
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Study Says Since 1979 Climate Change Has Made Heat Waves Longer, Hotter [47]

"Climate change is making giant heat waves crawl slower across the globe and they are baking more people for a longer time with higher temperatures over larger areas, a new study finds."

Climate Change [43]
Environmental Health [11]
Public [16]
International [48]
Source: AP [49], 04/01/2024
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Uranium Being Mined Near Grand Canyon As Prices Soar, US Pushes Nuclear Power [50]

"The largest uranium producer in the United States is ramping up work just south of Grand Canyon National Park on a long-contested project that largely has sat dormant since the 1980s."

Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [51]
Natural Resources [36]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [52]
Pollution [29]
Waste [53]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [23]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [54]
Source: AP [55], 04/01/2024
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"Iowa Official Finds Dead Fish In 50 Miles Of Fertilizer-Contaminated River" [56]

"State conservation officials have found no living fish in the East Nishnabotna River south of Red Oak — the result of a massive fertilizer spill at a farmers cooperative."

Agriculture [35]
Chemicals [28]
Disasters [57]
Fish & Fisheries [58]
Pollution [29]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [59]
Source: Iowa Capital Dispatch [60], 04/01/2024
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EV Charging Stations Key To Biden Climate Agenda, Yet Only 4 States Have Them [61]

"LONDON, Ohio — Within 24 hours of buying his red Ford Mustang Mach-E, Liam Sawyer set off on a camping trip.

Sawyer, who bought the electric SUV “because I think the technology is cool and the range is just long enough,” searched ahead of time for convenient charging stations between his home in Indianapolis and Allegheny National Forest in western Pennsylvania.
Climate Change [43]
Energy & Fuel [44]
Infrastructure [13]
Transportation [45]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: AP [62], 04/01/2024
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"Chocolate Prices To Keep Rising As West Africa’s Cocoa Crisis Deepens" [63]

"Surveying the stripped landscape of her farm - dotted with pools of cyanide-tainted, tea coloured waste water left by illegal gold miners - is enough to make Janet Gyamfi break down. Only last year, the 27-hectare plot in western Ghana was covered with nearly 6,000 cocoa trees. Today, less than a dozen remain."

Agriculture [35]
Chemicals [28]
Climate Change [43]
Disasters [57]
Natural Resources [36]
Pollution [29]
Public [16]
Africa [24]
Source: Reuters [64], 04/01/2024
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"Mining Fight on the Okefenokee Swamp’s Edge May Have Only Just Begun" [65]

"Legislation to protect critical wetlands faces uncertainty as titanium mine moves closer to permitting."

Biodiversity [20]
Natural Resources [36]
Pollution [29]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [30]
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution [66], 04/01/2024
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Last Coal-Burning Power Plant In New England Set To Close. Enviros Win. [67]

"The last coal-fired power plant in New England, which had been the focus of a lawsuit and protests, is set to close in a victory for environmentalists."

Climate Change [43]
Energy & Fuel [44]
Pollution [29]
Public [16]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [68]
Source: AP [69], 04/01/2024
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