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"CDC Expands Wastewater Testing For Polio To Michigan And Pennsylvania" [9]

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expanding efforts to test wastewater to detect the polio virus in Philadelphia and the Detroit area, targeting communities at highest risk for the life-threatening and potentially disabling illness, officials said Wednesday."

Environmental Health [10]
Pollution [11]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Washington Post [15], 12/01/2022
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"Gas Driller Pleads No Contest To Polluting Town’s Water" [16]

"Pennsylvania’s most active gas driller pleaded no contest Tuesday to criminal charges, capping a landmark environmental case against a company that prosecutors say polluted a rural community’s drinking water 14 years ago and then tried to evade responsibility."

Consumer [17]
Environmental Health [10]
Infrastructure [18]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Pollution [11]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [13]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [20]
Source: AP [21], 12/01/2022
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Puerto Rican Towns Sue Oil Companies Over Suppression Of Climate Science [22]

"Sixteen Puerto Rico municipalities filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court against major oil companies, alleging companies like ExxonMobil, Shell and Chevron colluded to suppress evidence of climate change that has devastated the island, including 2017’s Hurricane Maria."

Climate Change [23]
Disasters [24]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Justice [26]
Environmental Politics [27]
Journalism & Media [28]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Pollution [11]
Science [29]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [30]
Source: The Hill [31], 12/01/2022
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In Ancient Reindeer Forest, One Woman Finds A Way To Slow Climate Change [32]

"To get Finland to care about the animals that have for centuries helped cool the planet, Pauliina Feodoroff went global".

Biodiversity [33]
Climate Change [23]
Forests [34]
Natural Resources [35]
Wildlife [36]
Public [13]
Antarctica & Arctic [37]
Europe [38]
Source: Washington Post [39], 12/01/2022
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"What Happens On The Colorado River’s Descent To ‘Dead Pool’" [40]

"The first sign of serious trouble for the drought-stricken American Southwest could be a whirlpool."

Agriculture [41]
Climate Change [23]
Infrastructure [18]
Natural Resources [35]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Washington Post [42], 12/01/2022
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"Coastal Job: Underwater Cave Ecologist" [43]

"Fernando Calderón-Gutiérrez is a Mexican underwater cave ecologist who dives in the coastal caves of Mexico, Belize, and the United States to document organisms and learn how they interact with their hostile environment."

Biodiversity [33]
Environmental Studies [44]
Science [29]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [13]
International [45]
Source: Hakai [46], 12/01/2022
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"Biden To Honor Tribes With Nevada National Monument, His Biggest Yet" [47]

"Tribes, environmentalists and many local officials support protecting nearly 450,000 acres around Spirit Mountain, but some developers warn it could hamper renewable energy projects".

Environmental Justice [26]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [35]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [48]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [49]
Source: Washington Post [50], 11/30/2022
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"DOJ Sues Jackson Over Water Crisis" [51]

"The Justice Department today sued Jackson, Miss., for violating federal safe drinking water rules and floated a plan with the city and state to appoint a third-party manager to run the city’s beleaguered water plant as negotiations continue."

Consumer [17]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [26]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Pollution [11]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [30]
Source: E&E News [52], 11/30/2022
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"Air Pollution Linked To Almost A Million Stillbirths A Year" [53]

"Almost a million stillbirths a year can be attributed to air pollution, according to the first global study. The research estimated that almost half of stillbirths could be linked to exposure to pollution particles smaller than 2.5 microns (PM2.5), mostly produced from the burning of fossil fuels."

Air [54]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [26]
People & Population [55]
Pollution [11]
Public [13]
International [45]
Source: Guardian [56], 11/30/2022
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"NASA Cancels Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Satellite Due To Cost" [57]

"NASA is canceling a planned satellite that was going to intensely monitor greenhouse gases over the Americas because it got too costly and complicated."

Climate Change [23]
Environmental Politics [27]
Science [29]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: AP [58], 11/30/2022
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"Mauna Loa Eruption Halts Key Atmospheric Measurements" [59]

"The eruption of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, has interrupted a key site that monitors greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, officials said Tuesday."

Air [54]
Chemicals [60]
Climate Change [23]
Disasters [24]
Science [29]
Public [13]
Alaska and Hawaii [61]
International [45]
Source: Washington Post [62], 11/30/2022
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"US Bat Species Devastated By Fungus Now Listed As Endangered" [63]

"The Biden administration declared the northern long-eared bat endangered on Tuesday in a last-ditch effort to save a species driven to the brink of extinction by white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease."

Biodiversity [33]
Environmental Health [10]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [35]
Wildlife [36]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: AP [64], 11/30/2022
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"Drying California Lake To Get $250M in US Drought Funding" [65]

"The federal government said Monday it will spend $250 million over four years on environmental cleanup and restoration work around a drying Southern California lake that’s fed by the depleted Colorado River."

Climate Change [23]
Natural Resources [35]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
California [66]
Source: AP [67], 11/30/2022
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Treaty On Plastics Must Cut Production To Ease Pollution, Some States Say [68]

"Countries have begun to discuss a future global plastics treaty which would cut pollution, some hope entirely by 2040, at U.N. talks in Uruguay this week, with many states calling for curbs on plastic production as a way to reach that goal."

Chemicals [60]
Consumer [17]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Natural Resources [35]
Pollution [11]
Waste [69]
Public [13]
International [45]
Source: Reuters [70], 11/30/2022
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Petition Circulators Lie To Calif. Voters about New Well Ballot Measure [71]

"The canvassers are backed by the oil industry in its quest to stop a new law that bans wells near residential areas and imposes new environmental controls. If petition circulators succeed in gathering enough signatures, the law would be blocked until the 2024 election."

Chemicals [60]
Climate Change [23]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [26]
Environmental Politics [27]
Journalism & Media [28]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Pollution [11]
Public [13]
California [66]
Source: Inside Climate News [72], 11/30/2022
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