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U.S. Steel Abandons Clean Tech Plans Near Pittsburgh After Health Study [1]

"The company scraps planned Pennsylvania investments and will instead shut down three polluting batteries in 2023. The announcement comes a week after a study shows lower lung function in people living near its Pittsburgh-region facility."

Source: EHN [2], 05/11/2021

"California Governor Declares Drought Emergency In 41 Counties" [3]

"California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday issued an expanded “drought emergency proclamation” for 41 of the state’s 58 counties, citing above-average temperatures and dry conditions for April and May."

Source: Reuters [4], 05/11/2021

As Climate Change Threatens Kenyan Tea, Millions Of Workers Seen At Risk [5]

"Climate change is set to ravage tea production in Kenya, the biggest global supplier of black tea, threatening the livelihoods of millions of plantation workers, a report by British charity Christian Aid warned on Monday."

Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [6], 05/11/2021

Calif. Climate Change To Trigger More Pesticide Use, Fouling Waterways [7]

"Warmer temperatures would boost pest populations, causing farmers to use more insecticides that, with more frequent and severe storms, turn into toxic runoff."

Source: Inside Climate News [8], 05/11/2021

China’s ‘Long Term Time Bomb’: Falling Births Slow Population Growth [9]

"China’s population is growing at its slowest pace in decades, with a plunge in births and a graying work force presenting the Communist Party with one of its gravest social and economic challenges."

Source: NYTimes [10], 05/11/2021

Denka Toxic Releases Targeted By St. John Parish Group, EPA Watchdog [11]

"An environmental group is demanding that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency take emergency actions to reduce chloroprene emissions at the Denka Performance Elastomer manufacturing plant in LaPlace and ethylene oxide emissions at two nearby chemical plants, charging that EPA’s own data show nearby minority and low-income residents of St. John the Baptist Parish face the highest risk of cancer in the country."

Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [12], 05/11/2021

Air Pollution From Farms Leads To 17,900 U.S. Deaths Per Year: Study [13]

"The first-of-its-kind report pinpoints meat production as the leading source of deadly pollution"

Source: Washington Post [14], 05/11/2021

"F.B.I. Identifies Group Behind Pipeline Hack" [15]

"President Biden said on Monday that the United States would “disrupt and prosecute” a criminal gang of hackers called DarkSide, which the F.B.I. formally blamed for a huge ransomware attack that has disrupted the flow of nearly half of the gasoline and jet fuel supplies to the East Coast."

Source: NYTimes [16], 05/11/2021

"Final OK Expected for Nation’s First Major Offshore Wind Farm" [17]

"The Biden administration on Tuesday will announce its final approval of the nation’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm, a major step toward President Biden’s goal of expanding renewable energy production across the United States, according to two people familiar with the matter."

Source: NYTimes [18], 05/11/2021

Storm Surge Maps Help Envision Potential Hurricane Flood Catastrophes [19]

Dangerous storm surge that often follows hurricanes can be the focus of life-saving journalism. Reporter’s Toolbox helps environmental journalists get ahead of storm surge with a key resource — a powerful government database and related maps showing surge hazards. Together with real-time advisories and a better understanding of what causes storm surge, Toolbox helps you better cover this danger.

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