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"California regulators are stepping up their oversight of Pacific Gas & Electric after finding that the nation’s largest utility has neglected the maintenance of an electrical grid that has ignited a series of deadly wildfires in Northern California and forced periodic blackouts affecting millions of people."
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"Navajo Nation resident Percy Deal hopes that federal coronavirus relief, coupled with $2.3 trillion for infrastructure in the American Jobs Plan, will give him something his grandparents and even his parents didn’t have—running water in his home."
"A federal judge in Illinois has refused to halt city permits for a contested metal recycling plant slated to be built in a pollution-burdened neighborhood in South Chicago."
"A Trump administration political official delayed the publication of information about a chemical that has been linked to health issues – including cancer – in Illinois, an internal government watchdog said Thursday."
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[2] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15042021/green-hydrogen-washington-state/
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/regulators-rebuke-pge-neglect-reducing-wildfire-risk
[4] https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-fires-california-utilities-39cb02801df6d461dc979e735a7ff917
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/texas-s-zombie-oil-wells-are-creating-environmental-disaster-zone
[6] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/15/texas-zombie-oil-wells-environmental-disaster-zone
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/infrastructure-plan-lifts-tribes-hope-turning-water-taps
[8] https://bnanews.bna.com/environment-and-energy/infrastructure-plan-lifts-tribes-hope-of-turning-on-water-taps?context=search&index=1
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/judge-nixes-civil-rights-bid-block-chicago-metal-shredder
[10] https://bnanews.bna.com/environment-and-energy/judge-denies-civil-rights-bid-to-block-chicago-metal-shredder?context=search&index=20
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-ig-trump-official-delayed-releasing-info-cancer-chemical-ill
[12] https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/548556-trump-official-delayed-releasing-information-on-cancer-linked
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-seeks-polish-tarnished-reputation-new-climate-pledges
[14] https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-seeks-polish-tarnished-reputation-with-new-climate-change-pledges-ahead-earth-2021-04-15/
[15] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-richard-c-longworth-media-fellowships
[16] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-ijnr-virtual-workshops-big-changes-great-lakes
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epic-drought-means-water-crisis-oregon-california-border
[18] https://apnews.com/article/fish-droughts-lakes-oregon-environment-c113d9a6a963cf461fab15441b3b2628
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[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1384
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[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1388
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