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"How Trump Gutted OSHA and Workplace Safety Rules" [1]

"Trump’s attack on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has left workers vulnerable to Covid-19."

Agriculture [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Health [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: NPR [10], 10/22/2020
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CA Ranchers, Activists Face Off Over Plan to Cull Beloved Tule Elk Herd [11]

"The elk are a main attraction in Point Reyes National Seashore, north of San Francisco. But ranchers who share the park say the elks’ numbers create problems."

Agriculture [2]
Biodiversity [12]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Natural Resources [13]
Wildlife [14]
Public [8]
California [15]
Source: InsideClimate News [16], 10/20/2020
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"Nearly Half of the U.S. Is in Drought. It May Get Worse." [17]

"Nearly half of the continental United States is gripped by drought, government forecasters said Thursday, and conditions are expected to worsen this winter across much of the Southwest and South."

Agriculture [2]
Climate Change [18]
Disasters [19]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: NYTimes [21], 10/20/2020
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"Trump Makes Water Demand Of Farms Priority For New Office" [22]

"President Donald Trump on Tuesday created what he called a “subcabinet” for federal water issues, with a mandate that includes water-use changes sought by corporate farm interests and oil and gas.

An executive order from Trump put Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler in charge of the interagency water body.

Establishment of a water subcabinet “will streamline decision-making processes” across federal agencies, the EPA said in a statement.

Agriculture [2]
Environmental Politics [5]
Fish & Fisheries [23]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: AP [24], 10/16/2020
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"Targeted Ecosystem Restoration Can Protect Climate, Biodiversity" [25]

"A new study identifies vast areas of farm and cropland that could be converted back to natural conditions to protect species and store carbon."

Agriculture [2]
Biodiversity [12]
Climate Change [18]
Wildlife [14]
Public [8]
International [26]
Source: InsideClimate News [27], 10/15/2020
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"COVID-19 Outbreak Kills Nearly 10,000 Minks On Utah Fur Farms" [28]

"Thousands of farmed minks in Wisconsin and Utah have died from the novel coronavirus, which experts say they got from humans."

Agriculture [2]
Biodiversity [12]
Disasters [19]
Environmental Health [3]
Health [6]
Wildlife [14]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Yahoo! [29], 10/12/2020
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Emissions of Nitrous Oxide, a Climate Super-Pollutant, Are Rising Fast [30]

"Emissions of nitrous oxide, a climate super-pollutant hundreds of times more potent than carbon dioxide, are rising faster than previously thought—at a rate that not only threatens international targets to limit global warming, but is consistent with a worst-case trajectory for climate change, a new study suggests."

Agriculture [2]
Air [31]
Climate Change [18]
Pollution [32]
Public [8]
International [26]
Source: InsideClimate News [33], 10/08/2020
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Bees Face ‘Perfect Storm’ — Parasites, Air Pollution and Other Threats [34]

"A collection of threats — habitat loss, pathogens, pesticides, pollution and poor nutrition — have led to widespread decline in bee health and pollinator populations."

Agriculture [2]
Biodiversity [12]
Chemicals [35]
Disasters [19]
Wildlife [14]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Revelator [36], 10/06/2020
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"EPA Faces Decision On Chemical Linked To Brain Damage In Children" [37]

"When Claudia Angulo was pregnant with her son, she often felt nauseated and experienced vomiting and headaches."

Agriculture [2]
Chemicals [35]
Consumer [38]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: The Hill [39], 10/05/2020
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"Fires In Brazil's Amazon The Worst In A Decade, Data Shows" [40]

"Fires in Brazil’s Amazon increased 13% in the first nine months of the year compared with a year ago, as the rainforest region experiences its worst rash of fires in a decade, data from space research agency Inpe showed on Thursday."

Agriculture [2]
Air [31]
Climate Change [18]
Forests [41]
Natural Resources [13]
Pollution [32]
Public [8]
South America [42]
Source: Reuters [43], 10/02/2020
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