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"Bees Facing a Poisoned Spring" [1]

"A new generation of pesticides is making honeybees far more susceptible to disease, even at tiny doses, and may be a clue to the mysterious colony collapse disorder that has devastated bees across the world, the US government's leading bee researcher has found. Yet the discovery has remained unpublished for nearly two years since it was made by the US Department of Agriculture's Bee Research Laboratory."

Agriculture [2]
Chemicals [3]
Public [4]
Source: UK Independent [5], 01/20/2011
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Radioactive Waste Stack Looms and Expands Beside Fla. Black Community [6]

"Progress Village was established decades ago to provide affordable housing for Black residents near Tampa. The phosphogypsum stack, containing the toxic waste of fertilizer production, is right next door."

Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Justice [8]
Laws & Regulations [9]
People & Population [10]
Pollution [11]
Waste [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [4]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [14]
Source: Inside Climate News [15], 08/03/2026
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Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran [16]

"The scope of cyberattacks on U.S. water systems has grown to include at least seven states and may be far wider, officials and experts warned, as the authorities raced to safeguard the nation’s water supply against an assault that increasingly appeared to be the work of Iran."

Chemicals [3]
Consumer [17]
Disasters [18]
Environmental Health [7]
Infrastructure [19]
Military [20]
People & Population [10]
Pollution [11]
Technology [21]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: New York Times [23], 08/03/2026
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Amid AI Boom, Coal Returns — With a Familiar Cost To Black Neighbors [24]

"Trump’s order keeping an Orlando coal plant online renews environmental justice concerns over who pays AI’s pollution bill." "The fight over Stanton Unit 1 illustrates how America's AI boom could prolong coal pollution that has historically fallen hardest on Black communities."

Air [25]
Chemicals [3]
Conflict/Corruption [26]
Consumer [17]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Justice [8]
Environmental Politics [28]
Infrastructure [19]
Laws & Regulations [9]
People & Population [10]
Pollution [11]
Technology [21]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [22]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [14]
Source: Word in Black [29], 07/31/2026
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Proposed BC Mine Expansion Raising Pollution Concerns In Canada And US [30]

"A proposed expansion of an Elk Valley Resources’ coal mine in southeast British Columbia is moving through the environmental assessment process despite concerns over pollution. Decades of coal mining in the valley has led to harmful selenium concentrations and loads downstream, in British Columbia and the U.S. states of Montana and Idaho."

Chemicals [3]
Economy & Business [31]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Politics [28]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Natural Resources [32]
Pollution [11]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Mongabay [33], 07/31/2026
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Bipartisan Anger Grows at Pentagon’s Delayed PFAS Cleanups [34]

"In a fiercely divided Washington, there is bipartisan anger at the stalled progress in cleaning up toxic chemicals at military bases. The delays have emerged as a rare issue uniting Democrats and Republicans in their criticism of the Pentagon."

Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Politics [28]
Military [20]
Pollution [11]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: New York Times [35], 07/31/2026
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US Sees Iran Likely Behind Cyberattack on 30+ Minnesota Water Systems [36]

"Investigators believe a cyberattack this week on dozens of municipal water systems in Minnesota was probably the work of Iranian hackers, according to U.S. and state officials and others familiar with the matter, a potential act of aggression that comes at a precarious moment in the U.S. war against Iran." "There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink."

Chemicals [3]
Consumer [17]
Disasters [18]
Environmental Health [7]
Government [37]
Infrastructure [19]
Military [20]
People & Population [10]
Pollution [11]
Technology [21]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [22]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [38]
Source: New York Times [39], 07/31/2026
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In Ohio, Toxic Wastewater Is Bubbling Up Out of the Ground [40]

"The state is a major importer of fracking wastewater, which gets pumped underground but doesn’t always stay there. The city of Marietta is fighting back."

Chemicals [3]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Health [7]
Natural Resources [32]
Pollution [11]
Technology [21]
Waste [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [22]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [38]
Source: New York Times [41], 07/30/2026
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"Near the Salton Sea, Little League Players Struggle to Breathe" [42]

"Pediatric asthma is common in Calipatria, where young athletes compete despite extreme heat and air pollution. Some worry a lithium boom could make things worse."

Air [25]
Chemicals [3]
Climate Change [43]
Consumer [17]
Environmental Health [7]
Natural Resources [32]
People & Population [10]
Pollution [11]
Public [4]
California [44]
Source: Capital & Main [45], 07/29/2026
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Enviros Say Newsom Appointee Has Conflict of Interest And Should Resign [46]

"Environmental groups are demanding the resignation of the Board of Environmental Safety’s newest member, Rhys Williams, because of his work as a lobbyist for a firm that represents clients that handle toxic materials."

Chemicals [3]
Conflict/Corruption [26]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Politics [28]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Pollution [11]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [22]
California [44]
Source: CalMatters [47], 07/29/2026
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