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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 Yet the discovery has remained unpublished for nearly two years since it was made by the US Department of Agriculture's Bee Research Laboratory."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

All Bodies Of Water In England Polluted With Toxic Chemicals: Data [6]

"Every single English water body is polluted with toxic chemicals, new government data shows, while just 14.3% of surface waters achieved good ecological status."

Chemicals [3]
Consumer [7]
Environmental Health [8]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Pollution [10]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [4]
Europe [12]
Source: Guardian [13], 08/07/2026

EPA Stalls Planned Nitrate Cancer Review As Pollution Crisis Grows [14]

"The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has backed off its re-assessment of cancer-causing nitrates despite decades of research suggesting the contaminant is more harmful than previously thought and that nitrate pollution is at crisis levels in US drinking water."

Agriculture [2]
Chemicals [3]
Consumer [7]
Environmental Health [8]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Pollution [10]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: The New Lede [17], 08/06/2026

EPA Claims Omaha Cleanup As Success, But Many Yards Still Have Lead [18]

"The agency spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site. New soil tests by the Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica show that many yards still have harmful levels of lead."

Chemicals [3]
Consumer [7]
Environmental Health [8]
Environmental Justice [19]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [9]
People & Population [20]
Pollution [10]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [16]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [21]
Source: Flatwater Free Press [22], 08/06/2026

Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Follow Years of Warnings and Neglect [23]

"In 2023, the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration proposed creating stronger cybersecurity guidelines to better safeguard the nation’s water supply from hackers. ... The E.P.A. rescinded the order, however, after Republican-led states and industry groups sued to block its enforcement."

Chemicals [3]
Consumer [7]
Disasters [24]
Environmental Health [8]
Government [25]
Infrastructure [26]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Military [27]
Pollution [10]
Technology [28]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [29]
Source: New York Times [30], 08/06/2026

EPA Says It Wants “PFAS Out,” But Its Actions Allow More Of Them In [31]

"Less than three months ago, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official Jess Kramer outlined a series of promises dubbed “PFAS OUT,” aimed at eliminating a family of toxic compounds from drinking water, and touted the Trump administration’s wider commitments to protecting Americans from contamination by the chemicals."

Activism [32]
Chemicals [3]
Consumer [7]
Environmental Health [8]
Environmental Justice [19]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Pollution [10]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: The New Lede [33], 08/04/2026

Extremely Hot Weather Cooks Up Unusually Awful Air Pollution [34]

Summertime and the livin' is smoggy. American air may be clearer now than when the Clean Air Act was passed in 1970, but pollutants still abound. Heat and sunlight stoke chemical reactions that exacerbate health hazards. And worsening wildfires mix in harmful smoke. The latest TipSheet has more than a dozen story ideas and reporting resources.

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Climate Change [37]
Energy & Fuel [38]
Environmental Health [8]
Government [25]
Health [39]
Journalism & Media [40]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Pollution [10]
Transportation [41]
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Radioactive Waste Stack Looms and Expands Beside Fla. Black Community [42]

"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 [8]
Environmental Justice [19]
Laws & Regulations [9]
People & Population [20]
Pollution [10]
Waste [43]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [4]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [44]
Source: Inside Climate News [45], 08/03/2026

Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran [46]

"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 [7]
Disasters [24]
Environmental Health [8]
Infrastructure [26]
Military [27]
People & Population [20]
Pollution [10]
Technology [28]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: New York Times [47], 08/03/2026

Amid AI Boom, Coal Returns — With a Familiar Cost To Black Neighbors [48]

"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 [36]
Chemicals [3]
Conflict/Corruption [49]
Consumer [7]
Energy & Fuel [38]
Environmental Health [8]
Environmental Justice [19]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [26]
Laws & Regulations [9]
People & Population [20]
Pollution [10]
Technology [28]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [44]
Source: Word in Black [50], 07/31/2026

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