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Air Conditioner HFCs Are on the Way Out — The Kigali Amendment Explained [1]

For the first time in years, the United States has ratified a climate change-related treaty — one that phases out HFCs, the greenhouse gas widely used as a refrigerant. That leaves environmental reporters to report how the change will affect everyday objects like ACs, refrigerators and cars. TipSheet has the backstory on the Kigali Amendment, along with story ideas and reporting resources.

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"Veteran Service Officer: Be Wary Of Camp LeJeune Ads" [16]

"We've all see the ads on television or social media in the last few weeks. If you or your family were stationed in Camp Lejeune between 1953 and 1987, you may have been exposed to drinking water that was heavily contaminated with toxins," one ad reads. "You may be able to qualify for significant compensation for your medical costs or lost loved ones.""

Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [17]
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Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: New Philadelphia Times-Reporter [18], 09/30/2022
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Experts Decry ‘Funny Math’ Of Plastic Industry ‘Advanced Recycling’ Claims [19]

"Environmental experts say there’s a strong possibility that a federal bill will be introduced in the U.S. that seeks to strengthen an industry known as “advanced recycling,” or “chemical recycling.” While proponents of advanced recycling tout it as a solution to the ever-growing plastic pollution issue, critics say that it’s not recycling at all, but a highly polluting incineration process that converts plastic into fuel."

Air [20]
Chemicals [3]
Environmental Politics [6]
Journalism & Media [8]
Pollution [11]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Mongabay [21], 09/30/2022
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"Revealed: Huge Gas Flaring Emissions Never Reported" [22]

"Major oil companies are not declaring a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions, a BBC News investigation has revealed."

Chemicals [3]
Climate Change [4]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Public [15]
International [14]
Source: BBC News [24], 09/30/2022
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"An Explosive Problem: The Radford Arsenal’s Toxic Operations" [25]

"At military bases across the country, the Department of Defense (DoD) has for decades relied on a practice known as open burn/open detonation (OB/OD) to destroy excess, unserviceable, or obsolete military munitions, including small arms cartridges, rockets, mortars, missiles, and other items."

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Military [26]
Pollution [11]
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National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Ctr. for Progressive Reform [27], 09/29/2022
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Texas Is Now the Nation’s Biggest Emitter of Toxics Into Water [28]

"Texas is a notably easy place to set up shop for industrial projects with lots of liquid waste and nowhere good to put it. The state’s waterways are open for business, an analysis of Environmental Protection Agency data shows, to send large volumes of discarded chemicals and industrial discharge downstream and out to sea."

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Laws & Regulations [9]
Pollution [11]
Water & Oceans [29]
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National (U.S.) [13]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [30]
Source: Inside Climate News [31], 09/28/2022
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September 26, 2023

AMA With Scientists From the Food Packaging Forum [32]

The experts of the Switzerland-based Food Packaging Forum’s Scientific Advisory Board will be available to answer questions about how chemicals in food packaging affect human health, sustainable packaging, green chemistry, plastic and chemical pollution, microplastics, endocrine disruption, and more, 11:30 a.m. EST, on Reddit.

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"Civil Rights Law Targets ‘Cancer Alley’ Discrimination" [39]

"Sprawling industrial complexes line the drive east along the Mississippi River to the majority-Black town of Reserve, Louisiana. In the last seven miles the road passes a massive, rust-colored aluminum-oxide refinery, then the Evonik chemical plant, then rows of white tanks at the Marathon oil refinery."

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Source: AP [42], 09/26/2022
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How EPA Effort to Reduce Climate-Warming ‘Immortal’ Chemicals Stalled [43]

"When Sally Rand, a former EPA official, used to meet with industry executives to discuss an obscure, but incredibly potent and long-lived group of greenhouse gases, she knew how to get their attention."

Chemicals [3]
Climate Change [4]
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Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Inside Climate News [44], 09/22/2022
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"Revealed: The ‘Shocking’ Levels Of Toxic Lead In Chicago Tap Water" [45]

"One in 20 tap water tests performed for thousands of Chicago residents found lead, a neurotoxin, at or above US government limits, according to a Guardian analysis of a City of Chicago data trove."

Chemicals [3]
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Environmental Health [17]
Environmental Justice [40]
Infrastructure [46]
Laws & Regulations [9]
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Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [47]
Source: Guardian [48], 09/22/2022
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