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"Watchdog Slams Trump EPA Tampering With PFAS Rule" [1]

"The Trump EPA flouted transparency requirements and proper protocol when it changed a rule pertaining to “forever chemicals,” according to findings out today from the agency’s watchdog."

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Source: E&E News [8], 07/08/2022
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"US Water Likely Contains More ‘Forever Chemicals’ Than EPA Tests Show" [9]

"A Guardian analysis of water samples from around the United States shows that the type of water testing relied on by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is so limited in scope that it is probably missing significant levels of PFAS pollutants."

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Source: Guardian [13], 07/07/2022
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Is A Uranium Mill In Utah Making Tribal Members Sick? Results In 2025 [14]

"A Native American community neighboring the only operating uranium mill in the U.S. is hoping a new study will answer longstanding questions about whether it is affecting their health."

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Source: NPR [16], 07/06/2022
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"EPA Sets Wildlife Protections On 3 Pesticides" [17]

"EPA has set new restrictions on the use of three commonly used pesticides, including the highly controversial chemical chlorpyrifos."

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Source: E&E News [22], 07/05/2022
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Newsom Signs Nation’s Most Sweeping Law To Phase Out Single-Use Plastics [23]

"Striking a blow against a pernicious form of pollution, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Thursday the nation’s most far-reaching restrictions on single-use plastics and packaging."

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California [26]
Source: LA Times [27], 07/05/2022
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"Coca-Cola Among Brands Greenwashing Over Packaging, Report Says" [28]

"Claims about plastic packaging being eco-friendly made by big brands, including Coca-Cola and Unilever, are misleading greenwashing, according to a report."

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Source: Guardian [32], 06/30/2022
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"EPA: Flame Retardant Chemical Poses Unreasonable Risk" [33]

"A controversial substance once commonly used as a flame retardant poses outsize risks to both human health and the environment, according to EPA, in a decision that formalizes a new “whole chemical” approach to assessing the dangers of a compound."

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Source: E&E News [35], 06/30/2022
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"Cement Carbon Dioxide Emissions Quietly Double In 20 Years" [36]

"Heat trapping carbon dioxide emissions from making cement, a less talked about but major source of carbon pollution, have doubled in the last 20 years, new global data shows."

Chemicals [2]
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International [39]
Source: AP [40], 06/28/2022
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Gas Piped Into Homes Contains Benzene, Other Risky Chemicals: Study [41]

"The natural gas delivered to homes contains low concentrations of several chemicals linked to cancer, a new study found. Researchers also found inconsistent levels of odorants — substances that give natural gas its characteristic “rotten egg” smell — which could increase the risk of small leaks going undetected."

Air [42]
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Source: NYTimes [43], 06/28/2022
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How 'Rights of Nature' Is Recasting the Relationship Between Law and the Earth [44]

In 2006, a local government council in Pennsylvania concerned about sewage sludge dumping enacted the Western legal system’s first formal “rights of nature” instrument. Today, numerous countries have laws recognizing specific rights or even legal personhood for nature. As legal expert Alice Bleby explains, this new perspective arises from a wide range of contexts and plays out in many different ways.

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