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"EPA OKs Soybean, Cotton Farmers’ Use of Dicamba Weedkiller" [1]

"Farmers can continue to use dicamba for five years, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said Tuesday, offering certainty to cotton and soybean growers who are the most frequent users of the weedkiller make by Bayer AG, BASF SE, and Syngenta AG."

Agriculture [2]
Chemicals [3]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Bloomberg [7], 10/28/2020
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"How the Waters Off Catalina Became a DDT Dumping Ground" [8]

"Decades ago, the Los Angeles coast was a dumping ground for thousands of barrels of acid sludge laced with the toxic pesticide DDT. The ocean buried the evidence for generations. No one could see it — until now."

Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [9]
Fish & Fisheries [10]
Waste [11]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [5]
California [13]
Source: LA Times [14], 10/26/2020
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"Satellites Put the World’s Biggest Methane Emitters on the Map" [15]

"Now the companies and countries responsible for a powerful greenhouse gas won’t be able to hide from view."

Air [16]
Chemicals [3]
Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Pollution [19]
Technology [20]
Public [5]
International [21]
Source: Bloomberg [22], 10/22/2020
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Environmental Groups Sue DHS Over Use Of Tear Gas At Portland Protests [23]

"Five environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday for using tear gas at the protests in Portland, Ore."

Activism [24]
Air [16]
Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [9]
Environmental Justice [25]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [19]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: The Hill [26], 10/21/2020
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Letting Residents Take the Lead in ‘Polluter's Paradise’ [27]

A battery of polluting industry spewing toxic pollution and a small town of residents south of Baton Rouge unbowed by their circumstance make for the ingredients of a powerful team investigative project, newly named to the top prize in the Society of Environmental Journalists’ 2020 reporting awards. Inside Story offers a look behind “Polluter’s Paradise” in a Q&A with reporter Tristan Baurick.

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Pollution [19]
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National (U.S.) [6]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [33]
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Court Lets Exide Abandon CA Toxic Site. Taxpayers Will Fund Cleanup [34]

"A bankruptcy court ruled Friday that Exide Technologies may abandon its shuttered battery recycling plant in Vernon, leaving a massive cleanup of lead and other toxic pollutants at the site and in surrounding neighborhoods to California taxpayers."

Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [9]
Environmental Justice [25]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [19]
Public [5]
California [13]
Source: LA Times [35], 10/19/2020
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"Wildfire Smoke Can Spread Toxics to Water, Soil, and Elsewhere" [36]

"Wildfires leave behind more than scorched earth and destroyed homes: Rising smoke plumes can contain chemicals that disperse not only into the air but in soil, water, indoor dust, and even wildlife."

Air [16]
Chemicals [3]
Climate Change [17]
Disasters [37]
Environmental Health [9]
Forests [38]
Pollution [19]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [39], 10/16/2020
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Unsealed Docs Show Union Carbide Leaked Toxics Into Creek For Years [40]

"Newly unsealed court documents provide additional evidence that chemical giant Union Carbide Corp. failed to report the presence of a toxic dumping site in South Charleston that has been leaking hazardous substances into nearby Davis Creek."

Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [9]
Environmental Justice [25]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [19]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [5]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [41]
Source: WV Public Broadcasting [42], 10/16/2020
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"Long-Banned Toxics Are Still Accumulating In Great Lakes Birds" [43]

"Decades ago several bird species in the Great Lakes—including the iconic bald eagle—faced an uncertain future because toxic chemicals were threatening their populations. While several bans and policies have offered some protection, the same chemicals threatening these birds 60 years ago continue to accumulate in their bodies—and new chemical threats are adding to their toxic burdens, according to two new studies."

Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [9]
Fish & Fisheries [10]
Food [44]
Pollution [19]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [5]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [45]
Source: EHN [46], 10/15/2020
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No Inspection: "States Ignore Lead-Contaminated Meat In Food Banks" [47]

"Hunter-donated meat provides crucial protein to US food banks. But an EHN investigation found a lack of oversight that could result in potentially hundreds of thousands of lead-contaminated meals this year."

Chemicals [3]
Environmental Justice [25]
Food [44]
Wildlife [48]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: EHN [49], 10/15/2020
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