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"India Gas Leak: At Least 13 Dead After Visakhapatnam Accident" [1]

"At least 13 people have been killed by a massive gas leak at a chemical plant in southern India, with hundreds of others taken to hospital."

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Asia [6]
Source: BBC News [7], 05/07/2020
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Smokey’s 420 Gets the ‘Dirt’ on Pot Crop [8]

The story of Smokey’s 420, mom-and-pop pot shop that’s taken a more environmental perspective. Plus, why the explosion in the infant business legal cannabis could be bad news for the environment [9], if left largely unregulated. 

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Activism [11]
Agriculture [12]
Chemicals [2]
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Economy & Business [14]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Government [17]
Health [18]
Journalism & Media [19]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Policy [21]
Pollution [22]
Waste [23]
Water & Oceans [24]
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National (U.S.) [25]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [26]
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Why an Unregulated Pot Business May Be Bad for the Environment  [9]

One industry seemingly unharmed by the coronavirus-related shutdown is legal cannabis. But the explosion in this infant business could be bad news for the environment, if left largely unregulated. A closer look at the issues. Plus, the story of Smokey’s 420 [8], mom-and-pop pot shop that’s taken a more environmental perspective.

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Economy & Business [14]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Government [17]
Health [18]
Journalism & Media [19]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Policy [21]
Pollution [22]
Waste [23]
Water & Oceans [24]
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"Big Plastic Asks for $1 Billion Coronavirus Bailout" [27]

"The plastic industry is asking Congress for $1 billion to bail out plastic recycling during the coronavirus crisis."

Chemicals [2]
Disasters [3]
Economy & Business [14]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [16]
Health [18]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Waste [23]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: The Intercept [28], 04/29/2020
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Developers Put Plastics Plant in Ohio on Indefinite Hold, Cite Virus [29]

"The developers of a proposed plastics manufacturing plant in Ohio on Friday indefinitely delayed a final decision on whether to proceed, citing economic uncertainties around the coronavirus pandemic."

Chemicals [2]
Economy & Business [14]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Public [5]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [30]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [31]
Source: InsideClimate News [32], 04/28/2020
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"Dry Cleaning Solvent Carries Unreasonable Public Risk, EPA Finds" [33]

"A common solvent used to dry clean, make refrigerants, and clean muck from industrial equipment appears to have the potential to harm people’s nervous systems, the EPA said on Monday."

Chemicals [2]
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Environmental Health [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [34], 04/28/2020
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"EPA Faces Court Over Backing Of Monsanto's Controversial Crop System" [35]

"The US Environmental Protection Agency is due in federal court on Tuesday to answer allegations that it broke the law to support a Monsanto system that has triggered “widespread” crop damage over the last few summers and continues to threaten farms across the country."

Agriculture [12]
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Laws & Regulations [20]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: Guardian [36], 04/21/2020
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When the Crisis Was Immense, SEJ Award-Winner Went Narrow [37]

How do you gain perspective on a widespread public health disaster? Award-winning reporter Apoorva Mandavilli shares valuable lessons on using a small lens to cover a big story — no, not COVID-19, but the deadly 1984 gas leak in Bhopal, India. And as she explains in this Inside Story Q&A, this decades-old story never really went away in the first place.

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Activism [11]
Air [39]
Chemicals [2]
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Environmental Health [4]
Government [17]
Health [18]
Journalism & Media [19]
People & Population [40]
Pollution [22]
Water & Oceans [24]
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"White House Moves To Weaken EPA Rule On Toxic Compounds" [42]

"The Trump White House has intervened to weaken one of the few public health protections pursued by its own administration, a rule to limit the use of a toxic industrial compound in consumer products, according to communications between the White House and Environmental Protection Agency."

Chemicals [2]
Consumer [13]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: AP [43], 04/20/2020
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"Making Toxic-Free Births A Christian Issue" [44]

"Christian groups fiercely defend the rights of the unborn but have long neglected to advocate for pollution-free births and childhoods. Some evangelicals are trying to change that."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [45]
Environmental Politics [16]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: EHN [46], 04/15/2020
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