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"White House Moves To Weaken EPA Rule On Toxic Compounds" [1]

"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 [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: AP [9], 04/20/2020
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"Making Toxic-Free Births A Christian Issue" [10]

"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 [11]
Environmental Politics [5]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: EHN [12], 04/15/2020
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"EPA Charts Path To Suspend Hazardous Waste Cleanup Amid Coronavirus" [13]

"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Friday announced that the cleanup of hazardous waste sites and other pollution spills may be slowed or paused during the coronavirus outbreak."

Chemicals [2]
Disasters [14]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [5]
Health [15]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [16]
Waste [17]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: The Hill [18], 04/13/2020
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"Sewage Sludge Spreading Leads To Farm Groundwater PFAS Contamination" [19]

"The long-standing practice of spreading treated sewage sludge and septage on farm fields has contaminated groundwater in some areas with PFAS, recent sampling shows."

Agriculture [20]
Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [4]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: VTDigger [22], 04/13/2020
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EPA Skips Normal Public Process To OK BASF’s Cancer-Linked Pesticide [23]

"This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that soybean farmers in 25 states are now able to spray a pesticide that the agency has determined is likely to cause cancer and drift hundreds of feet from where it is applied."

Agriculture [20]
Chemicals [2]
Consumer [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [5]
Journalism & Media [24]
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National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting [25], 04/13/2020
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Cargill-Led Fund To Pay Farmers For Carbon Capture, Exchange Credits [26]

"Global commodities trader Cargill Inc starting this spring will pay American farmers for capturing carbon in their field soils and cutting fertilizer runoff, an executive said."

Agriculture [20]
Chemicals [2]
Climate Change [27]
Economy & Business [28]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Reuters [29], 04/10/2020
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"Inside a Cross-Border Battle Against Cancer And Pollution" [30]

"Two communities — one in Canada, one in the U.S. — share both a border along the St. Marys River and a toxic legacy that has contributed to high rates of cancer. Now the towns are banding together to fight a ferrochrome plant."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [4]
Pollution [16]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Canada [31]
Source: EHN [32], 04/09/2020
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"Obama Policy on Climate-Warming Chemicals Partially Revived" [33]

"The EPA overcorrected when it scrapped an entire Obama-era climate regulation in response to a court order focused on just part of the rule, the D.C. Circuit said."

Air [34]
Chemicals [2]
Climate Change [27]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [16]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [35], 04/08/2020
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EPA Threatens Legal Action Against Sellers of Fake Coronavirus Cleaners [36]

"The Environmental Protection Agency warned Friday that disinfectants and sanitizers falsely claiming to protect against the coronavirus are flooding the market and threatened legal action against retailers that sell unregistered products."

Chemicals [2]
Consumer [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Health [15]
Journalism & Media [24]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: NY Times [37], 04/06/2020
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"Public Health: Years Of Toxic Leaks Raise Cancer Risk In Refinery Town" [38]

"ARTESIA, N.M. — When the new pastor arrived at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church a few years back, he was struck by the sight and smell of the towering refinery a block east of his chapel. The Rev. A.L. Vijaya Raju had a question: Were fumes from the flares, pipes and tanks to blame for breathing problems afflicting some parishioners?"

Air [34]
Chemicals [2]
Energy & Fuel [39]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [11]
Laws & Regulations [6]
People & Population [40]
Pollution [16]
Public [7]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [41]
Source: Greenwire [42], 04/03/2020
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