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The Forgotten Victims of Hidalgo [1]

Contaminated water sickened thousands of residents near Mexico City for 40 years — even as officials knew they were being poisoned. Then, an investigative news team turned its attention to the polluted region, and produced multiple video and text versions of an award-winning feature focused on the residents’ health, poverty and more. Read a revealing Q&A with investigative producer Carlos Carabaña in the new Inside Story.

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Inside Story [2]
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Chemicals [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Government [5]
Health [6]
Journalism & Media [7]
People & Population [8]
Pollution [9]
Waste [10]
Water & Oceans [11]
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International [12]
Mexico [13]
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Public [14]
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"How Corporate Manipulation of Science and Regulation Makes People Sick" [15]

"Scientists launch a new research center to study what they say is now a leading disease risk factor: corporations."

Chemicals [3]
Climate Change [16]
Economy & Business [17]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [19]
Journalism & Media [7]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
California [21]
Source: Inside Climate News [22], 02/20/2025
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"EPA Plan For LA Wildfire Cleanup Stirs Protests Over Toxic Dangers" [23]

"Demonstrators have protested against an expedited cleanup process that would involve using a beloved beach as a toxic waste sorting site"

Activism [24]
Chemicals [3]
Climate Change [16]
Disasters [25]
Environmental Health [18]
Natural Resources [26]
Pollution [9]
Waste [10]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
California [21]
Source: Guardian [27], 02/19/2025
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"National Science Foundation Fires Roughly 10% Of Its Workforce" [28]

"The National Science Foundation fired 168 employees on Tuesday. According to an NSF spokesperson, the firings are to ensure compliance with President Trump's executive order aimed at reducing the federal workforce in the name of efficiency."

Biodiversity [29]
Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Politics [19]
Environmental Studies [30]
Government [5]
Science [31]
Technology [32]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NPR [33], 02/19/2025
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As Trump Upends EPA, Cleanups Of America’s Most Toxic Sites Are Uncertain [34]

"Just over a mile from where Patricia Flores has lived for almost 20 years, a battery smelter plant spewed toxic elements into the environment for nearly a century."

Chemicals [3]
Disasters [25]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [19]
Laws & Regulations [35]
Pollution [9]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
California [21]
Source: AP [36], 02/18/2025
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Mexico Orders Factory Cleanup After Guardian Toxic Waste Investigation [37]

"Mexican environmental regulators say they have discovered 30,000 tons of improperly stored material with “hazardous characteristics” in the yard of a Mexican plant that is recycling toxic waste shipped from the US."

Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Justice [4]
Infrastructure [38]
Journalism & Media [7]
Laws & Regulations [35]
People & Population [8]
Pollution [9]
Waste [10]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
Mexico [13]
Source: Guardian [39], 02/14/2025
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"Undocumented Workers Prepare to Clean Up L.A.’s Fires Amid ICE Raids" [40]

"In the aftermath of the devastating wildfires that tore through Los Angeles last month, undocumented day laborers will likely make up a significant portion of the workforce tasked with clearing debris and rebuilding homes. As they navigate the environmental hazards of this work, they’re also facing the Trump administration’s escalating crackdown on immigrants."

Chemicals [3]
Climate Change [16]
Disasters [25]
Economy & Business [17]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [19]
Laws & Regulations [35]
People & Population [8]
Pollution [9]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
California [21]
Source: Capital & Main [41], 02/14/2025
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"Coca-Cola Says It May Use More Plastic Due To Trump Tariffs" [42]

"Coca-Cola may have to sell more drinks in plastic bottles in the US if President Donald Trump's tariffs end up making aluminium cans more expensive, the company's chief executive, James Quincey, said in a call with investors."

Chemicals [3]
Consumer [43]
Economy & Business [17]
Energy & Fuel [44]
Environmental Politics [19]
Natural Resources [26]
Pollution [9]
Waste [10]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: BBC News [45], 02/14/2025
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"Environmentalists Gear Up to Fight Trump in Court" [46]

"As Trump pledges regulatory rollbacks, environmental groups say the administration’s aggressive cost-cutting tactics could make it easier for them to win some long-term battles."

Activism [24]
Chemicals [3]
Climate Change [16]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Politics [19]
Laws & Regulations [35]
Pollution [9]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NYTimes [47], 02/14/2025
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"EPA Removes EJScreen From Its Website" (But Not From the Web) [48]

"On February 5th, EPA removed from its website the environmental justice mapping and screening tool, EJScreen, as well as several related web pages. ... Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP) released a reconstruction of Version 2.3 of EPA’s EJScreen."

Activism [24]
Chemicals [3]
Energy & Fuel [44]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [19]
Environmental Studies [30]
Journalism & Media [7]
Laws & Regulations [35]
People & Population [8]
Technology [32]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: EDGI [49], 02/13/2025
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