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"Trump Signs Order On Critical Mineral Production" [1]

"President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order intended to boost production of critical minerals in the United States and confirmed a deal to gain access to minerals in Ukraine was still on track.'

Chemicals [2]
Climate Change [3]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
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Natural Resources [8]
Pollution [9]
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National (U.S.) [11]
Source: The Hill [12], 03/21/2025
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"US Baby Formulas Often Contain Contaminants, Study Finds" [13]

"A new investigation that tested 41 types of powdered baby formula sold in the US found that about half of the products contained concerning levels of contaminants, including lead, arsenic, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), bisphenol A (BPA) and acrylamide."

Chemicals [2]
Consumer [14]
Food [15]
Laws & Regulations [7]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: The New Lede [17], 03/21/2025
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Calif. Falls Short in Enforcing Regulations for Metal Shredding Industry [18]

"After decades of lax oversight, new efforts are underway to protect communities from toxic emissions without putting the industry out of business."

Chemicals [2]
Economy & Business [4]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Pollution [9]
Waste [20]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
California [21]
Source: Public Health Watch [22], 03/21/2025
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EPA Mulls Giving Drillers More ‘Flexibility’ to Dispose of Toxic Wastewater [23]

"The Trump administration plans to increase “regulatory flexibility” for oil and gas companies trying to find ways to dispose of copious amounts of toxic wastewater."

Chemicals [2]
Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Pollution [9]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Inside Climate News [25], 03/21/2025
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"Canadians Protest Imports Of US Toxic Waste Amid Trump Tariff War" [26]

"The proposed expansion of a Quebec landfill that accepts hazardous waste from the United States has ignited a turf war between the Quebec provincial government and local leaders, who say they oppose putting US trash into a local peat bog."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Waste [20]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Canada [27]
Source: Guardian [28], 03/20/2025
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"Uranium Waste Threatens A Western New Mexico Region's Last Clean Aquifer" [29]

"Near the western New Mexico town of Grants, the toxic legacy of Cold War uranium mining and milling has shattered lives, destroyed homes and created a contamination threat to the last clean source of groundwater for an entire region"

Chemicals [2]
Consumer [14]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [30]
Environmental Politics [6]
Infrastructure [31]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Military [32]
Natural Resources [8]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [33]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [9]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [34]
Source: Searchlight New Mexico [35], 03/20/2025
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"RFK Jr., Once Poisoned By Mercury, Is Silent As EPA Weakens Rules Against It" [36]

"The HHS secretary has fought mercury pollution for years. He’s now in an administration that wants to make it easier for industries to dump it into the air and water."

Activism [37]
Chemicals [2]
Consumer [14]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [6]
Fish & Fisheries [38]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: E&E News [39], 03/19/2025
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"Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm" [40]

"The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, according to documents reviewed by Democrats on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology."

Chemicals [2]
Climate Change [3]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [30]
Environmental Politics [6]
Environmental Studies [41]
Government [42]
Natural Resources [8]
Pollution [9]
Science [43]
Technology [44]
Transportation [45]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: NYTimes [46], 03/19/2025
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Trump Halted Agent Orange Cleanup, Putting Hundreds of Thousands at Risk [47]

"In mid-February, Trump administration leaders received a desperate warning from their diplomats posted in Vietnam, one of the most important American partners in Asia. Workers were in the middle of cleaning up the site of an enormous chemical spill, the Bien Hoa air base, when Secretary of State Marco Rubio abruptly halted all foreign aid funding."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [6]
Military [32]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Asia [48]
Source: ProPublica [49], 03/18/2025
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Desperately Seeking Data? OECD Has Loads [50]

If the possibility of a politically driven dearth of data for your climate and environment reporting has you on edge, the new Reporter’s Toolbox just may have something to soothe your nerves: A data source from beyond the grasp of the Trump administration and outside the boundaries of the United States. Take a quick tour of environmental data from the OECD.

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Pollution [9]
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