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EPA Warns Toxic Formaldehyde Presents An Unreasonable Risk Of Injury [1]

"The agency’s final risk assessment for formaldehyde jump-starts the process to address the risk posed by the cancer-causing chemical"

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Source: Independent [11], 01/03/2025
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Oil And Gas Firms In Colorado Falsified Environmental Impact Reports [12]

"State’s energy and carbon management commission said fraudulent pollution data was reported for at least 344 wells"

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Source: Guardian [15], 01/02/2025
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Florida Debates Where To Build The Nation’s Largest Trash Incinerator [16]

"Residents argue the project will disproportionately impact majority-Black and -Hispanic communities in the Miami-Dade area."

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Source: KFF Health News [22], 01/02/2025
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Toxic Benzene Plagued Channelview, Tex. Regulators Never Told Residents. [23]

"The highest levels exceed even Texas’ benzene guideline — the weakest in the nation — but aren’t being recorded by a state monitor. That means the community’s cancer risk could be higher than previously thought."

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Source: Public Health Watch [26], 01/02/2025
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"The E.P.A. Promotes Toxic Fertilizer. 3M Told It of Risks Years Ago." [27]

"The agency obtained research from 3M in 2003 revealing that sewage sludge, the raw material for the fertilizer, carried toxic “forever chemicals.”"

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Source: NYTimes [32], 01/02/2025
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Oil Industry Playbook: How Drillers Offload Costly Cleanup Onto the Public [33]

"Oil executive Tom Ragsdale walked away from his old wells, making the pollution left behind the state of New Mexico’s problem. His tactics, however, are ubiquitous in the industry."

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Source: ProPublica [36], 01/02/2025
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Maryland Sues GORE-TEX Company For Polluting Water With PFAS Chemicals [37]

"Maryland is suing Cecil County-based manufacturing giant W.L. Gore & Associates for knowingly polluting the air and surrounding water with toxic Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)."

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Source: CBS News [39], 12/23/2024
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Senator Urges EPA to Release Report on Formaldehyde Health Risks [40]

"Citing a recent ProPublica investigation, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., urged the Environmental Protection Agency in a letter this week to issue a final report on the health risks of formaldehyde that is “science-based” and “as strong as possible,” adding that “the agency has an obligation to protect the public from the chemical.”"

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Source: ProPublica [41], 12/23/2024
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Group Says New Jersey Toxic Waste Dumping Caused $1B In Harm, Sues [42]

"Years of toxic waste dumping in a Jersey Shore community where childhood cancer rates rose caused at least $1 billion in damage to natural resources, according to an environmental group trying to overturn a settlement between New Jersey and the corporate successor to the firm that did the polluting."

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Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [43]
Source: AP [44], 12/23/2024
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"Agricultural Poisons Tell a Tale of Two Californias" [45]

"The Golden Rule doesn’t apply in the Golden State when it comes to protecting Latino and Indigenous farmworker communities from toxic pesticides."

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Source: Inside Climate News [47], 12/23/2024
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