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"Deer Test Positive For Chronic Wasting Disease At Catoctin Mountain Park" [1]

"Two deer tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease at Catoctin Mountain Park in Maryland during recent white-tailed deer reduction operations and subsequent disease sampling. This is the first CWD-positive detection at Catoctin Mountain Park."

Biodiversity [2]
Consumer [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Forests [5]
People & Population [6]
Wildlife [7]
Public [8]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [9]
Source: National Parks Traveler [10], 04/13/2026
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"Plastic Pollution Is Bad Enough. Burning It Can Be Even Worse." [11]

"In places like Indonesia, plastic refuse is often burned in unregulated low-tech furnaces that pose grave health risks."

Chemicals [12]
Consumer [3]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Studies [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Waste [17]
Public [8]
International [18]
Source: Undark [19], 04/13/2026
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AI Boom Derailed Clean-Air Push In One Of America's Most Polluted Cities [20]

"Trump administration rolled back clean-air rules to support AI-driven electricity demand. St. Louis faces poor air quality and high health costs as coal plants remain online."

Air [21]
Climate Change [22]
Consumer [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [23]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [6]
Pollution [16]
Technology [24]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: Reuters [26], 04/13/2026
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New Threatened Landscapes Report Will Focus On Erasure Of American History [27]

"The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), a national Washington, D.C.-based education and advocacy organization, announced “Erasing American History” as the subject of its annual thematic Landslide report about threatened landscapes and landscape features and issued a call for nominations. As the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence approaches, the United States is simultaneously also witnessing the erasure of irreplaceable cultural resources that reflect and interpret our shared history."

Consumer [3]
Diversity [28]
Environmental Politics [23]
Environmental Studies [14]
Journalism & Media [29]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [30]
People & Population [6]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [31]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: National Parks Traveler [32], 04/13/2026
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"CDC Delays Publishing Report Showing Covid Vaccine Benefits" [33]

"The acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has delayed publication of a CDC report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists familiar with the decision. The scientists spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation."

Activism [34]
Consumer [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [23]
Government [35]
Health [36]
Journalism & Media [29]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [6]
Science [37]
Technology [24]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: Washington Post [38], 04/10/2026
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"Iran Energy Shock Tests Limits of Trump’s Vision of US Energy Dominance" [39]

"Consumers remain vulnerable to price spikes despite record domestic oil and gas production. But experts doubt the crisis will boost clean energy, absent strong policy."

Consumer [3]
Economy & Business [40]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [23]
Military [41]
People & Population [6]
Transportation [42]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [25]
Middle East [43]
Source: Inside Climate News [44], 04/10/2026
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"Food Companies Backslide on Promises to Reduce Pesticides" [45]

"As evidence of pesticide risks increases, a new report finds that the food industry is ‘actively reversing progress’ on lowering their use in supply chains."

Agriculture [46]
Chemicals [12]
Consumer [3]
Environmental Politics [23]
Food [47]
People & Population [6]
Pollution [16]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: Civil Eats [48], 04/10/2026
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Mega Manure Digester Project In Wash. State Meets Community Resistance [49]

"A proposal to build a mega-manure digester in a small Washington state community is sparking uproar among citizens who say the project to convert waste from dairy cows into fuel will add to the region’s already significant pollution problems."

Activism [34]
Agriculture [46]
Air [21]
Climate Change [22]
Consumer [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [23]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [50]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [25]
Northwest (OR WA) [51]
Source: The New Lede [52], 04/10/2026
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"Warming Waters in the Gulf of Maine May Affect the Future of Lobsters" [53]

"Researchers studying the crustacean’s early life cycles find clues that can help the fishery that depends on them plan for a warmer future."

Biodiversity [2]
Climate Change [22]
Consumer [3]
Fish & Fisheries [54]
Food [47]
Water & Oceans [50]
Public [8]
Source: Inside Climate News [55], 04/10/2026
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"Indiana Governor Suspends State Gas Tax For 30 Days" [56]

"Indiana Gov. Mike Braun (R) on Wednesday suspended the Hoosier State’s sales tax on gas for 30 days, as prices at the pump have increased since the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran began."

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Energy & Fuel [13]
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Military [41]
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National (U.S.) [25]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [58]
Source: The Hill [59], 04/10/2026
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