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"Using AI To Spot Edible Mushrooms Could Kill You" [1]

"AI tools are good for some things, but don’t trust your health to apps that make frequent mistakes".

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Source: Washington Post [12], 03/19/2024
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"How You Should Think About Those Google Flights Pollution Numbers" [13]

"Flight booking platforms are giving customers a new number to think about when they buy a plane ticket: the expected greenhouse gas emissions of their trip."

Climate Change [14]
Consumer [3]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Studies [16]
Pollution [17]
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National (U.S.) [11]
International [19]
Source: Washington Post [20], 03/19/2024
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Clean Electricity? These Are The Overlooked Elected Officials Who Decide. [21]

"On a Tuesday morning in January, college student Aurora Gray stepped up to the podium in a windowless room in Atlanta, around the corner from the state capitol building. In front of her sat a five-member panel of elected officials that oversees how and where nearly every Georgia resident gets their power."

Climate Change [14]
Consumer [3]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Politics [22]
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National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [24], 03/18/2024
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"Sick Because of Roundup? These Bills Could Make Suing Impossible." [25]

"High-profile lawsuits have accused pesticides of causing cancer and Parkinson’s. But three states are now considering bills that would prevent these lawsuits."

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Consumer [3]
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Source: New Republic [28], 03/15/2024
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"Turf Fields May Have ‘Forever Chemicals.’ Should Kids Be Playing On Them?" [29]

"The three 6-year-old girls stood on the sidelines as their coach swabbed their hands. Then they ran onto a lush green turf field and played soccer for 90 minutes straight — no stepping off the pitch. This wasn’t just a practice. It was part of a small experiment conducted in the suburban foothills of San Diego last summer."

Chemicals [27]
Consumer [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [23]
People & Population [7]
Pollution [17]
Technology [9]
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National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Washington Post [31], 03/15/2024
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Judge Finds Flint In Civil Contempt For Failures In Lead Pipe Replacement [32]

"The city of Flint has been found in civil contempt by a federal judge for its handling of its lead pipe replacement program."

Chemicals [27]
Consumer [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [33]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [17]
Water & Oceans [34]
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National (U.S.) [11]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [35]
Source: Michigan Public [36], 03/14/2024
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March 28, 2024

Food Matters: Why Climate Change May Hinge On What We Eat and How We Grow It [37]

This Project Drawdown webinar will present a new framework for addressing climate change from food, agriculture and land use as well as offering a glimpse into a new Project Drawdown Food initiative launching this year that will bring solutions in this space into much sharper focus. 1:00 p.m. ET.

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"Across the Nation, Lawmakers Aim to Ban Lab-Grown Meat" [40]

"Restricting the sale of protein cultured from animal cells, developed as a way to raise meat without the climate impacts of livestock, has become a trendy right-wing legislative focus in states from Arizona to Florida."

Agriculture [26]
Climate Change [14]
Consumer [3]
Environmental Politics [22]
Food [5]
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National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Inside Climate News [41], 03/13/2024
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Six Ways To Cover the Environmental Impacts of Animal Agriculture [42]

Animal agriculture is a massive industry with a vast environmental footprint, so there are plenty of reporting opportunities for journalists on the “eat beat.” In the second of two parts [43], following last week’s examination of diet-related greenhouse gas emissions, food-and-climate journalist Jenny Splitter serves up a variety of story ideas and information sources, plus some thoughts on solutions journalism.

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Consumer [3]
Economy & Business [47]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [33]
Environmental Politics [22]
Environmental Studies [16]
Food [5]
Forests [48]
Government [49]
Health [50]
Journalism & Media [51]
Pollution [17]
Waste [52]
Water & Oceans [34]
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"Amid Louisiana’s Crawfish Shortage, Governor Issues Disaster Declaration" [54]

"Amid a crawfish shortage in Louisiana, the nation’s top producer of the crustaceans that are a staple in Gulf Coast seafood boils, Gov. Jeff Landry issued a disaster declaration for the impacted industry Wednesday."

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Source: AP [57], 03/08/2024
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