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"Va. Communities Resist Sewage Sludge On Farm Land As PFAS Concerns Grow [1]

"As worry mounts about health risks from exposure to ‘forever chemicals,’ Virginia communities push for testing and limits for biosolids"

Agriculture [2]
Chemicals [3]
Consumer [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Food [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
People & Population [9]
Pollution [10]
Waste [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [14]
Source: Virginia Mercury [15], 11/26/2025
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Electricity Prices Jump After Trump Rejects Disaster Aid For Mich. Utilities [16]

"A recent decision by President Donald Trump to deny disaster aid to electric utilities in rural northern Michigan could cost residents tens of millions of dollars."

Disasters [17]
Economy & Business [18]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Justice [20]
Environmental Politics [6]
Infrastructure [21]
Laws & Regulations [8]
People & Population [9]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [22]
Source: E&E News [23], 11/26/2025
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"Trump Exempts Coal Used In Steelmaking From Clean Air Act Rule" [24]

"President Trump is exempting coal used in steelmaking from Biden-era Clean Air Act regulations for two years."

Air [25]
Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Justice [20]
Environmental Politics [6]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Pollution [10]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [14]
Source: The Hill [26], 11/26/2025
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"Interior Skips NEPA Analysis For Offshore Drilling Expansion" [27]

"The Interior Department will skip the standard environmental analysis for its five-year offshore drilling plan, a break from the agency’s decadeslong practice."

Climate Change [28]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Environmental Studies [29]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Pollution [10]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: E&E News [31], 11/26/2025
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La. Health Official Who Halted State Vaccine Campaign Tapped As CDC’s No. 2 [32]

"A Louisiana health official who ordered his health department to stop promoting mass vaccinations this past winter during a surge in influenza cases has been tapped to serve as the new No. 2 leader at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

Consumer [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Health [33]
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People & Population [9]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Washington Post [34], 11/26/2025
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"EPA To Scrap Lifesaving Soot Pollution Limit" [35]

"The Trump administration has crossed a key threshold in its campaign to toss a stricter air pollution standard for soot, in a move that threatens to erase one of the Biden administration’s core public health accomplishments."

Air [25]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Laws & Regulations [8]
People & Population [9]
Pollution [10]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: E&E News [36], 11/26/2025
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Texas ‘Ghost Deer’ Suspect Facility Tests Positive For Wasting Disease [37]

"Two captive whitetails tied to the Texas “ghost deer” investigation tested positive for chronic wasting disease at a Tom Green County facility owned by breeder Ken Schlaudt, according to records obtained by Public Domain."

Biodiversity [38]
Environmental Health [5]
Food [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
People & Population [9]
Wildlife [39]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [40]
Source: Public Domain [41], 11/25/2025
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PFAS And Other Contaminants Surged In French Broad River After Helene: Study [42]

"Fifteen days after Tropical Storm Helene sent debris, runoff and a cocktail of toxins — including raw sewage and pharmaceuticals — pouring into the French Broad River in the fall of 2024, Shea Tuberty set out to investigate the damage."

Chemicals [3]
Climate Change [28]
Disasters [17]
Environmental Health [5]
Laws & Regulations [8]
People & Population [9]
Pollution [10]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NC Health News [43], 11/25/2025
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Tracking Down Orphaned, Possibly Leaking, Oil And Gas Wells In The Parks [44]

"An unknown number of abandoned oil and gas wells dot the National Park System, but the one at Cuyahoga Valley National Park revealed itself with a whistling plume of colorless, odorless, and potentially lethal, methane gas."

Climate Change [28]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Politics [6]
Infrastructure [21]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Natural Resources [45]
Pollution [10]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: National Parks Traveler [46], 11/25/2025
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Tribal Radio Funding, Future Remain Uncertain After Clawback Of CPB Money [47]

'For the past few weeks, Oitancan “Oi” Zephier has labored among piles of vinyl records nearly 2 feet high. KILI-FM, the Porcupine, South Dakota-based tribal public broadcasting station Zephier manages, has gone digital and no longer needs the records. The station is selling the records, because what it needs is cash."

Disasters [17]
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Environmental Politics [6]
Infrastructure [21]
Journalism & Media [48]
Laws & Regulations [8]
People & Population [9]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [49]
Source: South Dakota Searchlight [50], 11/24/2025
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