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"Senators Back Solar Tariffs, Oppose Prairie Bird Safeguards" [1]

"The Senate approved a measure Wednesday that would reinstate tariffs on solar panel imports from several Southeast Asian countries after President Joe Biden paused them in a bid to boost solar installations in the U.S. Lawmakers also approved a separate plan to undo federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken...."

Agriculture [2]
Biodiversity [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Natural Resources [7]
Wildlife [8]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: AP [11], 05/04/2023
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"Toxic Vinyl Chloride Is A Widespread Environmental Injustice" [12]

"Vinyl chloride, the cancer-causing chemical released in the February train derailment disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, contaminates many communities in the U.S. due to pollution from plastics manufacturing plants, according to a new report."

Chemicals [13]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [16]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: EHN [17], 05/03/2023
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"The FCC Is Supposed to Protect the Environment. It Doesn’t." [18]

"The agency is mandated to safeguard the environment from damage caused by communication infrastructure. But when companies want to add new cell phone towers, build on protected land or launch satellites, the agency typically does little or nothing."

Biodiversity [3]
Economy & Business [19]
Environmental Politics [5]
Infrastructure [20]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Natural Resources [7]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: ProPublica [21], 05/03/2023
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"Climate-Hit Wetlands Lay Bare Britain's Biodiversity Struggle" [22]

"As seagulls circled above and tourists watched in confusion, Duncan Holmes steered his boat through thousands of dead fish bobbing at the surface of the River Thurne in east England."

Biodiversity [3]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Politics [5]
Fish & Fisheries [23]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Natural Resources [7]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [9]
Europe [25]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [26], 05/03/2023
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Enviros Want FTC Green Guides to Shun ‘Chemical’ Recycling of Plastic Waste [27]

"The plastics industry says heating and treating plastic waste with chemicals enables it to make new plastics. But environmentalists say that process, emitting large amounts of climate and air pollution, isn’t recycling and isn’t green."

Air [28]
Chemicals [13]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [14]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [16]
Waste [29]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Inside Climate News [30], 05/03/2023
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"Biden’s Push To Disclose Climate Risks Hits Wall Of Industry Resistance" [31]

"Big business is bucking Biden’s efforts to use SEC rules and the purchasing power of the U.S. government to reveal and reduce climate emissions".

Climate Change [32]
Consumer [33]
Economy & Business [19]
Environmental Politics [5]
Journalism & Media [34]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Washington Post [35], 05/03/2023
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Brazil’s Lula Recognizes Six Indigenous Lands, And Says More To Come [36]

"During the largest gathering of Indigenous people in Brazil, President Lula recognized six Indigenous lands, resuming the demarcation process which stalled for over six years under the two former presidents."

Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Natural Resources [7]
Public [9]
South America [37]
Source: Mongabay [38], 05/02/2023
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"Environmental Groups Sue U.S. Over SpaceX Launch License For Texas" [39]

"Conservation groups sued the Federal Aviation Administration on Monday, challenging its approval of expanded rocket launch operations by Elon Musk's SpaceX next to a national wildlife refuge in South Texas without requiring greater environmental study."

Disasters [40]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Natural Resources [7]
Technology [41]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [42]
Source: Reuters [43], 05/02/2023
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Climate Change Is Walloping US Farms. Can Farm Bill Create Solutions? [44]

"Although it seems like everyone in D.C. is buzzing about a “climate farm bill,” some of the most impactful changes, including crop diversification and shifting diets from meat toward plants, are barely on the negotiating table."

Agriculture [2]
Climate Change [32]
Consumer [33]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [5]
Food [45]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Natural Resources [7]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Civil Eats [46], 05/02/2023
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"Supreme Court to Mull Voiding Chevron Ruling on Agency Power" [47]

"The US Supreme Court will consider overturning a decades-old legal doctrine that has given federal regulators broad power to define their authority, accepting an appeal that aims to put new constraints on environmental, consumer-protection and financial-watchdog agencies."

Environmental Politics [5]
Government [48]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [49], 05/02/2023
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