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"How Chemical Companies Avoid Paying for Pollution" [1]

"DuPont factories pumped dangerous substances into the environment. The company and its offspring have gone to great lengths to dodge responsibility."

"FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — One humid day this summer, Brian Long, a senior executive at the chemical company Chemours, took a reporter on a tour of the Fayetteville Works factory.

Mr. Long showed off the plant’s new antipollution technologies, designed to stop a chemical called GenX from pouring into the Cape Fear River, escaping into the air and seeping into the ground water.

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [9]
Source: NYTimes [10], 10/21/2021
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U.S.’s Best Hope For Real Climate Policy Is Fizzling. What Happens Now? [11]

"With just two weeks until global leaders gather in Scotland for the world’s biggest climate conference, the United States is about to let its leading proposal to cut emissions die in Congress."

Climate Change [12]
Economy & Business [13]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: HuffPost [17], 10/21/2021
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Net Zero Announcement: UK Sets Out Plans To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions [18]

"Another big push towards electric vehicles is being made in the UK government's latest strategy to make the great shift to a virtually zero-carbon economy."

Climate Change [12]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [7]
Europe [19]
Source: BBC News [20], 10/20/2021
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Biden Focuses On Climate, Families In Trimmed $2T Plan [21]

"Scaling down his “build back better” plans, President Joe Biden on Tuesday described a more limited vision to Democratic lawmakers of a $2 trillion government-overhaul package with at least $500 billion to tackle climate change and money for middle-class priorities — child tax credits, paid family leave, health care and free pre-kindergarten."

Climate Change [12]
Economy & Business [13]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Infrastructure [22]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: AP [23], 10/20/2021
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"US Formally Removes Colorado River Fish’s Endangered Status" [24]

"The humpback chub, a rare fish found only in the Colorado River basin, has been brought back from the brink of extinction after decades of protection, though work must continue to ensure its survival, federal authorities said Monday in reclassifying the species from endangered to threatened status."

Biodiversity [25]
Fish & Fisheries [26]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: AP [27], 10/19/2021
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"Senate Democrats Release 9 Spending Bills" [28]

"Senate Democrats released nine spending bills this afternoon as a way to get fiscal 2022 negotiations moving with the House, which has approved most of its own spending measures."

Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: E&E News [29], 10/19/2021
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"Environmentalists Secure Water Rights For Great Salt Lake" [30]

"In an effort to help save the shrinking Great Salt Lake, environmentalists are attempting a novel idea: securing water rights for a terminal system."

Activism [31]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [32]
Source: AP [33], 10/19/2021
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Amid Massive Roundup Cancer Suits, Migrant Farmworkers Are Left Out [34]

"Hampered by fear and deprived of resources, migrant farmworkers are unlikely to come forward and seek restitution."

Agriculture [35]
Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [15]
Laws & Regulations [4]
People & Population [36]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: EHN [37], 10/19/2021
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"Senate Hearing On Sams To Head National Parks Set For Oct. 19" [38]

"A politically polarized Senate has set Oct. 19 for a hearing on the nomination of former Oregon tribal leader Chuck Sams as the next director of the National Parks Service."

Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Government [39]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Natural Resources [40]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Walla Walla Union-Bulletin [41], 10/19/2021
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"Biden Administration Moves To Curtail Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’" [42]

"The Biden administration moved Monday to regulate a group of long-lasting, human-made chemicals that pose health risks to millions of Americans, even as they continue to be used in an array of products such as cosmetics, dental floss, food packaging, clothing and cleaning supplies."

Chemicals [2]
Consumer [43]
Environmental Health [3]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Washington Post [44], 10/19/2021
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