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"Tribes Say Voting Access Hurt By US Supreme Court Ruling" [1]

"The largest Native American reservation in the U.S. includes parts of three Arizona counties, all of which had different approaches to precinct voting in the 2020 general election."

Environmental Justice [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [4]
People & Population [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: AP [8], 07/07/2021
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"Inside The Pacheedaht Nation’s Stand On Fairy Creek Logging Blockades" [9]

"Catapulted into the spotlight amid B.C.’s new war in the woods, Pacheedaht First Nation is asserting its right to decide how resources on its territory, including old-growth forests, are managed".

Activism [10]
Environmental Justice [2]
Fish & Fisheries [11]
Forests [12]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Natural Resources [13]
People & Population [5]
Public [6]
Canada [14]
Source: The Narwhal [15], 07/06/2021
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"Study Says Hunting, Poaching Reduce Wisconsin Wolf Numbers" [16]

"As many as one-third of Wisconsin’s gray wolves likely died at the hands of humans in the months after the federal government announced it was ending legal protections, according to a study released Monday."

Biodiversity [17]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Wildlife [18]
Public [6]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [19]
Source: AP [20], 07/06/2021
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Oil Firm's Plan To Abandon 1,700 Gulf Wells Risks 'Environmental Disaster' [21]

"A Houston oil company that grew into one of the largest producers in the Gulf of Mexico before going bust last year is planning to abandon hundreds of oil wells and pipelines it acquired over the last decade, potentially adding to the fast-growing tangle of neglected oil and gas infrastructure off the Louisiana coast."

Energy & Fuel [22]
Fish & Fisheries [11]
Infrastructure [23]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [24]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [26], 07/06/2021
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"Honduran Court Finds Construction Exec Guilty In Activist's Murder" [27]

"A former top executive of a Honduran construction firm was found guilty on Monday of being a collaborator in the 2016 murder of indigenous environmental activist Berta Caceres, a judge said in a court ruling."

Activism [10]
Environmental Justice [2]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [6]
Central America & the Caribbean [28]
Source: Reuters [29], 07/06/2021
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"Activists Call For Ocean City Boycott Over Trash Burning" [30]

"Environmentalists are calling for a boycott of a Maryland beach town until it starts sending its waste to a local landfill instead of a majority-Black town in Pennsylvania."

Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Justice [2]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Waste [32]
Public [6]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [33]
Source: AP [34], 07/05/2021
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Corporate Studies Asserting Herbicide Safety Show Many Flaws: New Study [35]

"A new analysis of more than 50 previously secret, corporate-backed scientific studies is raising troubling questions about a history of regulatory reliance on such research in assessing the safety of the widely used weedkilling chemical known as glyphosate, the key ingredient in the popular Roundup herbicide."

Agriculture [36]
Chemicals [37]
Environmental Health [31]
Journalism & Media [38]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Science [39]
Public [6]
International [40]
Source: Guardian [41], 07/05/2021
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"Court Strikes Trump EPA Rule For Full-Year 15% Ethanol Sales" [42]

"A federal appeals court on Friday threw out a Trump-era Environmental Protection Agency rule change that allowed for the sale of a 15% ethanol gasoline blend in the summer months."

Agriculture [36]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: AP [43], 07/05/2021
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"Whistleblowers Claim EPA Altered Risk Reviews For Toxics" [44]

"Four whistleblowers in EPA's chemicals office allege officials tampered with key risk assessments and processes, according to a complaint filed by an environmental group on behalf of the agency staffers."

Chemicals [37]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Science [39]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: E&E News [45], 07/05/2021
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"Utah Fireworks Law Sparks Confusion Amid Drought, Wildfire Risks" [46]

"Fireworks bans are being enacted throughout the drought-stricken West as officials worry about wildfires—but in Utah, the situation is complicated by a law as murky as the air after a pyrotechnics display."

Climate Change [47]
Disasters [48]
Forests [12]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [49], 07/02/2021
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