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"EPA Won't Regulate Pollution That Moves Through Groundwater" [1]

"EPA won't regulate any pollution to surface waters that passes through groundwater."

Environmental Politics [2]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Pollution [4]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Greenwire [8], 04/17/2019
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Use EPA TRI Database To Find Toxic Threats [9]

The Toxics Release Inventory database, refreshed annually, has long been the foundation of many a good environmental news story. The latest release is now out, and this week’s TipSheet reminds journalists why the searchable online TRI can be such a valuable reporting tool in tracking toxic dangers.

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Activism [11]
Air [12]
Chemicals [13]
Disasters [14]
Environmental Health [15]
Government [16]
Health [17]
Journalism & Media [18]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Pollution [4]
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National (U.S.) [7]
International [19]
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"Enforcement: Inside Top EPA Officials' Secret Polluter Meetings" [21]

"Former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and high-ranking aides held several previously unreported meetings with a Missouri-based electric utility company that EPA claimed in 2011 had been violating the Clean Air Act since the Clinton administration, agency documents show."

Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Politics [2]
Government [16]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Pollution [4]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Greenwire [23], 04/16/2019
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Judge Dismisses Taylor Energy Bid To Reclaim Millions For Oil Cleanup [24]

"The Court of Federal Claims dismissed Taylor Energy’s lawsuit to reclaim more than $430 million remaining in a trust fund to clean up its massive 14-year oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico."

Energy & Fuel [22]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Pollution [4]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [25]
Source: Washington Post [26], 04/15/2019
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"Duke Energy To Contest N Carolina Coal Ash Excavation Order" [27]

"The country’s largest electric company says it’s challenging an order by North Carolina’s environmental agency to excavate coal ash from all of its power plant sites in the state."

Energy & Fuel [22]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Pollution [4]
Public [6]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [25]
Source: AP [28], 04/15/2019
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Atlantic Richfield Plans To Spend Another $100 Million On Butte Cleanup [29]

"BUTTE, Mont. — A former oil producer says it has spent more than $1.4 billion on the decades-long Butte Superfund cleanup and expects to spend at least $100 million more."

Economy & Business [30]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Pollution [4]
Public [6]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [31]
Source: AP [32], 04/15/2019
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"New York Plans To Sue EPA Over GE's 'Incomplete' Hudson River Cleanup" [33]

"New York state officials plan to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for allowing General Electric Co to stop clearing the Hudson River of PCB contamination before the cleanup work was finished."

Chemicals [13]
Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Politics [2]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Pollution [4]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [34]
Source: Reuters [35], 04/12/2019
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"House Panel Launches Probe of EPA’s Air Policy Chief" [36]

"The House Energy and Commerce Committee launched an investigation Thursday into whether the Environmental Protection Agency’s air policy chief and his deputy have improperly aided their former industry clients since joining the administration."

Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Politics [2]
Government [16]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Pollution [4]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Washington Post [37], 04/12/2019
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"Coal: Mountaintop Mining: 'Tangible Benefits' vs. Orange Water" [38]

"Holding aloft a bottle of milky orange drinking water from his home state, Kentucky Democrat John Yarmuth reminded his House colleagues about the immediate action taken when lead contamination was found in Capitol Hill office buildings."

Energy & Fuel [22]
Natural Resources [39]
Pollution [4]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: E&E Daily [40], 04/10/2019
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Styrofoam Facts — Why You May Want To Bring Your Own Cup [41]

What makes styrofoam good — like its insulating, shock-absorbing qualities that make it suitable for hot coffee cups, coolers, helmets and packing material — is also what makes it bad … for the environment, that is. This month’s Backgrounder looks at the technical and environmental aspects of this long-troubling plastic pollution source.

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Chemicals [13]
Consumer [43]
Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Politics [2]
Food [44]
Government [16]
Health [17]
Pollution [4]
Science [45]
Waste [46]
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