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Florida Debates Where To Build The Nation’s Largest Trash Incinerator [1]

"Residents argue the project will disproportionately impact majority-Black and -Hispanic communities in the Miami-Dade area."

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National (U.S.) [12]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [13]
Source: KFF Health News [14], 01/02/2025
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Toxic Benzene Plagued Channelview, Tex. Regulators Never Told Residents. [15]

"The highest levels exceed even Texas’ benzene guideline — the weakest in the nation — but aren’t being recorded by a state monitor. That means the community’s cancer risk could be higher than previously thought."

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Source: Public Health Watch [19], 01/02/2025
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"Big Oil Backtracks On Renewables Push As Climate Agenda Falters" [20]

"Major European energy companies doubled down on oil and gas in 2024 to focus on near-term profits, slowing down - and at times reversing - climate commitments in a shift that they are likely to stick with in 2025."

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Europe [23]
Source: Reuters [24], 01/02/2025
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"The E.P.A. Promotes Toxic Fertilizer. 3M Told It of Risks Years Ago." [25]

"The agency obtained research from 3M in 2003 revealing that sewage sludge, the raw material for the fertilizer, carried toxic “forever chemicals.”"

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Natural Resources [29]
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National (U.S.) [12]
Source: NYTimes [31], 01/02/2025
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Oil Industry Playbook: How Drillers Offload Costly Cleanup Onto the Public [32]

"Oil executive Tom Ragsdale walked away from his old wells, making the pollution left behind the state of New Mexico’s problem. His tactics, however, are ubiquitous in the industry."

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Source: ProPublica [35], 01/02/2025
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Gas Leaks Must Be Fixed By Utilities In New Proposed PHMSA Rule [36]

"Melissa Ostroff finds gas leaks for a living, so it was surprising to hear someone say they smelled gas in her own home."

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Source: NPR [37], 12/23/2024
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Maryland Sues GORE-TEX Company For Polluting Water With PFAS Chemicals [38]

"Maryland is suing Cecil County-based manufacturing giant W.L. Gore & Associates for knowingly polluting the air and surrounding water with toxic Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)."

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Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [39]
Source: CBS News [40], 12/23/2024
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Senator Urges EPA to Release Report on Formaldehyde Health Risks [41]

"Citing a recent ProPublica investigation, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., urged the Environmental Protection Agency in a letter this week to issue a final report on the health risks of formaldehyde that is “science-based” and “as strong as possible,” adding that “the agency has an obligation to protect the public from the chemical.”"

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Source: ProPublica [43], 12/23/2024
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Group Says New Jersey Toxic Waste Dumping Caused $1B In Harm, Sues [44]

"Years of toxic waste dumping in a Jersey Shore community where childhood cancer rates rose caused at least $1 billion in damage to natural resources, according to an environmental group trying to overturn a settlement between New Jersey and the corporate successor to the firm that did the polluting."

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National (U.S.) [12]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [45]
Source: AP [46], 12/23/2024
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"Agricultural Poisons Tell a Tale of Two Californias" [47]

"The Golden Rule doesn’t apply in the Golden State when it comes to protecting Latino and Indigenous farmworker communities from toxic pesticides."

Agriculture [26]
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Environmental Health [5]
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Source: Inside Climate News [49], 12/23/2024
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