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"EPA Orders LA County Landfill To Curb Hazardous Waste Leakage Immediately" [1]

"Federal environment officials have ordered a Los Angeles County landfill to take urgent action to protect public health, citing noxious odors and hazardous waste issues in the surrounding community."

Air [2]
Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [7]
Waste [8]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
California [11]
Source: The Hill [12], 02/27/2024
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TX Railroad Commission Approves Toxic Waste Ponds Next to Baptist Camp [13]

"Texas regulators recently authorized a company to operate ponds to store and recycle millions of gallons of oilfield wastewater laced with toxic chemicals next to a Baptist summer camp in the Permian Basin."

Chemicals [3]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Health [4]
Laws & Regulations [6]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [7]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [16]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [9]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [18]
Source: Inside Climate News [19], 02/27/2024
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"Conservatives Gear Up For EPA Revamp In 2025" [20]

"Dramatic shifts to EPA’s priorities and structure are central to plans for a GOP-led White House drawn up by Trump-era officials and right-leaning influencers."

Climate Change [21]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [22]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [7]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: E&E News [23], 02/27/2024
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Why Parking, Long Term, Presents a Lot of Problems [24]

A new book makes the case that U.S. cities have had their environments, their housing and their businesses warped by parking policies. BookShelf contributor Jennifer Weeks, who shares her own parking-related frustrations, explores the arguments made in “Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World,” and also takes a look at what the author sees as “parking-light” solutions.

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Climate Change [21]
Consumer [26]
Economy & Business [27]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [22]
Government [28]
Health [29]
Infrastructure [30]
Planning & Growth [31]
Policy [32]
Pollution [7]
Transportation [33]
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National (U.S.) [10]
California [11]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [34]
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Public [9]
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Spill-Tracking Data Sources Help Cover Hazmat Events [35]

A new Spill Tracker website is a good source of information on chemical spills, albeit one with an agenda. But according to the latest Reporter’s Toolbox, it’s just one among a set of powerful resources for covering dangerous releases, large and small. More on Spill Tracker, plus another half-dozen-plus government and nonprofit data sources on petrochemical incidents.

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Reporters Toolbox [36]
Topics on the Beat: 
Chemicals [3]
Disasters [37]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Health [4]
Government [28]
Journalism & Media [38]
Pollution [7]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [10]
International [39]
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Public [9]
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"Flaco’s Crash Might Have Been More Than Bad Luck. Here’s What We Know." [40]

"Flaco spent a year defying expectations, an owl born into captivity who quickly learned to hunt and fend for himself in the wilds of New York City. That ended on Friday when he flew into a building near Central Park. What went wrong?"

Biodiversity [41]
Infrastructure [30]
Natural Resources [42]
Pollution [7]
Wildlife [43]
Public [9]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [34]
Source: NYTimes [44], 02/26/2024
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"US Warns Of Environmental Disaster From Cargo Ship Hit By Huthi Rebels" [45]

"A cargo ship abandoned in the Gulf of Aden after an attack by Yemeni rebels is taking on water and has left a huge oil slick, in an environmental disaster that US Central Command said Friday could get worse."

Energy & Fuel [14]
Fish & Fisheries [46]
Military [47]
Natural Resources [42]
Pollution [7]
Transportation [33]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [9]
Middle East [48]
Source: AFP [49], 02/26/2024
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EPA Questions Georgia Approval Of State Utility’s Ash Disposal Plan [50]

"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) raised concerns in a letter to its Georgia counterpart about the state utility’s storage of coal ash."

Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Health [4]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [7]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [9]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [51]
Source: The Hill [52], 02/26/2024
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"Tired Of Diesel Fumes, These Moms Are Pushing For Electric School Buses" [53]

"Areli Sanchez’s daughter, Aida, used to be one of 20 million American kids who ride a diesel bus to school each day. ... She was admitted to the hospital for an asthma attack in second grade, and after that Sanchez began driving Aida to school."

Air [2]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Health [4]
Pollution [7]
Transportation [33]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: AP [54], 02/26/2024
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"These Wildfires Never Went Out — They Just Moved Underground" [55]

"Under the ground, even under the snow, zombie fires are burning. The remnants of the most extraordinary wildfire season in recent Canadian history are still smoldering on a scale that experts say is unprecedented."

Air [2]
Climate Change [21]
Disasters [37]
Forests [56]
Natural Resources [42]
Pollution [7]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Canada [57]
Source: Washington Post [58], 02/26/2024
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