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"EPA Hands Biofuels Industry Small Win With E15 Waiver" [1]

"The Trump administration’s decision to lift restrictions on the sale of higher-ethanol fuel again this summer could help soften the blow of higher gas prices — but it’s not the big win the biofuels industry has been seeking."

Agriculture [2]
Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
People & Population [8]
Pollution [9]
Transportation [10]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: E&E News [13], 03/26/2026
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Iowa Cancer Crisis Linked to Pesticides, PFAS, Fertilizer and Radon: Report [14]

"Iowa is among a few states where cancer diagnoses are on the rise. A new analysis from the Harkin Institute for Public Policy & Citizen Engagement and the Iowa Environmental Council says that environmental exposures are partially to blame."

Agriculture [2]
Chemicals [15]
Environmental Health [5]
Laws & Regulations [7]
People & Population [8]
Pollution [9]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [16]
Source: Inside Climate News [17], 03/26/2026
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"California Sues Trump To Keep Shut Oil Pipeline On Santa Barbara Coast" [18]

"California sued the Trump administration Monday to block what it says is an unprecedented power grab: using emergency authority to force the restart of an offshore oil operation shut down more than a decade ago."

Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [6]
Infrastructure [19]
Pollution [9]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
California [20]
Source: CalMatters [21], 03/25/2026
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Libya Tows Drifting Russian ‘Shadow’ Tanker To Avert A Mediterranean Spill [22]

"Libyan authorities were towing a Russian tanker drifting in the Mediterranean for the past three weeks, after the vessel was damaged in a suspected sea drone attack, officials said Tuesday."

Disasters [23]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Pollution [9]
Public [11]
Africa [24]
Europe [25]
Source: AP [26], 03/25/2026
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"Asia Boosts Coal Use As Iran War Squeezes Global LNG Supplies" [27]

"Asian countries are turning to coal as the Iran war disrupts oil and gas shipments."

Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Military [28]
Pollution [9]
Public [11]
International [29]
Asia [30]
Source: AP [31], 03/25/2026
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Climate-Fueled Wildfires, Dust Storms Drove Global Air Pollution in 2025 [32]

"A new report on global air pollution shows that the majority of the world’s population breathes unhealthy air, and climate change is making the problem worse."

Air [33]
Climate Change [3]
Environmental Health [5]
People & Population [8]
Pollution [9]
Public [11]
International [29]
Source: Inside Climate News [34], 03/25/2026
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Replacing Toxic Lead Pipes Could Drive Job Creation in Illinois: Report [35]

"Illinois has nearly 1.5 million lead service lines. A new report estimates replacing the unsafe plumbing has the potential to create 90,000 jobs."

Chemicals [15]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Justice [36]
Environmental Politics [6]
Infrastructure [19]
Laws & Regulations [7]
People & Population [8]
Pollution [9]
Water & Oceans [37]
Public [11]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [38]
Source: Grist/WBEZ [39], 03/24/2026
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Shell's Cracker Has Polluted More Than Permitted With No New Fines For 3 Years [40]

"State regulators have allowed the Beaver County ethylene plant to keep exceeding limits on damaging nitrogen oxides while the official permitting process has taken seven times its original timeline."

Chemicals [15]
Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Pollution [9]
Public [11]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [41]
Source: Public Source [42], 03/24/2026
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Insect Decline Poses Foundational Ecological Hazards [43]

Bugs may get a bad rap, but a serious possible global decline in their populations is making clearer what may be lost for ecosystems and human societies. Issue Backgrounder peers beneath the detritus to find what insects do, how we try to kill them and how they survive, and why it’s so hard to pin down the data around their shifting numbers.

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Biodiversity [45]
Chemicals [15]
Environmental Health [5]
Natural Resources [46]
Pollution [9]
Science [47]
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National (U.S.) [12]
International [29]
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Public [11]
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Trump EPA Is Paving The Way For Haze To Return To National Parks, Conservationists Warn [48]

"A year ago, federal environmental regulators told West Virginia officials that their plan to clear sulfur and smog from skies over the state’s national wilderness areas wasn’t good enough because a dozen coal plants didn’t analyze whether they needed better pollution controls." 

Air [33]
Environmental Politics [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Pollution [9]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: AP [49], 03/23/2026
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