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Minnesota Tribal School Fights To Eliminate PFAS in Drinking Water [1]

"As the United States begins to crack down on PFAS contamination, Indigenous communities are getting left behind."

Chemicals [2]
Consumer [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Infrastructure [6]
Pollution [7]
Water & Oceans [8]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [11]
Source: Grist [12], 08/16/2023
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Texans Must Fight "State-Regulated" Oilfield Waste Dumps By Themselves [13]

"Some Texans who challenge oil and gas waste sites must spend significant sums and time on investigating what they say the Texas Railroad Commission should examine. Will new regulations for handling waste increase oversight or just maintain the status quo?"

Air [14]
Chemicals [2]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Justice [5]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [7]
Public [9]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [17]
Source: Public Health Watch [18], 08/16/2023
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"Despite Climate Goals, California Will Let Three Gas Plants Keep Running" [19]

"Sometimes, breaking news is spectacularly unsurprising — but still hugely consequential. That was the case Tuesday, when California officials finalized a decision they’d been telegraphing for months, voting to extend the life of three gas-fired power plants along the state’s southern coast through 2026, instead of closing them later this year.

Climate Change [20]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Health [4]
Pollution [7]
Public [9]
California [21]
Source: LA Times [22], 08/16/2023
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90% Of England’s Most Precious Rivers Polluteded By Raw Sewage And Farming [23]

"More than 90% of freshwater habitats on England’s most precious rivers are in unfavourable condition, blighted by farming pollution, raw sewage and water abstraction, an Observer investigation reveals."

Agriculture [24]
Biodiversity [25]
Natural Resources [26]
Pollution [7]
Water & Oceans [8]
Public [9]
Europe [27]
Source: Guardian [28], 08/16/2023
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"Texas’ Brazos River, Captive and Contaminated" [29]

"Dow-Freeport, the largest chemical plant complex in the Western Hemisphere, dominates—and pollutes—the Lower Brazos Watershed."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Pollution [7]
Water & Oceans [8]
Public [9]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [17]
Source: Texas Observer [30], 08/15/2023
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"Uranium Hunters in US West Face Partial Ban, Pollution Fears" [31]

"Five weeks before President Joe Biden announced a historic new ban on new uranium mining around the Grand Canyon, Sarana Riggs approached the barbed-wire fence surrounding an inactive mine in an Arizona national forest, a Geiger counter in her hand."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [32]
Pollution [7]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [17]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [33], 08/15/2023
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"South Korean Activists Protest Against Fukushima Water Discharge" [34]

"Hundreds of South Korean activists gathered in central Seoul on Saturday to protest against Japan's plan to release treated radioactive water from the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean."

Activism [35]
Disasters [36]
Environmental Health [4]
Fish & Fisheries [37]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [32]
Pollution [7]
Water & Oceans [8]
Public [9]
Asia [38]
Source: Reuters [39], 08/14/2023
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"Louisiana Created Alleged Conflict Of Interest In ‘Cancer Alley’ Case" [40]

"Facing a pivotal federal investigation into Louisiana’s relationship with petro-chemical companies, the state’s attorney general hired lawyers who were simultaneously representing one of the main corporations at the center of the investigation, documents reveal."

Chemicals [2]
Economy & Business [41]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [42]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [7]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [43]
Source: Guardian [44], 08/14/2023
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WV Leaders Fight Pollution Standards Amid Health Risks From Coal Plants [45]

"Asthma and low life expectancy are highly prevalent in communities around West Virginia’s coal-fired power plants, federal data show."

Air [14]
Climate Change [20]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [42]
People & Population [46]
Pollution [7]
Public [9]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [47]
Source: Charleston Gazette-Mail [48], 08/11/2023
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Rising Flood Risks Threaten Many Water, Sewage Treatment Plants Across US [49]

"The crack of a summer thunderstorm once comforted people in Ludlow, Vermont. But that was before a storm dropped eight inches of rain on the village of 2,200 in two days last month. And it was before the devastation of Tropical Storm Irene in 2011. Now a coming rainstorm can stir panic."

Climate Change [20]
Disasters [36]
Environmental Health [4]
Infrastructure [6]
Pollution [7]
Water & Oceans [8]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: AP [50], 08/11/2023
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