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Maryland Warns EPA It Will Sue For Failure To Enforce Clean Air Law [1]

"The Hogan administration notified the federal Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday that it plans to file a lawsuit alleging the agency has failed to act against states whose smokestack emissions pollute Maryland’s air."

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Source: Baltimore Sun [8], 07/24/2017
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DOJ Yanks $3M Enviro Project From Harley-Davidson Pollution Settlement [9]

"The Trump administration has erased an Obama-era requirement that Harley-Davidson Motor Co. spend $3 million on a pollution control project as part of its penalty for cheating on air emissions."

Air [2]
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Pollution [5]
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National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Greenwire [10], 07/21/2017
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"Five Lawsuits Aim To Get Texas To Enforce Air Quality Laws" [11]

"Green groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday to force Texas to toughen its stance on air pollution by using stricter language in permits it issues to oil refineries and power plants."

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Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [12]
Source: Reuters [13], 07/21/2017
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"House Passes Delay for EPA's Obama-era Ozone Standards" [14]

"The House on Tuesday passed, 229-199, a bill to delay the compliance date for Obama-era ground level ozone standards."

Air [2]
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National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Roll Call [16], 07/19/2017
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"A Toxic Legacy: North Dakota Looks To Clean Up Old Oilfield Waste" [17]

"Way up in northern North Dakota lies an old oilfield with a problem 60 years in the making."

Agriculture [18]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Pollution [5]
Public [6]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [20]
Source: Prairie Public News [21], 07/19/2017
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EPA To Keep Standards for Nitrogen Oxides Air Pollution [22]

"After a five-year review, U.S. EPA has proposed leaving unchanged its two primary air quality standards for nitrogen oxides."

Air [2]
Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Greenwire [23], 07/18/2017
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"In the Grand Canyon, Uranium Mining Threatens A Tribe's Survival" [24]

"The Havasupai are attempting to fight back against the operation of a uranium mine that they say could contaminate their sole water source".

Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Politics [3]
Natural Resources [25]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [26]
Pollution [5]
Public [6]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [12]
Source: Guardian [27], 07/17/2017
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"Toxic Taps" [28]

"California’s five-year drought made worldwide headlines as wells went dry and thousands of people were left without water. But many of those whose taps still flow face an even more insidious threat. The state estimates that 1.5 million Californians rely on drinking water that has violated health standards."

Environmental Health [15]
People & Population [29]
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [6]
California [31]
Source: Water Deeply [32], 07/17/2017
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"A Pass to Poison" [33]

"How the state of Texas allows industrial facilities to repeatedly spew unauthorized air pollution — with few consequences"

Air [2]
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Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [5]
Public [6]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [12]
Source: Texas Tribune [34], 07/17/2017
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"The Louisiana Environmental Apocalypse Road Trip" [35]

"Louisiana serves as a terrifying example of what can become of a state that shortchanges science and environmental regulations to boost industry and infrastructure." "If you’re visiting New Orleans and want to see something truly amazing, take your beer or daiquiri to-go and walk a few blocks past the Superdome—you’ll find a school being constructed on an old waste dump."

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Source: LongReads [37], 07/14/2017
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