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"Residents Say Tests Find Toxic Chemicals After Plant's Fire" [1]

"State and federal environmental agencies report Harvey knocked out five drinking-water systems and seven sewage systems in the 58 Texas counties covered by Gov. Greg Abbott's disaster declaration."

Chemicals [2]
Climate Change [3]
Disasters [4]
Pollution [5]
Public [6]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [7]
Source: AP [8], 10/03/2017
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"Harvey Knocked Out Dozens Of Texas Water, Sewer Systems" [9]

"State and federal environmental agencies report Harvey knocked out five drinking-water systems and seven sewage systems in the 58 Texas counties covered by Gov. Greg Abbott's disaster declaration."

Climate Change [3]
Disasters [4]
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [10]
Public [6]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [7]
Source: AP [8], 10/03/2017
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Arkema Plant Under Criminal Investigation By Harris County DA’s Office [11]

"The Arkema chemical plant — already facing multiple lawsuits over explosions of a volatile chemical in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey — is under criminal investigation by the Harris County District Attorney’s Office, officials confirmed Friday."

Chemicals [2]
Disasters [4]
Environmental Health [12]
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [10]
Public [6]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [7]
Source: Houston Chronicle [13], 10/02/2017
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"EPA Finds Dioxin Exposed At Superfund Site After Storm, Orders Tests" [14]

"Cancer-causing dioxins leached from a Superfund site along a Texas river during Hurricane Harvey flooding, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said, triggering calls on Friday for the toxic waste to be permanently moved."

Chemicals [2]
Disasters [4]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [5]
Public [6]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [7]
Source: Reuters [16], 10/02/2017
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"Maryland Sues EPA Over Upwind Air Pollution" [17]

"Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh (D) sued the Trump administration Wednesday to try to force it to take action against out-of-state power plants for their air pollution."

Air [18]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [5]
Public [6]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [19]
Source: The Hill [20], 09/28/2017
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Park Service Showed That Its Bottled Water Ban Worked — Then Lifted It [21]

"Long before the Trump administration rescinded a ban on the sale of disposable water bottles in select national parks, the Interior Department was aware of a report from the National Park Service that the program worked."

Environmental Politics [22]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [23]
Pollution [5]
Waste [24]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: Washington Post [26], 09/28/2017
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Pittsburgh: "PWSA Looks At Pipe Coatings To Tackle Lead Problem" [27]

A new technology for coating the inside of lead service pipes could save homeowners money and make expensive replacement unnecessary. It is being tested.

Economy & Business [28]
Environmental Health [12]
Pollution [5]
Technology [29]
Water & Oceans [10]
Public [6]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [19]
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [30], 09/28/2017
  • Read more about Pittsburgh: "PWSA Looks At Pipe Coatings To Tackle Lead Problem" [27]

"E.P.A. Threatens to Stop Funding Justice Dept. Environmental Work" [31]

"Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator who has aggressively pushed to dismantle regulations and downsize the organization, is threatening to reach outside his agency and undermine the Justice Department’s work enforcing antipollution laws, documents and interviews show."

Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [22]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: NY Times [32], 09/28/2017
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"Farmworkers’ Dilemma: Affordable Housing, but Undrinkable Water" [33]

"A sprawl of mobile home parks house 10,000 people in Southern California’s Coachella Valley, but their drinking water is chronically contaminated. Now some solutions are in sight."

Agriculture [34]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [35]
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [10]
Public [6]
California [36]
Source: Water Deeply [37], 09/27/2017
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"EPA Removes Waste At Texas Toxic Sites, Won’t Say From Where" [38]

"The Environmental Protection Agency says it has recovered 517 containers of 'unidentified, potentially hazardous material' from highly contaminated toxic waste sites in Texas that flooded last month during Hurricane Harvey. The agency has not provided details about which Superfund sites the material came from, why the contaminants at issue have not been identified and whether there’s a threat to human health."

Chemicals [2]
Disasters [4]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [22]
Government [39]
Journalism & Media [40]
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [10]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: AP [41], 09/27/2017
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