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"Microplastics Are Widespread in Seafood We Eat, Study Finds" [1]

"Microplastics and other human-made particles are widespread in the seafood that we eat and could be damaging our health."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Fish & Fisheries [4]
Pollution [5]
Waste [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Newsweek [10], 01/13/2025
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How Leading Redeveloper Makes Millions by Not Redeveloping Brownfields [11]

"Although Commercial Development Co. and its affiliates have pledged to revive the former industrial sites they purchase, residents are often stuck looking at undeveloped acreage for years."

Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Health [3]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [5]
Waste [6]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Canada [14]
Mexico [15]
Source: Inside Climate News [16], 01/13/2025
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"Thailand Bans Imports Of Plastic Waste To Curb Toxic Pollution" [17]

"Thailand has banned plastic waste imports over concerns about toxic pollution, as experts warn that failure to agree a global treaty to cut plastic waste will harm human health."

Chemicals [2]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Environmental Health [3]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [5]
Waste [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
International [19]
Asia [20]
Source: Guardian [21], 01/09/2025
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23M Americans Exposed To Toxic PFAS Chemicals Via Treated Wastewater: Study [22]

"Nearly 7 percent of Americans may be exposed to hazardous levels of “forever chemicals” through treated municipal wastewater, a new study has found."

Agriculture [23]
Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Studies [24]
Infrastructure [25]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [5]
Science [26]
Waste [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: The Hill [27], 01/07/2025
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What Will a Second Trump Term Mean for Environmental Justice? [28]

An incoming Trump administration hostile to the very idea of environmental justice likely means the rollback of numerous policies and regulations designed to protect disadvantaged communities, cuts to an important “whole-of-government” initiative and downsizing of key federal environmental justice offices. The latest EJ TransitionWatch examines what’s at stake. And for more, see our Topics on the Beat page on environmental justice [29].

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Topics on the Beat: 
Air [31]
Climate Change [32]
Environmental Justice [33]
Environmental Politics [34]
Government [35]
Health [36]
Infrastructure [25]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [37]
Policy [38]
Pollution [5]
Waste [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
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Florida Debates Where To Build The Nation’s Largest Trash Incinerator [39]

"Residents argue the project will disproportionately impact majority-Black and -Hispanic communities in the Miami-Dade area."

Activism [40]
Air [31]
Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [33]
Environmental Politics [34]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [5]
Waste [6]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [41]
Source: KFF Health News [42], 01/02/2025
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"The E.P.A. Promotes Toxic Fertilizer. 3M Told It of Risks Years Ago." [43]

"The agency obtained research from 3M in 2003 revealing that sewage sludge, the raw material for the fertilizer, carried toxic “forever chemicals.”"

Agriculture [23]
Biodiversity [44]
Chemicals [2]
Consumer [45]
Environmental Health [3]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [46]
Pollution [5]
Waste [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: NYTimes [47], 01/02/2025
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Group Says New Jersey Toxic Waste Dumping Caused $1B In Harm, Sues [48]

"Years of toxic waste dumping in a Jersey Shore community where childhood cancer rates rose caused at least $1 billion in damage to natural resources, according to an environmental group trying to overturn a settlement between New Jersey and the corporate successor to the firm that did the polluting."

Chemicals [2]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [33]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [5]
Waste [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [49]
Source: AP [50], 12/23/2024
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3 Years After Huge Sewage Spill El Segundo Still Stinks. Why Can’t LA Fix It? [51]

"On the worst days, Tamara Kcehowski said, she has thrown up when the stench from Los Angeles’ nearby sewage plant overwhelms her El Segundo apartment. She said her dog, Maggie, has even retched alongside her."

Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [33]
Infrastructure [25]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [5]
Waste [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
California [52]
Source: LA Times [53], 12/17/2024
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"Velsicol’s Defunct Memphis Plant May Become Environmental Trust" [54]

"Velsicol, a legacy polluter that manufactured pesticides, is proposing to hand over its 83-acre defunct facility in North Memphis to Tennessee as an environmental response trust. Should the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) accept a settlement agreement from the company, the state will be left to determine what to do with wide-ranging contamination including a baseball diamond-shaped pile of hazardous waste and a fluctuating groundwater plume of chemicals beneath it."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [33]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [5]
Waste [6]
Public [8]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [41]
Source: Tennessee Lookout [55], 12/17/2024
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