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"Town Where Child Cancer Rose Blasts Deal Over Polluted Site" [1]

"In hindsight, it’s clear that something was very wrong in this suburban town at the Jersey Shore, where many people worked at or lived near a chemical company that was flushing toxic waste into waterways and burying it in the ground."

Chemicals [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
People & Population [7]
Pollution [8]
Waste [9]
Water & Oceans [10]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [13]
Source: AP [14], 01/27/2023
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Some Landfills Will Begin Treating PFAS On-Site As Regulations Tighten [15]

"After years of sending leachate from the Coventry landfill downstream to a municipal wastewater treatment plant in Vermont, Casella Waste Systems is building an on-site facility to treat its runoff. Amid rising public concern over PFAS and new or forthcoming regulations, an increasing number of landfill operators across the country are considering similar moves."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [4]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [8]
Waste [9]
Water & Oceans [10]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: Waste Dive [16], 01/24/2023
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"EPA Strategy For Alabama Landfill Fire: Smother It In Dirt" [17]

"There’s now more than just smoke hanging around the site of an underground landfill fire near Birmingham. In the two days since the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency showed up to take control of the scene, the area has been abuzz with EPA trucks, bulldozers and excavators moving in to begin putting out the fire."

Air [18]
Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [19]
Pollution [8]
Waste [9]
Public [11]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [20]
Source: Birmingham News [21], 01/23/2023
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"Monitors Show Months-Old Alabama Landfill Fire Polluting Air" [22]

"An underground fire at an Alabama landfill has continued to pollute the air in eastern parts of the Birmingham region more than 50 days after a fire began underground, according to air quality monitors."

Air [18]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [19]
Pollution [8]
Waste [9]
Public [11]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [20]
Source: AP [23], 01/17/2023
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"Israel To Abandon Plastic Tax Despite Environmental Concerns" [24]

"Israel's new government will abandon the country's tax on single-use plastic plates and utensils, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Sunday, despite environmental concerns."

Climate Change [25]
Consumer [26]
Economy & Business [27]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Waste [9]
Public [11]
Middle East [28]
Source: Reuters [29], 01/04/2023
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"New Mexico Seeks Tougher Provisions For US Nuclear Dump" [30]

"[New Mexico] officials on Tuesday released a draft permit that includes tougher provisions for the U.S. government to meet if it wants to continue dumping radioactive waste from decades of nuclear research and bomb-making in the New Mexico desert."

Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [31]
Waste [9]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [32]
Source: AP [33], 12/22/2022
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"The Myth of Plastic Recycling" [34]

"For many, recycling feels like a tangible way to personally combat climate change and to positively affect the environment. That's partially because of decades of public environmental campaigns, advertisements and even school education aimed at increasing recycling. But the reality is that only a small fraction of plastic is ultimately recycled."

Economy & Business [27]
Energy & Fuel [35]
Pollution [8]
Waste [9]
Public [11]
International [36]
Source: NPR [37], 12/13/2022
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Bald Eagles Believed To Have Been Poisoned Near Minnesota Landfill [38]

"More than a dozen dead or dying bald eagles were found near a landfill in Inver Grove Heights, suspected victims of poisoning by eating carcasses of animals that were chemically euthanized and dumped at the landfill, according to wildlife officials."

Biodiversity [39]
Chemicals [2]
Waste [9]
Wildlife [40]
Public [11]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [41]
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune [42], 12/12/2022
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"L.A. City Council Votes To Ban Styrofoam, Single-Use Plastics" [43]

"The city of Los Angeles is going green. On Tuesday, the City Council voted in favor of a several ordinances to reduce the city’s carbon footprint, including resolutions to stop using Styrofoam, plastic bags and other single-use plastics at city facilities."

Consumer [26]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Waste [9]
Public [11]
California [44]
Source: KTLA [45], 12/08/2022
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"Deal At N.J. Superfund Site Draws Fire" [46]

"An agreement on cleanup measures at one of the nation’s most notorious Superfund sites is drawing blowback from some environmental advocates skeptical of provisions within the deal."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [19]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [8]
Waste [9]
Water & Oceans [10]
Public [11]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [13]
Source: E&E News [47], 12/07/2022
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