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"Hundreds Forced From Indiana Homes As Plastics Fire Burns" [1]

"An evacuation order affecting more than 1,000 people remained in place Wednesday night around a large industrial fire in an Indiana city near the Ohio border where crews worked to douse piles of burning plastics."

Air [2]
Chemicals [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
People & Population [7]
Pollution [8]
Waste [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [12]
Source: AP [13], 04/13/2023
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"Groups Petition US EPA To Force Reporting Of Waste Incinerator Emissions" [14]

"Environmental groups on Monday petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to require companies to disclose the chemicals discharged from waste incinerators and plants that claim to recycle plastic waste into fuel."

Air [2]
Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [6]
People & Population [7]
Pollution [8]
Waste [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Reuters [17], 04/04/2023
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When Native Rights, Conservation, and a Very Lucrative Fishery Collide [18]

"In the fast-changing Bering Sea, a small tribe makes a big push to save their island".

Biodiversity [19]
Natural Resources [20]
People & Population [7]
Waste [9]
Water & Oceans [21]
Wildlife [22]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Alaska and Hawaii [23]
Source: Sierra [24], 03/29/2023
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Scientists Uncover Startling Amounts of DDT Along Seafloor Off LA Coast [25]

"First it was the eerie images of barrels leaking on the seafloor not far from Catalina Island. Then the shocking realization that the nation's largest manufacturer of DDT had once used the ocean as a huge dumping ground—and that as many as half a million barrels of its acid waste had been poured straight into the water."

Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [5]
Fish & Fisheries [26]
Natural Resources [20]
Pollution [8]
Waste [9]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [10]
California [27]
Source: LA Times [28], 03/27/2023
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"Waste Pickers Collect Food Waste, Help Combat Climate Change" [29]

"Marilene Capentes pushes a cart along the streets of Malabon city just north of Manila every morning except Sundays, collecting bags of segregated garbage."

Climate Change [30]
Food [31]
Waste [9]
Public [10]
Australia & Oceania [32]
Source: AP [33], 03/21/2023
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"States Cannot Block Hazardous Waste From Ohio Derailment, EPA Says" [34]

"U.S. states cannot block shipments of hazardous waste from a Feb. 3 Ohio train derailment to licensed disposal sites, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said Friday."

Chemicals [3]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Waste [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Reuters [35], 03/20/2023
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Plan To Incinerate Soil From Ohio Derailment Is ‘Horrifying’ - Expert [36]

"Contaminated soil from the site around the East Palestine train wreck in Ohio is being sent to a nearby incinerator with a history of clean air violations, raising fears that the chemicals being removed from the ground will be redistributed across the region."

Air [2]
Chemicals [3]
Disasters [37]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Infrastructure [38]
Waste [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [12]
Source: Guardian [39], 03/06/2023
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From Swine Waste, Student Journalist Extracts Prize-Winning Story [40]

Industrial hog farmers tout swine biogas as a clean, green energy source, but others point to its messy side. A young journalist who investigated the underreported stench of environmental racism associated with this technology learned valuable lessons along the way to producing a feature story that won her a Society of Environmental Journalists’ award for outstanding student reporting.

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Agriculture [42]
Air [2]
Chemicals [3]
Diversity [43]
Economy & Business [44]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [16]
Food [31]
Government [45]
Health [46]
Journalism & Media [47]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [8]
Science [48]
Technology [49]
Waste [9]
Water & Oceans [21]
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National (U.S.) [11]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [50]
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Tijuana River Sewage May Be Contaminating Air Along S. Calif. Coast: Study [51]

"Chronic coastal contamination from the Tijuana River can end up in the atmosphere as “sea spray aerosol” — spreading far beyond the San Diego County beaches where it has long polluted the water, a new study has found."

Air [2]
Environmental Health [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [8]
Waste [9]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [10]
California [27]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [52]
Mexico [53]
Source: The Hill [54], 03/03/2023
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EPA Coal Ash Settlement Raises Hopes For Cleanup Beyond Lake Michigan [55]

"A settlement between environmental groups and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could for the first time impose regulations on hundreds of coal ash sites nationwide that are not covered by 2015 federal coal ash rules."

Chemicals [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Infrastructure [38]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [8]
Waste [9]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Energy News Network [56], 03/02/2023
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