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Judge Tosses Scrapyard's Lawsuit Seeking Chicago Permit [1]

"A federal judge tossed out a lawsuit brought against the city by the owner of a controversial car-shredding operation that wants to operate on the city’s Southeast Side.

Environmental Health [2]
Environmental Justice [3]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Waste [5]
Public [6]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [7]
Source: Chicago Sun-Times [8], 06/30/2021
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Journalists Team Up To Continue Colleagues’ Work Exposing Mining Risks [9]

Environmental journalists around the world sometimes pay for their work with their freedom, safety or even their lives. The Forbidden Stories network continues the reporting of some of those journalists, and a team there recently produced an award-winning collaboration to investigate troubles at mining giants in Central America, South Asia and East Africa. “The Green Blood Project” in this month’s Inside Story.

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Inside Story [10]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [11]
Disasters [12]
Economy & Business [13]
Environmental Health [2]
Environmental Justice [3]
Environmental Politics [14]
Health [15]
Journalism & Media [16]
Natural Resources [17]
People & Population [18]
Pollution [19]
Waste [5]
Water & Oceans [20]
Region: 
International [21]
Africa [22]
Asia [23]
Central America & the Caribbean [24]
Visibility: 
Public [6]
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"Can We Trust Corporations To Deal With Their Own Waste?" [25]

"A federal bill that includes “extended producer responsibility” for waste is dividing environmentalists and renewing questions about corporate support."

Chemicals [26]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [19]
Waste [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: HuffPost [28], 06/25/2021
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"Below Aging U.S. Dams, A Potential Toxic Calamity" [29]

"Docs suggest that in more than 80 U.S. locations, the failure of an aging dam could flood a major toxic waste site".

Chemicals [26]
Climate Change [30]
Disasters [12]
Environmental Health [2]
Infrastructure [31]
Waste [5]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: Undark [32], 06/14/2021
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"‘Forever Chemicals’ Found In Home Fertilizer Made From Sewage Sludge" [33]

"Sewage sludge that wastewater treatment districts across America package and sell as home fertilizer contain alarming levels of toxic PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals”, a new report has revealed. Sludge, which is lightly treated and marketed as “biosolids”, is used by consumers to fertilize home gardens, and the PFAS levels raise concerns that the chemicals are contaminating vegetables and harming those who eat them."

Agriculture [34]
Chemicals [26]
Consumer [35]
Environmental Health [2]
Food [36]
Waste [5]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: Guardian [37], 06/01/2021
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"Top Court Revives Guam’s Superfund Cost Claim Against U.S." [38]

"Guam may pursue a Superfund cost recovery claim against the federal government for a $160 million landfill cleanup as its action was timely, the U.S. Supreme Court said Monday in a significant victory for the territory."

Laws & Regulations [4]
Waste [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [27]
Australia & Oceania [39]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [40], 05/25/2021
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"Metal Shredding Firm Sues Chicago Over Operating Permit" [41]

"The owner of a metal-shredding facility is asking a federal court to force the city of Chicago to issue a permit that would allow the company to open a facility in a Southeast Side neighborhood."

Economy & Business [13]
Environmental Health [2]
Environmental Justice [3]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Waste [5]
Public [6]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [7]
Source: AP [42], 05/20/2021
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"EPA Releases Federal Plan to Reduce Landfills’ Methane Emissions" [43]

"States and territories that haven’t submitted methane emission reduction plans for their municipal solid waste landfills will be subject to federal requirements, the EPA announced Monday in an unpublished final rule."

Climate Change [30]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Waste [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [44], 05/18/2021
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“Routledge Handbook of Environmental Journalism” [45]

While a “Handbook of Environmental Journalism” might initially sound like a scholarly work on environmental journalism, our BookShelf reviewer finds that the volume reads more like an engaging assembly of accessible accounts on the profession from colleagues across the planet. That makes it a rich resource for working journalists ... and anyone else with a passing interest in environmental issues and how they’re covered.

SEJ Publication Types: 
BookShelf [46]
Topics on the Beat: 
Disasters [12]
Energy & Fuel [47]
Environmental Health [2]
Environmental Politics [14]
Forests [48]
Health [15]
Journalism & Media [16]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [49]
Waste [5]
Wildlife [50]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [27]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [51]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [52]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [53]
International [21]
Africa [22]
South America [54]
Visibility: 
Public [6]
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To-Do List for Climate Change Gas Methane Is Long, Challenging … and Newsy [55]

The climate change gas methane, relatively little controlled but with a global warming potential many times that of carbon dioxide, has been much in the news recently and promises to remain there. The latest Backgrounder helps environmental journalists track the problem by detailing methane’s sources — from oil and gas production, agriculture and landfills — and the politics surrounding its regulation.

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Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [34]
Air [57]
Chemicals [26]
Climate Change [30]
Economy & Business [13]
Energy & Fuel [47]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [58]
Journalism & Media [16]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Policy [59]
Pollution [19]
Waste [5]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [27]
International [21]
Visibility: 
Public [6]
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