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"Height of Fashion? Clothes Mountains Build Up As Recycling Breaks Down" [1]

"Clothes recycling is the pressure-release valve of fast fashion, and it’s breaking under COVID-19 curbs. The multi-billion-dollar trade in second-hand clothing helps prevent the global fashion industry’s growing pile of waste going straight to landfill, while keeping wardrobes clear for next season’s designs."

Consumer [2]
Disasters [3]
Economy & Business [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Health [6]
Waste [7]
Public [8]
International [9]
Source: Reuters [10], 10/06/2020
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"‘Super-Enzyme’ Speeds Up Breakdown of Plastic, Researchers Say" [11]

"A new cocktail of enzymes that speeds up the degradation of plastic offers a step forward in finding a new form of recycling that is faster, is more affordable and works on a larger scale than current methods, British and American researchers said this week."

Chemicals [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Pollution [14]
Waste [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NYTimes [16], 09/30/2020
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Battered, Flooded, Submerged: Superfund Sites Threatened by Climate Change [17]

"The Obama administration directed the EPA to focus on climate-related threats. Now, the Trump administration refuses to even use the word."

Chemicals [12]
Climate Change [18]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Health [5]
Pollution [14]
Waste [7]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: InsideClimate/Texas Observer [20], 09/25/2020
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"New Mexico Objects To License For Nuclear Fuel Storage Plan" [21]

"The state of New Mexico is strongly objecting to federal nuclear regulators’ preliminary recommendation that a license be granted to build a multibillion-dollar storage facility for spent nuclear fuel from commercial power plants around the U.S."

Laws & Regulations [22]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [23]
Waste [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: AP [24], 09/24/2020
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Pebble: "An Alaska Mine Project Might Be Bigger Than Acknowledged" [25]

"In secretly recorded meetings, executives with the Pebble Mine project said the operation could run nine times longer than outlined in their permit filings."

Environmental Justice [26]
Environmental Politics [27]
Fish & Fisheries [28]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Natural Resources [29]
Pollution [14]
Waste [7]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [15]
Alaska and Hawaii [30]
Source: NYTimes [31], 09/22/2020
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"Marsha Jackson Is Trying to Move Shingle Mountain" [32]

"The illegal dump is southern Dallas’ most visible environmental justice crisis. It’s far from the only one."

Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Justice [26]
Pollution [14]
Waste [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Texas Observer [33], 09/08/2020
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"US Regulators Take Public Comments On Nuclear Fuel Plan" [34]

"U.S. nuclear regulators have hosted their final public hearing on a proposal to build a multibillion-dollar complex in southern New Mexico to store spent nuclear fuel from commercial power plants around the country, and there’s still disagreement about whether granting a license to Holtec International would be a good thing."

Environmental Politics [27]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [23]
Waste [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: AP [35], 09/07/2020
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"Big Oil Is in Trouble. Its Plan: Flood Africa With Plastic." [36]

"Faced with plunging profits and a climate crisis that threatens fossil fuels, the industry is demanding a trade deal that weakens Kenya’s rules on plastics and on imports of American trash."

Chemicals [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Justice [26]
Environmental Politics [27]
Pollution [14]
Waste [7]
Public [8]
International [9]
Africa [37]
Source: NYTimes [38], 08/31/2020
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How Maryland's Trash-Burning Bias Galvanized Activists in Baltimore [39]

"Shashawnda Campbell became an environmental activist at 15, when she learned that a company had proposed building the country's largest waste-to-energy incinerator less than a mile from her high school, in the Curtis Bay section of Baltimore."

Activism [40]
Air [41]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Justice [26]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Pollution [14]
Waste [7]
Public [8]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [42]
Source: InsideClimate News [43], 08/25/2020
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Bringing Stories Home Under Lockdown, With Remote Video Interviews [44]

They’ve long been a staple of the news business. But now, with the pandemic continuing to keep journalists from their subjects, remote video interviews have become an essential tool. And even newbie video reporters can quickly learn the basics. Science video producer Eli Kintisch shares a quick eight-step remote video setup and some simple tricks of the trade, in this SEJournal how-to.

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Air [41]
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Chemicals [12]
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Consumer [2]
Disasters [3]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [27]
Environmental Studies [48]
Fish & Fisheries [28]
Food [49]
Forests [50]
Government [51]
Health [6]
Journalism & Media [52]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Military [53]
Natural Resources [29]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [23]
Other or All [54]
People & Population [55]
Planning & Growth [56]
Policy [57]
Pollution [14]
Science [58]
Technology [59]
Transportation [60]
Waste [7]
Water & Oceans [19]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [15]
Alaska and Hawaii [30]
California [61]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [62]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [63]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [42]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [64]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [65]
Northwest (OR WA) [66]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [67]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [68]
International [9]
Canada [69]
Mexico [70]
Africa [37]
Antarctica & Arctic [71]
Asia [72]
Australia & Oceania [73]
Central America & the Caribbean [74]
Europe [75]
Middle East [76]
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