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"Senate Votes To Overturn Biden Water Rule" [1]

"The Senate on Wednesday afternoon approved a resolution against the Biden administration’s signature water policy, in a move all but guaranteed to spark the president’s second veto ever."

Environmental Health [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Natural Resources [5]
Pollution [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: E&E News [10], 03/30/2023
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When Native Rights, Conservation, and a Very Lucrative Fishery Collide [11]

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

Biodiversity [12]
Natural Resources [5]
People & Population [13]
Waste [14]
Water & Oceans [7]
Wildlife [15]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Alaska and Hawaii [16]
Source: Sierra [17], 03/29/2023
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Baltimore Blocks Treatment Of Contaminated Water From Ohio Train Derailment [18]

"An environmental company abandoned a plan Tuesday to treat contaminated runoff water from East Palestine, Ohio, in Baltimore after city officials blocked it from using the sewer system, the latest challenge to cleaning the train derailment site amid opposition from communities unwilling to accept waste."

Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Washington Post [19], 03/29/2023
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Opinion: "I Am Haunted by What I Have Seen at Great Salt Lake" [20]

"From a distance, it is hard to tell whether the three figures walking the salt playa are human, bird or some other animal. Through binoculars, I see they are pelicans, juveniles, gaunt and emaciated without water or food. In feathered robes, they walk with the focus of fasting monks toward enlightenment or death."

Biodiversity [12]
Climate Change [21]
Disasters [22]
Natural Resources [5]
Water & Oceans [7]
Wildlife [15]
Public [8]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [23]
Source: NYTimes [24], 03/28/2023
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Thousands of Pounds of PFAS Chemicals” Have Been Injected Into Texas Wells [25]

"A new report from a public health watchdog found that more than 40,000 pounds of PFAS has been injected into more than 1,000 wells across Texas — and warned that the chemicals could pose a risk to public health".

Chemicals [26]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Pollution [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [28]
Source: Floodlight [29], 03/28/2023
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"What to Know About Philly's Tap Water After Chemical Spill" [30]

"More than 8,000 gallons of a latex chemical solution spilled into the Delaware River on Friday. So far, officials have said tap water remains safe to drink."

Chemicals [26]
Environmental Health [2]
Pollution [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [31]
Source: Earther [32], 03/28/2023
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2023 Gathering Goes Big in Boise [33]

The Society of Environmental Journalists’ annual conference is back to Boise, two-and-a-half years after the first attempt to meet in the mountainous Northwestern state was sidetracked by the COVID pandemic. Co-chairs Tom Michael and Christy George outline the rich schedule of plenaries, panels, tours and other events that are drawing record interest to the April 19-23 program.

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Agriculture [35]
Biodiversity [12]
Climate Change [21]
Diversity [36]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Health [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Fish & Fisheries [37]
Forests [38]
Government [39]
Journalism & Media [40]
Natural Resources [5]
Policy [41]
Water & Oceans [7]
Wildlife [15]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [9]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [42]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [23]
Northwest (OR WA) [43]
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Public [8]
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Bring Home Cyber Risks to Water Supply, in Wake of EPA Tightening [44]

With the federal government now requiring that states pay closer attention to cybersecurity risks in their regular audits of public drinking water systems, environmental journalists should be doing the same, suggests the latest TipSheet. Here’s how to gauge the cyber risk and to understand the current safe drinking water regulatory regime, plus story ideas and resources to bolster your local reporting.

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TipSheet [45]
Topics on the Beat: 
Chemicals [26]
Consumer [46]
Government [39]
Health [47]
Infrastructure [48]
Journalism & Media [40]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Technology [49]
Water & Oceans [7]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [9]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [50]
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Public [8]
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Worry And Suspicion Reign As Once-Dry Tulare Lake Drowns Calif. Farmland [51]

"Thousands of acres of cropland have been inundated in this heavily farmed swath of the San Joaquin Valley. And the water just keeps rising."

Agriculture [35]
Climate Change [21]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
California [52]
Source: LA Times [53], 03/27/2023
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Scientists Uncover Startling Amounts of DDT Along Seafloor Off LA Coast [54]

"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 [26]
Environmental Health [2]
Fish & Fisheries [37]
Natural Resources [5]
Pollution [6]
Waste [14]
Water & Oceans [7]
Public [8]
California [52]
Source: LA Times [55], 03/27/2023
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