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"No English River Is Free From Pollution - Parliament Report" [1]

"Raw sewage, microplastics and slurry are coursing through all of England's rivers, putting health and nature at risk, a parliamentary report concludes."

Pollution [2]
Water & Oceans [3]
Public [4]
Europe [5]
Source: BBC News [6], 01/13/2022
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"An Alabama Town’s Sewage Woes Test Biden’s Infrastructure Ambitions" [7]

"The new law allocates $11.7 billion for wastewater and stormwater projects. Will it get to the impoverished communities who need it most?"

Environmental Health [8]
Environmental Justice [9]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [2]
Water & Oceans [3]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: NYTimes [12], 01/13/2022
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In Orlando, A Mountain Of Coal Ash Evades EPA Rules. One of Many. [13]

"Tucked among scattered pine and cypress trees near Orlando, Florida, a 175-foot-tall mountain of coal ash looms as a stark representation of this booming region's reliance on fossil fuels."

Energy & Fuel [14]
Pollution [2]
Waste [15]
Water & Oceans [3]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: NPR [16], 01/13/2022
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"Hottest Ocean Temperatures In History Recorded Last Year" [17]

"Ocean heating driven by human-caused climate crisis, scientists say, in sixth consecutive year record has been broken".

Climate Change [18]
Water & Oceans [3]
Public [4]
International [19]
Source: Guardian [20], 01/13/2022
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"Biden To Hold Wind Power Auction Off New York, New Jersey Coast" [21]

"The Biden administration said Wednesday it will hold its first offshore wind auction next month, offering nearly 500,000 acres off the coast of New York and New Jersey for wind energy projects that could produce enough electricity to power nearly 2 million homes."

Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Infrastructure [22]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Water & Oceans [3]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: AP [23], 01/13/2022
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"US Navy To Drain Hawaii Tank System Blamed For Tainted Water" [24]

"After initially resisting, the U.S. Navy will comply with Hawaii’s order to remove fuel from a massive underground storage tank facility near Pearl Harbor blamed for contaminating drinking water, officials said Tuesday."

Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Health [8]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Military [25]
Pollution [2]
Water & Oceans [3]
Public [4]
Alaska and Hawaii [26]
Source: AP [27], 01/12/2022
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"EPA Moves To Crack Down On Dangerous Coal Ash Storage Ponds" [28]

"The Environmental Protection Agency is taking its first major action to address toxic wastewater from coal-burning power plants, ordering utilities to stop dumping waste into unlined storage ponds and speed up plans to close leaking or otherwise dangerous coal ash sites."

Chemicals [29]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Health [8]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [2]
Water & Oceans [3]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: AP [30], 01/12/2022
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Lakes Are Losing Their Ice Cover Faster Than Ever — What That Means [31]

"Climate change is shortening the season when lakes are frozen over, and some of the Great Lakes aren't freezing at all. The impacts will be felt year round".

Climate Change [18]
Water & Oceans [3]
Public [4]
International [19]
Source: The Narwhal [32], 01/11/2022
  • Read more about Lakes Are Losing Their Ice Cover Faster Than Ever — What That Means [31]

"Dank, Ancient And Quite Fantastic: Scotland’s Peat Bogs Breathe Again" [33]

"Flanders Moss bog is slumped on the flat, farmed landscape of the Carse of Stirling in Scotland like a jelly fungi. It wobbles when you walk on it, and a metal pole goes down eight metres before reaching hard ground. This lowland-raised bog is a dome of peat fed mainly by rainfall and it acts like a single organism – the whole thing has to be looked after for any part to be in really good shape."

Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Natural Resources [34]
Water & Oceans [3]
Public [4]
Europe [5]
Source: Guardian [35], 01/10/2022
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"The Western Megadrought Is Revealing America's 'Lost National Park'" [36]

"On a turquoise lake in a sandstone desert, Ross Dombrowski is trying to figure out what to do about the rock growing behind his houseboat. The rock, spectacular and rust red, like most in southern Utah, wasn't visible below the water's surface when Dombrowski moored his houseboat on Lake Powell last year. Today, it's three stories tall."

Water & Oceans [3]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: NPR [37], 01/10/2022
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