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"Lead Detected In 80% Of Allegheny County, Pa., Water Systems: Report" [1]

"Lead was detected in 80 percent of water systems in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, which encompasses Pittsburgh, in 2019, according to a new two-year analysis."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Pollution [4]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [7]
Source: EHN [8], 04/22/2021
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"White House Moves To Assist Western U.S. Communities Hit By Drought" [9]

"The White House on Wednesday announced an effort to provide immediate support to farmers, tribes and communities suffering from worsening drought conditions in the Western United States."

Agriculture [10]
Disasters [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Reuters [14], 04/22/2021
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Controversial $2.5B Oil Terminal Moves Forward In Plaquemines Parish [15]

"Export terminal would be built on slave cemetery, emit 566,466 tons of greenhouse gases per year".

Climate Change [16]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [18]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Transportation [20]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [21]
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [22], 04/21/2021
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‘Water Warriors’: US Women Banding Together To Fight For Water Justice [23]

"Deanna Miller Berry first learned of the scores of complaints about Denmark, South Carolina’s water supply, during her 2017 mayoral campaign."

Activism [24]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [18]
Environmental Politics [25]
Infrastructure [26]
Pollution [4]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Guardian [27], 04/21/2021
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"How Politics Is Shaping Biden’s Infrastructure Proposal" [28]

"From weatherization funds to electric vehicles, the White House made compromises to enlist a broad coalition that includes labor and communities of color".

Climate Change [16]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [18]
Environmental Politics [25]
Infrastructure [26]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Transportation [20]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Washington Post [29], 04/21/2021
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"Size Of Pipeline Spill Again Underestimated In N. Carolina" [30]

"An energy company has again underestimated the amount of gasoline that spilled from a crack in a pipeline running through a North Carolina nature preserve."

Energy & Fuel [17]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [31]
Pollution [4]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [21]
Source: AP [32], 04/20/2021
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GAO Raises Concerns About Government Inspections Of Offshore Pipelines [33]

"A report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says that the federal government lacks “robust” processes to both ensure the integrity of active offshore pipelines and to deal with inactive ones that have been left on the seafloor."

Energy & Fuel [17]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Pollution [4]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: The Hill [34], 04/20/2021
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"Is California Suffering A Decades-Long Megadrought?" [35]

"California has entered another drought. But depending on whom you ask, the last one may have never really ended."

Agriculture [10]
Climate Change [16]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
California [36]
Source: LA Times [37], 04/20/2021
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Jackson, Miss., Won’t Release Email About 2020 Water System Problems [38]

"The city of Jackson, Mississippi, has denied a TV station’s public records request for email about problems with the city water treatment system. WLBT-TV recently requested all city email related to the Environmental Protection Agency telling Jackson in March 2020 to bring its water treatment system into compliance with federal law."

Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [18]
Journalism & Media [39]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Pollution [4]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: AP [40], 04/20/2021
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"US West Prepares For Possible 1st Water Shortage Declaration" [41]

"The man-made lakes that store water supplying millions of people in the U.S. West and Mexico are projected to shrink to historic lows in the coming months, dropping to levels that could trigger the federal government’s first-ever official shortage declaration and prompt cuts in Arizona and Nevada."

Climate Change [16]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: AP [42], 04/19/2021
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