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Dolphins in La. Bayou Keep Dying. Reconstruction Plan May Make It Worse [1]

"Freshwater diversion projects that have divided environmental advocates are intended to save the coast but may imperil dolphins."

Natural Resources [2]
Water & Oceans [3]
Wildlife [4]
Public [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [6]
Source: HuffPost [7], 06/10/2020
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"Federal Court Upholds Enbridge’s Great Lakes Spill Plans" [8]

"Enbridge has produced legally acceptable plans for dealing with a potential spill from oil pipelines that cross a Michigan channel linking two of the Great Lakes, according to a federal appeals court."

Energy & Fuel [9]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [11]
Water & Oceans [3]
Public [5]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [12]
Source: AP [13], 06/10/2020
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"Lake Ontario ‘Aquatic Landfill’ To Contain 150-Year-Old Toxic Blob" [14]

"A $139-million underwater box the size of six city blocks is being built to contain an underwater contaminated zone in Hamilton’s Randle Reef for some 200 years. While critics point out the answer to the steel town’s historic pollution shouldn’t be found in making more steel, others say the technique should be considered for other toxic sites in Canadian waters".

Environmental Health [15]
Pollution [11]
Water & Oceans [3]
Public [5]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [12]
Canada [16]
Source: The Narwhal [17], 06/10/2020
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"Borrowed Time: Climate Change Threatens U.S. Mortgage Market" [18]

"U.S. taxpayers could be on the hook for billions of dollars in climate-related property losses as the government backs a growing number of mortgages on homes in the path of floods, fires and extreme weather."

Climate Change [19]
Disasters [20]
Economy & Business [21]
Government [22]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Water & Oceans [3]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: Politico [24], 06/09/2020
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Drought Fears Take Hold in a Four Corners Region Already Virus-Hit [25]

"The landscape where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah meet is withering again as the pandemic persists."

Agriculture [26]
Climate Change [19]
Disasters [20]
Environmental Health [15]
Health [27]
Water & Oceans [3]
Public [5]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [28]
Source: InsideClimate News [29], 06/09/2020
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Population Of Top 10 Counties For Climate Disasters: 81% Minority [30]

"Communities with large minority populations are among the most vulnerable in the U.S. to the effects of climate change and could become more threatened as the coronavirus pandemic weakens their resilience to disasters, according to experts and federal data."

Climate Change [19]
Disasters [20]
Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Justice [31]
People & Population [32]
Water & Oceans [3]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: Climatewire [33], 06/09/2020
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Coronavirus Should Sharpen Focus on Another Deadly Respiratory Illness — Legionnaires’ Disease [34]

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, there’s another respiratory disease to worry about. Legionnaires’, which attacks the lungs, is already the deadliest waterborne illness in the United States. And the dangerous bacteria may now be breeding in the plumbing systems of buildings shut down during the outbreak. Contributor Brett Walton asks: Is the nation prepared for a safe reopening?

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Western Colorado Water Purchases Stir Up Worries on Future Of Farming [39]

"For five years, Zay Lopez tended vegetables, hayfields and cornfields, chickens and a small flock of sheep here on the western edge of Colorado's Grand Valley—farming made possible by water from the Colorado River."

Agriculture [26]
Climate Change [19]
Water & Oceans [3]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [23]
Source: InsideClimate News [40], 06/08/2020
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"US Outlines $4.6B Plan To Protect Miami From Climate Impacts" [41]

"The federal government is proposing a $4.6 billion plan to protect the low-lying Miami area from the effects of climate change, including the construction of miles of sea walls."

Climate Change [19]
Disasters [20]
Planning & Growth [42]
Water & Oceans [3]
Public [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [6]
Source: AP [43], 06/08/2020
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"Groups Seek To Stop Copper Mine Near Popular Montana River" [44]

"Conservation groups want a Montana court to cancel the approval of a long-disputed copper mine that they say would pollute a tributary of one of the state’s most popular recreational rivers."

Laws & Regulations [10]
Natural Resources [2]
Pollution [11]
Water & Oceans [3]
Public [5]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [28]
Source: AP [45], 06/05/2020
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