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"Water Plant Cyberattack Raises Critical Infrastructure Concerns" [1]

"A cyberattack on a Florida water treatment plant underscores the need for strong security protections at the municipal level, attorneys and industry professionals say."

Disasters [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Pollution [4]
Technology [5]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [9], 02/10/2021
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"Before Himalayan Flood, India Ignored Warnings of Development Risks" [10]

"Long before a deadly flood hit two hydroelectric dams, scientists warned repeatedly that such projects were dangerous in a fragile region made more so by global warming."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [2]
Natural Resources [12]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
Asia [13]
Source: NYTimes [14], 02/09/2021
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"States Clash With Pentagon on PFAS Water Limits, Polluted Sites" [15]

"Six states with drinking water standards for so-called “forever chemicals” are now wrestling with what those limits mean when water contamination from Department of Defense sites seep into their communities."

Chemicals [16]
Environmental Health [3]
Military [17]
Pollution [4]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [18], 02/09/2021
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Hacker Tried To Poison Florida City's Water Supply, Sheriff Says [19]

"Local and federal authorities are investigating after an attempt Friday to poison the city of Oldsmar’s water supply, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said."

Chemicals [16]
Disasters [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Pollution [4]
Technology [5]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [20]
Source: Tampa Bay Times [21], 02/09/2021
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Small-Market Reporter Gives Readers Reason To Care [22]

Reporter Kyle Bagenstose has impressed Society of Environmental Journalists’ awards judges three times in the last four years with his investigative and small-market beat reporting on local and regional issues in Pennsylvania. In our latest Inside Story Q&A, Bagenstose discusses his award-winning work as a beat reporter and his first-place investigative prize for a series on the cleanup of toxic firefighting chemicals from streams and aquifers around military bases.

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Inside Story [23]
Topics on the Beat: 
Chemicals [16]
Environmental Health [3]
Journalism & Media [24]
Pollution [4]
Waste [25]
Water & Oceans [6]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [8]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [26]
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Public [7]
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Russian Court Orders Mining Giant To Pay $1.96 Billion For Arctic Spill [27]

"A Russian court has ordered a mining company involved in a massive Arctic fuel spill last year to pay approximately $1.96 billion in compensation."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [2]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Pollution [4]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
International [29]
Antarctica & Arctic [30]
Source: The Hill [31], 02/08/2021
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"Himalayan Glacier Breaks In India, Around 125 Missing In Floods" [32]

"Around 125 people were missing in northern India after a Himalayan glacier broke and swept away a small hydroelectric dam on Sunday, with floods forcing the evacuation of villages downstream."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [2]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
Asia [13]
Source: Reuters [33], 02/08/2021
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"This GOP Congressman Wants To Remove 4 Dams To Save Idaho’s Salmon" [34]

"An Idaho Republican congressman wants to end the salmon wars by removing select hydroelectric dams, replacing the electricity lost, paying communities and businesses, and giving American Indian tribes more power."

Agriculture [35]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Politics [36]
Fish & Fisheries [37]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
Northwest (OR WA) [38]
Source: Idaho Statesman [39], 02/08/2021
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"Under The Sea, Humans Have Changed Ocean Sounds" [40]

"Not only are humans changing the surface and temperature of the planet, but also its sounds – and those shifts are detectable even in the open ocean, according to research published Thursday."

Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
International [29]
Source: AP [41], 02/05/2021
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Climate Melting of Glacier Threatens To Flood Peruvian City [42]

"A lawsuit is leaning on the new research that found a global warming fingerprint on the melting glacier threatening to send an outburst flood into Huaraz, Peru."

"Not all of the water from the planet’s melting glaciers is pouring into rivers and oceans. A surprising amount is building up behind unstable piles of rubble left behind by the retreating ice. As the Earth continues to warm, the swelling lakes threaten to burst through the glacial moraines holding them back and wash away the forests, towns and farms below.

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [2]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
South America [43]
Source: Inside Climate News [44], 02/05/2021
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