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"Investigation: Lead In Some Canadian Water Worse Than Flint" [1]

"Hundreds of thousands of Canadians have been unwittingly exposed to high levels of lead in their drinking water, with contamination in several cities consistently higher than they ever were in Flint, Michigan, according to an investigation that tested drinking water in hundreds of homes and reviewed thousands more previously undisclosed results."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Pollution [4]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
Canada [7]
Source: AP [8], 11/06/2019
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Ongoing Climate Change Will Bring More Bad News on Health in 2020 [9]

Illness, injury, death. Those are the worsening health impacts of climate change, as global warming shifts disease vectors, encourages bacteria and foodborne illness, and leaves people increasingly suffering from heat, smog, smoke, allergies and other risks of extreme weather. Our latest TipSheet helps you get a handle on the sprawling health-climate story.

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TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [11]
Air [12]
Chemicals [2]
Climate Change [13]
Consumer [14]
Disasters [15]
Environmental Health [3]
Food [16]
Health [17]
Journalism & Media [18]
People & Population [19]
Pollution [4]
Science [20]
Water & Oceans [5]
Region: 
International [21]
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Public [6]
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"‘Polluter Panel’ Hits Pause On Michigan PFAS Drinking Water Rules" [22]

"Business and industry representatives appointed to a controversial regulatory oversight board by former Republican Gov. Rick Snyder helped temporarily slow down advancing drinking water standards that would limit allowable levels of toxic fluorochemicals called PFAS in Michigan drinking water if enacted."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Politics [23]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Pollution [4]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [25]
Source: Grand Rapids Press [26], 11/04/2019
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First These Kentuckians Couldn't Drink The Water. Now They Can't Afford It [27]

"Jasper Davis stoops to tilt a plastic bottle under a drip of water that's trickling from a crack in the mountainside. 'Tastes better than what the city water does,' he says. 'Way better.'"

Environmental Health [3]
People & Population [19]
Pollution [4]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [28]
Source: NPR [29], 11/01/2019
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Court: State Law That Allows Line 5 Tunnel Construction Is Constitutional [30]

"LANSING – Legislation approved under former Gov. Rick Snyder to allow for construction of a tunnel to house a new Enbridge Line 5 crude oil pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac is constitutional, the Court of Claims ruled Thursday."

Energy & Fuel [31]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Pollution [4]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [25]
Source: Detroit Free Press [32], 11/01/2019
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"E.P.A. to Roll Back Rules to Control Toxic Ash from Coal Plants" [33]

"The Trump administration is expected to roll back an Obama-era regulation meant to limit the leaching of heavy metals like arsenic, lead and mercury into water supplies from the ash of coal-fired power plants, according to two people familiar with the plans."

Chemicals [2]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Politics [23]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Pollution [4]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [34]
Source: NY Times [35], 11/01/2019
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"Captured By Coal: ‘Like a Death in the Family’" [36]

"Texas coal companies are leaving behind contaminated land. The state is letting them."

Energy & Fuel [31]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Pollution [4]
Waste [37]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [38]
Source: Grist/Texas Tribune [39], 10/31/2019
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"No Bowhead Sightings Yet For Alaskan Whalers. Some Blame Climate Change" [40]

"The bowhead whale hunt is an essential cultural and subsistence tradition for the Inupiat of Alaska's North Slope. It dates back at least 1,500 years, and annual harvests can supply families with hundreds of pounds of meat."

Climate Change [13]
Food [16]
People & Population [19]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
Alaska and Hawaii [41]
Source: NPR [42], 10/30/2019
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Conowingo Dam Operator Settles For $200 Million Chesapeake Bay Cleanup [43]

"Conowingo Dam owner Exelon Corp. and the state of Maryland have reached a settlement under which the Chicago-based energy company will invest $200 million to clean up the Susquehanna River, and, by extension, the Chesapeake Bay."

Environmental Politics [23]
Fish & Fisheries [44]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Natural Resources [45]
Pollution [4]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [46]
Source: Baltimore Sun [47], 10/30/2019
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"Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows" [48]

"Rising seas could affect three times more people by 2050 than previously thought, according to new research, threatening to all but erase some of the world’s great coastal cities."

Climate Change [13]
Disasters [15]
People & Population [19]
Planning & Growth [49]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
International [21]
Source: NY Times [50], 10/30/2019
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