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"These Investigators Patrol Las Vegas Looking For One Thing: Water Waste" [1]

"About two dozen investigators patrol neighborhoods throughout Las Vegas every day searching for signs of wasted water. They're known as water waste investigators who are part of the Southern Nevada Water Authority. For more than 20 years, they have been helping conserve water in the growing desert city."

Consumer [2]
Government [3]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [7]
Source: NPR [8], 08/29/2025
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Congress Proposes Scrapping PFAS Measures That Protect Firefighters, Others [9]

"Congress is proposing to reverse measures that protect military service members, firefighters and others from harmful PFAS chemicals."

Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Military [13]
People & Population [14]
Pollution [15]
Technology [16]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: The New Lede [18], 08/29/2025
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‘Sea War’ Brews Off Gambia As Local Fishers Attack Foreign Vessels, Each Other [19]

"BANJUL, Gambia — Kawsu Leigh writhed in pain on the fishing boat, his burned skin as mottled as the paint on the deck beneath him. Raw and slick, the burns covered large parts of his upper body."

Biodiversity [20]
Environmental Politics [12]
Fish & Fisheries [21]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Military [13]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
Africa [22]
Source: AP [23], 08/29/2025
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"Chicago Has The Most Lead Pipes In The Nation. We Mapped Them All." [24]

"As Gina Ramirez buckled her 11-year-old son into her car last month for their daily drive to school, she handed him a plastic water bottle."

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [2]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [25]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [26]
Laws & Regulations [4]
People & Population [14]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [17]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [27]
Source: Grist/ICN/WBEZ [28], 08/29/2025
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RFK Jr Deputy Jim O’Neill As Acting CDC Director After Monarez Ouster: Sources [29]

"Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Jim O’Neill is expected to serve as acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to an administration official and another person familiar with the matter."

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [2]
Disasters [30]
Economy & Business [31]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [25]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [3]
Laws & Regulations [4]
People & Population [14]
Pollution [15]
Science [32]
Technology [16]
Waste [33]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: CNN [34], 08/29/2025
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"An Industry Insider’s Changes at the EPA Could Cost Taxpayers Billions" [35]

"A Trump appointee has proposed rewriting a measure that requires companies to clean up “forever chemicals,” documents show. The new version would shift costs from polluters."

Chemicals [10]
Economy & Business [31]
Energy & Fuel [36]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [25]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [4]
People & Population [14]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [37], 08/29/2025
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"Hurricane Science Has Come Far Since Katrina. That Progress Is Now At Risk" [38]

"In the 20 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, hurricane scientists have made great strides toward understanding how climate change influences tropical cyclones, at the same time as they have vastly improved hurricane forecasting. Better forecasts, in turn, save the country billions every time a storm makes landfall, according to a 2024 analysis published in the National Bureau of Economic Research."

Climate Change [39]
Disasters [30]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [25]
Environmental Politics [12]
Environmental Studies [40]
Government [3]
Infrastructure [26]
People & Population [14]
Transportation [41]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [42]
Source: NPR [43], 08/28/2025
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"Proposed NASA Cuts Could Affect Public Health Research" [44]

"From space, NASA collects data that’s crucial for public health. Potential cuts could threaten that work."

Biodiversity [20]
Climate Change [39]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Environmental Studies [40]
Forests [45]
Natural Resources [46]
People & Population [14]
Pollution [15]
Science [32]
Technology [16]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Undark [47], 08/28/2025
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"Trump Administration Investigates California EPA Over Diversity Practices" [48]

"The Trump administration on Wednesday announced it is opening an investigation into the California Environmental Protection Agency, including the powerful California Air Resources Board, over potentially discriminatory employment practices."

Air [49]
Diversity [50]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [25]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [17]
California [51]
Source: LA Times [52], 08/28/2025
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"The Battle Over Polluted Water Beneath an Iowa Coal Ash Landfill" [53]

"A coalition of environmental groups is embroiled in a year-long fight with an Alliant Energy subsidiary over its discharge of groundwater possibly contaminated with coal combustion residuals."

Energy & Fuel [36]
Environmental Health [11]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Inside Climate News [54], 08/28/2025
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