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"Uranium Waste Threatens A Western New Mexico Region's Last Clean Aquifer" [1]

"Near the western New Mexico town of Grants, the toxic legacy of Cold War uranium mining and milling has shattered lives, destroyed homes and created a contamination threat to the last clean source of groundwater for an entire region"

Chemicals [2]
Consumer [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Infrastructure [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Military [9]
Natural Resources [10]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [11]
People & Population [12]
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [17]
Source: Searchlight New Mexico [18], 03/20/2025
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"Greenpeace Must Pay At Least $660M Over Dakota Pipeline Protests, Says Jury" [19]

"A jury in North Dakota has decided that the environmental group Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions of dollars to the pipeline company Energy Transfer and is liable for defamation and other claims over protests in the state nearly a decade ago."

Activism [20]
Climate Change [21]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Infrastructure [7]
Journalism & Media [23]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [24]
Source: Guardian [25], 03/20/2025
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"Russia’s Ukraine Invasion Causes a Deadly Oil Spill on the Black Sea" [26]

"Russia’s “shadow fleet” of aging oil tankers helps fund the ongoing war but puts the region at risk of more environmental disasters."

Disasters [27]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
International [28]
Source: The Revelator [29], 03/19/2025
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"RFK Jr., Once Poisoned By Mercury, Is Silent As EPA Weakens Rules Against It" [30]

"The HHS secretary has fought mercury pollution for years. He’s now in an administration that wants to make it easier for industries to dump it into the air and water."

Activism [20]
Chemicals [2]
Consumer [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [6]
Fish & Fisheries [31]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [32], 03/19/2025
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"America’s Ports Have Labored To Clean Up Pollution. Will That Continue?" [33]

"On a gray March afternoon at the Port of Los Angeles, the largest in the U.S., powerful electric top-handlers whir, beep and grind as they motor back and forth, grabbing trailers from truck beds and stacking them as they move on or off the mighty container ships that ferry goods across the Pacific. Some of the ships, rather than burning diesel to sustain operations as they sit in harbor, plug into electricity instead."

Air [34]
Climate Change [21]
Economy & Business [35]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [6]
Infrastructure [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Pollution [13]
Transportation [36]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: AP [37], 03/19/2025
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"Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm" [38]

"The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, according to documents reviewed by Democrats on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology."

Chemicals [2]
Climate Change [21]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Environmental Studies [39]
Government [40]
Natural Resources [10]
Pollution [13]
Science [41]
Technology [42]
Transportation [36]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NYTimes [43], 03/19/2025
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After Cuts, Former NOAA Chief Scientist Says U.S. Science Risks Downgrade [44]

"With its first wave of firings, the new Trump administration has decimated NOAA."

Climate Change [21]
Environmental Politics [6]
Environmental Studies [39]
Fish & Fisheries [31]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Natural Resources [10]
Science [41]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: bioGraphic [45], 03/18/2025
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Line 5, A Trump Donor, Profiting Off A Pipeline Deal Threatening Pollution [46]

"Donald Trump’s administration is being accused by activists of a quid pro quo as it attempts to fast-track a controversial fossil fuel pipeline proposal in Michigan that would in part be built by a donor with deep financial ties to the president."

Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [6]
Fish & Fisheries [31]
Infrastructure [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Natural Resources [10]
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [47]
Canada [48]
Source: Guardian [49], 03/18/2025
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Desperately Seeking Data? OECD Has Loads [50]

If the possibility of a politically driven dearth of data for your climate and environment reporting has you on edge, the new Reporter’s Toolbox just may have something to soothe your nerves: A data source from beyond the grasp of the Trump administration and outside the boundaries of the United States. Take a quick tour of environmental data from the OECD.

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Agriculture [52]
Air [34]
Biodiversity [53]
Chemicals [2]
Climate Change [21]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Studies [39]
Fish & Fisheries [31]
Health [54]
Journalism & Media [23]
Natural Resources [10]
Pollution [13]
Transportation [36]
Waste [55]
Water & Oceans [14]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [16]
International [28]
Europe [56]
Visibility: 
Public [15]
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"The Great British Sewage Dump" [57]

"Widespread sewage spills contaminate Britain’s waterways and hit the broader economy"

Consumer [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [6]
Government [40]
Infrastructure [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
People & Population [12]
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
Europe [56]
Source: Reuters [58], 03/17/2025
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