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EPA Drops Planned Delay in Fenceline Monitoring at Coke Plants [1]

"Public health advocates pushed back when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it planned to delay for two years a requirement that steel companies monitor air quality at the perimeters of their 11 coke plants in Western Pennsylvania and across the country. Two groups sued. Now, the EPA has reversed course."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
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People & Population [7]
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Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [11]
Source: Inside Climate News [12], 10/08/2025
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Groups Sue EPA Over Canceled $7 Billion Solar Program To Help Poor People [13]

"Several groups and nonprofit organizations filed a lawsuit Monday against the Environmental Protection Agency over the canceling of a $7 billion Solar for All program intended to make solar power accessible to more than 900,000 lower-income Americans."

Activism [14]
Climate Change [15]
Consumer [16]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
People & Population [7]
Technology [17]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: AP [18], 10/08/2025
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Tests Show That A Pennsylvania Town’s Water Was Contaminated by Fracking [19]

"Three years after noticing discoloration and odors in their wells, residents in New Freeport are still fighting for clean water."

Chemicals [2]
Consumer [16]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
People & Population [7]
Pollution [8]
Waste [21]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [11]
Source: Inside Climate News [23], 10/08/2025
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"Natural Disasters Are a Rising Burden for the National Guard" [24]

"New Pentagon data show climate impacts shaping reservists’ mission, in potential conflict with Trump’s drive to use them for law enforcement."

Climate Change [15]
Disasters [25]
Environmental Health [3]
Military [26]
People & Population [7]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Inside Climate News [27], 10/08/2025
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"Science Teachers Scramble As U.S. Climate Resources Vanish" [28]

"When news broke that climate.gov was about to go dark in June, Jeffrey Grant scrambled to download as many graphs and data tables from the website as he could. The high school biology teacher had relied heavily on the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) website to teach students about climate change, showing data on carbon dioxide levels and asking the students to analyze trends and make connections like real climatologists."

Climate Change [15]
Environmental Politics [5]
Environmental Studies [29]
Journalism & Media [30]
People & Population [7]
Science [31]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Science [32], 10/07/2025
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"Appeal Seeks To Force Factory Farms To Disclose Hazardous Air Emissions" [33]

"A coalition of food, environmental and animal welfare groups is appealing a recent federal court decision that upheld a US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule exempting factory farms from publicly disclosing hazardous air emissions information."

Agriculture [34]
Air [35]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
People & Population [7]
Pollution [8]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: The New Lede [36], 10/07/2025
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California Residents, Once Wary, Embrace ‘Controlled Burns’ [37]

"For most of her life, Thea Maria Carlson did not like fire. Even though she had studied earth systems at Stanford University and knew, intellectually, that burning had an environmental purpose in her home of California, she still wanted nothing to do with it."

Climate Change [15]
Disasters [25]
Forests [38]
Natural Resources [39]
People & Population [7]
Public [9]
California [40]
Source: Christian Science Monitor [41], 10/07/2025
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"Rising Sea Levels Threaten Over 100M Buildings. Where Does Europe Stand?" [42]

"Sea levels will drastically rise and push millions of buildings into danger if the world continues burning fossil fuels, a new report has warned."

Climate Change [15]
Disasters [25]
Environmental Studies [29]
Infrastructure [43]
People & Population [7]
Planning & Growth [44]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [9]
International [45]
Source: Euronews [46], 10/07/2025
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"How Big Agriculture Got Its Way In The Latest MAHA Report" [47]

"Alarmed by the first MAHA commission report, the agriculture industry mobilized to shape the next installment. Those efforts seemingly paid off."

Agriculture [34]
Chemicals [2]
Economy & Business [48]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Politics [5]
People & Population [7]
Pollution [8]
Science [31]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Washington Post [49], 10/07/2025
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Climate Solutions, for Some, May Not Be [50]

A small Louisiana community, home to the descendants of formerly enslaved Black people, continues to fight for its freedom many decades later, this time from a potentially polluting technology. FEJ StoryLog contributor Yessenia Funes recounts her journey to this Cancer Alley community, where a grant from the Fund for Environmental Journalism helped her tell the story of residents challenging a multibillion-dollar carbon capture plant.

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