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Company Decides Not To Rebuild Ga. Chlorine Plant With History Of Fires [1]

"The company that operated a Georgia chlorine plant with a history of explosions, chemical fires and toxic clouds that have drifted over neighborhoods outside Atlanta has decided not to rebuild the main manufacturing facility in Conyers."

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Economy & Business [4]
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Pollution [7]
Public [8]
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Source: AP [10], 05/20/2025
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Federal Judge Orders Trump Admin to Restore Environmental Grant Funding [11]

"A federal judge said Monday he would order the Trump administration to restore $176 million granted by Congress to 13 nonprofit groups and six municipalities nationwide."

Activism [12]
Climate Change [13]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [6]
Government [16]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Inside Climate News [19], 05/20/2025
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"Helene’s Unheard Warnings" [20]

"As Hurricane Helene barrels toward Yancey County in North Carolina, the predictions are grim. Communities along the Cane River in the Black Mountains are particularly vulnerable. But there are no evacuation orders, even for the people living in homes along these rivers and creeks. Few grasp what’s coming."

Climate Change [13]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [6]
Government [16]
Journalism & Media [21]
People & Population [22]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [9]
Source: ProPublica [24], 05/20/2025
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"White House Weighs NRC Overhaul" [25]

"Industry experts are warning that political oversight of the independent Nuclear Regulatory Commission could do more harm than good."

Climate Change [13]
Disasters [3]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [26]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [27], 05/20/2025
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Doge Cuts Could Wreck The Cleanup Of Wartime Nuclear Waste At Hanford, Wa. [28]

"Hanford made the plutonium for US atomic bombs, and its radioactive waste must be dealt with. Enter Elon Musk"

Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Natural Resources [29]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [26]
Pollution [7]
Waste [30]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [18]
Northwest (OR WA) [31]
Source: Guardian [32], 05/20/2025
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"Trump Officials Allow Massive New York Offshore Wind Project To Restart" [33]

"The Trump administration lifted the stop-work order on a major wind farm off the coast of New York on Monday, according to a statement by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), following direct appeals she made to the president."

Climate Change [13]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Politics [6]
Infrastructure [34]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [18]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [35]
Source: Washington Post [36], 05/20/2025
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"GOP Budget Plan Contains A Massive Poison Pill For Clean Energy" [37]

"Tucked into the House Republicans’ 389-page tax bill released on Monday is a poison pill for U.S. clean energy developers and manufacturers, one that energy and tax policy experts say would essentially repeal the hundreds of billions of dollars of tax credits now flowing to energy projects and solar, battery, and EV factories across the country."

Climate Change [13]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Politics [6]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Canary Media [38], 05/20/2025
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Green Geeks Liberate Environmental Data [39]

Environmental journalists need environmental data, even as it’s being stripped from government sites by the Trump administration. That’s where a band of programmers organized into the Public Environmental Data Partners comes in. The latest Toolbox reports it’s rescuing wiped data and making it accessible to reporters. Learn who’s behind the project and get an overview of some of the datasets being restored.

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Legal Support For Journalists Helps Meet Rising Threats To Press Freedom [42]

"At a time when attacks on press freedom are heightening, including from the White House and President Donald Trump himself, legal support for journalists is shifting to meet new challenges."

Environmental Politics [6]
Journalism & Media [21]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [43]
Source: Poynter [44], 05/19/2025
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"How Tech Companies Could Shrink AI's Climate Footprint" [45]

"In 2018, computer scientist Sasha Luccioni was an AI researcher for Morgan Stanley — and couldn't shake this existential worry."

Climate Change [13]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Politics [6]
Infrastructure [34]
Pollution [7]
Technology [46]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NPR [47], 05/19/2025
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