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"Big Sky Bison Battles Spell Trouble For Haaland" [1]

"While Interior Secretary Deb Haaland wants to restore more bison across the country, Yellowstone’s famous herd suffered through one of the deadliest winters on record, with the animals easy prey for hunters as they sauntered across the park’s northern border in search of food."

Agriculture [2]
Biodiversity [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Natural Resources [6]
Wildlife [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: E&E News [10], 03/23/2023
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Musk's Company Plans To Dump Wastewater In The Colorado. Locals Concerned [11]

"Residents of a small Texas town view the controversial billionaire's Boring Company with suspicion."

Environmental Politics [4]
Pollution [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [8]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [14]
Source: HuffPost [15], 03/23/2023
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"Trump Appointees Interfered To Weaken EPA Assessment Of Toxic Chemical" [16]

"Trump administration appointees at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) meddled in agency science to weaken the toxicity assessment of a dangerous chemical, a new report by the US body’s internal watchdog has found."

Chemicals [17]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Politics [4]
Science [19]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Guardian [20], 03/23/2023
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"Brazil Evicts Miners From Yanomami Territory, Prepares For More Removals" [21]

"Brazil has ousted almost all illegal gold miners from the Yanomami territory, its largest indigenous reservation, and will remove miners from six more reserves this year, the head of the federal police's new environmental crimes division said Tuesday."

Chemicals [17]
Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [4]
Forests [23]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Natural Resources [6]
People & Population [24]
Public [8]
South America [25]
Source: Reuters [26], 03/22/2023
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Older Americans Blockade Banks to Protest Fossil Fuel Financing [27]

"Climate activists are taking to the streets Tuesday in one of the biggest coordinated demonstrations over global warming since millions of the world’s youth walked out of their classrooms in 2019 to urge their governments to do more to tackle the climate crisis. Except this time, it’s not young people leading the charge but Baby Boomers."

Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Politics [4]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Inside Climate News [29], 03/22/2023
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"A Black Community In Arizona Battles Power Expansion Plans Again" [30]

"A handful of weary residents gathered at the windowless Randolph church to mull over the latest effort by an electric utility to expand its power station – a polluting gas-fired plant next door to the community that the state regulator has blocked on environmental and health grounds."

Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [8]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [14]
Source: Guardian [31], 03/21/2023
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"Biden Issues First Veto, Rejecting Bill To Reverse ESG Rule" [32]

"President Biden on Monday issued his first veto since taking office, rejecting a bill that would have reversed a Labor Department rule on environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing."

Climate Change [33]
Economy & Business [34]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [12]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: The Hill [35], 03/21/2023
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"Judge Halts Biden Administration Waters Rule in Texas, Idaho" [36]

"A federal court judge in Texas issued a preliminary injunction against the Biden administration’s waters of the US, or WOTUS, rule late Sunday. The injunction applies only to Texas and Idaho. The 2023 WOTUS rule takes effect Monday in the rest of the country and determines which waters and wetlands receive federal protection under the Clean Water Act."

Agriculture [2]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Politics [4]
Fish & Fisheries [37]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Natural Resources [6]
Pollution [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [38], 03/21/2023
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WHO Accuses China of Hiding Data That May Link Covid’s Origins to Animals [39]

"The World Health Organization rebuked Chinese officials on Friday for withholding research that may link Covid’s origin to wild animals, asking why the data had not been made available three years ago and why it is now missing."

Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Politics [4]
Science [19]
Wildlife [7]
Public [8]
International [40]
Source: NYTimes [41], 03/20/2023
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Why the 2023 Farm Bill Will Actually Be an Environmental Story — and a Huge One [42]

A massive farm bill soon to emerge for debate in Congress will have enormous implications for the environment beat, affecting natural resources, environmental health and climate, not to mention food production and public health. Backgrounder lays out some of the key issues expected to be taken up in the twice-a-decade measure and provides resources for ongoing coverage.

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Climate Change [33]
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Environmental Justice [22]
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Food [44]
Forests [23]
Government [45]
Health [46]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Natural Resources [6]
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