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DFO Altered Report To Downplay Risks To Imperilled Steelhead: Docs [1]

"Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) watered down a scientific report to downplay threats to endangered Thompson and Chilcotin steelhead, documents obtained by the B.C. Wildlife Federation through access to information legislation reveal."

Environmental Politics [2]
Fish & Fisheries [3]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Science [5]
Public [6]
Canada [7]
Source: The Narwhal [8], 05/17/2021
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Newburgh, N.Y., Wants Biden's Help To Dig Up Lead Water Pipes [9]

"Even small communities like Newburgh, N.Y., need major federal funds to protect children from what the president calls ‘a clear and present danger’ "

Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [2]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [11]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Washington Post [14], 05/17/2021
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"How Should Utility Companies Spend Your Money? A Debate Rages" [15]

Some of the money customers pay electric utilities goes to support lobbying that may not be in the public interest.

Consumer [16]
Economy & Business [17]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Environmental Politics [2]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: LA Times [19], 05/14/2021
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"Biden Advisory Group Lays Out Environmental Justice Roadmap" [20]

"President Joe Biden should take major steps to fulfill his environmental justice pledge and avoid the types of incremental initiatives that will lead to little progress, a White House advisory council said Thursday."

Environmental Justice [21]
Environmental Politics [2]
Government [22]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [23], 05/14/2021
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Solar Pushback: How Power Firms Try To Make People Pay For Going Green [24]

"In states like Kansas, energy companies want to impose charges on people who produce their own power with rooftop arrays".

Consumer [16]
Economy & Business [17]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Environmental Politics [2]
Infrastructure [25]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Guardian [26], 05/14/2021
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"Chemical Giants Hid Dangers Of ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Food Packaging" [27]

"Chemical giants DuPont and Daikin knew the dangers of a PFAS compound widely used in food packaging since 2010, but hid them from the public and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), company studies obtained by the Guardian reveal."

Chemicals [28]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [2]
Food [29]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Guardian [30], 05/14/2021
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OSHA Failed to Protect Food Workers. Can a New Director Keep Them Safe? [31]

"The federal agency largely failed people on farms, in restaurants, and in meat-processing facilities during the pandemic. Labor leaders hope Cal/OSHA’s Doug Parker will steer the ship right."

Agriculture [32]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [21]
Environmental Politics [2]
Food [29]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Civil Eats [33], 05/14/2021
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Emails Show Mining Industry, Home-Builders Shaped Arizona Water Bill [34]

"Newly released emails reveal that lawyers and lobbyists for mining companies, developers and the agriculture industry had a hand behind the scenes in shaping Arizona’s newly adopted law on clean-water rules for rivers and streams."

Economy & Business [17]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [21]
Environmental Politics [2]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Pollution [11]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [6]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [35]
Source: Arizona Republic [36], 05/14/2021
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"EPA Revokes Trump-Era Policy That Loosened Clean-Air Rules" [37]

"The Environmental Protection Agency is revoking a Trump-era rule that overhauled how the agency evaluates air pollutants, a move the Biden administration says will make it easier to enact limits on dangerous and climate-changing emissions."

Air [38]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [2]
Laws & Regulations [4]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: AP [39], 05/14/2021
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Young Evangelicals Push To 'Build Bigger Choir Loft' For Climate Action [40]

"Growing up in a conservative Christian home and school, Kyle Meyaard-Schaap learned a lot about scripture and its values but 'almost nothing about climate change', he remembers."

Climate Change [41]
Environmental Politics [2]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [42]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [43], 05/13/2021
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