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Red State AGs Want EPA To Censor Public Database About Chem Plant Hazards [1]

"A group of 18 state attorneys general are pushing EPA to delete its public online database of chemical facilities, citing vulnerabilities to hackers or other security threats."

Chemicals [2]
Consumer [3]
Disasters [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Justice [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Laws & Regulations [9]
People & Population [10]
Pollution [11]
Technology [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: E&E News [15], 05/13/2026
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RFK Jr. Driving a Vast Inquiry Into Vaccines, Despite His Public Silence [16]

"Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said little publicly about vaccines in recent months, at the behest of a White House worried that his unpopular stance will hurt Republicans in November’s midterm elections. But he has not abandoned his quest for evidence that they are unsafe."

Activism [17]
Consumer [3]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Politics [8]
People & Population [10]
Technology [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: New York Times [18], 05/12/2026
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What Is the Half-Life of a Nuclear Revival? Part 2 [19]

Is the United States in the midst of a “nuclear renaissance”? This two-part Backgrounder explores the question, with a look at next-gen reactor design, the (lack of) independence of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and what to do with nuclear waste. Plus, see Part 1 [20] on the government role in developing nuclear power and an earlier effort at industry rebirth.

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Disasters [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [8]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [22]
Policy [23]
Technology [12]
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National (U.S.) [14]
International [24]
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Public [13]
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EPA Will Propose Weakening Some Biden-Era PFAS Limits, Official Says [25]

"The Trump administration will soon propose softening Biden-era limits on “forever chemicals” in drinking water, delaying but keeping tough standards for two common types and rescinding limits on some rarer forms of the substance, according to an EPA official."

Chemicals [2]
Consumer [3]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Justice [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Infrastructure [26]
Laws & Regulations [9]
People & Population [10]
Pollution [11]
Technology [12]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: AP [28], 05/11/2026
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"Boiling Point: The Crazy New World Of Wildfire Home-Defense Tech" [29]

"The emails continually fill my inbox: Startups exclaiming they have engineered a solution to protect homes from wildfires."

Climate Change [30]
Consumer [3]
Disasters [4]
Forests [31]
Infrastructure [26]
Technology [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
California [32]
Source: LA Times [33], 05/08/2026
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"Microsoft May Abandon Its Clean Energy Powered Data Centre Targets" [34]

"Microsoft Corp. may shelve one of the industry’s most ambitious clean-energy targets as it tries to remove hurdles that could hold it back in the race to power data centres, according to people with knowledge of the matter."

Climate Change [30]
Economy & Business [35]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [8]
Infrastructure [26]
Pollution [11]
Technology [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Bloomberg [36], 05/08/2026
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Appalachian Lithium Deposit Could Replace 328 Years Of Imports: USGS [37]

"The U.S. Geological Survey announced a massive lithium deposit in the Appalachian Mountains, large enough to replace years of imports of the mineral." "While the figure is an official USGS estimate, extracting the mineral poses major technical and environmental challenges."

Biodiversity [38]
Chemicals [2]
Climate Change [30]
Consumer [3]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Natural Resources [39]
Pollution [11]
Technology [12]
Waste [40]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Snopes [41], 05/08/2026
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"A Pandemic of Parkinson’s" [42]

"More than 12 million people now have Parkinson’s Disease, nearly double the number from just six years ago. From kids who pedaled behind mosquito trucks in the 1950s and ‘60s to veterans exposed to Agent Orange to landscapers and farmers who attribute their Parkinson’s to pesticides, a generation of elders–and increasing numbers of young-onset patients–now suffer from what we didn’t know about chemicals in the 20th Century. "

Chemicals [2]
Consumer [3]
Environmental Health [6]
Laws & Regulations [9]
People & Population [10]
Pollution [11]
Technology [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
International [24]
Source: WUFT [43], 05/08/2026
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"America the Undammed" [44]

"More miles of the country’s rivers were reconnected last year thanks to dam removals than at any other time in history."

Environmental Politics [8]
Fish & Fisheries [45]
Infrastructure [26]
Laws & Regulations [9]
People & Population [10]
Technology [12]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: New York Times [46], 05/08/2026
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Calif. Investigates Trump Admin’s Deal To End An Offshore Wind Project [47]

"California is investigating one of the Trump administration’s deals to end an offshore wind project."

Climate Change [30]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Technology [12]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
California [32]
Source: AP [48], 05/06/2026
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