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"One Year On, Toxic Sonora River Spill Prompts Lawsuits" [1]

"In August 2014, chemicals from a Grupo México mine contaminated a main waterway. A Mexicoleaks Alliance investigation reveals that the spill control equipment at the Buenavista Copper Mine was not in compliance with regulations that federal authorities had failed to enforce since 2011. Now residents of seven Sonora municipalities are filing suit."

Natural Resources [2]
Pollution [3]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
Mexico [6]
Source: El Daily Post [7], 08/06/2015
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"Dolores Rapidly Strengthens To Category 4 Hurricane: NHC" [8]

"Hurricane Dolores is rapidly strengthening to a category 4 hurricane off Mexico's Pacific coast, with maximum sustained winds increasing to near 130 mph (209 kph), the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Wednesday."

Disasters [9]
Public [5]
Mexico [6]
Source: Reuters [10], 07/15/2015
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"Tropical Storm Strengthening Off Mexico's Pacific Coast" [11]

"Forecasters say Tropical Storm Dolores is strengthening out in the Pacific off Mexico's southwest coast and could become a hurricane on Monday."

Disasters [9]
Public [5]
Mexico [6]
Source: AP [12], 07/13/2015
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Group Wins Suit To Disclose Fracking in Gulf of Mexico [13]

The Center for Biological Diversity filed a Freedom of Information Act request for documents on offshore Gulf fracking, and was refused by two Interior Department offshore drilling agencies, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. CBD sued, and the lawsuit was settled June 2, 2015.

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Energy & Fuel [16]
Fish & Fisheries [17]
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Pollution [3]
Water & Oceans [4]
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SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [19]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [20]
International [21]
Mexico [6]
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"River of Death" [22]

"An 8-year-old boy falls into one of Mexico’s most contaminated rivers. Eighteen days later, he’s dead. Fusion investigates how factories--many of them U.S. owned--get away with illegally dumping toxic chemicals into one of the country’s main waterways, with potentially deadly consequences."

Pollution [3]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
Mexico [6]
Source: Fusion [23], 06/05/2015
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"U.S., Canada And Mexico Create New Climate Change Partnership" [24]

"OTTAWA -- North American energy ministers said on Monday they had set up a working group on climate change and energy, a partnership designed to help Canada, the United States and Mexico harmonize policies."

Climate Change [25]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [26]
Canada [27]
Mexico [6]
Source: Reuters [28], 05/26/2015
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US-Mexico Water Pact Brings Life Back To Colorado River’s Parched Delta [29]

"A single pulse flow of water reconnects the ‘American Nile’ with the Sea of Cortez for the first time in decades"

Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [26]
Mexico [6]
Source: Aljazeera America [30], 04/27/2015
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"Mexico’s President Rolls Out Plan to Save Endangered Porpoise" [31]

"MEXICO CITY — President Enrique Peña Nieto and his top military commanders flew to a modest fishing village in Mexico’s far northwest on Thursday and made a promise to protect a small porpoise called the vaquita that is on the edge of extinction."

Fish & Fisheries [17]
Water & Oceans [4]
Wildlife [32]
Public [5]
Mexico [6]
Source: NY Times [33], 04/17/2015
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"4 Killed in Explosion and Fire on Pemex Mexican Oil Platform" [34]

"Huge fireballs illuminated the early dawn skies of the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday as an explosion and fire killed four people and injured as many as 16 others on a large oil platform in the southeastern Bay of Campeche, Mexican officials said."

Disasters [9]
Energy & Fuel [16]
Public [5]
Mexico [6]
Source: NY Times [35], 04/02/2015
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"Mystical Amphibian Venerated By Aztecs Nears Extinction" [36]

"Scientists believe the dwindling axolotl, or Mexican salamander, holds secrets of aging and regeneration"

Biodiversity [37]
Wildlife [32]
Public [5]
Mexico [6]
Source: Aljazeera America [38], 02/18/2015
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