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"Layoffs And Funding Delays Could Slow Fight Against Lead, Experts Say" [1]

"Funding delays for lead pipe replacement and the elimination of a CDC lead program could put children at risk."

Chemicals [2]
Consumer [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Infrastructure [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
People & Population [9]
Pollution [10]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Washington Post [14], 04/14/2025
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"EPA Cancels Key Science Advisory Board Meeting" [15]

"The cancellation of a meeting of top advisors to the agency’s scientific research arm, with no explanation or plans to reschedule, signals bad news for public health and the environment, say former advisors."

Chemicals [2]
Climate Change [16]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [6]
Government [17]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Pollution [10]
Science [18]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Inside Climate News [19], 04/14/2025
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Court Allows Suit Alleging Environmental Racism In La. Parish To Proceed [20]

"A civil rights lawsuit alleging a south Louisiana parish engaged in racist land-use policies by placing polluting industries in majority-Black communities can move forward, a federal appellate court says."

Activism [21]
Chemicals [2]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Laws & Regulations [8]
People & Population [9]
Pollution [10]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
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Source: AP [24], 04/14/2025
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"Trump Hits Delete For Energy, Environment Regs" [25]

"The president’s suite of executive orders to decimate environmental regulations will propel his administration into court."

Biodiversity [26]
Chemicals [2]
Climate Change [16]
Consumer [3]
Disasters [27]
Economy & Business [28]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Environmental Studies [29]
Government [17]
Health [30]
Laws & Regulations [8]
People & Population [9]
Pollution [10]
Waste [31]
Water & Oceans [11]
Wildlife [32]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: E&E News [33], 04/14/2025
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"White House Outlines Plan To Gut NOAA, Smother Climate Research" [34]

"The Trump administration wants to effectively break up NOAA and end its climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to help boost U.S. fossil fuel production, budget documents show."

Climate Change [16]
Disasters [27]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Environmental Studies [29]
Fish & Fisheries [35]
Government [17]
Natural Resources [36]
Science [18]
Technology [37]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: E&E News [38], 04/14/2025
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#SEJ2025 — Confronting the Past, Surviving the Future [39]

Next week, hundreds of environmental journalists are expected to gather in Arizona for #SEJ2025, the Society of Environmental Journalists’ expansive annual conference. Co-chair Kendal Blust has highlights of the four-day event, plus how the challenges facing the Southwest are those of communities across the United States, and why now is a critical time for journalists to come together. Read her rundown [39] and register now [40], before the April 16 midnight deadline.

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Agriculture [42]
Biodiversity [26]
Climate Change [16]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Fish & Fisheries [35]
Food [43]
Government [17]
Health [30]
Journalism & Media [44]
Natural Resources [36]
People & Population [9]
Planning & Growth [45]
Policy [46]
Pollution [10]
Science [18]
Water & Oceans [11]
Wildlife [32]
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National (U.S.) [13]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [47]
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"See How Rescue Workers Are Trying To Save California’s Poisoned Sea Lions" [50]

"An inside look at the effort to help marine mammals sickened by domoic acid, a neurotoxin in the water resulting from a bloom of algae."

Biodiversity [26]
Climate Change [16]
Disasters [27]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Studies [29]
Natural Resources [36]
Pollution [10]
Water & Oceans [11]
Wildlife [32]
Public [12]
California [51]
Source: Washington Post [52], 04/11/2025
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Bayer Asks Supreme Court To Block State Suits About Roundup Cancer Warning [53]

"Global agrochemical manufacturer Bayer has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether federal law preempts thousands of state lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller could cause cancer."

Agriculture [42]
Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [4]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Pollution [10]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: AP [54], 04/11/2025
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Firm Cancels Plant To Process Plastic Waste To Be Burned In Steel Mills [55]

"International Recycling Group (IRG) has announced that they will cancel a planned plastic waste processing facility in Erie, Pennsylvania, due to President Trump’s federal funding cuts and tariffs, among other reasons."

Air [56]
Chemicals [2]
Economy & Business [28]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [6]
Infrastructure [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Pollution [10]
Waste [31]
Public [12]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [57]
Source: EHN [58], 04/11/2025
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1000s of US Water Systems Show Dangerous Levels Of Cancer-Causing Chemicals [59]

"Millions of people across the United States could be drinking water contaminated with dangerous levels of substances created when utilities disinfect water tainted with animal manure and other pollutants, according to a report released Thursday."

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Pollution [10]
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National (U.S.) [13]
Source: The New Lede [60], 04/11/2025
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