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Florida Debates Where To Build The Nation’s Largest Trash Incinerator [1]

"Residents argue the project will disproportionately impact majority-Black and -Hispanic communities in the Miami-Dade area."

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Source: KFF Health News [14], 01/02/2025
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"Jimmy Carter’s Conservation Legacy" [15]

"The 39th U.S. president led the fight to preserve vast swaths of Alaskan wilderness. It forever changed the state and the National Park Service."

Biodiversity [16]
Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Environmental Health [5]
Forests [19]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Natural Resources [20]
Policy [21]
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Source: E&E News [22], 01/02/2025
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"The E.P.A. Promotes Toxic Fertilizer. 3M Told It of Risks Years Ago." [23]

"The agency obtained research from 3M in 2003 revealing that sewage sludge, the raw material for the fertilizer, carried toxic “forever chemicals.”"

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Source: NYTimes [27], 01/02/2025
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Oil Industry Playbook: How Drillers Offload Costly Cleanup Onto the Public [28]

"Oil executive Tom Ragsdale walked away from his old wells, making the pollution left behind the state of New Mexico’s problem. His tactics, however, are ubiquitous in the industry."

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Economy & Business [29]
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Environmental Health [5]
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Source: ProPublica [31], 01/02/2025
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"Climate Change Added 41 Days Of Dangerous Heat Around World In 2024" [32]

"People around the world suffered an average of 41 extra days of dangerous heat this year because of human-caused climate change, according to a group of scientists who also said that climate change worsened much of the world’s damaging weather throughout 2024.

The analysis from World Weather Attribution and Climate Central researchers comes at the end of a year that shattered climate record after climate record as heat across the globe made 2024 likely to be its hottest ever measured and a slew of other fatal weather events spared few.

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Source: AP [34], 01/02/2025
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Gas Leaks Must Be Fixed By Utilities In New Proposed PHMSA Rule [35]

"Melissa Ostroff finds gas leaks for a living, so it was surprising to hear someone say they smelled gas in her own home."

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Source: NPR [36], 12/23/2024
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Maryland Sues GORE-TEX Company For Polluting Water With PFAS Chemicals [37]

"Maryland is suing Cecil County-based manufacturing giant W.L. Gore & Associates for knowingly polluting the air and surrounding water with toxic Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)."

Chemicals [4]
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Source: CBS News [39], 12/23/2024
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Senator Urges EPA to Release Report on Formaldehyde Health Risks [40]

"Citing a recent ProPublica investigation, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., urged the Environmental Protection Agency in a letter this week to issue a final report on the health risks of formaldehyde that is “science-based” and “as strong as possible,” adding that “the agency has an obligation to protect the public from the chemical.”"

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Source: ProPublica [43], 12/23/2024
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Group Says New Jersey Toxic Waste Dumping Caused $1B In Harm, Sues [44]

"Years of toxic waste dumping in a Jersey Shore community where childhood cancer rates rose caused at least $1 billion in damage to natural resources, according to an environmental group trying to overturn a settlement between New Jersey and the corporate successor to the firm that did the polluting."

Chemicals [4]
Economy & Business [29]
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Environmental Justice [6]
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Pollution [9]
Waste [10]
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Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [45]
Source: AP [46], 12/23/2024
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More Than 3,100 Students Died At Indian Boarding Schools [47]

"The Washington Post has found more than three times as many deaths as the U.S. government documented in its investigation of Indian boarding schools."

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Source: Washington Post [50], 12/23/2024
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