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"The Plastic Industry’s $30 Million Lie" [1]

"If you’ve tuned into any major TV network in the last few months, you may have seen an ad promising a brand new way to end plastic pollution: advanced recycling."

Chemicals [2]
Consumer [3]
Economy & Business [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Journalism & Media [8]
Pollution [9]
Water & Oceans [10]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: HEATED [13], 07/29/2024
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"Everything You Need to Know About Project 2025's Plan for the EPA" [14]

"The details of Project 2025 plans on climate, and for the EPA."

Chemicals [2]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [7]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [9]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: Drilled [17], 07/29/2024
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Track Harmful Algal Blooms With Data. Avoid Bad Clams [18]

It’s summertime and the living is easy for algae that can be hazardous to human health. Climate heating and agricultural pollution are making the problem worse. The latest Reporter’s Toolbox explores useful sources of data for tracking trends. Plus, tips on how to use the data for local reporting on the risks posed by this seasonal threat.

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Reporters Toolbox [19]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [20]
Biodiversity [21]
Climate Change [22]
Economy & Business [4]
Environmental Health [6]
Fish & Fisheries [23]
Food [24]
Government [25]
Health [26]
Journalism & Media [8]
Natural Resources [27]
Pollution [9]
Science [28]
Water & Oceans [10]
Wildlife [29]
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National (U.S.) [12]
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Public [11]
  • Read more about Track Harmful Algal Blooms With Data. Avoid Bad Clams [18]

"How Pennsylvania’s Oil Industry Quietly Dumped Waste Across The State" [30]

"Spreading fracking wastewater on roads is banned. Oil and gas companies do it anyway."

Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Health [6]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [9]
Transportation [31]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [32]
Source: Grist [33], 07/26/2024
  • Read more about "How Pennsylvania’s Oil Industry Quietly Dumped Waste Across The State" [30]

"Harris Offered A ‘Blueprint’ For Environmental Justice. Can She Grow It?" [34]

"The vice president could double down on President Joe Biden’s focus on communities burdened by pollution if she is elected president."

Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [7]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: E&E News [35], 07/26/2024
  • Read more about "Harris Offered A ‘Blueprint’ For Environmental Justice. Can She Grow It?" [34]

"Pesticide Exposure As Risky As Smoking, Study Finds" [36]

"People who don’t farm, but live in US agricultural communities where pesticides are used on farms, face an increased cancer risk as significant as if they were smokers, according to a new study."

Agriculture [20]
Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Justice [15]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: The New Lede [37], 07/26/2024
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Looking From Space, Researchers Find Pollution Spiking Near E-Commerce Hubs [38]

"Research showed truck-related releases of nitrogen dioxide, which can cause asthma, concentrated around some 150,000 warehouses nationwide."

Air [39]
Climate Change [22]
Environmental Health [6]
Infrastructure [40]
Pollution [9]
Transportation [31]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: NYTimes [41], 07/25/2024
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Enviros Challenge New Rules on Toxic Air Plastic and Chemical Pollution [42]

"Environmental groups are teeing up a legal challenge to new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules on pollution from chemical and plastics plants, citing concerns the EPA relied too heavily on lowball industry estimates as it sized up the risks to people’s health posed by ethylene oxide (EtO), chloroprene, and other toxic air pollution."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Justice [15]
Pollution [9]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: DeSmog [43], 07/25/2024
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"PFAS Widely Added To US Pesticides Despite EPA Denial, Study Finds" [44]

"Toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” are widely added to pesticides, and are increasingly used in the products in recent years, new research finds, a practice that creates a health threat by spreading the dangerous compounds directly into the US’s food and water supply."

Agriculture [20]
Chemicals [2]
Consumer [3]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [7]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [9]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: Guardian [45], 07/25/2024
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Pollution Threatens Mediterranean Sea's Health [46]

"More than 87% of the Mediterranean Sea, which extends from the Atlantic Ocean to Africa, Europe and Asia, is polluted with microplastics and other pollutants including toxic metals and industrial chemicals, according to a July 2024 report by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)."

Environmental Health [6]
Pollution [9]
Water & Oceans [10]
Public [11]
International [47]
Source: CNN [48], 07/24/2024
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