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Congress’ Latest Spending Package Spares Environment, Energy Agencies [1]

"Congressional appropriators’ latest bipartisan spending package, unveiled Monday, would reduce funding for a host of energy and environment programs while rejecting the Trump administration’s requests for even greater cuts."

Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: E&E News [10], 01/07/2026
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"Critical Mineral Bauxite Boom Pollutes Water And Crops In Guinea" [11]

"In West Africa's Guinea, villagers say mining for the critical mineral bauxite has polluted water and decreased crop yields."

Chemicals [12]
Economy & Business [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Pollution [7]
Waste [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [8]
International [17]
Africa [18]
Source: Context [19], 01/06/2026
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"AI Data Boom In Mexico Fuels Rise In Dirty Energy" [20]

"A boom in U.S. data centres is devouring fossil fuels in Mexico - and hitting locals with power cuts and pollution."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [5]
People & Population [22]
Pollution [7]
Technology [23]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Mexico [24]
Source: Context [25], 01/06/2026
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"Trump Has Left The US Less Prepared For Natural Disasters, Experts Say" [26]

"Donald Trump has presided over a dangerous erosion in US capacity to prepare for and respond to natural disasters, according to emergency management experts."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [27]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Government [28]
People & Population [22]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Guardian [29], 01/06/2026
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"U.S. Overhauls Childhood Vaccine Schedule, Recommends Fewer Shots" [30]

"The Trump administration is overhauling the list of routine shots recommended for all babies and children in the United States, bypassing the government’s typical process for recommending vaccines and delivering on Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s long-standing goals to upend the nation’s pediatric vaccine schedule."

Activism [31]
Consumer [32]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Health [33]
Laws & Regulations [6]
People & Population [22]
Science [34]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Washington Post [35], 01/06/2026
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Even in This Toxic River — A Salmon Story [36]

Seattle’s heavily polluted Duwamish River is no place to catch fish — except for salmon, which pass quickly through these troubled waters on their way from the sea to their freshwater spawning grounds. With fishing pole in hand, environmental journalist Alex Brown joins jostling crowds of industrial-zone anglers and catches a firsthand view of a spectacle that is both anomalous and awe-inspiring.

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Features [37]
Topics on the Beat: 
Biodiversity [38]
Chemicals [12]
Environmental Health [4]
Fish & Fisheries [39]
Food [40]
Pollution [7]
Water & Oceans [16]
Wildlife [41]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [9]
Northwest (OR WA) [42]
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Public [8]
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"Wildfire Smoke Is A National Crisis, And It’s Worse Than You Think" [43]

"Greenhouse gas and particulate emissions from fires globally may be 70 percent higher than once believed."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [27]
Environmental Health [4]
Forests [44]
People & Population [22]
Pollution [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
International [17]
Source: Grist [45], 01/05/2026
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"Michigan’s Other Water Crisis: PFAS’s Prevalence in Private Wells" [46]

"Ahead of the curve when it comes to testing city water for PFAS, Michigan has met its match with the state’s over one million private wells, urging residents to get their water tested."

Chemicals [12]
Environmental Health [4]
People & Population [22]
Pollution [7]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [8]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [47]
Source: Inside Climate News [48], 01/05/2026
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"‘Trump’s EPA’ In 2025: A Fossil Fuel-Friendly Approach To Deregulation" [49]

"The Trump administration has transformed the Environmental Protection Agency in its first year, cutting federal limits on air and water pollution and promoting fossil fuels, a metamorphosis that clashes with the agency’s historic mission to protect human health and the environment."

Chemicals [12]
Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: AP [50], 01/05/2026
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"12 Non-Fiction Titles That Climate Readers Will Be Delighted To Unwrap" [51]

"These books span the cosmos, the ocean, climate solutions, rivers, forests, and more."

Climate Change [2]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Studies [52]
Journalism & Media [53]
Natural Resources [14]
Public [8]
International [17]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [54], 12/24/2025
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