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"Exxon Steps Back From Texas Gulf Coast Plastics Plant" [1]

"Exxon Mobil will postpone its plans for a large new plastics production plant on the Gulf Coast of Texas, according to the company. Construction was initially planned to begin next year on the $10 billion facility in rural Calhoun County."

Activism [2]
Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Infrastructure [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Pollution [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [12]
Source: Inside Climate News [13], 10/08/2025
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Tests Show That A Pennsylvania Town’s Water Was Contaminated by Fracking [14]

"Three years after noticing discoloration and odors in their wells, residents in New Freeport are still fighting for clean water."

Chemicals [3]
Consumer [15]
Energy & Fuel [16]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Laws & Regulations [8]
People & Population [17]
Pollution [9]
Waste [18]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [20]
Source: Inside Climate News [21], 10/08/2025
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"Natural Disasters Are a Rising Burden for the National Guard" [22]

"New Pentagon data show climate impacts shaping reservists’ mission, in potential conflict with Trump’s drive to use them for law enforcement."

Climate Change [23]
Disasters [24]
Environmental Health [4]
Military [25]
People & Population [17]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Inside Climate News [26], 10/08/2025
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"Appeal Seeks To Force Factory Farms To Disclose Hazardous Air Emissions" [27]

"A coalition of food, environmental and animal welfare groups is appealing a recent federal court decision that upheld a US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule exempting factory farms from publicly disclosing hazardous air emissions information."

Agriculture [28]
Air [29]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [6]
Laws & Regulations [8]
People & Population [17]
Pollution [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: The New Lede [30], 10/07/2025
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Fracking Waste In A Landfill Again Poses A Monongahela Pollution Problem [31]

"On a rainy morning, Mike Frederick showed off the Belle Vernon Municipal Authority’s sewage treatment plant, about 30 miles south of Pittsburgh."

Agriculture [28]
Chemicals [3]
Energy & Fuel [16]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [6]
Infrastructure [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Pollution [9]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [20]
Source: Allegheny Front [32], 10/07/2025
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"New Report Examines Fossil Fuel Ties of Dozens of Trump Admin Hires" [33]

"The Trump administration wasted no time in tapping individuals with ties to fossil fuel industries and right-wing think tanks funded by oil tycoons for key environmental and energy policy positions, according to a new report."

Climate Change [23]
Economy & Business [34]
Energy & Fuel [16]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [6]
Government [35]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Pollution [9]
Science [36]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Inside Climate News [37], 10/07/2025
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"How Big Agriculture Got Its Way In The Latest MAHA Report" [38]

"Alarmed by the first MAHA commission report, the agriculture industry mobilized to shape the next installment. Those efforts seemingly paid off."

Agriculture [28]
Chemicals [3]
Economy & Business [34]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [6]
People & Population [17]
Pollution [9]
Science [36]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Washington Post [39], 10/07/2025
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Crop Cover Database Seeds Local Environment Coverage [40]

Cropland can easily be found time and again at the heart of the key concerns on the environment beat, whether climate, water, chemicals or, of course, land. The latest Reporter’s Toolbox shares a high-quality, mappable database that can serve up stories on more than 100 categories of crops, with numbers drawn from satellite imagery. Plus, a pro tip on using the data smartly.

SEJ Publication Types: 
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Agriculture [28]
Chemicals [3]
Climate Change [23]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Studies [42]
Food [43]
Journalism & Media [44]
Science [36]
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National (U.S.) [11]
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Public [10]
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Climate Solutions, for Some, May Not Be [45]

A small Louisiana community, home to the descendants of formerly enslaved Black people, continues to fight for its freedom many decades later, this time from a potentially polluting technology. FEJ StoryLog contributor Yessenia Funes recounts her journey to this Cancer Alley community, where a grant from the Fund for Environmental Journalism helped her tell the story of residents challenging a multibillion-dollar carbon capture plant.

SEJ Publication Types: 
FEJ StoryLog [46]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [2]
Air [29]
Chemicals [3]
Climate Change [23]
Economy & Business [34]
Energy & Fuel [16]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Journalism & Media [44]
People & Population [17]
Planning & Growth [47]
Policy [48]
Pollution [9]
Science [36]
Technology [49]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [11]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [50]
Visibility: 
Public [10]
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Trump’s Hatred For Renewables Putting US Behind The Rest Of The World [51]

"As well as embracing ‘beautiful coal’, the president has set about obliterating clean energy projects"

Climate Change [23]
Economy & Business [34]
Energy & Fuel [16]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [6]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Pollution [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
International [52]
Source: Guardian [53], 10/06/2025
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