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"Trying To Kill Mosquitoes? Don’t Buy A Bug Zapper." [1]

"Every night, a mass murderer stalks the darkness of America’s suburbs. An eerie blue glow lures hapless victims from their homes. The doomed souls, mesmerized by the light, throng to their deaths in sizzling blasts of electricity."

Biodiversity [2]
Consumer [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Technology [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Washington Post [8], 09/13/2023
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"Mosquito-Borne Dengue Grows Deadlier In South Asia As Planet Warms" [9]

"Mosquito-borne dengue fever is taking a heavy toll on South Asian nations this year as Bangladesh grapples with record deaths and Nepal faces cases in new areas, with disease experts linking worsening outbreaks to the impacts of climate change."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [4]
Public [6]
International [11]
Asia [12]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [13], 09/13/2023
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"EPA To Undo Trump-Era Rollback Of Air Toxics Policy" [14]

"In a long-anticipated move, EPA is poised to target the Trump-era rollback of a venerable industrial air pollution policy."

Air [15]
Chemicals [16]
Environmental Health [4]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Pollution [18]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: E&E News [19], 09/13/2023
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UK Govt. May Have Broken Environmental Law On Sewage Overflows: Watchdog [20]

"Britain's government and water regulator may have failed to comply with environmental law over the regulation of untreated sewage releases, the country's environmental protection watchdog said on Tuesday."

Environmental Health [4]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Pollution [18]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [6]
Europe [22]
Source: Reuters [23], 09/13/2023
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Waste Incineration May Put Toxics Into Local Air [24]

Sometimes on the environment beat, what seems like an old story is perpetually new again. That’s the case with waste incineration, finds the latest TipSheet. Rather than being reduced, incinerators are just being transformed, with the ongoing burning of plastics especially troubling for the environment and public health. Get the backstory on where the regulatory regime may have holes, plus key reporting angles and story ideas.

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Activism [26]
Air [15]
Chemicals [16]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [28]
Environmental Politics [29]
Health [30]
Journalism & Media [31]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Pollution [18]
Waste [32]
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Water Hookups Come To Alaska Yup’ik Village; Residents Ditch Honey Buckets [33]

"Sanitation workers Thomas Noatak and Joseph Moses start every workday riding a four-wheeler along the muddy roads of this small Yup’ik village on southwestern Alaska’s vast Kuskokwim River, looking for human waste."

Environmental Health [4]
Infrastructure [34]
Natural Resources [35]
Pollution [18]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [6]
Alaska and Hawaii [36]
Source: AP [37], 09/11/2023
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"Adriana Carillo’s Life’s Work Is To Find Migrants Lost In The Desert" [38]

"She and her team of volunteers brave extreme heat to search for people left behind on the perilous journey from Mexico to the U.S."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [39]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [28]
People & Population [40]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [41]
International [11]
Mexico [42]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [43], 09/08/2023
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Refineries Emit Unsafe Levels Of Benzene Amid Insufficient EPA Action: IG [44]

"An internal watchdog is calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to step up its actions to address emissions of cancer-causing benzene, saying that oil refineries have been releasing unsafe levels of the substance."

Chemicals [16]
Consumer [3]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [28]
Pollution [18]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: The Hill [45], 09/08/2023
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Heat Brings Texas Grid Closest It Has Been To Outages Since 2021 Winter [46]

"Texas’ power grid manager on Thursday again asked residents to cut their electricity use as the state endures another stretch of sizzling summer heat."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [39]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Health [4]
Public [6]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [41]
Source: AP [47], 09/08/2023
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"States Withhold Cooling Aid For The Poor As Heat Gets Deadlier" [48]

"More than 30 million low-income households that are eligible for federal funding to defray the cost of air conditioning have not received any money from a government program that was created to protect vulnerable people from dangerous temperatures, an E&E News analysis shows."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [28]
Laws & Regulations [17]
People & Population [40]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: E&E News [49], 09/07/2023
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