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"$75 Million For Residents Whose Homes Were Built On Landfill" [1]

"A group of New Orleans residents whose homes were built on a toxic landfill decades ago have won a $75.3 million court judgement against the city, its housing authority and the local school board."

Chemicals [2]
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Environmental Justice [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
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Source: AP [9], 03/17/2022
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"Report: Climate Change Threatens These 29 Michigan Chemical Sites" [10]

"Climate change is likely to bring more catastrophes to Michigan, and a new federal report warns that 29 sites that use hazardous chemicals are in the pathway of worsening floods driven by a changing planet."

Chemicals [2]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [14]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [15]
Source: Bridge Michigan [16], 03/17/2022
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"The Big Sneeze: Climate Change To Make Pollen Season Nastier" [17]

"Climate change has already made allergy season longer and pollen counts higher, but you ain’t sneezed nothing yet."

Climate Change [18]
Environmental Health [3]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: AP [19], 03/16/2022
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"Chicken, Turkey Farmers Struggle To Keep Birds Safe From Flu" [20]

"Nearly 7 million chickens and turkeys in 13 states have been killed this year due to avian influenza, prompting officials and farmers to acknowledge that, despite their best efforts, stopping the disease from infecting poultry is incredibly difficult."

Agriculture [21]
Environmental Health [3]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: AP [22], 03/16/2022
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"Somalia's Worst Drought In Four Decades Means Millions Need Aid" [23]

"It has not rained on Habiba Maow Iman's farm in southern Somalia for two years. Her animals are dead; her crops failed."

Agriculture [21]
Climate Change [18]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [3]
Food [24]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [7]
Africa [25]
Source: Reuters [26], 03/16/2022
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"Court: Duke Can’t Make Customers Pay Coal-Ash Cleanup Costs" [27]

"Indiana’s biggest utility can’t make its customers pay more than $200 million in costs related to cleaning up its toxic coal ash, according to a ruling Thursday from the Indiana Supreme Court."

Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [7]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [15]
Source: Indianapolis Star [29], 03/15/2022
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Bird Flu Found in SW Iowa Commercial Flock Of 920,000 Egg-Laying Chickens [30]

"State and federal agriculture officials have confirmed deadly bird flu in a flock of commercial layer chickens in southwest Iowa’s Taylor County, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship announced Friday."

Agriculture [21]
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Public [7]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Iowa Public Radio [31], 03/14/2022
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Pollinator Gardens Yield Local Story Possibilities [32]

It’s perhaps the ultimate local environment story — found right in your audience’s literal backyard. Pollinator gardens offer environmental journalists an opportunity not just to report on ecologically beneficial (and attractive) plantings, but also to tell the complex story of pollinators — butterflies, birds and, of course, bees. The latest TipSheet plants ideas and resources to cover the pollinator garden story.

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In Texas, Biden’s EPA Chief Puts Power Plants On Notice For Pollution [35]

"Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan on Thursday put the U.S. power sector on notice, outlining how the Biden administration plans to cut air and water pollution spewing from the nation’s electricity plants."

Air [36]
Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [12]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Washington Post [37], 03/11/2022
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Biden Administration Stops Short of Electric Vehicle Mandates for Trucks [38]

"The EPA clean trucks proposal released this week focuses on cleaner combustion engines, but environmental justice advocates want a zero-emissions transition."

Air [36]
Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Health [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [12]
Transportation [39]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Inside Climate News [40], 03/10/2022
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