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Corpus Christi Black Neighbors Feel Like They Are in a ‘Sacrifice Zone’ [1]

"Boxed in by refineries, oil tanks, an interstate highway and a bridge under construction, the people are left in a hollowed-out neighborhood and a broken community."

Air [2]
Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Infrastructure [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
People & Population [8]
Pollution [9]
Transportation [10]
Public [11]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [12]
Source: Inside Climate News [13], 07/07/2021
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Shrinking For Years, Utah’s Great Salt Lake Now Faces A Drought [14]

"The receding water is affecting wildlife and could send arsenic-laced dust into the air that millions breathe".

Air [2]
Chemicals [3]
Climate Change [15]
Environmental Health [4]
Natural Resources [16]
Pollution [9]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [11]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [18]
Source: AP [19], 07/07/2021
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"New Study Says These Louisiana Swim Spots Are Laden With Bacteria" [20]

"Just as vacationers head to the coast to beat the July heat, a new study offers a bit of caution: 82% percent of the almost 300 Gulf Coast beaches that recently underwent water testing were found to have potentially unsafe levels of fecal bacteria."

Environmental Health [4]
Pollution [9]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [22], 07/06/2021
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New Day for Long-Suffering Neighbors after Huge Phila. Refinery Fire [23]

"The petroleum smell is gone, the benzene emissions have abated and residents in nearby neighborhoods of color feel they’re finally being heard."

Air [2]
Chemicals [3]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Pollution [9]
Public [11]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [25]
Source: Inside Climate News [26], 07/06/2021
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"Oregon Gov. Says Too Many Lives Lost During Record-Breaking Heat Wave" [27]

"Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) said Sunday that too many people in the state died during the unprecedented heat wave that settled over the Pacific Northwest last week, warning the climate change-fueled temperature extremes were only a “harbinger of things to come.”"

Climate Change [15]
Disasters [28]
Environmental Health [4]
Public [11]
International [29]
Source: HuffPost [30], 07/06/2021
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"Activists Call For Ocean City Boycott Over Trash Burning" [31]

"Environmentalists are calling for a boycott of a Maryland beach town until it starts sending its waste to a local landfill instead of a majority-Black town in Pennsylvania."

Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Waste [32]
Public [11]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [25]
Source: AP [33], 07/05/2021
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Corporate Studies Asserting Herbicide Safety Show Many Flaws: New Study [34]

"A new analysis of more than 50 previously secret, corporate-backed scientific studies is raising troubling questions about a history of regulatory reliance on such research in assessing the safety of the widely used weedkilling chemical known as glyphosate, the key ingredient in the popular Roundup herbicide."

Agriculture [35]
Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Journalism & Media [36]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Science [37]
Public [11]
International [29]
Source: Guardian [38], 07/05/2021
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EPA Pulls Rule Allowing Use Of Radioactive Material In Road Construction [39]

"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has withdrawn a 2020 rule that would allow a radioactive substance in some road construction."

Environmental Health [4]
Infrastructure [6]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [40]
Transportation [10]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: The Hill [41], 07/05/2021
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"Canada Battles More Than 180 Wildfires With Hundreds Dead In Heat Wave" [42]

"Emergency responders in Canada are currently battling more than 180 wildfires in British Columbia amid an intense heat wave that has left hundreds dead in the Pacific Northwest."

Climate Change [15]
Disasters [28]
Environmental Health [4]
Forests [43]
Public [11]
Canada [44]
Source: NPR [45], 07/05/2021
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"Whistleblowers Claim EPA Altered Risk Reviews For Toxics" [46]

"Four whistleblowers in EPA's chemicals office allege officials tampered with key risk assessments and processes, according to a complaint filed by an environmental group on behalf of the agency staffers."

Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [47]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Science [37]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: E&E News [48], 07/05/2021
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