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US Plans To 'Showcase Ways To Use Fossil Fuels' At Climate Conference [1]

While all the nations of the world meet in Poland to lower greenhouse emissions, the Trump administration, which has dropped out of the Paris Agreement, will nonetheless show up and promote the use of fossil fuels.

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Journalism & Media [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Washington Post [9], 12/06/2018
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"Air Pollution: White House Signs Off On Final Ozone Rule" [10]

"The White House's regulatory shop has completed its assessment of a hot-button ozone rule, putting EPA on track to issue the final version by tomorrow's [Thursday's] court-ordered deadline."

Air [11]
Environmental Health [4]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [13]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Greenwire [14], 12/06/2018
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"E.P.A. to Roll Back a Restriction on New Coal-Burning Plants" [15]

"The Trump administration is poised to roll back a significant climate change regulation on coal-fired power plants, making it easier to build new coal plants in the United States."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: NY Times [16], 12/05/2018
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"EPA: Wheeler Kept Up Industry Meetings After Taking Reins" [17]

"Andrew Wheeler met with a range of companies and trade groups with interests before EPA after he took charge at the agency."

Economy & Business [18]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Greenwire [19], 12/05/2018
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In 2019, PFAS Chemicals Will Show Up in Drinking Water … and Headlines [20]

The vast and widely used PFAS family of chemicals is causing serious worries across the country, as it turns up in more and more drinking water systems. Pressure to regulate it is also growing, but with mixed results. This week’s TipSheet offers a detailed look-ahead on this big, developing story, with a walk-through of the context, what the EPA is (and isn’t) doing, and why states are stepping up.

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Activism [22]
Air [11]
Chemicals [23]
Economy & Business [18]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Studies [24]
Government [25]
Health [26]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Policy [27]
Pollution [13]
Science [28]
Water & Oceans [29]
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National (U.S.) [8]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [30]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [31]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [32]
Northwest (OR WA) [33]
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January 31, 2026

DEADLINE: The Victor K. McElheny Award [34]

This award, sponsored by the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, honors local and regional reporting from the US on science, public health, technology or the environment. Winner receives $10,000 and a ceremony hosted by KSJ. No entry fee. Deadline: Jan 31, 2026.

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Health [26]
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Science [28]
Technology [36]

"Businesses Discharging PFAS into Michigan's Waterways" [37]

"Michigan businesses are discharging high levels of PFAS that move into the state's waterways on a daily basis."

Chemicals [23]
Environmental Health [4]
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [7]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [30]
Source: MLive [38], 11/30/2018
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New Tick Species Can Transmit Disease, Spreading In The U.S. [39]

"A new invasive tick species capable of transmitting several severe diseases is spreading in the United States, posing an emerging threat to human and animal health, according to a pair of reports issued Thursday."

Environmental Health [4]
Wildlife [40]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Washington Post [41], 11/30/2018
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"Chemours To Clean Up Genx And Pay $12 Million Fine" [42]

"To settle allegations that it tainted drinking water for hundreds of thousands of people in southeast North Carolina with toxic fluoroethers, Chemours has agreed to pay the state $12 million."

Chemicals [23]
Environmental Health [4]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [7]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [43]
Source: C&EN [44], 11/29/2018
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"Study Warns of Cascading Health Risks From the Changing Climate" [45]

"Crop yields are declining. Tropical diseases like dengue fever are showing up in unfamiliar places, including in the United States. Tens of millions of people are exposed to extreme heat. These are the stark findings of a wide-ranging scientific report that lays out the growing risks of climate change for human health and predicts that cascading hazards could soon face millions more people in rich and poor countries around the world."

Climate Change [2]
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International [46]
Source: NY Times [47], 11/29/2018
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