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Judge Orders California Agricultural Officials To Cease Pesticide Use [1]

"A judge has ordered California agricultural officials to stop spraying pesticides on public and private property to control insects that threaten the state’s $45-billion agriculture industry."

Agriculture [2]
Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Public [5]
California [6]
Source: LA Times [7], 03/01/2018
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"EPA: Agency Moves To Disband Environmental Research Operation" [8]

"U.S. EPA is planning to shut down a grant-making center that supports leading-edge research on human exposure to pollution and its effects."

Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [9]
Science [10]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Greenwire [12], 03/01/2018
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"Scott Pruitt vs. The Pope" [13]

"The EPA administrator has become the de facto spokesperson for a fringe version of Christian environmentalism."

Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [9]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: New Republic [15], 02/28/2018
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"US Judge Blocks Weed-Killer Warning Label In California" [16]

"A U.S. judge blocked California from requiring that the popular weed-killer Roundup carry a label stating that it is known to cause cancer, saying the warning is misleading because almost all regulators have concluded there is no evidence that the product’s main ingredient is a carcinogen."

Agriculture [2]
Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Public [5]
California [6]
Source: AP [18], 02/28/2018
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Coke Plant Linked To “Asthma Epidemic” In Pittsburgh Elementary School [19]

"Asthma-spurring pollution swirls around children living in the shadow of the Clairton Coke Works Plant—black and poor children suffer the most".

Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Health [4]
People & Population [20]
Public [5]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [21]
Source: EHN [22], 02/28/2018
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"Judge Curiel, Once Attacked By Trump, Rules Border Wall Can Proceed" [23]

"US District Judge Gonzalo Curiel has cleared one potential obstacle to President Donald Trump's long-promised border wall, ruling Tuesday that the administration has the authority to waive a host of environmental laws and other regulations to begin construction."

Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [9]
Laws & Regulations [17]
People & Population [20]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: CNN [24], 02/28/2018
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“Yellowstone Migrations” [25]

A photographer undertook an artistic and scientific odyssey that was inspired by an ancient migration now imperiled by human encroachment. His new volume tracks the mythical journeys taken by pronghorn, mule deer and elk through the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. BookShelf reviews Joe Riis’ “Yellowstone Migrations.”

SEJ Publication Types: 
BookShelf [26]
Topics on the Beat: 
Biodiversity [27]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Health [4]
Natural Resources [28]
Science [10]
Wildlife [29]
Region: 
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [30]
Visibility: 
Public [5]
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“Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science” [31]

A hard-nosed account of Monsanto and its controversial and popular herbicide Roundup comes in a new book by a former wire service reporter, who pieced together documentation and fact-finding from over 20 years to make a case there was a dangerous cover-up. BookShelf reviews Carey Gillam’s “Whitewash.”

SEJ Publication Types: 
BookShelf [26]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [32]
Agriculture [2]
Air [33]
Chemicals [3]
Consumer [34]
Economy & Business [35]
Environmental Health [4]
Food [36]
Government [37]
Health [38]
Journalism & Media [39]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Natural Resources [28]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [11]
Visibility: 
Public [5]
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“The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea” [40]

A new book on the Gulf of Mexico earns kudos for the balance and passion of its tone, as well as for its historical storytelling about this important ecosystem and the overfishing, oil spills, hurricanes, explosive growth and poor land-use decisions it faces. BookShelf reviews Jack Davis’ “The Gulf.”

SEJ Publication Types: 
BookShelf [26]
Topics on the Beat: 
Biodiversity [27]
Disasters [41]
Economy & Business [35]
Energy & Fuel [14]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [9]
Fish & Fisheries [42]
Natural Resources [28]
People & Population [20]
Planning & Growth [43]
Policy [44]
Pollution [45]
Water & Oceans [46]
Region: 
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [47]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [48]
Mexico [49]
Central America & the Caribbean [50]
Visibility: 
Public [5]
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Federal Watchdog IDs New Workplace Safety Problems at Los Alamos Lab [51]

"Los Alamos National Laboratory has failed to keep track of a toxic metal used in nuclear weapons production, potentially exposing workers to serious health consequences, a federal watchdog has found."

Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [52]
Public [5]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [48]
Source: Santa Fe New Mexican [53], 02/27/2018
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