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"Coal To Solar Switch Could Save 52,000 Us Lives Per Year" [1]

"Swapping out coal energy for solar would prevent 52,000 premature deaths in the United States every year, according to a new analysis from Michigan Technological University."

Air [2]
Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Pollution [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Daily Climate [9], 06/06/2017
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"Health Experts Are Furious With Trump For Pulling Out of Paris Pact [10]

"Environmentalists aren’t the only ones outraged over President Trump’s decision to have the U.S. walk away from the Paris accord on global warming. Health experts are pretty dismayed as well."

Climate Change [3]
Environmental Health [5]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: LA Times [11], 06/05/2017
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"Maryland Joins California In Battling Antibiotic Overuse On Farms" [12]

"Maryland has become the second U.S. state to pass a law banning the routine use of antibiotics in healthy livestock and poultry, a move aimed at battling the rise of dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as 'superbugs.'"

Agriculture [13]
Environmental Health [5]
Public [7]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [14]
Source: Reuters [15], 05/31/2017
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Toddler's Parents Sue Cleveland Over Lead in Home [16]

"The chubby Cleveland toddler wears a long-sleeved purple shirt that proclaims she is 'Daddy's little darling.'"

Environmental Health [5]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Public [7]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [18]
Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer [19], 05/29/2017
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"House Votes To Roll Back Pesticide Restrictions" [20]

"The House passed legislation on Wednesday to loosen federal regulations on pesticides in a 256-165 vote."

Agriculture [13]
Chemicals [21]
Environmental Health [5]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: The Hill [22], 05/26/2017
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"U.S. EPA Moves To Postpone Steam Electric Power Plant Effluent Rules" [23]

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it proposed a rule on Thursday to postpone compliance dates for effluent guidelines for steam electric power plants published in November 2015."

Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Pollution [6]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Reuters [25], 05/26/2017
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EU Called Glyphosate Safe After Help From Controversial Us Official [26]

"The European Food Safety Authority dismissed a study linking a Monsanto weedkiller to cancer after counsel from a US Environmental Protection Agency officer allegedly linked to the company."

Agriculture [13]
Chemicals [21]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [27]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Public [7]
Europe [28]
Source: Guardian [29], 05/25/2017
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Trump Pick for EPA Enforcement Office Lobbied for Superfund Polluters [30]

Susan Bodine, whom President Trump nominated May 12 to head the Environmental Protection Agency's enforcement office, represented Superfund polluters as a lawyer in private practice.

Chemicals [21]
Economy & Business [31]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [27]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: The Intercept [32], 05/25/2017
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Chemical Defender Put in Charge of EPA Unit Overseeing Toxics [33]

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declared 1-bromopropane dangerous enough to make it one of the first 10 chemicals it scrutinized under an updated federal toxins law. Nancy Beck disagreed."

Chemicals [21]
Economy & Business [31]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [27]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Science [34]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Bloomberg [35], 05/25/2017
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"EPA: Trump Calls For Cutting Budget By 30%, Slashing 3,800 Jobs" [36]

"President Trump has proposed a dramatic downsizing of U.S. EPA."

Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [27]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Greenwire [37], 05/24/2017
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