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"'Reprehensible': Fossil Fuel Industry Infiltrates Civil Rights Convention" [1]

"Al Sharpton invited methane representatives to his National Action Network convention, where they fear-mongered attendees about renewables."

Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Journalism & Media [7]
People & Population [8]
Pollution [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: HEATED [12], 04/18/2024
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Group Slams Gas Group’s Use Of Customers’ Money To Thwart Climate Efforts [13]

"A group of advocates and Democratic senators gathered in Washington DC on Tuesday to decry utilities’ practice of spending customers’ money to advance a pro-fossil fuel agenda."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Guardian [14], 04/12/2024
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"Mapping America’s Access To Nature, Neighborhood By Neighborhood" [15]

"Using satellite imagery and data on dozens of factors — including air and noise pollution, park space, open water and tree canopy — NatureQuant has distilled the elements of health-supporting nature into a single variable called NatureScore. Aggregated to the level of Census tracts — roughly the size of a neighborhood — the data provide a high-resolution image of where nature is abundant and where it is lacking across the United States."

Consumer [16]
Environmental Health [17]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Natural Resources [18]
People & Population [8]
Planning & Growth [19]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Washington Post [20], 04/11/2024
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US Agrees With Native American Tribe That Line 5 Pipeline Is Trespassing [21]

"The Biden administration straddled the line on a controversial Canadian oil pipeline in a court filing Wednesday, saying a lower court’s order to drain portions running through tribal land may violate a 1977 treaty but agreeing with a Native American tribe that the operator is trespassing on tribal land."

Disasters [22]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Infrastructure [23]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Natural Resources [18]
Pollution [9]
Transportation [25]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [27]
Canada [28]
Source: The Hill [29], 04/11/2024
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Trump Appointees Barred EPA Staff From Warning Senate About PFAS Loophole [30]

"Trump administration officials barred experts from warning legislators that they were about to write a major environmental loophole into law, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staffers alleged in newly revealed internal communications."

Chemicals [31]
Environmental Health [17]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Journalism & Media [7]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Pollution [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: The Hill [32], 04/11/2024
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"Biden Admin Tackles Cancer-Causing Air Pollution" [33]

"The Biden administration is reining in releases of cancer-causing compounds and other hazardous pollutants in a crackdown that targets petrochemical plants clustered in areas like Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley.”

Chemicals [31]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [17]
Environmental Justice [5]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Pollution [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: E&E News [34], 04/10/2024
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April 19, 2024

DEADLINE: Planet Forward Frontline Climate Fellowship [35]

The Planet Forward Frontline Climate Fellowship, June 10-July 19, is seeking six unique, highly diverse college students to report environmental stories from, by and about underserved communities on the front lines of climate change and environmental inequity. This is a paid opportunity. Apply by Apr 19.

Workshops and Fellowships [36]
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Climate Change [2]
Diversity [37]
Environmental Justice [5]
Journalism & Media [7]
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National (U.S.) [11]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [38]

"Mercury Exposure Widespread Among Yanomami Tribe In Amazon, Report Finds" [39]

"Many Yanomami, the Amazon’s largest Indigenous tribe in relative isolation, have been contaminated with mercury coming from widespread illegal gold mining, according to a report released on Thursday by Brazil’s top public health institute."

Chemicals [31]
Environmental Health [17]
Environmental Justice [5]
Forests [40]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Natural Resources [18]
People & Population [8]
Public [10]
South America [41]
Source: AP [42], 04/05/2024
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"Environmental Protection Agency Gives $20 Billion in ‘Green Bank’ Grants" [43]

"The E.P.A. said the fund will spur a clean energy transition in overlooked communities. Republicans called it a “greendoggle.”"

Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [3]
Environmental Justice [5]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: NYTimes [44], 04/05/2024
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Rust Belt Senators Cloud EPA Effort To Clean Up Steel Mills [45]

"Steel towns will see some reductions in toxic pollution from new regulations — but not as much as they’d hoped."

Air [46]
Environmental Justice [5]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Pollution [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Grist [47], 04/02/2024
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