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Texans Must Fight "State-Regulated" Oilfield Waste Dumps By Themselves [1]

"Some Texans who challenge oil and gas waste sites must spend significant sums and time on investigating what they say the Texas Railroad Commission should examine. Will new regulations for handling waste increase oversight or just maintain the status quo?"

Air [2]
Chemicals [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [7]
Public [8]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [9]
Source: Public Health Watch [10], 08/16/2023
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"Texas’ Brazos River, Captive and Contaminated" [11]

"Dow-Freeport, the largest chemical plant complex in the Western Hemisphere, dominates—and pollutes—the Lower Brazos Watershed."

Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [5]
Pollution [7]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [8]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [9]
Source: Texas Observer [14], 08/15/2023
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"Uranium Hunters in US West Face Partial Ban, Pollution Fears" [15]

"Five weeks before President Joe Biden announced a historic new ban on new uranium mining around the Grand Canyon, Sarana Riggs approached the barbed-wire fence surrounding an inactive mine in an Arizona national forest, a Geiger counter in her hand."

Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [5]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [16]
Pollution [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [17]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [9]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [18], 08/15/2023
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Young Activists Win First-Of-Its-Kind Climate Change Trial In Montana [19]

"Young environmental activists scored what may be a groundbreaking legal victory Monday when a Montana judge said state agencies were violating their constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment by allowing fossil fuel development."

Climate Change [20]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
People & Population [21]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [22]
Source: AP [23], 08/15/2023
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"EPA Launches Civil Rights Probe Over Calif. Water Fight" [24]

"EPA is probing California’s water department over accusations of discrimination against Native tribes and people of color, launching a significant environmental justice investigation that could affect how the state oversees water."

Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [25]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [17]
California [26]
Source: E&E News [27], 08/14/2023
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"Mi’kmaw Nation, Lobster Harvesters Suing Feds For Treaty Violations" [28]

"Mi’kmaw has a treaty right to earn a moderate livelihood from the fishery. It’s a right that was enforced by the Supreme Court of Canada. But Canada hasn’t moved to protect those rights – or fishers from benefiting from them".

Environmental Justice [5]
Fish & Fisheries [29]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Public [8]
Canada [30]
Source: APTN [31], 08/14/2023
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"Louisiana Created Alleged Conflict Of Interest In ‘Cancer Alley’ Case" [32]

"Facing a pivotal federal investigation into Louisiana’s relationship with petro-chemical companies, the state’s attorney general hired lawyers who were simultaneously representing one of the main corporations at the center of the investigation, documents reveal."

Chemicals [3]
Economy & Business [33]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [25]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [34]
Source: Guardian [35], 08/14/2023
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WV Leaders Fight Pollution Standards Amid Health Risks From Coal Plants [36]

"Asthma and low life expectancy are highly prevalent in communities around West Virginia’s coal-fired power plants, federal data show."

Air [2]
Climate Change [20]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [25]
People & Population [21]
Pollution [7]
Public [8]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [37]
Source: Charleston Gazette-Mail [38], 08/11/2023
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"Opinion: Why Haven’t We Made It Safer to Breathe in Classrooms?" [39]

"Two years ago, we got a chance to assure parents and teachers, in any future epidemic, that the air in classrooms was safer, making it easier for children to attend school in person and avoid learning loss and isolation."

Air [2]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [5]
Infrastructure [40]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [7]
Technology [41]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [42], 08/11/2023
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"Utility Group Calls For Changes To Proposed EPA climate Rules" [43]

"The Edison Electric Institute, which represents investor-owned utilities, said in formal comments Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed limits on greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas-fired power plants are too strict, and said power plant owners need more flexibility, including more time to install pollution controls."

Air [2]
Climate Change [20]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [25]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NPR [44], 08/10/2023
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