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New Mexico Officials: FEMA Delays Lead To Mistrust Among Wildfire Victims [1]

"Members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation are criticizing federal emergency managers for missing deadlines as residents seek recovery assistance following the largest wildfire in the state’s recorded history."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Forests [6]
Natural Resources [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [10]
Source: AP [11], 05/11/2023
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"Air Pollution Monitoring Bill Blocked By Louisiana Senate Committee" [12]

"The latest effort to create a public warning system for spikes in air pollution was snuffed out by a Senate committee."

Air [13]
Chemicals [14]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Pollution [18]
Public [8]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [19]
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [20], 05/11/2023
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"The Pink River Dolphins of the Amazon Have a Warning for Humans" [21]

"It was a rare sight, an endangered species emblematic of the Colombian Amazon, considered sacred by the region’s Indigenous communities: the pink dolphins."

Biodiversity [22]
Chemicals [14]
Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Fish & Fisheries [23]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Natural Resources [7]
Pollution [18]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [8]
Central America & the Caribbean [25]
South America [26]
Source: Washington Post [27], 05/10/2023
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‘It Gives Life’: Philippine Tribe Fights To Save A Sacred River From Dam [28]

"Each year, members of the Dumagat-Remontado tribe gather at the Tinipak River to observe an Indigenous ritual to honor their supreme being and pray for healing and protection. This year, the rite had an additional intention: to ward off an impending dam project they fear will inundate the site of the ritual."

Biodiversity [22]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Fish & Fisheries [23]
Infrastructure [29]
Natural Resources [7]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [30]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [8]
Australia & Oceania [31]
Source: Mongabay [32], 05/10/2023
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"Shell Refinery Unit Had History of Malfunctions Before Fire" [33]

"The units at a Houston-area Shell refinery that caught fire this weekend repeatedly malfunctioned in recent years without recourse from Texas regulators."

Air [13]
Chemicals [14]
Disasters [3]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Justice [4]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Pollution [18]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [10]
Source: Inside Climate News [34], 05/10/2023
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Puppy Mills: Iowa Still Leads The Nation In Both Violators And Citations [35]

"Iowa continues to lead the nation in the number of regulatory violations committed by puppy mills."

Agriculture [36]
Biodiversity [22]
Environmental Justice [4]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Public [8]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [37]
Source: States Newsroom [38], 05/09/2023
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EPA Promises Action On Puerto Rico Coal Ash. Residents Tired Of Waiting [39]

"Biden’s EPA offers support to Guayama residents after decades of environmental injustice, but residents say they won’t be satisfied until the plant is closed and all its coal ash removed."

Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Justice [4]
Pollution [18]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [8]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [19]
Source: Energy News Network [40], 05/09/2023
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Will Billions To Fix Texas Water Systems Reach These Forgotten Colonias? [41]

"An estimated 500,000 people live in thousands of colonias along the Texas-Mexico border. Largely built between the 1950s and 1980s, these communities have been promised water — but it has never come."

"Maria Martínez constantly calculates how much water is left in the 2,000-gallon tank that sits outside her home near El Paso.

When there’s less than 600 gallons, it’s time to place an order. A few loads of laundry and dirty dishes will use every last drop.

Consumer [42]
Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
People & Population [43]
Planning & Growth [44]
Pollution [18]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [8]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [10]
Source: Texas Tribune [45], 05/09/2023
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Tribe Was Barred From Cultural Burning — Then A Fire Hit Their Community [46]

"The land near Yosemite National Park had been tended by Irene Vasquez’s family for decades. They took care of their seven acres by setting small fires to thin vegetation and help some plants to grow. But the steep, chaparral-studded slopes surrounding the property hadn’t seen fire since Vasquez and fellow members of the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation were barred from practicing cultural burning on a wider scale some 100 years before."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Justice [4]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Natural Resources [7]
Public [8]
California [47]
Source: LA Times [48], 05/08/2023
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Florida Black Community’s Progress Is Threatened by Proposed LNG Plant [49]

"Leaders in North Port St. Joe had big plans for tourism, real estate, even a Black history museum. Then they found out, almost by accident, that elected officials had been pushing the LNG terminal for years without telling them."

Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Justice [4]
Infrastructure [29]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Public [8]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [19]
Source: Inside Climate News [50], 05/08/2023
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