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BP Paid Rural Mexicans a “Pittance” for Carbon Credits [1]

"In the coldest months of the year, thick fog blankets the mountain village of Coatitila in eastern Mexico, hiding the bulging, pine-covered hills that cradle it. At midday, the sun pulls back the fog to expose patches of blight where trees have been axed for logging or farm work."

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Source: Bloomberg [8], 07/08/2022
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"US Water Likely Contains More ‘Forever Chemicals’ Than EPA Tests Show" [9]

"A Guardian analysis of water samples from around the United States shows that the type of water testing relied on by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is so limited in scope that it is probably missing significant levels of PFAS pollutants."

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Environmental Justice [4]
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Source: Guardian [15], 07/07/2022
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"Experts: US Court Fractures Decades Of Native American Law" [16]

"A U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanding state authority to prosecute some crimes on Native land is fracturing decades of law built around the hard-fought principle that tribes have the right to govern themselves on their own territory, legal experts say."

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Source: AP [18], 07/06/2022
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Is A Uranium Mill In Utah Making Tribal Members Sick? Results In 2025 [19]

"A Native American community neighboring the only operating uranium mill in the U.S. is hoping a new study will answer longstanding questions about whether it is affecting their health."

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Source: NPR [21], 07/06/2022
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"Environmental Justice Advocates Slam Supreme Court Ruling" [22]

"The Supreme Court decision to limit how the Environmental Protection Agency regulates carbon dioxide emissions from power plants could make an already grave situation worse for those affected most by climate change and air pollution, advocates say."

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Source: AP [24], 07/05/2022
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"Funds For Climate Justice Flow To Groups Around The U.S." [25]

"Fourteen environmental justice organizations from around the United States have begun to receive money under the Justice40 initiative, a business accelerator announced Wednesday."

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Source: AP [28], 06/30/2022
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"Supreme Court Limits Historic McGirt Ruling" [29]

"The United States Supreme Court has limited the scope of its historic McGirt decision. In a 5-4 vote, the high court ruled in Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta that the state of Oklahoma has concurrent jurisdiction and the ability to prosecute non-Natives when the victim is Native and the crime is committed on tribal land."

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People & Population [30]
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National (U.S.) [14]
Source: ICT [31], 06/30/2022
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Mich. Court Rules Grand Jury Improperly Indicted Officials In Flint Case [32]

"Michigan’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the indictment of former Gov. Rick Snyder (R) and several other officials in connection with the contamination of water in Flint was improper because the grand jury consisted of a single judge."

Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [4]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Pollution [33]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [6]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [34]
Source: The Hill [35], 06/29/2022
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"Court: Land Swap For Ariz. Mine Doesn’t Violate Tribal Rights" [36]

"A federal appeals court ruled that a federal land swap giving a Native American tribal holy site in Arizona to a private mining company so it could be the site of a copper mine would not violate the tribe’s religious freedoms."

Economy & Business [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Natural Resources [37]
Public [6]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [38]
Source: E&E News [39], 06/28/2022
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How 'Rights of Nature' Is Recasting the Relationship Between Law and the Earth [40]

In 2006, a local government council in Pennsylvania concerned about sewage sludge dumping enacted the Western legal system’s first formal “rights of nature” instrument. Today, numerous countries have laws recognizing specific rights or even legal personhood for nature. As legal expert Alice Bleby explains, this new perspective arises from a wide range of contexts and plays out in many different ways.

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