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RCMP Arrest Journalists, Land Defenders Following Gidimt’en Eviction [1]

"RCMP arrested two journalists, including photojournalist Amber Bracken, on assignment for The Narwhal, during police enforcement of a Coastal GasLink injunction in northwest B.C. Friday."

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Source: The Narwhal [8], 11/22/2021
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"Brazil Accused Of 'Greenwashing' The Amazon's Deforestation" [9]

"Deforestation in the Amazon region has risen for the fourth straight year, despite international pressure and pledges from Brazil's government to preserve the rainforest."

Agriculture [10]
Biodiversity [11]
Climate Change [12]
Disasters [13]
Environmental Justice [3]
Environmental Politics [14]
Forests [4]
Journalism & Media [5]
Natural Resources [15]
Public [6]
South America [16]
Source: DW [17], 11/22/2021
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"Ethanol: Brazil’s Sugar-Based Biofuel Built On Labor Abuse" [18]

"Pedro was just seven when he started work on a sugarcane farm with his father after refusing to go to school - little knowing what this small act of rebellion would cost him."

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Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Justice [3]
Public [6]
South America [16]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [20], 11/18/2021
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"EPA Overturns Approval Of Mississippi Yazoo Pumps Project" [21]

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday it has overturned the approval of a massive flood-control project in the south Mississippi Delta that officials said was erroneously greenlit in the final days of the Trump administration."

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Disasters [13]
Environmental Justice [3]
Infrastructure [22]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Water & Oceans [24]
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Source: AP [26], 11/18/2021
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"Memphis Residents Wage Fight Against TVA Coal Ash Storage" [27]

"Activist Justin J. Pearson had barely finished one environmental fight before he realized he needed to get involved in another. ...The Tennessee Valley Authority is preparing to store coal ash, a by-product of coal burning, in Southeast Memphis."

Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Health [28]
Environmental Justice [3]
Pollution [29]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [6]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [25]
Source: Tennessee Lookout [30], 11/16/2021
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"Day 1 Takeaways From Tribal Nations Summit" [31]

"The White House held its tribal nations summit Monday for the first time in five years. The two-day event ends Tuesday."

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People & Population [32]
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National (U.S.) [33]
Source: Indian Country Today [34], 11/16/2021
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Mapping Toxic U.S. Hotspots Down to the Neighborhood Level [35]

A new project on toxic risks has yielded a tool making it far easier to use data from the Toxics Release Inventory to report on hotspots. Reporter’s Toolbox offers a guide to ProPublica’s impressive “Sacrifice Zones” special report, which maps cancer-causing industrial air pollution. Plus, join an in-depth virtual tutorial [36] on the ProPublica tool co-sponsored by the Society of Environmental Journalists.

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Laws & Regulations [23]
People & Population [32]
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Biden Plans to Bar New Drilling Around Major Native American Cultural Site [42]

"After years of tribal requests, the president plans to block new oil and gas leases within 10 miles of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. The ban is likely to generate strong pushback from industry."

Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Justice [3]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Natural Resources [15]
People & Population [32]
Public [6]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [43]
Source: NYTimes [44], 11/15/2021
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"Flooding and Nuclear Waste Eat Away at a Tribe’s Ancestral Home" [45]

"For decades, chronic flooding and nuclear waste have encroached on the ancestral lands in southeastern Minnesota that the Prairie Island Indian Community calls home, whittling them to about a third of their original size."

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Nuclear Power & Radiation [46]
Waste [47]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [6]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [48]
Source: NYTimes [49], 11/15/2021
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"Sinking Tuvalu Laments Watered Down U.N. Glasgow Climate Pact" [50]

"The South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu is disappointed with the outcome of the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, fearing it will fail to hold back global warming and worsen the threat of rising sea levels facing low lying countries."

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International [51]
Source: Reuters [52], 11/15/2021
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