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"Black And Latinx Hairdressers Exposed To High Levels Of Phthalates" [1]

"A pilot study is the latest evidence that women of color are disproportionately impacted by hormone-mimicking chemicals from hair care products."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Pollution [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: EHN [8], 07/07/2021
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Corpus Christi Black Neighbors Feel Like They Are in a ‘Sacrifice Zone’ [9]

"Boxed in by refineries, oil tanks, an interstate highway and a bridge under construction, the people are left in a hollowed-out neighborhood and a broken community."

Air [10]
Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Infrastructure [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [13]
Pollution [5]
Transportation [14]
Public [6]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [15]
Source: Inside Climate News [16], 07/07/2021
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"Tribes Say Voting Access Hurt By US Supreme Court Ruling" [17]

"The largest Native American reservation in the U.S. includes parts of three Arizona counties, all of which had different approaches to precinct voting in the 2020 general election."

Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [18]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [13]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: AP [19], 07/07/2021
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"Inside The Pacheedaht Nation’s Stand On Fairy Creek Logging Blockades" [20]

"Catapulted into the spotlight amid B.C.’s new war in the woods, Pacheedaht First Nation is asserting its right to decide how resources on its territory, including old-growth forests, are managed".

Activism [21]
Environmental Justice [4]
Fish & Fisheries [22]
Forests [23]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [24]
People & Population [13]
Public [6]
Canada [25]
Source: The Narwhal [26], 07/06/2021
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New Day for Long-Suffering Neighbors after Huge Phila. Refinery Fire [27]

"The petroleum smell is gone, the benzene emissions have abated and residents in nearby neighborhoods of color feel they’re finally being heard."

Air [10]
Chemicals [2]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Pollution [5]
Public [6]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [29]
Source: Inside Climate News [30], 07/06/2021
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"Honduran Court Finds Construction Exec Guilty In Activist's Murder" [31]

"A former top executive of a Honduran construction firm was found guilty on Monday of being a collaborator in the 2016 murder of indigenous environmental activist Berta Caceres, a judge said in a court ruling."

Activism [21]
Environmental Justice [4]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [6]
Central America & the Caribbean [32]
Source: Reuters [33], 07/06/2021
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"Activists Call For Ocean City Boycott Over Trash Burning" [34]

"Environmentalists are calling for a boycott of a Maryland beach town until it starts sending its waste to a local landfill instead of a majority-Black town in Pennsylvania."

Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Waste [35]
Public [6]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [29]
Source: AP [36], 07/05/2021
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"Under Presssure, Company Cancels Tennessee Pipeline" [37]

"Environmentalists and activists claimed victory Saturday after a company canceled plans to build an oil pipeline through southwest Tennessee and north Mississippi, and over an aquifer that provides drinking water to 1 million people."

Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Justice [4]
Public [6]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [38]
Source: AP [39], 07/05/2021
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"Hundreds Believed Dead In Heat Wave Despite Efforts To Help" [40]

"Many of the dead were found alone, in homes without air conditioning or fans. Some were elderly — one as old as 97. The body of an immigrant farm laborer was found in an Oregon nursery."

Climate Change [41]
Disasters [42]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Forests [23]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Canada [25]
Source: AP [43], 07/02/2021
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As Western Wildfires Worsen, FEMA Is Denying Most People Who Ask For Help [44]

"Brenda and Francis Dairy's small ranch house, tucked into the Oregon woods, was built to withstand a wildfire. The siding was concrete, the roof metal. It didn't matter. On Sept. 7 of last year, as the sky turned dark orange and the air grew thick with smoke, flames tore through nearby trees and engulfed the house entirely."

Climate Change [41]
Disasters [42]
Environmental Justice [4]
Forests [23]
Government [45]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [24]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: NPR [46], 07/01/2021
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