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"Court Quashes Youth Climate Change Case Against Government" [1]

"A federal appeals court has thrown out the landmark climate change lawsuit brought on behalf of young people against the federal government."

Activism [2]
Climate Change [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: NY Times [8], 01/20/2020
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"Oil And Gas: Toxic Refinery Leaks Imperiled Philadelphia Residents" [9]

"Last May, an air monitor on the border of the East Coast's largest oil refinery recorded a level of cancer-causing gas more than 21 times the federal limit. In June, an explosive early-morning fire rocked the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery, terrifying nearby residents."

Chemicals [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [4]
Pollution [13]
Public [6]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [14]
Source: Greenwire [15], 01/17/2020
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Trump Puts Severe Restrictions on Long-Delayed Puerto Rico Disaster Aid [16]

"Days after the island was hit by a 5.9-magnitude earthquake, the White House released billions in aid but placed limits on how it can be spent."

Disasters [17]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [18]
Public [6]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [19]
Source: NY Times [20], 01/17/2020
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"Environmental Groups Challenge Plastics Complex Permit" [21]

"Conservation and community groups sued the Trump administration Wednesday, challenging environmental permits for a Taiwan company’s planned $9.4 billion plastics complex in Louisiana."

Activism [2]
Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [3]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [19]
Source: AP [22], 01/16/2020
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"Racist Housing Policies In US Linked To Deadly Heatwave Exposure" [23]

"Deadly urban heatwaves disproportionately affect underserved neighbourhoods because of the legacy of racist housing policies which have denied African Americans home ownership and basic public services, a landmark new study has found."

Climate Change [3]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [4]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Guardian [24], 01/16/2020
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"Weather Channel To Talk Environmental Justice With 2020 Candidates" [25]

"The Weather Channel will talk with several 2020 candidates about environmental justice as the second part of its "2020: Race to Save the Planet” special."

Climate Change [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Journalism & Media [26]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: The Hill [27], 01/14/2020
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"The War on the War on Cancer" [28]

"Trump’s Gutting of Toxics Regulations Will Mean Higher Profits for Polluters and Higher Cancer Rates for the American People".

Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [18]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: The Intercept [29], 01/14/2020
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Critics Warn Trump's NEPA Rollback Could Hit Minorities, Poor Hardest [30]

"President Trump's proposed overhaul of a bedrock environmental law aims to streamline project reviews, but those changes are likely to hit minority communities and those with high poverty rates the hardest, experts warn."

Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [18]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: The Hill [31], 01/13/2020
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Clear Warnings Needed: "Hair Dye Cancer Risk Stokes Fear In Black Women" [32]

"Priscilla Graves is a hairstylist with 15 years’ experience straightening and coloring black women’s hair. She has endured bouts of dizziness, nausea and difficulty breathing from applying potent chemical straighteners, and regularly deals with distraught clients suffering alopecia and painful blisters after using dyes and lotions specifically marketed to African Americans."

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [33]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [4]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Guardian [34], 01/10/2020
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Trump Water Rollback Leaves New Mexico Fearing Pollution, Health Risks [35]

"TAOS, N.M. — Twice a day, every day, Vicente Fernandez walks along the banks of the Rio Fernando, inspecting the river that has shaped his valley’s fortunes for generations."

Agriculture [36]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [18]
Laws & Regulations [5]
People & Population [37]
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [38]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: LA Times [39], 01/10/2020
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