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"The Smoldering, Noxious Waste Dump Next Door" [1]

"L.A. County’s Chiquita Canyon Landfill has spewed high levels of toxic gases and climate super-pollutants for years. Yet local residents’ pleas for help from state officials remain unanswered."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [7]
Waste [8]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
California [11]
Source: Inside Climate News [12], 08/19/2025
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White House Draft Suggests Kennedy Won’t Push Strict Pesticide Regulations [13]

"A highly anticipated White House report on the health of American children would stop short of proposing direct restrictions on ultraprocessed foods and pesticides that the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has called major threats, according to a draft of the document that was reviewed by The New York Times."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Environmental Studies [14]
Health [15]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Science [16]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: NYTimes [17], 08/19/2025
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From Landfills to Offices, Toxic Chemicals in Plastics Poison Workers [18]

"The plastics contaminating every corner of the Earth contain thousands of unregulated toxic chemicals. As global plastic talks end without a treaty, health experts say negotiators must consider their toxic cargo."

Chemicals [2]
Consumer [19]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
People & Population [20]
Pollution [7]
Waste [8]
Public [9]
International [21]
Source: Inside Climate News [22], 08/18/2025
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EPA Open Data Plan Is Worth Putting Into Action [23]

Public databases — a boon to good environmental reporting — have long been a priority for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as evidenced in its just-published “open data plan.” But as an analysis in the latest Reporter’s Toolbox notes, that pioneering approach may succumb to Trump 2.0 policies. What’s at stake and what’s already being lost.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Reporters Toolbox [24]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [25]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Government [26]
Journalism & Media [27]
Policy [28]
Science [16]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [10]
Visibility: 
Public [9]
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Environmental Justice Test for Trump EPA: A Creek That Smells Like Death [29]

"EPA expressed alarm at contamination in a creek near a predominantly Black neighborhood. Then the agency eliminated its civil-rights office and has taken no further action."

Chemicals [2]
Consumer [19]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [6]
People & Population [20]
Pollution [7]
Waste [8]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [32]
Source: Inside Climate News [33], 08/15/2025
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"Forcing Dirty Power Plants To Stay Open Would Cost Americans Billions" [34]

"The Trump admin’s scheme to keep old fossil-fuel plants running could saddle utility customers with nearly $6 billion a year in unnecessary costs, a report finds."

Climate Change [25]
Consumer [19]
Economy & Business [35]
Energy & Fuel [36]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [6]
People & Population [20]
Pollution [7]
Technology [37]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Canary Media [38], 08/15/2025
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"In Appalachia, Fracking Is Not The Job Creator The Industry Claims" [39]

"As the Trump administration aims to bolster fossil fuels at the expense of clean energy expansion, new research shows the oil and gas sector has so far failed to become a major jobs creator for heavily fracked areas of northern Appalachia."

Consumer [19]
Economy & Business [35]
Energy & Fuel [36]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Natural Resources [40]
Pollution [7]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Canary Media [41], 08/15/2025
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"Her Dogs Kept Dying, And She Got Cancer. Then They Tested Her Water." [42]

"Debbie Blankenship’s wheelchair carved perfect lines in the grass as she rolled into her backyard garden, passing a wooden arch filled with small grapes, a bush with plump blueberries and yellow crates filled with sprouting potatoes. She stopped at a dirt patch with a burial marker for her beagle — the latest of her dogs to die of cancer."

Chemicals [2]
Consumer [19]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
People & Population [20]
Pollution [7]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [43]
Source: Washington Post [44], 08/15/2025
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‘People Will Die’ — Stories Behind Trump Budget Bill [45]

The Trump administration’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” is anything but, especially in its unraveling of efforts to weave environmental and climate justice into American society, argues the new Voices of Environmental Justice. In her latest column, writer Yessenia Funes calls on journalists to report its ramifications not just for the planet but for the most vulnerable people living on it. Here are key stories to start with.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Voices of Environmental Justice [46]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [47]
Air [48]
Chemicals [2]
Climate Change [25]
Energy & Fuel [36]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Government [26]
Health [15]
Infrastructure [30]
Journalism & Media [27]
Laws & Regulations [6]
People & Population [20]
Policy [28]
Pollution [7]
Waste [8]
Water & Oceans [31]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [10]
Alaska and Hawaii [49]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [32]
Visibility: 
Public [9]
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"Syngenta Closer To Settling Thousands Of US Paraquat Lawsuits" [50]

"Syngenta is another step closer to potentially putting an end to thousands of lawsuits brought by people blaming the company’s paraquat weed killer for causing Parkinson’s disease."

Agriculture [51]
Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Laws & Regulations [6]
People & Population [20]
Pollution [7]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: The New Lede [52], 08/14/2025
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