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"Park Service Deletes Trans References On Stonewall Inn Monument Page" [1]

"The National Park Service has removed transgender references from its website commemorating the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, erasing transgender activists such as Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera who were central to the movement for LGBTQ+ rights."

Environmental Justice [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Journalism & Media [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Natural Resources [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Washington Post [9], 02/18/2025
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As Trump Upends EPA, Cleanups Of America’s Most Toxic Sites Are Uncertain [10]

"Just over a mile from where Patricia Flores has lived for almost 20 years, a battery smelter plant spewed toxic elements into the environment for nearly a century."

Chemicals [11]
Disasters [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [14]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
California [15]
Source: AP [16], 02/18/2025
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From Oil Boom to Lithium Rush — Reporting the Realities [17]

A coming lithium rush in Arkansas drew the notice of journalist Katie Myers, who used a grant from the Fund for Environmental Journalism to explore whether extraction activities near once-booming energy communities could avoid the economic and environmental impacts of another boom-and-bust cycle for a largely Black region with histories of land dispossession, plantation slavery and Jim Crow segregation. Lessons learned in the latest FEJ StoryLog.

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FEJ StoryLog [18]
Topics on the Beat: 
Economy & Business [19]
Environmental Justice [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Journalism & Media [4]
Natural Resources [6]
People & Population [20]
Technology [21]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [8]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [22]
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Public [7]
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Mexico Orders Factory Cleanup After Guardian Toxic Waste Investigation [23]

"Mexican environmental regulators say they have discovered 30,000 tons of improperly stored material with “hazardous characteristics” in the yard of a Mexican plant that is recycling toxic waste shipped from the US."

Chemicals [11]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [2]
Infrastructure [24]
Journalism & Media [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
People & Population [20]
Pollution [14]
Waste [25]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Mexico [26]
Source: Guardian [27], 02/14/2025
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"Undocumented Workers Prepare to Clean Up L.A.’s Fires Amid ICE Raids" [28]

"In the aftermath of the devastating wildfires that tore through Los Angeles last month, undocumented day laborers will likely make up a significant portion of the workforce tasked with clearing debris and rebuilding homes. As they navigate the environmental hazards of this work, they’re also facing the Trump administration’s escalating crackdown on immigrants."

Chemicals [11]
Climate Change [29]
Disasters [12]
Economy & Business [19]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
People & Population [20]
Pollution [14]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
California [15]
Source: Capital & Main [30], 02/14/2025
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"EPA Chief Seeks To Claw Back $20 Billion In Climate Funding" [31]

"The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking to end contracts agreed by the previous administration to distribute $20 billion in grants to fund clean energy and transportation projects in disadvantaged communities, he said on Thursday."

Climate Change [29]
Consumer [32]
Economy & Business [19]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
People & Population [20]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Reuters [33], 02/14/2025
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"EPA Removes EJScreen From Its Website" (But Not From the Web) [34]

"On February 5th, EPA removed from its website the environmental justice mapping and screening tool, EJScreen, as well as several related web pages. ... Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP) released a reconstruction of Version 2.3 of EPA’s EJScreen."

Activism [35]
Chemicals [11]
Energy & Fuel [36]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Environmental Studies [37]
Journalism & Media [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
People & Population [20]
Technology [21]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: EDGI [38], 02/13/2025
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Trump Funding Freeze Could Leave Communities On Their Own To Face Climate [39]

"Removing lead paint and pipes. Cleaning up contaminated land. Monitoring pollution. Making houses more energy efficient. Installing solar panels in low-income neighborhoods. Those are some of the projects across the country that were cut off from federal funding when the Trump administration paused spending approved earlier by Congress."

Climate Change [29]
Disasters [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [40]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: NPR [41], 02/13/2025
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Bayer Backs Broader Effort To Shield Popular Weedkiller From Cancer Claims [42]

"A renewed and expanded effort from chemical giant Bayer to shield itself from lawsuits that claim its popular weedkiller Roundup causes cancer brought dozens of protesters to the Iowa Capitol building Monday begging lawmakers to reject it."

Agriculture [43]
Chemicals [11]
Economy & Business [19]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Pollution [14]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [44]
Source: AP [45], 02/13/2025
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Black Alabamians Have Lived for Years Without Public Water or Hope For It [46]

"As aging private wells fall into disrepair, residents are left traveling miles to access or buy clean drinking water. Public officials say it’s a humanitarian crisis but argue there’s little they can do."

Consumer [32]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [2]
Government [47]
Infrastructure [24]
People & Population [20]
Water & Oceans [40]
Public [7]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [22]
Source: Inside Climate News [48], 02/12/2025
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