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"EPA Tightens Reporting Requirements For PFAS Releases, Closing Loophole [1]

"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized a rule that will tighten the reporting requirements for facilities that use or release certain types of toxic “forever chemicals.”

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Journalism & Media [4]
Pollution [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: The Hill [8], 10/23/2023
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FDA Proposes Ban On Hair Relaxers With Formaldehyde Due To Cancer Concerns [9]

"The Food and Drug Administration is proposing a ban on using the chemical formaldehyde as an ingredient in hair relaxers, citing its link to cancer and other long-term adverse health effects."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [10]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: NPR [12], 10/23/2023
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October 23, 2023

Webinar: Climate Change in the Chinese Mind [13]

The Yale Center for Environmental Communication, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and Yale School of the Environment present a conversation with Yale University World Fellow Dr. Binbin Wang, who will share key findings of the latest national public survey on climate change in China. Noon ET.

Other Events [14]
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Climate Change [15]
Diversity [16]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [7]
International [17]
Asia [18]

Do Home Buyers Have a Right to Flood Risk Disclosure? [19]

In the second of a two-parter for our 2024 Journalists’ Guide to Environment + Energy [20], the latest TipSheet considers how local environmental journalists can make news out of the state-by-state patchwork of flood risk disclosure laws amid rising climate extremes. A dozen-and-a-half story ideas and reporting resources on the topic. Plus, see part one [21] on climate and insurance.

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TipSheet [22]
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Climate Change [15]
Consumer [23]
Disasters [24]
Government [25]
Infrastructure [26]
Journalism & Media [4]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Planning & Growth [27]
Policy [28]
Water & Oceans [29]
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National (U.S.) [7]
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"‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Opens Across US (Finally!)" [30]

"Spellbinding, heartbreaking and exhaustingly researched, director Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating epic look into the mass murders of the Osage over oil rights in the 1920s opens Oct. 20 in wide release across the United States."

Energy & Fuel [31]
Environmental Justice [10]
Journalism & Media [4]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Natural Resources [32]
People & Population [33]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: ICT [34], 10/20/2023
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GOP AGs, Industry Ask For Emergency Supreme Court Stay Of Biden Smog Rule [35]

"A coalition of Republican attorneys general on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to stay the federal “Good Neighbor” interstate smog rule while they appeal a lower court ruling."

Air [36]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Politics [37]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Pollution [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: The Hill [38], 10/20/2023
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"USDA Working With Ranchers Toward Indigenous Food Sovereignty" [39]

"Since the near extinction of the buffalo mostly by White settlers, the animal has become a symbol of both Indigenous resilience and food sovereignty. Now, buffalo are central to a new pilot program to improve food distribution on Native land."

Agriculture [40]
Biodiversity [41]
Environmental Justice [10]
People & Population [33]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: ICT [42], 10/20/2023
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Ships Speeding Through US 'Go Slow' Zones Meant To Protect Endangered Whale [43]

"More than 80% of ships are speeding through "go slow" zones set by environmental regulators along the U.S. East Coast to protect endangered North Atlantic Right Whales, according to a report released on Thursday by environmental group Oceana."

Biodiversity [41]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Transportation [44]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Reuters [45], 10/20/2023
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"Norma And Tammy Gain Strength En Route To Mexico, Leeward Islands" [46]

"Two potentially impactful tropical cyclones, both of which could reach land areas as hurricanes over the next several days, were roiling the waters on Thursday west of Mexico and east of the Leeward Islands: Hurricane Norma in the eastern Pacific and Tropical Storm Tammy in the Atlantic."

Climate Change [15]
Disasters [24]
People & Population [33]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Mexico [47]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [48], 10/20/2023
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October 24, 2023

Webinar: Assessing the Risk of PFAS From Land Applied Biosolids Vs. Other Common Exposure Pathways [49]

The Mid-Atlantic Biosolids Association (MABA) and the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association invite journalists to a webinar at Noon ET examining the benefits of land-applied biosolids vs. the consequences of ineffectual land application bans in the name of reducing PFAS exposure.

Other Events [14]
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Public [6]
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Activism [50]
Agriculture [40]
Chemicals [2]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Food [51]
Health [52]
Waste [53]
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National (U.S.) [7]

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