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"Boil-Water Notice Lifted In Jackson, Mississippi, After Nearly 7 Weeks" [1]

"After nearly seven weeks of being forced to boil their water before drinking it or using it to brush teeth, people in Mississippi’s largest city were told Thursday that water from the tap is safe to consume — but Jackson’s water system still needs big repairs that the mayor says the cash-strapped city cannot afford on its own."

Environmental Health [2]
Environmental Justice [3]
Pollution [4]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
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Source: AP [8], 09/16/2022
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Judge Tosses Air Permit For Giant Formosa Plastics Complex, Citing EJ [9]

"A judge has thrown out the air permit for a massive new plastics complex in St. James Parish, telling regulators to start from the beginning."

Air [10]
Chemicals [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [2]
Environmental Justice [3]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [4]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [7]
Source: Nola.com [15], 09/15/2022
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#SEJSpotlight: Holly Haworth, Author [16]

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Journalism & Media [17]
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Jackson's Water Crisis Can't Be Disentangled From Race, Experts Say [18]

"Recent flooding in Jackson, Mississippi, exacerbated the city's already failing water system. Experts say it's a familiar threat in disinvested communities of color."

Disasters [19]
Environmental Health [2]
Environmental Justice [3]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
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Source: USA TODAY [20], 09/02/2022
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Leak Of Dangerous Chlorine Shows Gaps In La. Monitoring Of Chemical Plants [21]

"Six days after a state Senate panel killed legislation that would have required real-time air monitoring along the edges of major Louisiana industrial facilities, an Olin Chemical subsidiary had a significant chlorine gas leak that sickened 39 people."

Air [10]
Chemicals [11]
Disasters [19]
Environmental Health [2]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [4]
Public [6]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [7]
Source: Baton Rouge Advocate [22], 09/01/2022
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"Mississippi’s Largest City In Water Crisis As Treatment Plant Fails" [23]

"The governor of Mississippi urged residents of Jackson, the state’s capital and largest city, not to drink the water there — if they still had access to it — warning that running water would soon be unavailable as the city’s long-struggling treatment plant failed."

Disasters [19]
Pollution [4]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [7]
Source: Washington Post [24], 08/30/2022
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The Last Days Of A Louisiana Tribe’s Struggle To Escape The Rising Sea [25]

"ISLE DE JEAN CHARLES - When she was a girl, Theresa “Betty” Billiot would open the back door to a view of cattle grazing in pastures, cotton fields and wild prairie dotted with duck ponds. Now she opens the same door and sees nothing but the rising sea."

Climate Change [26]
Disasters [19]
People & Population [27]
Public [6]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [7]
Source: Nola.com [28], 08/29/2022
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Mayor Urges Residents To Flee Ahead Of Rising River Waters In Mississippi [29]

"A day after warning residents of Jackson, Mississippi, to “get out now,” the mayor of the state’s biggest city is urging them to not take evacuation warnings lightly as record-setting rain threatens to flood streets and creep into homes within the next two days."

Climate Change [26]
Disasters [19]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [7]
Source: CNN [30], 08/29/2022
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"Bird Flu Kills 700 Black Vultures At Animal Sanctuary" [31]

"Bird flu has killed hundreds of wild black vultures at a Georgia sanctuary that houses more than 1,500 other animals."

Biodiversity [32]
Environmental Health [2]
Wildlife [33]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [7]
Source: AP [34], 08/25/2022
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"Dry Pastures Force Texas Ranchers To Slaughter Ever More Cows [35]

"With almost all of Texas in drought, ranchers are sending ever more cattle off to slaughter, a trend likely to increase beef prices over the long term due to dwindling supply from the largest cattle region in the United States."

Agriculture [36]
Climate Change [26]
Disasters [19]
Natural Resources [37]
Water & Oceans [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [14]
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Source: Reuters [38], 08/25/2022
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