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"Memphis Residents Wage Fight Against TVA Coal Ash Storage" [1]

"Activist Justin J. Pearson had barely finished one environmental fight before he realized he needed to get involved in another. ...The Tennessee Valley Authority is preparing to store coal ash, a by-product of coal burning, in Southeast Memphis."

Energy & Fuel [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [8]
Source: Tennessee Lookout [9], 11/16/2021
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Huge Snapping Turtles Once Flourished In La.; Now Feds Seek Protections [10]

"Despite its burly stature, spiked back and bone-crushing bite, the alligator snapping turtle needs protection." "They were almost wiped out in 1960s and ‘70s because so many were harvested for soup".

Biodiversity [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Wildlife [13]
Public [7]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [8]
Source: Nola.com [14], 11/12/2021
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Oil And Gas Industry Pushes Misinformation About Its Impact On La. Coast [15]

"Louisiana politicians at the state and federal level are echoing a false oil and gas industry claim to support more offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, saying that Louisiana will lose more land to the sea without offshore production royalties to pay for coastal restoration."

Energy & Fuel [2]
Environmental Politics [16]
Journalism & Media [17]
Natural Resources [18]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [8]
Source: WWNO/Southerly [20], 11/10/2021
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"DOJ Launches EJ Investigation In Biden Adviser’s Hometown" [21]

"The Justice Department today [Tuesday] announced a landmark investigation into wastewater issues in an Alabama county that is home to prominent environmental justice activist Catherine Flowers.

Flowers, who now serves as a White House environmental justice adviser, detailed the sewage problems that plagued Lowndes County, Ala., in her book "Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret."

Environmental Justice [4]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [8]
Source: E&E News [22], 11/10/2021
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Blue Hydrogen Plant Touted For Louisiana, But Will It Reduce Carbon? [23]

"Study says process might lead to even more greenhouse emissions than burning natural gas"

Climate Change [24]
Energy & Fuel [2]
Technology [25]
Public [7]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [8]
Source: Nola.com [26], 11/05/2021
  • Read more about Blue Hydrogen Plant Touted For Louisiana, But Will It Reduce Carbon? [23]

"Top Dem Seeks Probe of Trump EPA’s Handling Of Yazoo Pumps" [27]

"Rep. Bennie Thompson, the only Democrat in Mississippi’s congressional delegation, has requested EPA investigate the agency’s handling of a controversial flood control project in his state."

Agriculture [28]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [8]
Source: E&E News [29], 11/05/2021
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Louisiana Plastics Plant Faces 2+ Year Delay For Environmental Review [30]

"A new, more stringent review of the environmental impacts of a massive proposed plastics plant along the Mississippi River in St. James Parish will likely take more than two years."

Chemicals [31]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [16]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [8]
Source: Baton Rouge Advocate [32], 11/02/2021
  • Read more about Louisiana Plastics Plant Faces 2+ Year Delay For Environmental Review [30]

GenX: "EPA Deems ‘Forever Chemical’ Haunting N.C. Toxic To Humans" [33]

"Hot off the heels of releasing its PFAS road map last week, EPA has found that a deeply controversial “forever chemical” that has contaminated drinking water in North Carolina is, indeed, toxic to humans and will be subject to a drinking water advisory."

Chemicals [31]
Environmental Health [3]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [8]
Source: E&E News [34], 10/26/2021
  • Read more about GenX: "EPA Deems ‘Forever Chemical’ Haunting N.C. Toxic To Humans" [33]

"How Chemical Companies Avoid Paying for Pollution" [35]

"DuPont factories pumped dangerous substances into the environment. The company and its offspring have gone to great lengths to dodge responsibility."

"FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — One humid day this summer, Brian Long, a senior executive at the chemical company Chemours, took a reporter on a tour of the Fayetteville Works factory.

Mr. Long showed off the plant’s new antipollution technologies, designed to stop a chemical called GenX from pouring into the Cape Fear River, escaping into the air and seeping into the ground water.

Chemicals [31]
Environmental Health [3]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [8]
Source: NYTimes [36], 10/21/2021
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Florida Mulls The Unthinkable: Feeding Starving Manatees In The Wild [37]

"As Florida's record manatee die-off nears 1,000 victims so far this year, the state's top wildlife official asked lawmakers for $7 million more in 2022 to save starving sea cows and suggested that his agency temporarily do what would today get you a $500 fine and/or up to 60 days in prison: tossing them a few scraps of leafy blades."

Biodiversity [11]
Natural Resources [18]
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [6]
Wildlife [13]
Public [7]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [8]
Source: Florida Today [38], 10/18/2021
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