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"Frontline Communities Fight to Evict a Toxic Roofing Company" [1]

"One of America’s largest shingle makers is pumping pollution into Black and brown communities from Texas to Minnesota"

Air [2]
Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [10]
Source: Sierra [11], 01/09/2025
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Calif. And Greens Sued Exxon Over Plastics. Now Exxon Is Striking Back. [12]

"On Monday, Exxon Mobil filed a lawsuit against California Attorney General Rob Bonta and a coalition of environmental groups over their criticism of the company’s plastics recycling initiatives."

Chemicals [3]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [15]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
California [16]
Source: Grist [17], 01/08/2025
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"What Happened to Carter’s White House Solar Panels? They Lived On." [18]

"The panels, removed under Ronald Reagan, found new homes from Maine to China. And their legacy still reverberates."

Activism [19]
Climate Change [20]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [21]
Pollution [7]
Technology [22]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: NYTimes [23], 01/07/2025
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23M Americans Exposed To Toxic PFAS Chemicals Via Treated Wastewater: Study [24]

"Nearly 7 percent of Americans may be exposed to hazardous levels of “forever chemicals” through treated municipal wastewater, a new study has found."

Agriculture [25]
Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Studies [26]
Infrastructure [21]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [7]
Science [27]
Waste [28]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: The Hill [30], 01/07/2025
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"How Elon Musk Could End Fossil Fuel Subsidies" [31]

"If the Department of Government Efficiency wants to cut $2 trillion in spending, handouts to the fossil fuel industry may be "a truth test to all of their messaging.""

Climate Change [20]
Economy & Business [32]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Grist [33], 01/07/2025
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Biden Issues Ban On Drilling In Most Federal Waters. Trump Vows To Undo It [34]

"President Joe Biden is moving to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters, a last-minute effort to block possible action by the incoming Trump administration to expand offshore drilling."

Climate Change [20]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Natural Resources [35]
Pollution [7]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: AP [36], 01/07/2025
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Fossil Fuel Industry Spent $219 Million To Elect The New U.S. Government [37]

"The oil and gas industry gave about $24 million in campaign contributions to the members of the U.S. House and Senate expected to be sworn in January 3, 2025, according to a Yale Climate Connections review of campaign donations."

Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Pollution [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [38], 01/06/2025
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"In Mobile Bay, the Oysters’ Tale of Woe" [39]

"Academics, conservationists, nonprofits, government agencies—and one passionate, retired scientist—are working to rebuild reefs, reduce the carbon imprint and educate the public about the importance of restoring the oyster population."

Biodiversity [40]
Fish & Fisheries [41]
Food [42]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Natural Resources [35]
Pollution [7]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [8]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [43]
Source: Inside Climate News [44], 01/06/2025
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"Biden Admin Cedes Pivotal Air Pollution Rules To Trump" [45]

"While EPA rejected a push to scrap tougher safeguards for accidental industrial emissions, it has relented on the timetables for smog and incinerator rules."

Air [2]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Politico [46], 01/06/2025
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What Will a Second Trump Term Mean for Environmental Justice? [47]

An incoming Trump administration hostile to the very idea of environmental justice likely means the rollback of numerous policies and regulations designed to protect disadvantaged communities, cuts to an important “whole-of-government” initiative and downsizing of key federal environmental justice offices. The latest EJ TransitionWatch examines what’s at stake. And for more, see our Topics on the Beat page on environmental justice [48].

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Climate Change [20]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [50]
Health [51]
Infrastructure [21]
Laws & Regulations [6]
People & Population [52]
Policy [53]
Pollution [7]
Waste [28]
Water & Oceans [29]
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