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"For The Navajo Nation, Uranium Mining's Deadly Legacy Lingers" [1]

"The federal government is cleaning up a long legacy of uranium mining within the Navajo Nation — some 27,000 square miles spread across Utah, New Mexico and Arizona that is home to more than 250,000 people."

Environmental Health [2]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [3]
People & Population [4]
Public [5]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [6]
Source: NPR [7], 04/12/2016
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Federal Judge Says Court Should Not Dismiss Youths’ Climate Change Suit [8]

"A federal magistrate judge in Eugene said Friday that a potential landmark lawsuit filed against the U.S. government by a group of environmentally minded youth plaintiffs and a leading climate scientist should be allowed to proceed in court."

Activism [9]
Climate Change [10]
Laws & Regulations [11]
People & Population [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: Eugene Register-Guard [13], 04/12/2016
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La. Tribe May Move Entire Community North In First-Of-Its-Kind Test Case [14]

"ISLE DE JEAN CHARLES, La. -- Looking out from the house he built in 1959 with lumber brought by boat to this island at the south end of Terrebonne Parish, Wenceslaus Billiot remembers when the view from his back porch was thick forest and solid marsh. Now there is just open water."

Climate Change [10]
People & Population [4]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [16]
Source: New Orleans Advocate [17], 04/12/2016
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Court Deals Setback to Port of L.A. Rail Yard Near Poor Neighborhoods [18]

"A California judge ruled Wednesday that the Port of Los Angeles and a national railroad company failed to adequately assess the environmental impacts of a $500-million freight yard they want to build next to low-income, mostly minority neighborhoods."

Laws & Regulations [11]
People & Population [4]
Pollution [19]
Public [5]
California [20]
Source: LA Times [21], 04/01/2016
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"‘Disastrous’ Coho Returns Threaten Western Washington Tribes" [22]

"Blame it on the mass of water known as "the Blob”—four-plus degrees Fahrenheit, warmer-than-normal, nutrient-poor ocean waters hugging the Pacific coast—or on El Niño, habitat destruction or toxic runoff. Whatever the cause of dwindling coho salmon runs, the effect on western Washington tribal fishing nations can be summed up in one word: disastrous."

Fish & Fisheries [23]
People & Population [4]
Public [5]
Northwest (OR WA) [24]
Source: Indian Country Today [25], 03/29/2016
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"Mossville's End" [26]

"As Sasol’s huge petrochemical project lifts Southwest Louisiana, an environmental justice community dissolves in its shadow".

Chemicals [27]
Economy & Business [28]
Energy & Fuel [29]
People & Population [4]
Public [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [16]
Source: Chemical & Engineering News [30], 03/22/2016
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"Out Here, No One Can Hear You Scream" [31]

"The dangerous culture of male entitlement and sexual hostility hiding within America's national parks and forests."

Laws & Regulations [11]
Natural Resources [32]
People & Population [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: Huffington Post [33], 03/21/2016
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"Another Member of Berta Caceres’ Group Assassinated in Honduras" [34]

"When will it stop? Nelson Garcia, a member of the same Indigenous rights group as murdered activist Berta Caceres, has been assassinated in Honduras, local media reported Tuesday."

Activism [9]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Military [35]
People & Population [4]
Public [5]
Central America & the Caribbean [36]
Source: teleSUR [37], 03/17/2016
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"Native American Tribe Gets Federal Funds to Flee Rising Seas" [38]

"In a disappearing section of Louisiana coastline, the people who call Isle De Jean Charles home are moving to save their community and culture."

Climate Change [10]
People & Population [4]
Public [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [16]
Source: InsideClimate News [39], 03/16/2016
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As Climate Heats Up, Arctic Residents Struggle To Keep Their Homes [40]

"In the spring, after the permafrost thaws and the ground settles, Wilson Andrew Sr takes a wrench to the metal pilings that hold up the foundation of his house in Atmautluak, Alaska, and makes it level again. He cranks the screws until the foundation flattens out, level with the ground. At least for now."

Climate Change [10]
People & Population [4]
Public [5]
Alaska and Hawaii [41]
Source: Guardian [42], 03/16/2016
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