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"The Unseen Harvest: Pesticides, Cancer And Rural Missouri’s Health Crisis" [1]

"The counties with the highest use of pesticides per square mile are all located in Missouri’s Bootheel. Many of these counties have some of the state’s highest cancer rates and their health care options are dwindling."

Agriculture [2]
Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [9]
Source: Investgate Midwest [10], 08/22/2025
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Feds Failed To Conduct Environmental Review Of 'Alligator Alcatraz': Docs [11]

"Internal documents obtained by Public Domain show that the federal government did not conduct an Endangered Species Act or a National Environmental Policy Act review for the Florida migrant detention facility known as 'Alligator Alcatraz' — further proof that the facility may be operating in violation of federal environmental laws."

Biodiversity [12]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [5]
Environmental Studies [14]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Natural Resources [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Wildlife [17]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [18]
Source: Public Domain [19], 08/22/2025
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"FEMA Now Requires Disaster Victims to Have an Email Address" [20]

"The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will now require disaster survivors to register for federal aid using an email address—a departure from previous policy where email addresses were optional. The move, FEMA employees tell WIRED, puts people across the US with little to no access to internet services at risk of losing out on crucial federal financial assistance after disasters."

Climate Change [21]
Disasters [22]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [5]
Government [23]
Laws & Regulations [6]
People & Population [24]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: WIRED [25], 08/21/2025
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As Hurricane Season Collides With Immigration Agenda, Undocumented Worry [26]

"If a major hurricane approaches Central Florida this season, Maria knows it’s dangerous to stay inside her wooden, trailer-like home. In past storms, she evacuated to her sister’s sturdier house. If she couldn’t get there, a shelter set up at the local high school served as a refuge if needed. But with accelerating detentions and deportations of immigrants across her community of Apopka, 20 miles (32 kilometers) northwest of Orlando, Maria, an agricultural worker from Mexico without permanent U.S. legal status, doesn’t know if those options are safe."

Agriculture [2]
Climate Change [21]
Disasters [22]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [13]
Laws & Regulations [6]
People & Population [24]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [18]
Source: AP [27], 08/21/2025
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A Toxic Landfill Was on the Brink of Expanding. Residents Fought Back and Won [28]

"A decades-long battle to transform a Southeast Chicago lakefront property into a public park is starting to bear fruit. But where the new toxic sludge will go has yet to be determined."

Biodiversity [12]
Chemicals [3]
Consumer [29]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [5]
Natural Resources [15]
Planning & Growth [30]
Pollution [31]
Waste [32]
Public [7]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [33]
Source: Inside Climate News [34], 08/21/2025
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"Many Towns Are Unprepared To Handle Train Derailments And Hazmat Spills" [35]

"A train derails and spills at least 1,000 gallons of hazardous materials in the U.S. about once every two months. Nearly half of those derailments resulted in evacuations; more than a quarter resulted in a fire or explosion since 2015, an analysis of federal derailment data showed. And many communities along the rail lines aren’t prepared to keep people safe when it happens."

Chemicals [3]
Disasters [22]
Energy & Fuel [36]
Environmental Health [4]
Government [23]
Infrastructure [37]
People & Population [24]
Pollution [31]
Transportation [38]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Howard Center [39], 08/21/2025
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RFK Jr. Vowed To Find Causes Of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research To Do That. [40]

"While touting a $50 million initiative to identify the causes of autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is helping lead an administration that is rolling back protections against pollution and toxic chemicals, including some linked to the condition."

Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
People & Population [24]
Pollution [31]
Science [41]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: ProPublica [42], 08/21/2025
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"Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying" [43]

"The smoke from the wildfires that burned through Los Angeles in January smelled like plastic and was so thick that it hid the ocean. Firefighters who responded developed instant migraines, coughed up black goo and dropped to their knees, vomiting and dizzy."

Climate Change [21]
Disasters [22]
Environmental Health [4]
People & Population [24]
Pollution [31]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
California [44]
Source: NYTimes [45], 08/20/2025
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"This Class Of Toxic Pesticides Is Now Prevalent In Michigan Waters" [46]

"A commercially valuable but unpronounceable toxicant with multiple chemical variations is being increasingly found at harmful levels in Michigan waters. Sound familiar? It’s not PFAS or PCBs this time. Now, it’s neonicotinoids, or “neonics” — a type of synthetic pesticide that’s widely used on corn and soybeans."

Agriculture [2]
Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Pollution [31]
Public [7]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [33]
Source: MLive [47], 08/20/2025
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August 21, 2025

SciLine Media Briefing: EPA Climate Regulations Under Threat [48]

SciLine’s next briefing will cover the state of evidence leading to the adoption of the EPA’s “endangerment finding” in 2009 and how it has evolved since, implications of rolling back the finding for federal and state regulations and climate goals, and what these changes could mean at the local level. 1 p.m. ET.

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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/unseen-harvest-pesticides-cancer-and-rural-missouri-s-health-crisis [2] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/agriculture [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics [6] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/laws [7] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81 [8] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [9] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/great-plains [10] https://investigatemidwest.org/2025/08/18/the-unseen-harvest-pesticides-cancer-and-rural-missouris-health-crisis/ [11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/feds-failed-conduct-environmental-review-alligator-alcatraz-docs [12] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/biodiversity-1 [13] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-justice [14] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmentalists [15] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/land [16] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water [17] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/wildlife [18] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southeast [19] https://www.publicdomain.media/p/scoop-alligator-alcatraz-endangered-species-document-leak [20] https://www.sej.org/headlines/fema-now-requires-disaster-victims-have-email-address [21] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change [22] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/disaster [23] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/government [24] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/people-population [25] https://www.wired.com/story/fema-now-requires-disaster-victims-to-have-an-email-address/ [26] https://www.sej.org/headlines/hurricane-season-collides-immigration-agenda-undocumented-worry [27] https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-season-immigration-florida-texas-floods-fema-1f45424d5878293413beb1fd7f0a1c1e [28] https://www.sej.org/headlines/toxic-landfill-was-brink-expanding-residents-fought-back-and-won [29] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/consumer [30] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/cities-towns [31] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution [32] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/waste [33] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/great-lakes [34] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20082025/chicago-residents-fight-toxic-landfill/ [35] https://www.sej.org/headlines/many-towns-are-unprepared-handle-train-derailments-and-hazmat-spills [36] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy [37] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/infrastructure [38] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/transportation [39] https://apnews.com/article/train-derailments-spills-response-investigation-ef581ec622c1365e9db49336178a039f [40] https://www.sej.org/headlines/rfk-jr-vowed-find-causes-autism-then-he-shut-down-research-do [41] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/science [42] https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-autism-environment-research-funding [43] https://www.sej.org/headlines/wildfire-fighters-unmasked-toxic-smoke-are-getting-sick-and-dying [44] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/california [45] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/us/wildfire-firefighters-masks-smoke.html?smid=url-share [46] https://www.sej.org/headlines/class-toxic-pesticides-now-prevalent-michigan-waters [47] https://www.mlive.com/environment/2025/08/this-class-of-toxic-pesticides-is-now-prevalent-in-michigan-waters.html [48] https://www.sej.org/calendar/sciline-media-briefing-epa-climate-regulations-under-threat [49] https://www.sej.org/category/event-type/other-events [50] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health?page=35 [51] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health?page=32 [52] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health?page=33 [53] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health?page=34 [54] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health?page=37 [55] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health?page=38 [56] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health?page=39 [57] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health?page=40 [58] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health?page=814