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EPA Promises Action On Puerto Rico Coal Ash. Residents Tired Of Waiting [1]

"Biden’s EPA offers support to Guayama residents after decades of environmental injustice, but residents say they won’t be satisfied until the plant is closed and all its coal ash removed."

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: Energy News Network [9], 05/09/2023
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Florida Black Community’s Progress Is Threatened by Proposed LNG Plant [10]

"Leaders in North Port St. Joe had big plans for tourism, real estate, even a Black history museum. Then they found out, almost by accident, that elected officials had been pushing the LNG terminal for years without telling them."

Energy & Fuel [2]
Environmental Justice [4]
Infrastructure [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [7]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [8]
Source: Inside Climate News [13], 05/08/2023
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"Circuit Panel’s Halt of EPA Ozone Rule Threatens National Limits" [14]

"A divided Fifth Circuit panel ruling to halt an EPA decision to disapprove key ozone plans in Texas and Louisiana foreshadows similar decisions across regional circuit courts that threaten to upend established precedent."

Air [15]
Environmental Health [3]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [5]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [8]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [17], 05/08/2023
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In ‘Cancer Alley’, Chemical Giants Campaign Against Grassroots Organizers [18]

"After residents of America’s “Cancer Alley” in Louisiana put a national spotlight on their fight for a healthy environment, the state’s economic interests and petrochemical giants are backing the creation of a new “sustainability council” to counter grassroots activists, documents show."

Chemicals [19]
Economy & Business [20]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [21]
Journalism & Media [22]
Pollution [5]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [8]
Source: Floodlight [23], 05/05/2023
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Black Alabamians Endured Poor Sewage For Decades. Now They May See Justice. [24]

"Officials in Alabama discriminated against Black residents in a rural county by denying them access to adequate sanitation systems, imposing burdensome fines and liens and ignoring the serious health risks plaguing the community, according to a landmark environmental justice agreement announced Thursday by the Biden administration."

Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [21]
Infrastructure [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [25]
Pollution [5]
Waste [26]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [8]
Source: Washington Post [27], 05/05/2023
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"Fla. And La. Must Borrow Millions To Pay Insurance Claims" [28]

"The Gulf Coast insurance crisis has hit a new low as two state-chartered insurance associations are being forced to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars for the first time in three decades to pay the hurricane claims of insolvent insurers."

Climate Change [29]
Consumer [30]
Disasters [31]
Economy & Business [20]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [16]
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Source: E&E News [32], 05/04/2023
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"Safety Board: Several Issues Contributed to Massive Fire at BioLab" [33]

"Lake Charles, LA - The U.S. Chemical Safety Board found five safety issues that contributed to the massive fire at BioLab during Hurricane Laura in 2020."

Chemicals [19]
Disasters [31]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Pollution [5]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [8]
Source: KPLC [34], 04/25/2023
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EPA Settlement Forces Chemical Plant To Cut Cancer-Causing Air Pollutants [35]

"A German company has agreed to substantially reduce air pollutants from a chemical plant near LaPlace, according to a settlement reached this week with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Air [15]
Chemicals [19]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [5]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [8]
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [36], 04/25/2023
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Why Journalists Should Investigate the Twin Mental Health and Climate Crises [37]

The complicated interplay between climate change and trauma, poorly understood and little covered, is holding back the response by individuals and communities to the realities of the climate crisis, argues the head of a network of mental health and other organizations. Here’s what he has found when it comes to how climate-generated anguish is blocking climate solutions and what can be done about it.

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Climate Change [29]
Disasters [31]
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Environmental Justice [4]
Health [40]
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Religion, Faith and Spirituality [42]
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Reporters Can Address Uncertainty Over Local Risk of Rising Seas [47]

U.S. coastal counties are home to 127 million people, making the risk to life and property of flooding from sea level rise a serious one. But how great that risk is varies widely from place to place. So the latest TipSheet makes the case for environmental journalists to explain the local reality to their audiences. Get context, story ideas and resources to do just that.

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Climate Change [29]
Diversity [49]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Studies [50]
Journalism & Media [22]
People & Population [25]
Water & Oceans [6]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [8]
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Public [7]
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