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Minority Health Mini-Grants Focus on Several Healthy Wisconsin Priorities

MADISON – Five community organizations working to reduce health disparities among racial and ethnic minority populations will receive Minority Health Program mini-grants that focus on several Healthy Wisconsin priorities, including drug and alcohol use, suicide prevention, and nutrition and physical activity, Wisconsin Department of Health Services officials announced today. The grants are awarded annually…(see...
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Deadline Extended to Request Replacement FoodShare Benefits for 17 Counties in Southwestern Wisconsin

Replacement FoodShare benefits are available for those who lost food due to the severe weather in southwestern Wisconsin on July 19-21. Governor Scott Walker declared a State of Emergency for 17 Wisconsin counties including Buffalo, Crawford, Dane, Grant, Green, Iowa, Jackson, Juneau, La Crosse, Lafayette, Monroe, Pepin, Richland, Rock, Sauk, Trempealeau and Vernon after...
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Deadline Extended to Request Replacement FoodShare Benefits for Flood Victims in Kenosha, Racine, and Walworth Counties

Replacement FoodShare benefits are available for those who lost food due to the severe weather in southeastern Wisconsin on July 11 and 12. Governor Scott Walker declared a State of Emergency for three Wisconsin counties including Kenosha, Racine, and Walworth after severe storms caused damages to these communities. FoodShare members who lost food due...
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Dementia Capable Wisconsin: DHS Awards Dementia Crisis Innovation Grants to Seven Wisconsin Counties

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) announced today it has awarded nearly $400,000 in grants to seven counties to work collaboratively with local partners to increase the dementia-capability of their crisis response systems. This is the second round of Dementia Crisis Innovation Grants to help counties develop community based-strategies to improve crisis planning,...
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UXLS Team Marches On

Date: 28th & 29th June 2017. Location: EMBL- EBI on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton UK. The 2nd Pistoia … The post UXLS Team Marches On appeared first on Pistoia Alliance.
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13 Injured, Including 2 Hospitalized, After Long Beach Container Leaks Chemical Substance in Hazmat Incident

There was a hazmat incident on a ship in the Port of Long Beach (CA) yesterday. It has a couple of interesting issues. http://ktla.com/2017/08/06/12-injured-after-long-beach-container-leaks-unidentified-substance-in-hazmat-incident/ 13 workers were injured including one exposed to the vapor from the leaking product. One of the people injured was a firefighter. (He tripped and fell.) The substance was propyl...
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Hazards of high oxygen concentration, mixing incompatible materials, and more in process safety newsletters

From AIChE’s “Process Safety Beacon” newsletters: Hazards of high oxygen concentration – “Autoignition temperature (AIT) and minimum ignition energy (MIE) are lowered markedly by higher oxygen content. Substances ignite more readily, burn faster, generate higher temperatures, and are difficult to extinguish.” Mixing incompatible materials in storage tanks – “Understand potential hazardous interactions among different materials that you unload...
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EPA to Clarify Definition of “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of the Army Corps of Engineer published in the Federal Register a proposed rule on July 27, initiating the first step in a two-step process intended to review and revise the definition of “waters of the United States,” (WOTUS), which defines the scope of the Clean Water Act (CWA)....
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House Passes Bill to Delay Ozone Standards to 2025

On July 18, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 806, the Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2017, which would delay implementation of the 2015-set national ozone standards to 2025. The legislation, which ACA supported, passed the House by a bipartisan vote of 229-199. It now heads to the Senate for consideration, where a related...
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EPA to Publish Three Final Rules under TSCA

On June 22, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made three final rules available on its website, pending official publication. The rules guide the agency’s path for assessing and regulating chemicals in commerce under the amended Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). EPA’s issuance of final rules for ‘Prioritization,” “Risk Evaluation,” and “Inventory Reset,” will...
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Free @jjkeller OSHA Seminar – Chicago, IL 8/16/17

OSHA Update – What You Need To Know Regulatory Updates & Inspection Readiness You’re Invited – Chicago, IL 8/16/17 – Safety Management Education Join J. J. Keller experts at this complimentary seminar as they provide an executive overview on the latest OSHA regulatory changes. Updates include OSHA’s new electronic injury and illness reporting...
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OSHA puts brakes on new combustible dust standard

WASHINGTON — Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) earlier initiated rulemaking to develop a combustible dust standard for general industry. OSHA intended to use information gathered, including from an upcoming SBREFA panel (small business forum), to develop a comprehensive standard that addresses combustible dust hazards. OSHA recently announced it is withdrawing this entry from the...
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EPA Issues July Freshwater Harmful Algal Blooms Newsletter

Some highlights from the July edition include articles on: A Method for Examining Temporal Changes in Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Bloom Spatial Extent Using Satellite Remote Sensing Microcystin Prevalence Throughout Lentic Waterbodies in Southern California Using Fluorescent Microscopy to Distinguish Algae from Cyanobacteria in Lakes This monthly newsletter highlights current information about Harmful Algal Blooms...
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Have Your Say on the Future of Lake Huron!

We are happy to announce that, in keeping with the 2012 Canada-United States Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, a draft 2017 Lake Huron Lakewide Action and Management Plan (LAMP) has been prepared, and is currently available for review and comment. We would like to hear your views on Lake Huron’s health, the key environmental...
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Surveillance for Silicosis Deaths Among Persons Aged 15–44 Years — United States, 1999–2015

Summary Various preventable occupational pulmonary diseases are associated with exposure to respirable particles of crystalline silica and other silicate materials, one of which is talc (hydrous magnesium silicate). Detailed information on the circumstances surrounding deaths of silicosis decedents is needed to better target intervention and prevention measures. What is added by this report? During...
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Unhealthy air in rural Alaska homes targeted in tribal program.

Children were wheezing, but it wasn’t because they were catching colds — their homes were sick.
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Amid California’s toxic dumps, local activists go it alone.

The call themselves promotoras, and they’re starting to see results., They call themselves promotoras, and they’re starting to see results.
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From spectacular vistas to the pits: A decades-long public land battle continues in the California desert.

Plans to construct a hydropower project next to Joshua Tree National Park continue the long battle over Eagle Mountain.
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Doctors warn of deadly risks of antibiotic overuse.

For decades, doctors and patients have overused, misused and abused antibiotics without much thought, but public health officials are warning that the practice is taking a dangerous, even deadly toll.
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Speedy Detroit blight removal could be endangering residents.

Contractors in Detroit were under so much pressure to knock down thousands of abandoned properties that they cut corners, mishandled deadly asbestos at dozens of sites, and, in two cases, appeared to falsify inspection reports.
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Fracking is causing invasion of harmful non-native plants in Pennsylvania forests, PSU researchers say.

Invasive, non-native plant species are “rapidly invading” northern forests in Pennsylvania because of fracking in the Marcellus shale basin, a group of Penn State researchers say.
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Shrinking bat DNA and elastic genomes.

Species gain and shed startling amounts of DNA as they evolve, and even genomes that look stable churn furiously. What does it mean?
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Permits show drilling and development are on collision course in northeastern Colorado.

The state’s fastest growing communities are in the path of a petroleum rebound.
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Toxic waste from US pot farms alarms experts.

Pollution from illegal marijuana farms deep in California’s national forests is far worse than previously thought.
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VIDEO: One man’s mission to protect Iraq’s rivers for future generations.

For the past seven years, Nabil Musa has been traveling — oftentimes on a paddleboard or in a raft — around the Kurdistan region of Iraq on a one-man mission to promote the importance of clean waterways for current and future generations.
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Summer reading: 20 signs of progress in the good food movement.

A collection of some of our favorite hopeful stories we’ve published so far this year.
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Scientists create food from electricity and CO2.

With climate change diminishing the nutritional value of agricultural crops, scientists are making headway with lab protein that can be produced anywhere.
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Monsanto’s complicated relationship with agriculture in India.

As Monsanto, the Creve Coeur-based seed and pesticide giant, prepares to merge with Germany’s Bayer, observers wonder how the marriage will affect the company’s reputation in India, one of the largest markets in the world.
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The nitrogen problem: Why global warming is making it worse.

Headlines have tended to fixate on the Gulf of Mexico “dead zone.” But the problem is already much broader than that, says senior author Anna M. Michalak, citing a series of recent incidents caused by nitrogen pollution.
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A push for EPA to revise coal ash rules.

Environmentalists seeking aggressive coal ash cleanup in North Carolina are watching requests for rule revisions in Washington, DC.
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Business steps up efforts to cut waste.

From recycled paint to rented jeans, businesses large and small are looking at ways to cut waste, use fewer resources and help create a “circular economy” in which raw materials and products are repeatedly reused.
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Accounting for public heath gains from pollution control.

Despite scientific uncertainties, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency needs to estimate the value of all significant public health benefits when it considers regulating pollutants, a new report says.
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How Midwestern farmers could help save the Gulf of Mexico.

This cool technique can rescue sea creatures and soil—so why aren’t more farmers using it?
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Reign of sewage in biblical valley may be coming to an end.

For decades now a quarter of Jerusalem’s sewage has flowed openly in the Kidron valley, meandering down the city’s foothills and through the Judean desert to the east.
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After two spills, Shell Oil to replace miles of problem pipeline.

Shell Oil Co. is replacing more than 12 miles of a pipeline that carries crude petroleum from Central Valley oil fields to Bay Area refineries after an investigation into two ruptures in eastern Alameda County in 2015 and 2016.
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Is Snake River shipping worth enough to keep dams that harm salmon?

Shipping on the Snake has dropped by 70 percent since its peak in 1998.
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One of the largest dam removals in California history inches forward.

Forward Matilija Dam in Ojai, California, no longer functions as it was intended, but it has still been a battle to raise the funds necessary to remove the 168ft-high structure that is impeding fish and coastal habitat.
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Fossil fuel subsidies are a staggering $5 trillion per year.

A new study finds 6.5 percent of global GDP goes to subsidizing dirty fossil fuels.
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Energy rhetoric irrelevant in world of $50 oil: Analysts.

Six months into Trump’s presidency, Interior Department actions to bring the U.S. to “energy dominance” have done little to boost confidence in a market where the price of a barrel of oil hovers just below $50.
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Alaska gives ConocoPhillips a shot at drilling prized oil prospect.

Alaska officials will allow ConocoPhillips to expand an existing North Slope oil field into an area near big discoveries, but only if it agrees to development steps that include drilling a well by June and possibly paying the state millions of dollars.
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Trump tells UN of intention to leave Paris climate accord – in full.

Trump’s communication with the UN and media release clarified some details and set the scene for political manoeuvring to come.
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Boulder author warns of more ‘megafires’ on nation’s horizon.

As the seven-year anniversary of the devastating Fourmile Fire approaches, a new book by a Boulder author advances the proposition that so-called “megafires” have become far more common and for several reasons will likely only become more so.
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Under Trump, coal mining gets new life on US lands.

A business-friendly secretary of the interior has moved to invigorate a struggling industry, reversing Obama-era restrictions to help create “wealth and jobs.”
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Snowy retreat: Climate change puts Australia’s ski industry on a downhill slope.

Australia’s ski resorts face the prospect of a long downhill run as a warming climate reduces snow depth, cover and duration.
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Kenya’s herders swap livestock for chillies as drought bites.

Over the past year herders in Kenya’s Rift Valley have lost thousands of animals to worsening drought and erratic rainfall. This is causing a growing number of them to switch to farming as a way to supplement their income.
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Many states have adopted policies to encourage energy efficiency

Source: Energy Information Administration, 8/3/17. As of July 2017, thirty states and the District of Columbia have adopted energy efficiency policies–either mandated requirements, voluntary goals, or pilot programs–designed to lower the growth of electricity consumption by using electricity more efficiently. Seven of these states have either created new or updated existing energy efficiency standards...
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EU body takes aim at planned obsolescence in devices

Source: E-Scrap News, 7/13/17. A branch of the European Union is calling on stakeholders to improve the repairability of electronics and ferret out devices designed to have short lifespans. The European Parliament on July 4 voted to approve a resolution calling on the European Commission, member countries and producers to take steps to improve...
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Study confirms how lead got into Flint’s water

Source: PBS Newshour, 8/1/17. Flint’s pipes were only part of the problem in the city’s water crisis. The absence of a water treatment — called orthophosphate — was a major contributor to lead contamination of Flint, Michigan’s water supply, scientists confirmed recently in Environmental Science and Technology Letters. Omitting orthophosphate, which controls metal corrosion,...
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Materials emitted by a water pipe-repair method may pose health risks, new safeguards and research needed

Source: Purdue University, 7/27/17. New research is calling for immediate safeguards and the study of a widely used method for repairing sewer-, storm-water and drinking-water pipes to understand the potential health and environmental concerns for workers and the public.
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Can some corporations become forces for good?

Source: PBS, 7/30/17. While publicly-held American corporations are responsible to shareholders to maximize profits, a growing group of businesses say they’re approaching their enterprises differently, with an eye toward environmental sustainability and workers’ rights. NewsHour Weekend’s Christopher Booker reports on B Corps, a classification of businesses that are attempting to incorporate social responsibility into...
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HydroCalculator: new, free, online tool helps citizens assess dams

Belo Monte dam under construction in 2015. A new tool, developed by the NGO Conservation Strategy Fund, aims to make the decision-making process behind dam construction more transparent. Photo...
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“Amid California’s Toxic Dumps, Local Activists Go It Alone”

“One warm spring day a year ago, Griselda Barrera, a Mexican-born mother of three, went to a middle school auditorium in Thermal, California, an unincorporated community in the desert...
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“Toxic Waste From U.S. Pot Farms Alarms Experts”

“Pollution from illegal marijuana farms deep in California’s national forests is far worse than previously thought, and has turned thousands of acres into waste dumps so toxic that simply...
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“Speedy Detroit Blight Removal Could Be Endangering Residents”

“Contractors in Detroit were under so much pressure to knock down thousands of abandoned properties that they cut corners, mishandled deadly asbestos at dozens of sites, and, in two...
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Changing Electric Grid May Make Dams Expendable — And Help Save Salmon

“PASCO, Wash. — The fate of the Northwest salmon may be decided by the way you use your heater and your air conditioner.” Energy & Fuel Fish & Fisheries...
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“Under Trump, Coal Mining Gets New Life on U.S. Lands”

“The Trump administration is wading into one of the oldest and most contentious debates in the West by encouraging more coal mining on lands owned by the federal government....
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Infrastructure Borrowing Drops As U.S. States Await Trump Plan Details

“President Donald Trump arrived in office having promised a bold $1 trillion infrastructure investment plan over 10 years for roads, bridges, airports and transit systems crumbling by the day...
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Road projects threaten Sumatra’s last great rainforests

One of the last and largest remnants of tropical rainforest in Asia is under threat from multiple road development plans. This forest complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site known...
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“Let Forest Fires Burn? What the Black-Backed Woodpecker Knows”

“A scientific debate is intensifying over whether too much money and too many lives are lost fighting forest fires.” Forests National (U.S.) Public Source: ,
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GMO Salmon Caught In US Regulatory Net, But Canadians Have Eaten 5 Tons

“Genetically modified salmon have been approved for sale in the United States, but labeling complications have prevented them from coming to market. In Canada, however, according to a report...
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Long-term thermal imaging video surveillance records how disease affects hibernating bats

Visual technology is a key tool for wildlife research and conservation at various spatial scales, as shown by the development of camera traps, live video feeds, high-speed videography and...
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“Keystone XL Pipeline Fate In Balance As Nebraska Opens Hearings”

“Nebraska regulators will hear final arguments for and against TransCanada Corp’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline this week before deciding whether to approve its route later this year, the last...
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US to Join Climate Talks Despite Planned Withdrawal From Paris Accord

“The White House formally notified the United Nations on Friday that it intends to abandon the Paris agreement on climate change but remains open to ‘re-engaging’ on the accord.”...
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Welcome to Mongabay’s New Website

As you may have noticed, we’ve redesigned Mongabay.com. The site has gone through many changes since its founding in 1999, and this one is perhaps the biggest one yet....
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Two Fatal Grizzly Bear Attacks Changed Human Link With Wildlife

“Patrol ranger Bert Gildart was driving down the highest pass in Glacier National Park just after midnight on Aug. 13, 1967, when a woman’s voice suddenly crackled over his...
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Undiscovered Peatlands Might Be a Critical Carbon Sink

“The fate of these carbon-hoarding habitats will play a big role in our planet’s climate future”. Climate Change Natural Resources International Public Source: ,
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EPA Staff Forced to Work on Energy Industry’s Wish List: Ex-Official

“EPA staffers are spending their days addressing an industry wish list of changes to environmental law, according to Elizabeth Southerland, a former senior agency official who issued a scathing...
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“California Town Threatens Suit Over Mexican Sewage”

“Discharges of sewage, trash, and toxic sludge from Mexico have one California border city threatening to sue a binational agency charged with managing water pollution along the U.S.-Mexico border.”...
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US To Reject Biofuel Program Tweaks In Blow To Refiners, Icahn: Sources

“The Environmental Protection Agency will reject a proposed overhaul of the U.S. biofuels program that would have shifted blending responsibility away from refining companies further down the fuel supply...
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Interior Watchdog Launches ‘Preliminary Investigation’ Into Zinke Calls

“The Interior Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) says it has begun a ‘preliminary investigation’ into reports that Secretary Ryan Zinke made phone calls pushing Alaska’s senators to...
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Pipeline Payday: How Builders Win Big, Whether Gas Is Needed or Not

“The real fight over America’s energy future isn’t in coal, despite the Trump administration’s public focus on a mining revival. Rather, dozens of pipeline projects, making up one of...
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“In Sweltering South, Climate Change Is Now a Workplace Hazard”

“Workers laboring outdoors in southern states are wrestling with the personal and political consequences of a worsening environment.” Climate Change Environmental Health National (U.S.) Public Source: ,
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“Nuclear: Soaring $20B Estimate Cloaks Vogtle Reactors”

“Southern Co.’s preliminary figures for its nuclear expansion in Georgia now put the new source of electricity on the grid no earlier than 2022 and push the total price...
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“Senate Confirms Two Energy Commission Nominees, Restoring Quorum”

“The Senate voted Thursday evening to confirm two of President Trump’s nominees to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), paving the way for the commission to have its first...
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Sixth mass extinction ‘tsunami’ coming, but preventable

Planet Earth is barreling through its sixth mass extinction right now, and there’s little doubt among scientists that we humans are responsible. Despite the challenges we face, the encouraging...
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Three new frog species found in Peruvian Andes with more to come

Three new frog species have been discovered in the montane forests and Andean grasslands of Peru’s Pui Pui Protected Forest. Rudolf von May, a postdoctoral researcher at the University...
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Watch: $8 million worth elephant ivory crushed in New York City

Hundreds of pieces of jewelry, sculptures and vases made of elephant ivory were destroyed at New York City’s Central Park on Thursday. The ivory, weighing nearly two tons, is...
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Why the Suy’uk are fact-checking their Dayak origin myth

KAPUAS HULU, Indonesia — Mateus Liung headed to the Tanjung village hall just as dusk started to gather. A walking stick in his right hand supported his now-fragile legs....
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Greater collaboration between companies and governments necessary to enhance climate action, report finds

A new report that looks at the collaborative efforts of private sector and government actors to halt deforestation in two key tropical forest nations could have lessons for countries...
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Harsh sentence for blogger may haunt Vietnam’s environmental movement

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam – On April 6, 2016 dozens of tons of dead fish began washing ashore along Vietnam’s central coast. The phenomenon continued through the month,...
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“Interior Dept. Reaffirms Protection of National Monument in Montana”

“The Interior Department announced on Wednesday that the Upper Missouri River Breaks, a famous chunk of river in central Montana that holds a national monument designation, would remain fully...
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“Dangerous Pollutants in Military’s Open Burns Greater Than Thought”

“The federal government appears to have significantly underestimated the amount of lead, arsenic and other dangerous pollutants that are sent into the air from uncontrolled burning of hazardous waste...
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“The Gulf Of Mexico’s Dead Zone Is The Biggest Ever Seen”

“It’s become a rite of summer. Every year, a ‘dead zone’ appears in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s an area where water doesn’t have enough oxygen for fish to...
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“EPA Chief Backtracks On Delaying Rules Reducing Emissions”

“One day after getting sued by 15 states, Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt reversed his earlier decision to delay implementation of Obama-era rules reducing emissions of smog-causing air...
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New genetic analyses help scientists rethink the elephant family tree

The first DNA analysis of ancient straight-tusked elephant fossils may be changing what we know about elephant evolution. Scientists have presumed that a species of giant elephant called Palaeoloxodon...
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Study examines sex-specific responses of Neotropical bats to habitat fragmentation

In order to preserve a species from the impacts of human activities that degrade or fragment its habitat, it’s necessary to understand how the species responds to changes to...
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Guyana’s road to Brazil presents opportunity and challenge

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Imagine for a second you’re on a road. A long, rough, red-dirt road lined by thick rainforest. You’re in a small, crowded minibus coming from Georgetown,...
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Five instances in which Peru won the battle against deforestation

In Peru, five major instances in which deforestation has successfully been prevented from expanding were detected by the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP). MAAP followed the development...
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Canopy bridges keep rainforest animals connected over gas pipeline

Dwarf porcupines (Coendou ichillus) were documented in camera-trap images, 900 kilometers (560 miles) outside of their known range. Photo courtesy of SCBI-CCS Hundreds of square miles of the Amazon...
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US retailers halt sales of hardwood flooring linked to illegal logging in PNG

A report released today by London-based NGO Global Witness has prompted major US retailers to discontinue sales of exotic wood flooring linked to illegal logging in the tropical forests...
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In Nepal, the rhino evokes national pride

KATHMANDU, Nepal — When Nepal adopted a new constitution in September 2015, lawmakers anticipated conflict over the rights of ethnic minorities and women, the delineation of provincial boundaries and...
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Brazil’s Temer threatens constitutional indigenous land rights

A traditional Munduruku dance. Hundreds of thousands of Indians live on indigenous lands in Brazil, but much of that land has never been officially demarcated due to decades of...
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Western Chimpanzee numbers declined by more than 80 percent over the past quarter century

Research published in the American Journal of Primatology earlier this month finds that the overall Western Chimpanzee population has declined by more than 80 percent over the past quarter...
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What happens after a mining rush? Photographs from Madagascar

ALAOTRA-MANGORO, Madagascar — Mines, legal or not, are born, die, and spring back to life all over Madagascar. It has been this way since the 1990s. Some become famous,...
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From Bugs To Breakthroughs- My Path To Environmental Conflict Resolution

By Deborah Dalton Imagine a typical public meeting about a controversial local environmental issue, like a recycling center transfer station or preparation for coastal flooding– how did it go?...
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CSB Releases New Animation Detailing Events Leading to 2016 Fire at the ExxonMobil Refinery in Baton Rouge, LA

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) released an animation describing events leading to the November 22, 2016, fire at the ExxonMobil refinery in Baton Rouge, LA, which severely burned...
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“The Immense, Eternal Footprint Humanity Leaves on Earth: Plastics”

“If human civilization were to be destroyed and its cities wiped off the map, there would be an easy way for future intelligent life-forms to know when the mid-20th...
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Methane Seeps Out as Arctic Permafrost Starts to Resemble Swiss Cheese

“Global warming may be unleashing new sources of heat-trapping methane from layers of oil and gas that have been buried deep beneath Arctic permafrost for millennia. As the Earth’s...
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“Interior Official Says He Was Reassigned Because Of Climate Work”

“A senior Interior Department official has filed a whistleblower complaint against Trump administration political appointees, claiming he was reassigned within Interior because of his work on climate change.” Climate...
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“Trump Just Nominated A Climate Skeptic To USDA’S Top Science Post”

“President Trump on Wednesday nominated Sam Clovis, a former college professor and talk radio host who has challenged the scientific consensus that human activity has been the primary driver...
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