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30 Oct 2025
As coal-fired power plants shut down in favor of cleaner, cheaper energy sources, prioritizing the shut-down of the plants in vulnerable communities could yield greater public health benefits and save additional lives.
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30 Oct 2025
Analysis raises concerns about potential misuse of atrazine weedkiller in US Midwest.
Atrazine is an endocrine disruptor linked to increased risk of various cancers, preterm birth, birth defects, and diminished immune function.
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29 Oct 2025
Two years into his term, has Gov. Shapiro kept his promises to regulate Pennsylvania’s fracking industry?
A new report assesses the administration’s progress and makes new recommendations.
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29 Oct 2025
WATCH: Houston area has more than 100 unauthorized air pollution events already this year
An EHN analysis finds nearly half were related to flaring.
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29 Oct 2025
Appalachian groups express frustration over first $30 million in federal hydrogen hub funding.
“This award represents a continued commitment to invest in a natural gas industry that has added to the pollution and health burdens in the region.”
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28 Oct 2025
The Trump Administration pulled $1.2 billion from California’s hydrogen hub. Even without federal funding, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is pressing ahead with clean energy retrofits. @CalMatters
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28 Oct 2025
Bioplastics are inadequately defined, poorly regulated, and potentially toxic.
“These bioplastics just aren’t ready for primetime.”
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28 Oct 2025
WATCH: Regulators are underestimating health impacts from air pollution.
"The reality is, we are not exposed to one chemical at a time.”
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28 Oct 2025
California launches statewide pesticide notification system 🚨
Farmworkers and advocates say that the first-of-its-kind system is a landmark victory in the push for pesticide transparency.
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27 Oct 2025
On Amsterdam’s 750th anniversary, it continues to be a leader in climate adaptation — showing how a city can thrive in overcoming existential challenges.
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27 Oct 2025
Plastic pellets known as “nurdles” are accumulating along Texas coasts.
Nurdles — which can absorb harmful toxics and pollute the environment as they continue to degrade into microplastics – are produced by more than 140 facilities across the U.S.
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27 Oct 2025
Towns across the Jersey Shore are organizing to pass first-of-their-kind ordinances to contain microplastics. The effort, however, only scratches the surface of the construction industry’s plastic impacts.
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24 Oct 2025
Environmental justice activists have spoken out against coal and iron mining in South Africa, telling a recent human rights hearing that the industry violently undermines the country’s promised energy transition.
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24 Oct 2025
International Recycling Group (IRG) has announced that they will cancel a planned plastic waste processing facility in Erie, Pennsylvania, due to President Trump’s federal funding cuts and tariffs, among other reasons.
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24 Oct 2025
President Donald Trump has the opportunity to challenge the Biden administration’s hydrogen tax credit rules under the Congressional Review Act, but the clock is ticking.
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24 Oct 2025
Living near oil and gas operations, including fracking wells, is linked to stress and depression in people who are planning pregnancies, according to a new study.
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24 Oct 2025
Typhoon Rai killed more than 400, displaced nearly 3.2 million, and destroyed more than a million homes in 2021.
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23 Oct 2025
Last year Pennsylvania Department of Health studies showed increased risk of childhood cancer, asthma and low birth weights for people living near fracking. Advocates say not enough has been done since.
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23 Oct 2025
A local advocacy group has launched a new, real-time air monitoring website for communities impacted by air pollution from Shell’s massive petrochemical complex and other industrial sites in western Pennsylvania.
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23 Oct 2025
Op-ed: Toxic prisons teach us that environmental justice needs abolition.
"Prisons, jails and detention centers are placed in locations where environmental hazards such as toxic landfills, floods and extreme heat are the norm."
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