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This is part 1 of a 2-part series. Read part 2: What’s hampering federal environmental justice efforts in the hydrogen hub build-out? On a rainy day in September, Veronica Coptis and her two children stood on the shore of the Monongahela River in a park near their home, watching a pair of barges laden with…

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This is part 2 of a 2-part series. Read part 1: Hydrogen hubs test new federal environmental justice rules One Wednesday evening last May, Yukyan Lam stared into the camera on her computer, delivering carefully prepared remarks during a virtual listening session convened by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). To read a version of…

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Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election on Wednesday and while his campaign largely focused on isolationism, immigration, crime and inflation, his previous record in the White House suggests ramped up domestic fossil fuels production, weakening of laws meant to curb pollution and an overhaul of environmental and health agencies. We’ve been gathering the top…

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Buckle up, folks: As Americans head to the polls to choose the next president of the United States, the outcome will have acute impacts on our health, as well as our air, water, food and soil. While the campaigns largely focused on immigration, the economy, reproductive rights and democratic principles, the two major party candidates,…

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PITTSBURGH — Fracking took center stage on Wednesday night, when political candidates who will be on the ballot in Pennsylvania on Election Day answered questions about environmental justice from local environmental advocacy groups and community members. The event, organized by 412 Justice, a Pittsburgh-based community advocacy group, and co-sponsored by dozens of other western Pennsylvania…

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Californians have lower levels of toxic chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects and reproductive harm in their bodies than people in the rest of the country, according to a new study. California has the strictest chemical regulations of any state, and its policies are more stringent than federal chemical laws. This study is the first…

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“What would a world without police look like?” In 2017, when I was 23 years old, I found myself in a room full of other Black and Brown Buffalonians who were part of a collective discussing this question. We held political education meetings to develop a shared language and political vision so as a collective…

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It is mind-bog-gling, syllable pun intended, that scientists still do not know how many wetlands lost protection in last year’s crippling of the Clean Water Act by the Supreme Court. A new peer-reviewed study in the journal Science said the range of possible protection loss is between a fifth of nontidal wetlands to nearly all…

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Environmental Health News’ series “BPA’s Evil Cousin” — which investigated the ubiquitous, unregulated toxic compound BADGE — won second place in the Outstanding Explanatory Reporting category for small market newsrooms in the Society of Environmental Journalists’ annual awards. Winners of the annual awards — the largest competition of its kind — were announced this week.…

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PITTSBURGH — Pollution from Pennsylvania’s three remaining coal-based steelmaking plants cause an estimated 50 to 92 premature deaths each year, according to a new report. The report, published by Industrious Labs, an environmental advocacy organization focused on decarbonizing heavy industry, looked at pollution and health data to estimate the total, facility-level, and state-level costs of…

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