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The sign for the Environmental Protection Agency is shown in Washington on Sept. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

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EPA issues rare emergency ban on pesticide that damages fetuses
By MICHAEL PHILLIS - Associated Press
Wed,08/07/24-6:33PM , 56 Reads
ST. LOUIS (AP) — For the first time in roughly 40 years, the Environmental Protection Agency used its emergency authority to halt the sale of a weed-killing pesticide that harms the development of unborn babies.
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Volunteers toss sandbags into the bucket of a loader that will take them to be used to reinforce a berm on the northeast side of Jefferson, South Dakota, Sunday, June 23, 2024. The sandbag effort is an attempt to keep floodwaters from the Big Sioux River from inundating the town. (Tim Hynds/Sioux City Journal via AP)

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What’s causing the devastating flooding in the Midwest?
By MICHAEL PHILLIS - Associated Press
Mon,06/24/24-12:29PM , 39 Reads
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The Fifth Ward Elementary School and residential neighborhoods sit near the Denka Performance Elastomer Plant, back, in Reserve, La., Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. Denka Performance Elastomer in Louisiana threatened to shut down if the Biden administration doesn’t give it more time to reduce its emissions. The company makes the synthetic rubber neoprene — and federal officials have accused the plant of increasing cancer risk to the nearby, majority-Black community. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

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Louisiana chemical plant threatens to shut down if EPA emissions deadline isn't relaxed
By MICHAEL PHILLIS - Associated Press
Wed,05/29/24-3:23PM , 90 Reads
A synthetic rubber manufacturer accused of increasing the cancer risk for the nearby majority-Black community in Louisiana told a federal appeals court it will have to shut down “likely permanently” if it's forced to meet the Biden administration’s deadline to reduce emissions.
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Logan Feeney pours a PFAS water sample into a container for research, Wednesday, April 10, 2024, at a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lab in Cincinnati. The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced its first-ever limits for several common types of PFAS, the so-called "forever chemicals," in drinking water. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

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Biden administration sets first-ever limits on 'forever chemicals' in drinking water
By MICHAEL PHILLIS - Associated Press
Wed,04/10/24-4:05AM , 100 Reads
The Biden administration on Wednesday finalized strict limits on certain so-called “forever chemicals” in drinking water that will require utilities to reduce them to the lowest level they can be reliably measured.
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