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December 2024

Must-read recap: The New Lede's top stories
LNG export harms; Montana's youth climate lawsuit win upheld; microplastics and health problems; pesticides and pollinators; farm pollution limits…
Must-read recap: The New Lede's top stories
US EPA bans dry cleaning chemical; Iowa "in crisis" due to illegal manure discharges; advocates demand Red Dye 3 ban; glyphosate exposure and brain…
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Must-read recap: The New Lede's top stories
EPA plans to only partially ban chlorpyrifos; outcry over Texas plastics plant; Maine joins in litigation against oil companies; two California…

November 2024

Must-read recap: The New Lede's top stories
Plastic pollution treaty; eyes on Kennedy's nomination; regulating pesticide-coated seeds; climate risks to hazardous waste facilities; bioplastics and…
Must-read recap: The New Lede's top stories
Trump-proofing the environment; polluting plastics plants; hydrogen hub build-out; a beef giant in Amish country; agrochemicals linked to prostate…
Must-read recap: The New Lede's top stories
A proposed factory farm ban; US Congress members call for paraquat ban; soda companies sued for role in plastic pollution crisis; heavy metals and…

October 2024

Must-read recap: The New Lede's top stories
Farm chemicals more harmful to insects than previously thought; pesticides in air samples from California farm communities; EPA cancels DCPA; more toxic…
Must-read recap: The New Lede's top stories
US Army base under fire for high water use in Arizona; algae bloom kills hundreds of sea lions off California; progress on overall industry emissions as…
Must-read recap: The New Lede's top stories
Deadly refinery leak; toxic "gypstacks" threaten Tampa Bay; botulism outbreak killing birds; Helene demonstrates more destructive storms in store; PFAS…
Must-read recap: The New Lede's top stories
EPA not protecting public from neonic exposure, analysis suggests; reflections from researcher who coined "microplastics;" revealing the toxic lobbying…
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