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Management weakness delayed U.S. EPA Flint response | Great Lakes Now

While Flint residents were being exposed to lead in drinking water, “management weaknesses” at the EPA’s Great Lakes region office delayed the federal response.

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Don’t let politicians kill conservation’s bank account

If Congress doesn’t act, the Land and Water Conservation Fund will end on Sept. 30.

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Why Nuclear Power Must Be Part of the Energy Solution - Yale E360

Many environmentalists have opposed nuclear power, citing its dangers and the difficulty of disposing of its radioactive waste. But a Pulitzer Prize-winning author argues that nuclear is safer than most energy sources and is needed if the world hopes to radically decrease its carbon emissions.

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The sliming of a Florida river

The Great Toxic Slime Outbreak of 2018 has befouled the Caloosahatchee River, the river of my childhood. I needed to see for myself, so I grabbed my cameras and headed south to Fort Myers and Cape Coral.

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We defeated Scott Pruitt. Now we need to defeat Brett Kavanaugh.

Kavanaugh holds extreme environmental views that were deal breakers for other Donald Trump nominees. That means we have a chance to defeat him.

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The existential threat of climate change

The effects of climate change are often talked about in sea level rise and worsening storms, certainly the most immediate and obvious symptoms.

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A Global Heat Wave Has Set the Arctic Circle on Fire

Temperature records are being broken all around the world this month and not even the Arctic is immune.

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Living on Earth: Beyond the Headlines

On this week's Beyond the Headlines, Peter Dykstra and Host Bobby Bascomb discuss President Donald Trump's pardoning of the Hammond father-son duo. Then, a very determined Western Gull that hitched a ride across the Bay Area in search of food. Finally in the history lesson, a look back to the creation of the Korean Demilitarized Zone and how it has benefited wildlife.

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From our Newsroom

Weekend Reader: What would – or wouldn't – happen while our attention is diverted.

We learned a lot about double negatives and grammar this week. We didn't see a lot of headlines about rollbacks to health and environmental protections.

U.S. intel chief warns of devastating cyber threat to U.S. infrastructure.

How are cyber security and environmental health linked? Just look at the health mess – still! – in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria leveled the grid.

Is BPA making us fat, anxious and sick? A new effort to find the answer may be falling apart

Here's how to think about this: You read an article about remote galaxies detected by the Hubble Space Telescope, with amazing photographs. You're skeptical. So you grab binoculars and go take a look. Nothing. That's the FDA looking for BPA effects.

Breathless: Pittsburgh's asthma epidemic and the fight to stop it

What do politicians have to say about Pittsburgh's asthma epidemic?

"I almost feel like these statistics can't be real."

Q&A about air quality and asthma with Dr. Loren Robinson at the Pennsylvania Department of Health

Our reporting found an asthma crisis in Pittsburgh. Politicians are starting to notice.

We learned a lot about double negatives and grammar this week. We didn't see a lot of headlines about rollbacks to health and environmental protections.

How are cyber security and environmental health linked? Just look at the health mess – still! – in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria leveled the grid.

Here's how to think about this: You read an article about remote galaxies detected by the Hubble Space Telescope, with amazing photographs. You're skeptical. So you grab binoculars and go take a look. Nothing. That's the FDA looking for BPA effects.

"I almost feel like these statistics can't be real."

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