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Hershey, EPA pollution control partnership
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Hershey, EPA hope new pollution control partnership will be sweet success

Hershey is giving consumers a reason to feel less guilty about indulging in their chocolate passion.
Politics
invasive phragmites is here to stay
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For better or worse, invasive phragmites is here to stay

Few phenomena of the past century have altered the landscape and the ecology of the Chesapeake Bay, experts say, as much as the invasion of a straw-like saltmarsh weed from the opposite side of the world.

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CAFO regulations
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The EPA is rejecting calls for tougher regulation of big livestock farms. It's promising more study

The Biden administration is rejecting a plea from environmentalists to toughen regulation of large livestock farms that release manure and other pollutants into waterways.
Causes
Ecuador pig & poultry farm pollution
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Ecuador pig & poultry farm pollution sparks protest amid IDB, IFC loans

A new report reveals how, in 2021, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank) awarded multimillion-dollar loans to Pronaca, one of the largest companies in Ecuador, for it to expand its pig and poultry farms in the province of Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas.

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Maryland Chesapeake Bay cleanup strategy
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Maryland shifts Chesapeake Bay cleanup strategy

New research shows a need to focus mostly on many diffuse sources of pollution rather than single large sources such as wastewater treatment plants.

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florida water management insecurity
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A Florida city famous for its water worries that it might run out

As Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) likes to note, Florida is the fastest-growing U.S. state. But the population boom strains vital services such as water distribution.
Good News
Tony Evers signs bill to expand anti-pollution sustainable farming
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Tony Evers signs bill to expand anti-pollution sustainable farming

The law will provide money for more farmers to participate in practices that reduce run-off pollution into waterways.
ORIGINAL REPORTING
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UK drops plan to phase out gas boilers by 2035

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Trump vows to overturn Biden's offshore drilling ban

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Trump's advisers push to reshape U.S. climate report

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Op-ed: The real scam — rail against renewables, run away with factories

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Hydrogen hubs test new federal environmental justice rules

CLIMATE
Wildfire spreading over a wooded hillside at night.

Wildfire risks are rising fastest in northern Canada, study shows