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Topic: Pollution (page 3)

Plastic bottle being put in recycling bin (Getty Images/Anchiy)

Do you have "recycling bias?"

Kate Yoder - Grist
The Grassy Narrows First Nations Reserve has been plagued by the neurotoxin for over 50 years after a pulp and paper company dumped 10 tonnes of mercury into the Wabigoon River, contaminating the fish that is a staple to their community. (Randy Risling/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

Mercury poisoning Indigenous community

Anita Hofschneider - Grist
A park in Stockholm, Sweden at evening time (Getty Images/Yelizaveta Tomashevska)

We need more parks, not air pollution

Jackie Ostfeld
The view from Kowloon Peak shows apartment buildings and office blocks lights at night on November 3, 2016 in Hong Kong. (Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images)

Why won't we fix light pollution?

Matthew Rozsa
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Tap water in a clear glass drinking glass in West Reading, PA Tuesday afternoon June 15, 2021. (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)

EU to capitulate to "forever chemicals"?

Matthew Rozsa
Mud is seen on land that was under the Salton Sea a few years ago on January 1, 2019 near Calipatria, California, United States. (David McNew/Getty Images for Lumix)

Scientists warned of Salton Sea disaster

Fletcher Reveley - Undark
Consuming Credit Cards (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How much plastic are we actually eating?

Matthew Rozsa
Gas pump in gas station (Getty Images/MR.WUTTISAK PROMCHOO)

Target gas 'superusers' for climate

Kate Yoder - Grist
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Farmer spraying pesticides at a tobacco farm (Getty Images/Vithun Khamsong)

How forever chemicals get into our food

Matthew Rozsa
Garbage, pollution (Getty Images)

Oregon bans PFAS in food containers

Joseph Winters - Grist
The Llipi pilot plant in Uyuni, south from La Paz, on August 17, 2015 (Getty/Aizar Raldes)

The social cost of lithium in Chile

Tushar Khurana - Grist
(Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

NY says yes to publicly owned renewables

Akielly Hu - Grist
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Ethanol isn’t dead yet

Max Graham - Grist
United States Supreme Court (Getty Images/joe daniel price)

SCOTUS ruling to affect Clean Water Act

Max Graham - Grist
Plastic particles on finger tip (JOKER / Alexander Stein/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Microplastics messing with our hormones

Nicole Karlis
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Microplastics are in your laundry

Saqib Rahim - Grist
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A layer of pollution can be seen hovering over Los Angeles, California (Getty/Frederic J. Brown)

1 in 3 Americans breathe unhealthy air

Akielly Hu - Grist
A stop sign in the Delaware River at Penn Treaty Park in Philadelphia, Pa., on March 26, 2023. Water in Philadelphia has been deemed unsafe to drink following a chemical spill in the Delaware River, leading to water bottles being sold out across the city. (Thomas Hengge/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The growing list of chemical accidents

Max Graham - Grist
Brock Peters helps Charlton Heston in a scene from the film 'Soylent Green', 1973. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Getty Images)

"Soylent Green" predicted our eco future

Matthew Rozsa
Operating room staff performing hospital surgery (Getty Images/Shannon Fagan)

EPA targets medical industry pollution

Lylla Younes, Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
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A bike rider is pictured as an excessive heat warning remains in effect a day after record-breaking temperatures from a historic heatwave throughout the region in Seattle, Washington on June 29, 2021. (JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)

Wash. initiative to boost urban canopy

Joseph Winters - Grist
(Terraxplorer / Getty Images)

EPA ignoring forever chemicals in water

Matthew Rozsa
Ohio EPA and EPA contractors collect soil and air samples from the derailment site on March 9, 2023 in East Palestine, Ohio. Cleanup efforts continue after a Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals derailed causing an environmental disaster. (Michael Swensen/Getty Images)

East Palestine contaminants spill again

Matthew Rozsa
A woman depositing a plastic bottle in a recycling bin (Getty Images/Andrew Fox)

US cities want to send plastic to Mexico

Joseph Winters - Grist
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