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"Legislation to protect critical wetlands faces uncertainty as titanium mine moves closer to permitting."

"With $81M from DOE, Rye Development aims to build the first pumped-hydro project on the site of a former mine to bolster the grid and revitalize the local economy."

"Chase Hays and more than 50 neighbors are suing Blackhawk Mining after a silt retention pond burst and killed 43 people".

"Puerto Rico has issued a public health emergency after recording an unusually rapid rise in dengue cases over the first few months of this year."

"A new report highlights the risk 120,000 abandoned oil and gas wells pose to carbon dioxide storage in Louisiana, home to more proposals to pump the greenhouse gas underground than any other state." "With industry planning to inject tens of millions of tons annually, a looming question is whether the climate-warming gas will stay underground."

"Residents already hit with disease are fighting the multibillion-dollar corporation DR Horton, America’s largest homebuilder".

"How growing battles over real estate development and flood risk are playing out in one community on the U.S. East Coast".

"Public data from a network of state air monitors around the Houston Ship Channel is hard to interpret and is often inadequate, leaving Latino-majority neighborhoods like Cloverleaf unaware of whether the air they breathe is safe."