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Cumulative Impacts: Why Environmental Protections Need to Take Them into Account

Union of Concerned Scientists

When I began working as a state government scientist in Minnesota, I was motivated to advance environmental protections that prevent against pollutants from crossing from one environmental medium to another, such as from the air to water. To understand cumulative impacts, we can use the analogy of a doctor’s appointment.

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Minnesota Needs Environmental Protections for Cumulative Impacts. Your State Does Too.

Union of Concerned Scientists

Should it become statute, this bill would give additional regulatory authority to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (the state regulatory agency) to limit or deny an environmental permit if the proposal would result in significant additions to the cumulative environmental and public health stressors around the facility.

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EPA And Lincoln University Expand Partnership To Include Department Of Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

Environmental Protection Agency and Lincoln University announced they re-signed their 2018 Memorandum of Understanding to enhance research, teaching, outreach, career development and stewardship in environmental sciences. The 2023 agreement was expanded to include the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection).

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The Stream, June 14, 2023: Momentum Builds in Manitoba For Environmental Protections

Circle of Blue

Newcrest Cadia Hill Gold Mine : The New South Wales Environment Protection Authority will begin testing water in communities near the Newcrest Cadia Hill gold mine, after “reports of heavy metals being found in people’s bloodstream and drinking water,” the Guardian reports.

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Statement: The Ontario Government’s Application for Judicial Review of the Federal Impact Assessment Act is an Attempt to Create a Temporary Gap in Environmental Protections

Enviromental Defense

30 – For more information or to request an interview, please contact: Carolyn Townend, Environmental Defence, media@environmentaldefence.ca It is intended to create a temporary unregulated “no-mans-land” in areas that remain squarely within federal jurisdiction.

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Why Native Women’s Voices Are Crucial to Saving Brazil’s Forests

Yale E360

Cristiane Julião — a member of the Pankararu Indigenous group and co-founder of the National Articulation of Ancestral Warriors Women — challenges the deeply rooted sexism that hinders environmental protection in Brazil. The state needs to listen to women,” she insists. Read more on E360 →

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After Salmon Kills, EPA Takes Aim at Toxic Chemical Issuing from Tires

Yale E360

The Environmental Protection Agency will review the use of a chemical found in tires that has been linked with the deaths of salmon on the U.S. West Coast. Read more on E360 →