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Editorial Roundup: Ohio

By The Associated Press May. 17, 2021 09:00 AM EDT
(Elyria) Chronicle-Telegram. May 14, 2021. Editorial: A new stage in the pandemic If you still needed a reason to get...

Danes start digging up minks to prevent water pollution

May. 14, 2021 05:08 AM EDT
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark has begun excavating the decomposing bodies of some 4 million mink, for fear they will pollute drinking water or a bathing...

Editorial Roundup: Pennsylvania

By The Associated Press May. 05, 2021 09:00 AM EDT
Scranton Times-Tribune. May 3, 2021. Editorial: Pass Yaw bill to help farms get greener Pennsylvania has fallen far...

Editorial Roundup: Michigan

By The Associated Press May. 03, 2021 09:00 AM EDT
Detroit News. April 29, 2021. Editorial: Don’t hold vaccinated hostage We’ve asked Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to tell us...

Editorial Roundup: New England

By The Associated Press Apr. 30, 2021 04:42 PM EDT
Barre-Montpelier Times Argus. April 26, 2021. Editorial: Count matters The count is in, and it counted. ...

Editorial Roundup: Michigan

By The Associated Press Apr. 05, 2021 09:00 AM EDT
Traverse City Record-Eagle. April 4, 2021. Editorial: Fixing PFAS notification problems shouldn’t take discussion They...

Editorial Roundup: Michigan

By The Associated Press Mar. 15, 2021 09:00 AM EDT
Detroit News. March 9, 2021. Editorial: Free Michigan from autocratic rule Michigan’s official state of emergency ended...

Editorial Roundup: New England

By The Associated Press Feb. 19, 2021 03:39 PM EST
Boston Globe. February 17, 2021. Editorial: Massachusetts needs to test students to diagnose COVID-19 learning slide ...

Sri Lankan municipal workers wait as they prepare to cremate a body of a COVID-19 victim at a cemetery in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. Sri Lanka on Friday approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID-19 amid warnings from doctors that front-line health workers should be quickly inoculated to stop the system from collapsing. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
UN group says Sri Lanka virus cremation rule violates rights

By Krishan Francis Jan. 26, 2021 06:36 AM EST

This undated photo provided by Time Magazine shows the cover of its Dec. 14, 2020 issue, featuring a 15-year-old Colorado high school student and young scientist who has been named the magazine's first-ever "Kid of the Year." Gitanjali Rao has used artificial intelligence and created apps to tackle contaminated drinking water, cyberbullying, opioid addiction and other social problems. Rao is a sophomore at STEM School Highlands Ranch in suburban Denver and was selected from more than 5,000 nominees. The process culminated with a finalists' committee of children, Time for Kids reporters and comedian Trevor Noah. Time says it wanted to recognize the rising leaders of America's youngest generation in announcing the award. (Sharif Hamza for TIME via AP)
Colorado student, scientist named Time's 'Kid of the Year'

Dec. 04, 2020 06:55 PM EST

Rancher Mike Wilcox surveys the debris left at the site of the Keystone-Wallace Copper Mill, where he worked briefly in the 1970s on Nov. 12, 2020. Wilcox fears a copper mine's plans to pump diluted sulfuric acid into the shallow aquifer that supplies his well will drive him out of business. (Zak Podmore/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
Ranchers, landowners worry about copper mine's plan

By Zak Podmore Nov. 29, 2020 08:00 AM EST

Theresa Landrum is photographed near the Marathon refinery, Friday, Oct. 16, 2020, in Detroit. Landrum wasn't impressed when told that Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler had pledged $200,000 to promote "community health initiatives" in her section of the city during his blitz of visits to battleground states in the presidential election campaign. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Minority communities question election-year push by EPA

By John Flesher Oct. 25, 2020 09:59 AM EDT

In this Friday, Aug. 14, 2020, photo New Hampshire Rep. Nancy Murphy, D-Merrimack, poses for a photo in the under-construction water filtration site for two of her town's contaminated wells, which is about two miles from the Saint-Gobain plastics factory in Merrimack, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
State: Saint Gobain can't delay smokestack upgrades

By Michael Casey Sep. 11, 2020 12:26 PM EDT

FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2016, file photo, heavy equipment is seen at a site where sections of the Dakota Access pipeline were being buried near the town of St. Anthony in Morton County, N.D. A federal judge on Monday, July 6, 2020, sided with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and ordered the Dakota Access pipeline to shut down until more environmental review is done. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, File)
Judge orders Dakota Access pipeline shut down pending review

By Dave Kolpack Jul. 06, 2020 02:01 PM EDT

Flood waters continue to rush through the path where the Edenville Dam once stood on Wednesday, May 20, 2020 in Edenville Township north of Midland, Mich. After two days of heavy rain, the Edenville Dam failed and flood waters rushed south, ravaging the landscape in its path. (Jake May/The Flint Journal, MLive.com via AP)
Michigan flood displaces thousands, threatens Superfund site

By Carlos Osorio, Corey Williams And Tammy Webber May. 20, 2020 08:55 AM EDT

FILE - In this April 17, 2020, file photo, an oil rig stands against the setting sun in Midland, Texas. Texas regulators are relaxing rules about where companies can store oil underground, raising concern among environmentalists about potential groundwater contamination and other dangers. (Odessa American/Eli Hartman, File)
Texas eases underground oil storage rules, raising concerns

By Cathy Bussewitz May. 05, 2020 05:35 PM EDT

In this Wednesday, March 25, 2020, photo, India Gate is seen from the Raisina Hills with clear sky in New Delhi, India. India’s extended lockdown to curb the coronavirus outbreak has shut down schools, workplaces, industries, transport, and forced people to stay home. It also led to an unexpected bonus in the country with six out of 10 of the world's most polluted cities: cleaner air. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Lockdown reveals fresh air, cleaner rivers in India

By Rishabh R. Jain Apr. 22, 2020 12:49 AM EDT

FILE - In this March 24, 2017 file photo, a lone woman walks the trail along Lake Michigan at Chicago' North Avenue beach. Additional funds provided by Congress for Great Lakes environmental improvements will be used to quicken cleanups of highly toxic sites and step up work on other longstanding forms of pollution, federal officials said Thursday, April, 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
Great Lakes get extra funds for cleanups, invasive species

By John Flesher Apr. 09, 2020 03:12 PM EDT

FILE - In this Thursday March 6, 2014, file photo, the sun sets beyond pumpjacks operating at the Inglewood oil fields in the Baldwin Hills area of Los Angeles. California issued new fracking permits Friday, April 3, 2020. It's the first new permits issued since July of last year, when Gov. Gavin Newsom fired the state's top oil and gas regulator after a report showed fracking permits had increased 35 percent since Newsom took office. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)
California issues first new fracking permits since July

By Adam Beam Apr. 03, 2020 09:10 PM EDT