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Rising groundwater levels are threatening clean air and water across the country

Grist

This phenomenon — groundwater rise — could also have dire effects on people’s health, exposing them to new or unearthed pollutants. Without good water quality, you won’t have good seafood,” said Toomer, who serves on the Bluffton town council as mayor pro tempore. In 2009, high levels of fecal coliform, bacteria like E.

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This coastal Louisiana tribe is using generations of resilience to handle the pandemic

GreenBiz

While many Native American communities have high risk factors — overcrowding, chronic medical conditions and underfunded health care systems — and the pandemic has slammed Navajo Nation in the American West, Louisiana’s tribes appear to have been spared the brunt so far. Census designates 0.8 We clean out their houses.

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This coastal Louisiana tribe is using generations of resilience to handle the pandemic

AGreenLiving

While many Native American communities have high risk factors — overcrowding, chronic medical conditions and underfunded health care systems — and the pandemic has slammed Navajo Nation in the American West, Louisiana’s tribes appear to have been spared the brunt so far. Census designates 0.8 We clean out their houses.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

Boma Brown-West, Director of Consumer Health, EDF+Business. We want to call attention to how the biggest environmental impacts and the biggest health impact of products is really due to the products themselves and the creation and the use of a product," Brown-West noted at the time. LinkedIn | Twitter.