EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

Shuttered EPA Probe Could’ve Brought 'Meaningful Reform' In Cancer Alley [9]

"As industrial plants have overtaken historic Black communities and burdened neighborhoods with toxic air pollution, environmental advocates and residents of Louisiana’s chemical corridor have spent decades calling for change."

Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [17]
Source: WWNO [18], 09/05/2023
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"Biden Surveys Storm Damage In Florida, Without DeSantis" [19]

"President Joe Biden traveled to Florida on Saturday to survey the destruction from Hurricane Idalia and comfort victims of the storm, but he did not meet with Governor Ron DeSantis, a potential presidential rival, who opted not to come."

Climate Change [20]
Disasters [21]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [22]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [17]
Source: Reuters [25], 09/05/2023
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"Rags Not Riches: Ghana Drowns In Western Castoffs" [26]

"Traders in the world's largest secondhand clothes market want reparations for chronic pollution caused by fast fashion".

Consumer [27]
Environmental Politics [13]
Pollution [15]
Waste [28]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [16]
International [29]
Africa [30]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [31], 09/05/2023
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"Carbon Credit Market Confidence Ebbs As Big Names Retreat" [32]

"Voluntary carbon markets have shrunk for the first time in at least seven years, as companies including food giant Nestle and fashion house Gucci reduced buying and studies found several forest protection projects did not deliver promised emissions savings."

Climate Change [20]
Economy & Business [33]
Energy & Fuel [34]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [16]
International [29]
Source: Reuters [35], 09/05/2023
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African Climate Summit Seeks To Shift Focus To Finance From Floods, Famine [36]

"How to finance environmental priorities and shift the focus from Africa as victim of floods and famine will be central to the debate at the continent's first climate summit next week, while activists resist plans to expand carbon markets for funding."

Climate Change [20]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Forests [37]
Natural Resources [38]
Public [16]
Africa [30]
Source: Reuters [39], 09/01/2023
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"Falsehoods Follow Close Behind This Summer’s Natural Disasters" [40]

"Misattributed videos, recycled lies and warped fears are fueling unfounded claims about the recent record-breaking heat, floods and wildfires."

Climate Change [20]
Disasters [21]
Energy & Fuel [34]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [22]
Science [41]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: NYTimes [42], 08/31/2023
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Reporter Sues Marion Police Chief, Alleging Retaliation In Newsroom Raid [43]

''Police Chief Gideon Cody arrived at the Marion County Record and handed a copy of a search warrant to Deb Gruver, the veteran reporter who had questioned him about alleged misconduct at his previous job."

Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [22]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [44]
Source: States Newsroom [45], 08/31/2023
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"Exxon Says Global Climate Goals Are Destined To Fail" [46]

"The company’s researchers predict that an expanding population and worldwide economy will drive up energy demand for fossil fuels."

"Exxon Mobil projected that greenhouse-gas emissions and the efforts to keep the planet’s temperature from rising beyond an increase of 2 degrees Celsius by 2050 is destined to fail in a report released by the oil giant on Monday.
Climate Change [20]
Economy & Business [33]
Energy & Fuel [34]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [22]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
International [29]
Source: Grist [47], 08/31/2023
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Scrapping Housebuilder Pollution Rules Is A Regression: UK Watchdog [48]

"Office for Environmental Protection chair tells ministers plan will degrade England’s rivers and demands that they explain it to MPs".

Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [49]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [38]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [16]
Europe [50]
Source: Guardian [51], 08/31/2023
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"In New Scramble for Africa, an Arab Sheikh Is Taking the Lead" [52]

"A company established by a Dubai sheikh is finalizing agreements with African nations to manage vast tracts of their forests and sell the carbon credits. Critics are concerned the deals will not benefit Africans and will just help foreign governments perpetuate high emissions."

Biodiversity [53]
Climate Change [20]
Economy & Business [33]
Energy & Fuel [34]
Environmental Politics [13]
Forests [37]
Natural Resources [38]
Pollution [15]
Public [16]
International [29]
Africa [30]
Middle East [54]
Source: YaleE360 [55], 08/31/2023
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"Protesters Block Road Into Burning Man Festival; Rangers Ram Blockade" [56]

"Climate activists caused a miles-long traffic jam when they blocked the only road leading into the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.

Videos posted online show activists using a trailer to block the road that leads into Black Rock City. One video posted to X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, shows a white pickup truck appearing to be from the Pyramid Lake Ranger Station crashing through the barricade set up by protesters.
Activism [57]
Climate Change [20]
Economy & Business [33]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [22]
Natural Resources [38]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [58]
Source: The Hill [59], 08/31/2023
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"EPA Revises Waters Rule to Align With High Court Wetlands Ruling" [60]

"A new rule governing federally protected waters and wetlands was issued Tuesday by the EPA to align agency regulations with a US Supreme Court ruling that will allow unpermitted development in wetlands across the country."

Agriculture [61]
Biodiversity [53]
Climate Change [20]
Environmental Politics [13]
Fish & Fisheries [62]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [38]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [23]
Wildlife [63]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [64], 08/30/2023
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"Why Climate Denial Could Still Be Taught At Texas Schools" [65]

"PragerU doesn’t need official approval to spread climate denial in public schools, a Texas State Teachers Association representative tells HEATED."

Climate Change [20]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Science [41]
Public [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [66]
Source: HEATED [67], 08/30/2023
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Carbon Credit Speculators Could Lose Billions As Offsets Deemed ‘Worthless’ [68]

"Carbon credit speculators could lose billions as scientific evidence shows many offsets they have bought have no environmental worth and have become stranded assets."

Climate Change [20]
Environmental Politics [13]
Forests [37]
Journalism & Media [22]
Public [16]
International [29]
Source: Guardian [69], 08/25/2023
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"Top Science Publisher Withdraws Flawed Climate Study" [70]

"Top science publisher Springer Nature said it has withdrawn a study that presented misleading conclusions on climate change impacts after an investigation prompted by an AFP inquiry."

Climate Change [20]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [22]
Science [41]
Public [16]
International [29]
Source: AFP [71], 08/25/2023
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