EJToday: Top Environmental Politics Headlines

"Nobody Is Happy With the Federal Grazing Program" [9]

"Not the environmentalists. Not the ranchers. Not the public employees. In some cases, not even the cows."

Agriculture [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Earther [16], 01/30/2023
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"Biden Administration Sets a Mining Ban in Boundary Waters Wilderness" [17]

"The Biden administration on Thursday said it will establish a 20-year moratorium on mining upstream from Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a vast preserve of lakes and woods that has been at the center of a fierce dispute over a proposed copper and nickel mine."

Biodiversity [18]
Climate Change [19]
Environmental Politics [11]
Fish & Fisheries [20]
Forests [21]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [13]
Water & Oceans [22]
Wildlife [23]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [24]
Canada [25]
Source: NYTimes [26], 01/27/2023
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"Town Where Child Cancer Rose Blasts Deal Over Polluted Site" [27]

"In hindsight, it’s clear that something was very wrong in this suburban town at the Jersey Shore, where many people worked at or lived near a chemical company that was flushing toxic waste into waterways and burying it in the ground."

Chemicals [28]
Disasters [29]
Environmental Health [30]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
People & Population [31]
Pollution [32]
Waste [33]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [34]
Source: AP [35], 01/27/2023
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"Lax Oversight Allows U.S. Refineries To Pollute Waterways - Report" [36]

"Weak U.S. water protection rules and federal oversight has allowed dozens of U.S. oil refineries to dump toxic chemicals and metals into the nation’s waterways, the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) said in a report released on Thursday."

Chemicals [28]
Energy & Fuel [37]
Environmental Health [30]
Environmental Justice [38]
Environmental Politics [11]
Fish & Fisheries [20]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [32]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Reuters [39], 01/27/2023
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Colorado River Is Overused And Shrinking. Crisis Transforms The Southwest [40]

"The Colorado River begins as melting snow, trickling from forested peaks and coursing in streams that gather in the meadows and valleys of the Rocky Mountains. Like arteries, its major tributaries take shape across Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico, coming together in a great river like no other — a river that travels more than 1,400 miles and has defined the rise of the American Southwest over the last century."

Agriculture [10]
Climate Change [19]
Disasters [29]
Economy & Business [41]
Environmental Justice [38]
Environmental Politics [11]
Fish & Fisheries [20]
Infrastructure [42]
Natural Resources [13]
People & Population [31]
Planning & Growth [43]
Water & Oceans [22]
Wildlife [23]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: LA Times [44], 01/27/2023
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"Meet The Top House Recipients Of Oil And Gas Money" [45]

"The oil and gas industry donated millions of dollars to members of the House in the last election cycle. Now, many of the top recipients are well-positioned to advance its interests."

Chemicals [28]
Climate Change [19]
Economy & Business [41]
Energy & Fuel [37]
Environmental Health [30]
Environmental Justice [38]
Environmental Politics [11]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [46], 01/27/2023
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In Atlanta, a Deadly Forest Protest Sparks Debate Over ‘Domestic Terrorism’ [47]

"Manuel Esteban Paez Teran seemed to be everyone’s favorite social justice activist. ... Now the 26-year-old activist is dead."

Activism [48]
Environmental Politics [11]
Forests [21]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [49]
Source: Washington Post [50], 01/27/2023
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"Climate Groups Decry Selection Of Oil Chief To Oversee COP28" [51]

"Hundreds of climate and environmental groups from around the world released a letter Thursday that decried the nomination of an oil executive to oversee the United Nations climate negotiations at COP28 this year.

Earlier this month, the United Arab Emirates, host of the U.N. climate talks this year, named Sultan al-Jaber to the presidency of the conference Nov. 30 to Dec. 12. The company he runs as chief executive, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co., produces 4 million barrels of crude oil per day and hopes to expand to 5 million daily by the end of the decade.
Activism [48]
Climate Change [19]
Economy & Business [41]
Energy & Fuel [37]
Environmental Justice [38]
Environmental Politics [11]
Pollution [32]
Public [14]
International [52]
Source: AP [53], 01/27/2023
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"Biden Bans Roads and Logging in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest" [54]

"The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it has banned logging and road-building on about nine million acres of the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska, aiming to settle a two-decade battle over the fate of North America’s largest temperate rainforest."

Biodiversity [18]
Climate Change [19]
Environmental Politics [11]
Forests [21]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Alaska and Hawaii [55]
Source: NYTimes [56], 01/26/2023
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Bill To Withdraw Va. From Carbon-Trading Program Dies In State Committee [57]

"A committee of the Virginia Senate on Tuesday defeated a bill backed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) that would withdraw the state from a regional carbon-trading initiative."

Climate Change [19]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [14]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [58]
Source: The Hill [59], 01/26/2023
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US Refuses Calls For Immediate Protection Of North Atlantic Right Whales [60]

"The U.S. government has denied two petitions to immediately protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales during the species’ calving season, raising concerns that this population of whales will continue to decline without intervention. There are currently about 340 of these whales left, making them one of the most threatened cetaceans in the world."

Biodiversity [18]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Transportation [61]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Mongabay [62], 01/26/2023
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"Silencing Science: How Indonesia Is Censoring Wildlife Research" [63]

"Under President Joko Widodo, Indonesia has gained international praise for its conservation policies. But now the government is clamping down on scientists who are questioning official claims that the country’s endangered orangutan and rhino populations are increasing."

Biodiversity [18]
Environmental Politics [11]
Environmental Studies [64]
Journalism & Media [65]
Public [14]
Australia & Oceania [66]
Source: YaleE360 [67], 01/26/2023
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"Agency Delays Protections For Imperiled Bat, Prairie Chicken" [68]

"The Biden administration is temporarily delaying stepped-up legal protections for two imperiled species following efforts by congressional Republicans to derail the actions."

Biodiversity [18]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: AP [69], 01/26/2023
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"4th Circuit Asked to Nix Permit for Mountain Valley Pipeline" [70]

"Environmental groups asked the Fourth Circuit during oral arguments Tuesday to toss a key water permit for the Mountain Valley Pipeline, which would lead to even more delays for the $6.2 billion project that developers aim to resume constructing this summer."

Climate Change [19]
Energy & Fuel [37]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [42]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [71], 01/25/2023
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"Depleted Under Trump, a ‘Traumatized’ E.P.A. Struggles With Its Mission" [72]

"Despite an injection of funding, the agency still has not recovered from an exodus of scientists and policy experts, both insiders and critics say."

"WASHINGTON — The nation’s top environmental agency is still reeling from the exodus of more than 1,200 scientists and policy experts during the Trump administration. The chemicals chief said her staff can’t keep up with a mounting workload. The enforcement unit is prosecuting fewer polluters than at any time in the past two decades.
Environmental Health [30]
Environmental Justice [38]
Environmental Politics [11]
Government [73]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [32]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NYTimes [74], 01/24/2023
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