EJToday: Top Headlines

"Oil and Gas Companies Spill Millions of Gallons of Wastewater in Texas" [9]

"An exclusive Inside Climate News analysis found companies have spilled nearly 150 million gallons of toxic, highly saline wastewater in Texas over the last decade."

Chemicals [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [16]
Source: Inside Climate News [17], 11/02/2023
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"Dumped, Not Recycled?" Tracking Raises Questions About Houston 'Recycling' [18]

"Revelations by a watchdog group reinforce doubts about chemical recycling, a technology promoted by the city in a collaboration with ExxonMobil and other companies."

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [19]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Waste [20]
Public [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [16]
Source: Inside Climate News [21], 11/02/2023
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"As Climate Shocks Grow, Lawmakers Investigate Insurers Fleeing Risky Areas" [22]

"Insurers are already pulling back from California, Florida and Louisiana. Senate Democrats are trying to find out which states could be next."

Climate Change [23]
Disasters [24]
Economy & Business [25]
Environmental Politics [26]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: NYTimes [28], 11/02/2023
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"Schumer Leads 23 Senators In Demanding FTC Probe Of Oil Industry Mergers" [29]

"Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and 22 other Democratic senators sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan on Wednesday demanding an investigation of two major proposed oil industry mergers and warning that the consolidations could hurt consumers."

Climate Change [23]
Economy & Business [25]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [26]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: The Hill [30], 11/02/2023
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"King Tide Floods Offer Glimpse Of Miami’s Soggy, Salty Future" [31]

"The roar of a generator overwhelmed the quiet burbling of water at the Little River Pocket Park on Monday. It hadn’t rained in days, but the park — and several nearby streets — were under nearly two feet of water from this year’s king tides, the annual highest tides of the year."

Climate Change [23]
Infrastructure [32]
Planning & Growth [33]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [34]
Source: Miami Herald [35], 11/02/2023
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Ozone Hole Is About Average Size, Despite Undersea Volcano Eruption [36]

"With last year’s undersea volcano injecting massive amounts of water high into the atmosphere, scientists were bracing for a big Antarctica ozone hole this fall. But it didn’t happen. Instead this year’s ozone hole was about average size for the last 20 years, even a bit smaller than 2022’s, according to NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration."

Air [37]
Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [23]
Pollution [13]
Public [15]
International [38]
Antarctica & Arctic [39]
Source: AP [40], 11/02/2023
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"DOJ’s Environment Chief Intensifies Focus on Tribal Communities" [41]

"The Department of Justice is redoubling its efforts to protect tribal communities from violations of environmental law, according to a top agency official."

Environmental Justice [42]
Laws & Regulations [43]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [44], 11/02/2023
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S. Calif. Wildfire Prompts Evacuation For Thousands Amid Santa Ana Winds [45]

"Hundreds of firefighters aided by aircraft on Tuesday battled a wind-driven wildfire that damaged or destroyed at least nine buildings in rural Southern California and prompted authorities to order 4,000 residents to evacuate."

Climate Change [23]
Disasters [24]
Forests [46]
Public [15]
California [47]
Source: AP [48], 11/01/2023
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"Biden Approves Nation’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm" [49]

"The Interior Department approved the largest offshore wind project in the country Tuesday, marking the fifth massive wind array cleared for construction in U.S. oceans under President Joe Biden."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [27]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [50]
Source: E&E News [51], 11/01/2023
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Glyphosate Cancer Findings Of “Extreme Concern” As Europe Weighs Safety [52]

"European researchers have found new evidence linking popular weed-killing products to cancer at levels currently considered safe."

Agriculture [53]
Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [43]
Public [15]
Europe [54]
Source: The New Lede [55], 11/01/2023
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Chemical Recycling “A Dangerous Deception” Amid Plastic Pollution: Report [56]

"Chemical recycling — an umbrella term used to describe processes that break plastic waste down into molecular building blocks with high heat or chemicals and convert them into new products — will not help reduce plastic pollution, but rather exacerbate environmental problems, according to a new report by nonprofit environmental advocacy groups Beyond Plastics and the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN)."

Chemicals [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [43]
Pollution [13]
Waste [20]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [27]
International [38]
Source: EHN [57], 11/01/2023
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Shipping Adds Heavily to Climate Change. Are Green Ships the Solution? [58]

"The container shipping lines that carry the bulk of global trade are betting on greener technologies, but there are still reasons those wagers could fail."

Air [37]
Climate Change [23]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Pollution [13]
Transportation [59]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
International [38]
Source: NYTimes [60], 11/01/2023
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Suit Says Utility Should Repay $382 Million Aid To Failed "Clean Coal" Plant [61]

"A former employee is suing to force a Mississippi utility to repay $382 million that the federal government gave to build a failed coal-fueled power plant."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Laws & Regulations [43]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [27]
Source: AP [62], 11/01/2023
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Pittsburgh In ‘Extreme Embrace’ With Fossil Fuel Lobbyists, Research Finds [63]

"Dozens of governmental, educational, cultural and environmental organizations across the city of Pittsburgh have hired lobbying firms who work with planet-heating fossil fuel companies, new research shows."

Environmental Politics [26]
Laws & Regulations [43]
Public [15]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [50]
Source: Guardian [64], 11/01/2023
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Earth Is Getting Extra Salty, An ‘Existential Threat’ To Freshwater Supplies [65]

"Humanity is messing with the Earth’s “salt cycle,” with potentially dangerous consequences for drinking water supplies, crop production, and ecosystems. That’s according to a new study published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment on Tuesday."

Chemicals [10]
Natural Resources [66]
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
International [38]
Source: Grist [67], 11/01/2023
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