EJToday: Top Headlines

"In Brazil’s Amazon, Rivers Fall To Record Low Levels During Drought" [9]

"The Negro River, the Amazon’s second largest tributary, on Monday reached its lowest level since official measurements began near Manaus 121 years ago. The record confirms that this part of the world´s largest rainforest is suffering its worst drought, just a little over two years after its most significant flooding."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Natural Resources [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
South America [15]
Source: AP [16], 10/17/2023
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Texas Quietly Sets Weak Cancer Risk Standard For Industrial Air Pollution [17]

"The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has quietly proposed maintaining a target cancer-risk level for air pollution permits that scientists and public health officials consider inadequate to protect public health, especially for communities like those east of Houston that are exposed simultaneously to many sources of industrial emissions."

Air [18]
Chemicals [19]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [21]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Pollution [23]
Public [14]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [24]
Source: Inside Climate News [25], 10/17/2023
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Enviros Warn Of Intent To Sue Over Snail Species Near Nev. Lithium Mine [26]

"In an ongoing legal battle with the Biden administration over a Nevada lithium mine, environmentalists are poised to return to court with a new approach accusing U.S. wildlife officials of dragging their feet on a year-old petition seeking endangered species status for a tiny snail that lives nearby."

Biodiversity [27]
Chemicals [19]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Politics [29]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Natural Resources [12]
Wildlife [30]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [31]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [32]
Source: AP [33], 10/17/2023
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Lake Erie Is Full Of Algae Again Amid SW Ontario’s Exploding Greenhouse Sector [34]

"Experts say nutrient-rich water from greenhouse farms could be harming Lake Erie, but Ontario’s Environment Ministry has issued very few fines for potential algae-causing infractions since 2019".

Agriculture [35]
Pollution [23]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [36]
Canada [37]
Source: The Narwhal [38], 10/17/2023
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Georgia Slave Descendants Sue Over Zoning Threatenening Island Homes [39]

"Black residents of a tiny island enclave founded by their enslaved ancestors off the Georgia coast have filed suit seeking to halt a new zoning law that they say will raise taxes and force them to sell their homes in one of the South’s last surviving Gullah-Geechee communities."

Environmental Justice [21]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Natural Resources [12]
Public [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [40]
Source: AP [41], 10/17/2023
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New York's Gas Stove Ban an 'Existential Threat,' Trade Group Lawsuit Says [42]

"Construction and gas trade groups have filed a lawsuit to block a law passed by New York officials that would ban furnaces and gas stoves in newly constructed buildings."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Politics [29]
Infrastructure [43]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Public [14]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [44]
Source: Earther [45], 10/17/2023
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"Home Energy Devices Hold Untapped Potential for Strained Grids" [46]

"This summer, as a historic heat wave strained Texas’ electrical grid and hiked power prices, Scott Stambush’s electricity bill went negative."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Infrastructure [43]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [31]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [24]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [47], 10/17/2023
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Giant Open-Pit Mine Near Two National Parks Dealt A Blow By Biden DOI [48]

"A road critical to operating a proposed open-pit mine in a remote part of Alaska hit a new hurdle Friday when the Biden administration issued a finding that the road could threaten Alaska Native communities and their lifestyle more than previously estimated."

Environmental Justice [21]
Environmental Studies [49]
Infrastructure [43]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Natural Resources [12]
Transportation [50]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [31]
Alaska and Hawaii [51]
Source: Washington Post [52], 10/16/2023
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"Canada's Top Court Backs Alberta Challenge To Trudeau Environment Law" [53]

"Canada's Supreme Court dealt a blow to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government on Friday by ruling that a federal law assessing how major projects such as coal mines and oil sands plants impact the environment is largely unconstitutional."

Environmental Studies [49]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Natural Resources [12]
Public [14]
Canada [37]
Source: Reuters [54], 10/16/2023
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"How Megafires Are Remaking the World" [55]

"In our Pyrocene age, enormous wildfires aren’t merely damaging ecosystems but transforming them."

Biodiversity [27]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Studies [49]
Forests [56]
Natural Resources [12]
Wildlife [30]
Public [14]
International [57]
Source: NYTimes [58], 10/16/2023
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"In A Warming World, Hunger Stalks Guatemala's Mayan Highlands" [59]

"Crop failures are one reason an unprecedented number of migrants are heading to the U.S. border."

Agriculture [35]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Food [60]
People & Population [61]
Public [14]
Central America & the Caribbean [62]
South America [15]
Source: Reuters [63], 10/16/2023
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Prosecutors: Stolen Activist Emails Were Later Cited In Court By Exxon [64]

"Federal prosecutors said in a sentencing memo Thursday that hackers hired by an Israeli private investigator stole communications between climate activists that were later used in court by Exxon Mobil Corp."

Activism [65]
Environmental Politics [29]
Journalism & Media [66]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [31]
Source: The Hill [67], 10/16/2023
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Refrigerants Are A Nightmare For The Climate. Alternatives Must Spread Fast [68]

"When Jennifer Byrne, owner and technician at Comfy Heating and Cooling, gets a call to come and fix a relatively new air conditioning system, one of the first questions she asks is if the house has just been remodeled."

Air [18]
Chemicals [19]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [69]
Pollution [23]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [31]
International [57]
Source: AP [70], 10/16/2023
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"To Save Monarch Butterflies, They Had to Silence the Lawn Mowers" [71]

"An unlikely group of New Yorkers is winning small victories in the battle to protect butterfly habitats."

Biodiversity [27]
Natural Resources [12]
Wildlife [30]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [31]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [44]
Source: NYTimes [72], 10/16/2023
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"No Shade, No Water, And Record Heat: More Migrants Die In U.S. Desert" [73]

"Veteran firefighter Daniel Medrano got out of his truck somewhere in the barren outskirts of Sunland Park, New Mexico, where a vast expanse of yellow sand is dotted by stubby bushes. Under one, he found a body."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [21]
People & Population [61]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [31]
International [57]
Source: Reuters [74], 10/16/2023
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