EJToday: Top Headlines

"Libya Flood Deaths Expose Climate Chasm In Conflict-Hit States" [9]

"'Adaptation apartheid' is preventing fragile states from accessing finance to protect their people from global warming".

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Military [12]
Public [13]
International [14]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [15], 10/02/2023
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"In the Ambitious Bid to Reinvent South Baltimore, Justice Concerns Remain" [16]

"Parks, trails, housing, commercial development, flood resiliency efforts and new community amenities are supposed to turn the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River into the next Inner Harbor. But some activists worry about gentrification and more injustice."

Environmental Justice [17]
Infrastructure [18]
People & Population [19]
Planning & Growth [20]
Public [13]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [21]
Source: Inside Climate News [22], 10/02/2023
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"Biden to Offer Smallest-Ever Offshore Oil Rights Sale Plan" [23]

"The Biden administration is charting plans to sell offshore oil-drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico over the next five years, while trimming the program to its smallest level ever.

The oil leasing plan being released by the Interior Department on Friday will contain only a low number of sales, according to people familiar with the deliberations who declined to be named because the blueprint isn’t yet public. That’s far from the 11 sales the agency proposed last year, and it would be the lowest in history.
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Politics [25]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Natural Resources [27]
Pollution [28]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [30]
Source: Bloomberg [31], 09/29/2023
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Trump Administration Forced Joshua Tree To Stay Open During Last US Shutdown [32]

"Emails show David Bernhardt of interior department overrode superintendent of California park, causing ‘chaos and destruction’"

Environmental Politics [25]
Government [33]
Natural Resources [27]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [30]
Source: Guardian [34], 09/29/2023
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"Republicans Fight Over Who Loves Fossil Fuels The Most At Second GOP Debate" [35]

"After dodging surprisingly pointed questions about climate change at the first debate Fox News hosted last month, the contenders hoping to take on President Joe Biden next November battled each other over who would do most to ramp up production of the fossil fuels destabilizing the planet’s weather systems."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Politics [25]
Journalism & Media [36]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [30]
Source: HuffPost [37], 09/29/2023
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Swiss Glaciers Have Lost 10% Of Their Volume In The Past 2 Years: Experts [38]

"A Swiss Academy of Sciences panel is reporting a dramatic acceleration of glacier melt in the Alpine country, which has lost 10% of its ice volume in just two years after high summer heat and low snow volumes in winter."

Climate Change [10]
Natural Resources [27]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [13]
Europe [39]
Source: AP [40], 09/29/2023
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"Despite Climate Promises, Insurance Companies Are Still Covering Coal" [41]

"A new report finds that five major global insurers are still backing U.S. coal mines, even when they've promised not to."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Economy & Business [42]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [30]
International [14]
Source: Grist [43], 09/29/2023
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"As Waters Rise, a Community Must Decide: Do We Stay or Go?" [44]

"Faced with more frequent flooding and worse to come, the Philadelphia environmental justice community of Eastwick is grappling with difficult questions about its future: Will levees and flood walls protect them, or should residents abandon their homes and move to higher ground?"

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Justice [17]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [13]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [21]
Source: YaleE360 [45], 09/29/2023
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World’s Poorest People Won’t Be Able To Migrate To Escape Climate Disasters [46]

"Climate change-driven heat waves, droughts, and floods will push vulnerable people into more extreme poverty, Harvard researcher says."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Justice [17]
People & Population [19]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [13]
International [14]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [47], 09/29/2023
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"Inside The Complex Effort To Rid Maui Of Toxic Fire Debris And Rubble" [48]

"One of the most complicated wildfire cleanup missions in recent memory is now underway on the Hawaiian island of Maui, where fleets of workers and equipment are being shipped to the island while officials plot how to carefully but quickly remove hundreds of thousands of tons of toxic debris."

Chemicals [49]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [50]
Pollution [28]
Public [13]
Alaska and Hawaii [51]
Source: Washington Post [52], 09/29/2023
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"Toxic Labor" [53]

"A warming planet is creating a booming and loosely-regulated disaster restoration industry fueled by immigrant labor. Without protection, workers are exposed to lethal toxins making them sick long after the cleanup."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Economy & Business [42]
Environmental Health [50]
Environmental Justice [17]
Pollution [28]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [30]
Source: Center for Public Integrity [54], 09/29/2023
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"Inside The Rough-And-Tumble Race To Clean Up America’s Abandoned Oil Wells" [55]

"With a little art, a little science, and a lot of luck, the niche well-plugging industry is hoping to pick up steam."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Infrastructure [18]
Pollution [28]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [30]
Source: Grist [56], 09/29/2023
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"Shutdown Could Hinder Infrastructure Projects, Permits" [57]

"Concerns are mounting over impacts of a possible federal government shutdown on critical infrastructure projects and permitting activities."

Disasters [11]
Environmental Politics [25]
Government [33]
Infrastructure [18]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Natural Resources [27]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [30]
Source: E&E News [58], 09/28/2023
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Britain Approves New North Sea Oil Drilling, Pleasing Industry Not Greens [59]

"Britain on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for a major oil and gas project in the North Sea, ignoring warnings from scientists and the United Nations that countries must stop developing new fossil fuel resources if the world is to avoid catastrophic climate change."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Politics [25]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [13]
Europe [39]
Source: AP [60], 09/28/2023
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Biden Vetoes GOP Bills Undo Endangered Species Protections For Bat, Chicken [61]

"President Biden on Tuesday vetoed a Republican-led attempt to ax endangered species protections for the long-eared bat and the lesser prairie-chicken."

Agriculture [62]
Biodiversity [63]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Natural Resources [27]
Wildlife [64]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [30]
Source: The Hill [65], 09/28/2023
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