EJToday: Top Headlines

"White House Announces Clean Energy Initiatives On Coal" [9]

"The White House said on Tuesday it was funneling hundreds of millions of dollars to help coal communities, including $450 million for clean energy projects on current and former mining areas."

Economy & Business [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Infrastructure [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Reuters [15], 04/05/2023
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"A Push to Turn Farm Waste Into Fuel" [16]

"Climate change provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act have spurred developers to build ambitious renewable energy projects that turn corn into ethanol and manure into methane."

Agriculture [17]
Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [19]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: NYTimes [21], 04/05/2023
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EPA Estimates 9.2 Million Lead Water Pipes In US, Funds Some Replacements [22]

"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Tuesday that it estimates that there are 9.2 million lead pipes carrying water throughout the country and said it was allocating some of the funds from the bipartisan infrastructure law to replace them."

Chemicals [23]
Environmental Health [24]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [25]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: The Hill [27], 04/05/2023
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"Septic Tank Permitting In Maryland Faces Backlogs, Staff Shortages" [28]

"Lengthy delays. Staffing shortages. Byzantine regulations. These are trying times for Maryland’s well and septic permitting program. State officials can’t even quantify the overall extent of the permitting delays because the system lacks a centralized database."

Consumer [29]
Environmental Health [24]
Fish & Fisheries [30]
Government [31]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [25]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [13]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [32]
Source: Bay Journal [33], 04/05/2023
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"Raw Sewage Blights Once-Idyllic Beaches On Isle Of Wight" [34]

"On the Isle of Wight, one of England's most popular seaside holiday destinations since Victorian times, a pipeline stretches out from the shore to pump raw sewage into coastal waters."

Consumer [29]
Environmental Health [24]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [25]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [13]
Europe [35]
Source: AFP [36], 04/05/2023
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"Mass Yellowstone Hunt Kills 1,150 Bison" [37]

"A months-long event, just outside the park, was intended to keep the animals from spreading a disease to livestock. But its scope and other removal measures affecting hundreds more have generated opposition."

Agriculture [17]
Biodiversity [38]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [39]
Wildlife [40]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [41]
Source: NYTimes [42], 04/05/2023
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Native Seed Shortage Slowing Land Restoration, Crucial For Tackling Climate [43]

"Spring is planting time for home gardeners, landscapers and public works agencies across the U.S. And there’s rising demand for native plants – species that are genetically adapted to the specific regions where they are used."

Agriculture [17]
Biodiversity [38]
Consumer [29]
Natural Resources [39]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: States Newsroom [44], 04/05/2023
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"Mountain Valley Pipeline's West Virginia Water Permit Tossed By Court" [45]

"A federal appeals court on Monday vacated a water permit needed by developers to restart construction on the Mountain Valley pipeline in West Virginia, marking the latest setback for the $6.2 billion project."

Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [19]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [32]
Source: Reuters [46], 04/04/2023
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"UAE Plans Huge Oil And Gas Expansion As It Hosts UN Climate Summit" [47]

"The United Arab Emirates, which is hosting this year’s UN climate summit, has the third biggest net zero-busting plans for oil and gas expansion in the world, the Guardian can reveal. Its plans are surpassed only by Saudi Arabia and Qatar."

Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [19]
Public [13]
International [48]
Middle East [49]
Source: Guardian [50], 04/04/2023
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"Bid To Pause Conocophillips' Alaska Willow Project Fails" [51]

"A federal judge on Monday rejected a bid by environmentalists to temporarily suspend the U.S. government’s approval of ConocoPhillips' (COP.N) multibillion-dollar oil drilling project in Alaska’s Arctic."

Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [39]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Alaska and Hawaii [52]
Source: Reuters [53], 04/04/2023
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"Groups Petition US EPA To Force Reporting Of Waste Incinerator Emissions" [54]

"Environmental groups on Monday petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to require companies to disclose the chemicals discharged from waste incinerators and plants that claim to recycle plastic waste into fuel."

Air [55]
Chemicals [23]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Justice [56]
Environmental Politics [19]
Laws & Regulations [20]
People & Population [57]
Pollution [25]
Waste [58]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Reuters [59], 04/04/2023
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California’s Snowpack Among Deepest Ever. Get Ready For The ‘Big Melt’ [60]

"California’s wet and wintry start to the year has resulted in perhaps the deepest snowpack recorded in more than 70 years, officials said Monday."

Agriculture [17]
Climate Change [18]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [13]
California [61]
Source: LA Times [62], 04/04/2023
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Majority-Black Town Fights To Stop Land Seizure For Gravel Quarry Rail Link [63]

"A majority-Black rural community in Georgia is battling to stop a railroad company from seizing private land for a new train line they say will cause environmental and economic harms."

Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Justice [56]
Environmental Politics [19]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [39]
Transportation [64]
Public [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [65]
Source: Guardian [66], 04/04/2023
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England’s Top Beaches Faced 8,500 Hours Of Sewage Dumping Last Year: Study [67]

"England’s most celebrated beaches faced 8,500 hours of sewage dumping last year, new figures show. Many beaches with blue flag status– an international mark of recognition that a beach is deemed safe and has good water quality – were found to have been covered in waste over the last 12 months."

Environmental Health [24]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [25]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [13]
Europe [35]
Source: Guardian [68], 04/04/2023
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CFCs Are Back on the Rise Following an International Ban, New Study Finds [69]

"A U.S. chemical plant in Louisiana that produces a common refrigerant may be partly to blame for increased emissions of CFCs—chemicals thousands of times more potent at warming the planet than carbon dioxide."

Air [55]
Chemicals [23]
Climate Change [18]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [25]
Public [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [65]
International [48]
Source: Inside Climate News [70], 04/04/2023
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