EJToday: Top Headlines

"Tiny Central Coast Newsroom Lookout Santa Cruz Wins Pulitzer Prize" [9]

"As legacy publications celebrated their Pulitzer Prize wins Monday, bottles of champagne were also uncorked at Lookout Santa Cruz, a fledgling 10-person newsroom based on the second floor of a former bank on Santa Cruz’s quiet, tree-lined Pacific Avenue."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Journalism & Media [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
California [15]
Source: LA Times [16], 05/07/2024
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"EPA Proposes Ban on Pesticide Widely Used on Fruits and Vegetables" [17]

"The ban on acephate comes a week after a ProPublica investigation highlighted the EPA’s controversial finding that the bug killer doesn’t harm the developing brains of children."

Agriculture [18]
Chemicals [19]
Environmental Health [20]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: ProPublica [22], 05/06/2024
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"5 Takeaways From Competing Democratic, GOP Farm Bill Plans" [23]

"House Republicans and Democrats have released two dueling visions for the farm bill, the massive $1.5 trillion omnibus that underpins the U.S. food system."

Agriculture [18]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [24]
Food [25]
Forests [26]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Natural Resources [27]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: The Hill [28], 05/06/2024
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Arizona Boosts Protections From Extreme Heat After 100s Died Last Summer [29]

"Arizona’s new heat officer said Friday that he is working with local governments and nonprofit groups to open more cooling centers and ensure homes have working air conditioners this summer in a more unified effort to prevent another ghastly toll of heat-related deaths, which topped 900 statewide last year."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [20]
People & Population [30]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [31]
Source: AP [32], 05/06/2024
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"Climate Change-Driven Insurance Crisis Threatens New US States" [33]

"After major providers quit California, Florida, and Louisiana, insurers are starting to pull back in other U.S. states, leaving homeowners struggling to find affordable cover for the risk of being hit by floods, wildfires or hurricanes."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Economy & Business [34]
Infrastructure [35]
Water & Oceans [36]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [37], 05/06/2024
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Historic Pact Gives Colorado River Tribes Control Over Use of Their Water [38]

"The deal will help the tribe raise money for infrastructure and services for its members while the water could ease the drought in the Southwest."

Agriculture [18]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [39]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Natural Resources [27]
Water & Oceans [36]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Inside Climate News [40], 05/06/2024
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CA Battle to Prioritize Public Health over Oil Company Profits Heats Up [41]

"On a dreary afternoon in January, a geyser of oily water shot over the fence of an oil and gas company in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Wilmington, splattering the street, cars and a local coffee shop with petroleum just a block away from Ashley Hernandez’s house."

Air [42]
Chemicals [19]
Energy & Fuel [43]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [39]
Pollution [44]
Public [13]
California [15]
Source: Inside Climate News [45], 05/06/2024
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"New Mutations Identified in Bird Flu Virus" [46]

"The bird flu virus sweeping across dairy farms in multiple states has acquired dozens of new mutations, including some that may make it more adept at spreading between species and less susceptible to antiviral drugs, according to a new study."

Agriculture [18]
Biodiversity [47]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [20]
Natural Resources [27]
Wildlife [48]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
International [49]
Source: NYTimes [50], 05/06/2024
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Epoch Times Promotes Climate Science Denial Ads to Millions Across Europe [51]

"The pro-Trump Epoch Times has run hundreds of anti-climate social media adverts in Europe since the beginning of 2024 that have been seen millions of times, DeSmog can reveal."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [43]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [52]
Journalism & Media [12]
Science [53]
Public [13]
International [49]
Source: DeSmog [54], 05/06/2024
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‘Pesticides By Stealth’: Garden Soil Conditioners Killing Worms - Experts [55]

"Gardeners are inadvertently killing scores of earthworms with soil conditioners marketed as “organic”, experts fear, as they call for tighter regulation on products that poison the invertebrates."

Agriculture [18]
Biodiversity [47]
Chemicals [19]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Natural Resources [27]
Wildlife [48]
Public [13]
International [49]
Source: Guardian [56], 05/06/2024
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"Why Some Corals Are Better Off Dead" [57]

"As scientists rush to save ailing corals elsewhere, in Venezuela locals are trying to kill off this stinky variety."

Biodiversity [47]
Fish & Fisheries [58]
Natural Resources [27]
Water & Oceans [36]
Public [13]
Central America & the Caribbean [59]
Source: Washington Post [60], 05/06/2024
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"Violence Against Environmental Journalists Rises, UNESCO Says" [61]

"Journalists who report on environmental issues face increasing violence around the world from both state and private actors, UNESCO said on Thursday, highlighting that 44 of these journalists have been murdered between 2009 and 2023."

Journalism & Media [12]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Public [13]
International [49]
Source: Reuters [62], 05/03/2024
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"U.S. Accuses Russia of Using Chemical Weapons in Ukraine" [63]

"The United States has accused Russia of using chemical weapons, including poison gas, “as a method of warfare” against Ukrainian forces, in violation of a global ban on the use of such weapons."

Chemicals [19]
Environmental Health [20]
Military [64]
Public [13]
International [49]
Europe [65]
Source: NYTimes [66], 05/03/2024
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"Appeals Court Rejects Climate Change Lawsuit By Young Oregon Activists" [67]

"A federal appeals court panel on Wednesday rejected a long-running lawsuit brought by young Oregon-based climate activists who argued that the U.S. government’s role in climate change violated their constitutional rights."

Activism [68]
Climate Change [10]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: AP [69], 05/03/2024
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‘Death Trap’ For Fish In California’s Water System Is Limiting Pumping [70]

"Giant pumps hum inside a warehouse-like building, pushing water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta into the California Aqueduct, where it travels more than 400 miles south to the taps of over half the state’s population."

Agriculture [18]
Fish & Fisheries [58]
Infrastructure [35]
Water & Oceans [36]
Public [13]
California [15]
Source: LA Times [71], 05/03/2024
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