EJToday: Top Headlines

"Joe Biden’s Climate Law Has Created More Than 300,000 Clean Energy Jobs" [9]

"U.S. companies have created more than 300,000 clean energy jobs since President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law in August 2022, according to a detailed new analysis from an environmental advocacy group."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
People & Population [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: HuffPost [18], 06/25/2024
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"The Dirty Secret Of California’s Legal Weed" [19]

"An L.A. Times/WeedWeek investigation finds alarming levels of pesticides in cannabis products at dispensaries across the state".

Agriculture [20]
Chemicals [21]
Environmental Health [22]
Pollution [23]
Public [16]
California [24]
Source: LA Times/WeedWeek [25], 06/25/2024
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"A Ride in a Chemical-Sniffing Van Shows How Heat Amps Up Pollution" [26]

"In heat waves, chemicals like formaldehyde and ozone can form more readily in the air, according to researchers driving mobile labs in New York City this week."

Air [27]
Chemicals [21]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [22]
Pollution [23]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [28], 06/25/2024
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"Climate-Proofing India's Daily Bread: The Race For Resilient Wheat" [29]

"Too hot, too dry, too wet; as extreme weather threatens food security, the race is on to get new seed varieties in the ground"

Agriculture [20]
Climate Change [10]
Food [30]
People & Population [15]
Technology [31]
Water & Oceans [32]
Public [16]
Asia [33]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [34], 06/25/2024
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Underfunded NYC Parks Dept. Losing Fight Against Invasives, Disrepair, Climate [35]

"Mayor Adams’ proposed budget cuts may place an outsized burden on park conservancies and small volunteer groups. With less than 1 percent of the city budget spent on parks, they’re finding it harder and harder to keep up."

Activism [36]
Biodiversity [37]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [38]
Infrastructure [39]
Natural Resources [40]
Wildlife [41]
Public [16]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [42]
Source: Inside Climate News [43], 06/25/2024
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"How Biden’s Promise To Coal Country Became A Warning For Democrats" [44]

"A fading coal town in Pennsylvania is struggling to replace the jobs and money that the fossil fuel industry once offered."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Natural Resources [40]
People & Population [15]
Public [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [45]
Source: Washington Post [46], 06/25/2024
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"Ash Trees Are Dying Everywhere. This Is Why." [47]

"A bug is going to make your summers hotter".

Biodiversity [37]
Disasters [48]
Forests [49]
Natural Resources [40]
Wildlife [41]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Sierra [50], 06/25/2024
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"Environmental Protests: Interview With UN Special Rapporteur Michel Forst" [51]

"The repression that environmental activists using peaceful civil disobedience are facing in Europe is a major threat to democracy and human rights, according to U.N. special rapporteur Michel Forst."

Activism [36]
Environmental Justice [52]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [53]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [54]
Source: Mongabay [55], 06/25/2024
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Billions Of People Just Felt The Deadly Intensity Of Climate-Fueled Heat Waves [56]

"Scorching heat across five continents set 1,400 records this week and showed how human-caused global warming has made catastrophic temperatures commonplace."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [48]
Environmental Health [22]
People & Population [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [54]
Source: Washington Post [57], 06/24/2024
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"Selling a Mirage: The Delusion of 'Advanced' Plastic Recycling" [58]

"The world is drowning in plastic. Experts say we need to stop making so much. But the plastics industry is peddling a “solution” that works like magic. Don't be fooled."

Chemicals [21]
Consumer [59]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [53]
Pollution [23]
Technology [31]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: ProPublica [60], 06/24/2024
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"Bayer Lobbies Congress To Help Fight Lawsuits Tying Roundup To Cancer" [61]

"The biotech giant Bayer has lobbied Congress over the past year to advance legislation that could shield the company from billions of dollars in lawsuits, part of a national campaign to defeat claims that its weedkiller Roundup causes cancer in people who use it frequently."

Agriculture [20]
Chemicals [21]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Washington Post [62], 06/24/2024
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"Fees to Film on Public Lands Tossed for Nonprofit as Suit Proceeds" [63]

"A federal judge temporarily blocked commercial filming fees on public lands for an outdoor recreation nonprofit but allowed the fees to remain in place for others while a lawsuit plays out."

Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [53]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [64], 06/24/2024
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Hawaii Settles Lawsuit From Youths Over Climate Change. Here’s What To Know. [65]

"About two years after 13 children and teens sued Hawaii over the threat posed by climate change, both sides reached a settlement that includes an ambitious requirement to decarbonize the state’s transportation system over the next 21 years."

Activism [36]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [23]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Alaska and Hawaii [66]
Source: AP [67], 06/24/2024
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"New ‘Detective Work’ on Butterfly Declines Reveals a Prime Suspect" [68]

"Agricultural insecticides were a key factor, according to a study focused on the Midwest, though researchers emphasized the importance of climate change and habitat loss."

Agriculture [20]
Biodiversity [37]
Chemicals [21]
Environmental Studies [69]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [40]
Pollution [23]
Science [70]
Wildlife [41]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [71], 06/24/2024
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Florida Reefs Are In Trouble. Is The Answer Coral From The Caribbean? [72]

"Off the northern coast of Honduras, thick stands of endangered elkhorn coral have mysteriously defied warming oceans fueled by climate change to blanket the reef with healthy, cocoa-brown colonies branching toward the water’s surface like antlers."

Biodiversity [37]
Climate Change [10]
Fish & Fisheries [73]
Natural Resources [40]
Water & Oceans [32]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [54]
Central America & the Caribbean [74]
Source: NPR [75], 06/24/2024
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