EJToday: Top Headlines

"The Myth of Plastic Recycling" [9]

"For many, recycling feels like a tangible way to personally combat climate change and to positively affect the environment. That's partially because of decades of public environmental campaigns, advertisements and even school education aimed at increasing recycling. But the reality is that only a small fraction of plastic is ultimately recycled."

Economy & Business [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Pollution [12]
Waste [13]
Public [14]
International [15]
Source: NPR [16], 12/13/2022
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"Legislators Have Goals For Fixing Florida’s Property Insurance Market" [17]

"Florida’s property insurance market is in free fall. Florida homeowners pay property insurance rates that are three times the national average. Six companies have become insolvent and left the state in the last year."

Climate Change [18]
Consumer [19]
Disasters [20]
Economy & Business [10]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Source: Miami Herald [24], 12/13/2022
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"Environmentalists Want Jaguars Reintroduced To US Southwest" [25]

"An environmental group on Monday petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to help reintroduce the jaguar to the Southwest, where it roamed for hundreds of thousands of years before being whittled down to just one of the big cats known to survive in the region."

Biodiversity [26]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Wildlife [27]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [28]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [29]
Source: AP [30], 12/13/2022
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"EPA: US Fuel Economy Flat In 2021, Emissions Down Slightly" [31]

"Fuel economy for 2021 model year vehicles in the U.S. stayed flat with 2020 as people continued to buy less-efficient trucks and SUVs, according to an annual government report published Monday."

Climate Change [18]
Consumer [19]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Transportation [32]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: AP [33], 12/13/2022
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"Michigan, Native Tribes Reach New Great Lakes Fishing Deal" [34]

"Four Native American tribes have agreed with Michigan and federal officials on a revised fishing policy for parts of three of the Great Lakes, officials said Monday."

Environmental Justice [35]
Fish & Fisheries [36]
Natural Resources [37]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [14]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [38]
Source: AP [39], 12/13/2022
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"U.S. Carbon Farming Takes Root - But Do The Economics Add Up?" [40]

"The owner of Deep Roots Farm in rural Maryland and her workers finished the fall harvest last month, but some of their most vital plantings are still in the ground - and growing fast."

Agriculture [41]
Climate Change [18]
Natural Resources [37]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [42], 12/13/2022
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"Parched Peru Is Restoring Pre-Incan Dikes To Solve Its Water Problem" [43]

"On a mountainside high above Peru’s capital, Javier Obispo pauses from the backbreaking work of renovating an amuna. The abandoned irrigation dike distributed water before Europeans came to South America."

Agriculture [41]
Climate Change [18]
Infrastructure [44]
Natural Resources [37]
People & Population [45]
Technology [46]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [14]
South America [47]
Source: Washington Post [48], 12/13/2022
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"U.S. To Announce Fusion Energy ‘Breakthrough’" [49]

"Scientists hit a key milestone in the quest to create abundant zero-carbon power through nuclear fusion. But they still have a long way to go."

Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [50]
Technology [46]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: Washington Post [51], 12/12/2022
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Climate Change is Driving Millions in Africa to ‘Raging Food Catastrophe’ [52]

"In the Horn of Africa, a climate change-induced drought is exposing cracks in the global food system and pushing humanitarian aid to a breaking point."

Agriculture [41]
Climate Change [18]
Disasters [20]
Environmental Health [53]
Food [54]
People & Population [45]
Public [14]
Africa [55]
Source: Inside Climate News [56], 12/12/2022
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"America Underwater" [57]

"This year, extreme precipitation deluged communities across the United States — a hallmark risk of a warming climate. Government flood-insurance maps often left residents unprepared for the threat."

Climate Change [18]
Disasters [20]
Planning & Growth [58]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: Washington Post [59], 12/12/2022
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Judge Dismisses Charges Against Rick Snyder Related To Flint Water Crisis [60]

"A district judge in Genesee County tossed a pair of misdemeanor charges levied against former Gov. Rick Snyder for his involvement in the Flint water crisis, citing previous court rulings that state prosecutors incorrectly used a "one-person grand jury" to indict Snyder."

Consumer [19]
Disasters [20]
Environmental Health [53]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [12]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [14]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [38]
Source: Detroit Free Press [61], 12/12/2022
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"Animals Are Running Out of Places to Live" [62]

"Wildlife is disappearing around the world, in the oceans and on land. The main cause on land is perhaps the most straightforward: Humans are taking over too much of the planet, erasing what was there before. Climate change and other pressures make survival harder."

Biodiversity [26]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Public [14]
International [15]
Source: NYTimes [63], 12/12/2022
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"Waves of Abandonment" [64]

"The Permian Basin is ground zero for a billion-dollar surge of zombie oil wells." "As oil and gas companies weathered volatile oil prices last year, many halted production. More than 100,000 oil and gas wells in Texas and New Mexico are idle."

Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Pollution [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: Grist [65], 12/12/2022
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"Op-ed: What The Pesticide Industry Doesn’t Want You To Know" [66]

"Like Big Oil, pesticide companies spend hundreds of millions every year on deceitful PR strategies to keep their hazardous products on the market, even as evidence mounts that many pesticides still used today are tied to certain cancers, damage to children’s developing brains, biodiversity collapse, and more."

Agriculture [41]
Chemicals [67]
Consumer [19]
Environmental Health [53]
Journalism & Media [68]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Science [69]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: EHN [70], 12/12/2022
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"Virginia Air Pollution Board Votes To Leave Regional Carbon-Credit Program" [71]

"Virginia’s air quality board on Wednesday voted to leave an interstate emissions-reduction partnership, bringing the state closer to fulfilling Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s (R) vow to withdraw from the program earlier this year even as critics say the process needs legislative approval."

Air [72]
Climate Change [18]
Economy & Business [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [73]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [28]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [74]
Source: The Hill [75], 12/12/2022
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