EJToday: Top Headlines

"Business Group Sues Texas Officials Over Law That Shields Oil Industry" [9]

"A liberal business group sued Texas officials this week in a major challenge to a 2021 law that bars state entities from doing business with investment firms that the state comptroller says are boycotting energy companies."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [16]
Source: NYTimes [17], 09/04/2024
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2 States Ban PFAS From Firefighter Gear. Advocates Hope More Will Follow [18]

"Massachusetts and Connecticut are the first two states in the nation to ban PFAS from firefighter gear, citing health hazards."

Chemicals [19]
Disasters [20]
Environmental Health [21]
People & Population [22]
Technology [23]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: USA TODAY [24], 09/04/2024
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"Electric Big Rigs Are Poised to Revolutionize the Trucking Industry" [25]

"The charging yard for electric trucks at the Port of Long Beach is bright and sunny and full of semitrailer tractors—the truncated front ends of big rigs without their big-box loads. It’s also quiet. Elsewhere at the port, wherever there are trucks, there’s the near-deafening rumble of diesel engines. But the trucks here aren’t combusting; they’re filling up with electrons to power their next trip to Southern California’s Inland Empire, the constellation of cities to the east with one of the heaviest concentrations of warehouses in the world."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Infrastructure [27]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [28]
Technology [23]
Transportation [29]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
California [30]
Source: Sierra [31], 09/04/2024
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"The Country’s Biggest Electric School-Bus Fleet Will Also Feed The Grid" [32]

"San Francisco-based startup Zum wants to turn electric school-bus fleets into grid batteries. This 74-bus depot in Oakland is testing the idea at large scale."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Infrastructure [27]
Technology [23]
Transportation [29]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
California [30]
Source: Canary Media [33], 09/04/2024
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Runners Are Used To Toughing It Out. Warming Climate Can Make That Deadly [34]

"Carolyn Baker, clad in a neon pink top and matching sunglasses, smiled as she ran the Falmouth Road Race on the shore of Cape Cod, looking around for friends as she neared the end of a race she’d completed more than a dozen times before. Suddenly, Baker collapsed, as her exertion on a sunny August day sent her internal temperature soaring. As medical volunteers rushed to her aid by plunging her into a tub filled with ice water, they measured it at nearly 107 degrees (41.6 Celsius)."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [20]
Environmental Health [21]
People & Population [22]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: AP [35], 09/04/2024
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Carbon Credits: How One Company’s Plan To Help The Planet Went Off The Rails [36]

"C-Quest Capital claimed it could improve people’s lives in Africa with cleaner cookstoves. But an investigation by The Post shows it promised more than it could deliver."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Health [21]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [22]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [37]
Africa [38]
Source: Washington Post [39], 09/03/2024
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"Something’s Poisoning America’s Land. Farmers Fear ‘Forever’ Chemicals." [40]

"Fertilizer made from city sewage has been spread on millions of acres of farmland for decades. Scientists say it can contain high levels of the toxic substance."

Agriculture [41]
Chemicals [19]
Consumer [42]
Environmental Health [21]
Food [43]
Pollution [28]
Waste [44]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NYTimes [45], 09/03/2024
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Pa. Will Monitor Private Wells Near The East Palestine Site For 10 Years [46]

"A year and a half after a catastrophic Norfolk Southern train derailment and chemical fire in East Palestine, Ohio, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has announced plans to monitor private drinking water wells for Pennsylvania residents living within one mile of the accident site for the next decade."

Chemicals [19]
Consumer [42]
Disasters [20]
Environmental Health [21]
Infrastructure [27]
Pollution [28]
Water & Oceans [47]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [48]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [49]
Source: EHN [50], 09/03/2024
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"Countries Still Far Apart On COP29 Finance Goal" [51]

"With less than three months until this year's COP29 UN climate negotiations, countries remain far from agreement on the summit's biggest task: to agree a new funding target to help developing countries cope with climate change."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
International [37]
Source: Reuters [52], 09/03/2024
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"Brazil's Amazon Rainforest Fires In August Reach 14-Year High" [53]

"The number of fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region for the month of August surged to the highest level since 2010, government data showed on Sunday, after a record drought that has been plaguing the biome."

Agriculture [41]
Biodiversity [54]
Climate Change [10]
Forests [55]
Natural Resources [56]
Pollution [28]
Public [14]
South America [57]
Source: Reuters [58], 09/03/2024
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"The Rural Americans Too Poor for Federal Flood Protections" [59]

"On the day he would become homeless, Wesley Bryant was awoken by his wife, Alexis. “Get up,” she told him. “There’s a flood outside.”"

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [20]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Justice [60]
Environmental Politics [12]
People & Population [22]
Water & Oceans [47]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Daily Yonder/Climate Central [61], 09/03/2024
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Indigenous Cultural Fire Practitioner Sees Beyond Park Fire Destruction [62]

"California’s latest historic wildfire serves as a stark reminder of the regenerative promise of Indigenous cultural burning, practitioners say."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [20]
Forests [55]
Natural Resources [56]
People & Population [22]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
California [30]
Source: Inside Climate News [63], 09/03/2024
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Navajo Nation Strengthens Law On Transportation Of Uranium Across Its Land [64]

"The Navajo Nation has approved emergency legislation meant to strengthen a tribal law that regulates the transportation of radioactive material across the largest Native American reservation in the U.S."

Chemicals [19]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Justice [60]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [56]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [65]
Pollution [28]
Waste [44]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [16]
Source: AP [66], 09/03/2024
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Climate Change Can Cause Bridges to ‘Fall Apart Like Tinkertoys,’ Experts Say [67]

"Extreme heat and flooding are accelerating the deterioration of bridges, engineers say, posting a quiet but growing threat."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [20]
Infrastructure [27]
Transportation [29]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NYTimes [68], 09/03/2024
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"Too Hot For Trout: Why Some Fly Fishers Are Rethinking Their Approach [69]

"In the early season, when the rivers are still running high and cool from snowmelt, KynsLee Scott loves trout fishing. As a fishing guide and conservationist, her life revolves around it, she says, standing in the shade of tall pines on the banks of the Blackfoot River."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [21]
Fish & Fisheries [70]
Natural Resources [56]
Water & Oceans [47]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [71]
Source: NPR [72], 09/03/2024
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