EJToday: Top Headlines

"Why A Natural Gas Storage Climate ‘Disaster’ Could Happen Again" [9]

"A year after a major methane leak from underground gas storage, a new study identifies potentially thousands of similarly risky sites across the United States."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Infrastructure [13]
Pollution [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Floodlight [17], 01/31/2024
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"Bird Flu Found In Penguins Near Antarctica, 200 Chicks Dead" [18]

"A deadly type of bird flu has been found in gentoo penguins for the first time, according to the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), stoking concern that the virus could spread among Antarctica's huge penguin colonies."

Biodiversity [19]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [12]
Wildlife [20]
Public [15]
Antarctica & Arctic [21]
Source: Reuters [22], 01/31/2024
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"Energy Department Sets Efficiency Standards For Gas Stoves" [23]

"The Department of Energy unveiled a heavily anticipated, scaled-back regulation Monday to cut greenhouse gas emissions from stovetop cooking in the U.S., going with a compromise that pleased gas stove producers and environmentalists alike."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Pollution [14]
Technology [25]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [26], 01/30/2024
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9 Species In 33 States May Soon Be On Endangered List: USFWS [27]

"Nine species could soon find themselves on federal threatened or endangered species list, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says."

Biodiversity [19]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Wildlife [20]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NEXSTAR [28], 01/30/2024
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"OSHA Issues Major Chemical Safety Enforcement Guide Changes" [29]

"A federal worker safety enforcement directive for refineries, chemical plants, and other facilities with large amounts of chemicals has received an overhaul for the first time in 30 years."

Chemicals [30]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [31]
Laws & Regulations [24]
People & Population [32]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [33], 01/30/2024
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Colorado Enviro Group Sues Corps Of Engineers Over $2B River Diversion Plan [34]

"A Colorado environmental group is asking a federal judge to strike down a $2 billion plan that would reroute river water to the state’s expanding northern communities."

Environmental Politics [31]
Infrastructure [13]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Water & Oceans [35]
Public [15]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [36]
Source: The Hill [37], 01/30/2024
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Viral Pork TikToks? It’s a Government-Backed Group Pushing Meat On Gen Z. [38]

"Ad campaigns from controversial quasi-government programs for pork, dairy, and beef are raising new questions around the checkoff program’s foray into social media."

Agriculture [39]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [40]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [31]
Food [41]
Journalism & Media [42]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Politico [43], 01/30/2024
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NC PFAS Factory Claims Emissions Fell By 99.99%. Guardian Shows Otherwise [44]

"Chemours and state regulators say the Fayetteville Works plant has reduced air emissions, but we found levels of 'forever chemicals' as much as 30 times higher than state tests".

Chemicals [30]
Environmental Health [12]
Pollution [14]
Public [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [45]
Source: Guardian [46], 01/30/2024
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"First Penguins Die In Antarctic Of Deadly H5N1 Bird Flu Strain" [47]

"With confirmed or suspected cases in two Antarctic penguin species, researchers fear highly contagious virus could rip through colonies".

Biodiversity [19]
Environmental Health [12]
Wildlife [20]
Public [15]
International [48]
Antarctica & Arctic [21]
Source: Guardian [49], 01/30/2024
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Rice Hidden By Women Fleeing Slavery In The 1700s Could Help Descendants [50]

"Suriname’s Saamaka Maroons still grow rice from seeds an ancestor escaping from a plantation carried in her hair. Now a gene bank seeks to widen use of the rare species to help fight the climate crisis".

Agriculture [39]
Biodiversity [19]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [40]
Food [41]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Public [15]
South America [51]
Source: Guardian [52], 01/30/2024
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Great Basin Tribes Want Massacre Site In Nevada Named National Monument [53]

"White attackers turned a lush, high desert oasis in eastern Nevada, with its bubbling springs and a rare stand of Rocky Mountain junipers, into killing fields. They massacred hundreds of Native people there in the 1800s — a horrific history once retold in hushed tones behind closed doors."

Environmental Justice [54]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Natural Resources [55]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [36]
Source: AP [56], 01/30/2024
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"That Giant Extinct Shark, Megalodon? Maybe It Wasn't So Mega" [57]

"The megalodon went extinct 3.6 million years ago, and is thought to be the largest shark that ever swam the Earth. But there's debate over what it looked like."

Biodiversity [19]
Fish & Fisheries [58]
Water & Oceans [35]
Public [15]
International [48]
Source: NPR [59], 01/30/2024
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"Biden Administration Pauses Approvals of New Gas Export Terminals" [60]

"President Biden on Friday paused the permitting process for new liquefied natural gas export facilities in order to analyze their impact on climate change, the economy and national security."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [31]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NYTimes [61], 01/29/2024
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"The Propane Industry Is Trying To Dupe You" [62]

"Members of a propane industry lobbying group strategized to downplay the full climate impacts of propane and market it as “renewable” or “clean energy”, recordings reviewed by the climate newsletter Heated and the Guardian reveal."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [40]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [31]
Journalism & Media [42]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: HEATED [63], 01/29/2024
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Bayer Ordered To Pay $2.25B As Jury Links Herbicide Roundup To Cancer [64]

"A jury handed down a $2.25 billion verdict, including $2 billion in punitive damages, against agrochemical giant Monsanto, according to the lawyers of a man who said he developed cancer from using the company’s weed killer, Roundup."

Agriculture [39]
Chemicals [30]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Washington Post [65], 01/29/2024
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