EJToday: Top Headlines

"Trump Eyes Cutting Interior, ‘Environment Agencies’" [9]

"Former President Donald Trump said he wants to cut the Interior Department if he returns to the White House, and indicated “environmental agencies” more broadly are also on the chopping block."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [17]
Pollution [18]
Water & Oceans [19]
Wildlife [20]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: E&E News [23], 06/04/2024
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Vermont Enacts 1st State Law Requiring Oil Companies Pay For Climate Damage [24]

"Vermont has become the first state to enact a law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a share of the damage caused by climate change after the state suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from other extreme weather."

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [25]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [21]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [26]
Source: AP [27], 06/04/2024
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"Electricity From Coal Is Pricey. Should Consumers Have to Pay?" [28]

"Environmental groups are making a new economic argument against coal, the heaviest polluting fossil fuel. Some regulators are listening."

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [25]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [15]
Pollution [18]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: NYTimes [29], 06/04/2024
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"A Climate Scientist Is Voted President of an Oil Country. Now What?" [30]

"Mexico is the world’s 11th-largest oil producer. It has been gripped by a deadly heat wave. Now, it’s elected as its president a woman with a rare pedigree: a left-of-center climate scientist with a doctorate in energy engineering named Claudia Sheinbaum."

Environmental Politics [15]
Public [21]
Mexico [31]
Source: NYTimes [32], 06/04/2024
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"Atlanta Remains Under State Of Emergency Amid Ongoing Water Troubles" [33]

"Atlanta remains under a state of emergency Monday as it battles disruptions to its water service that began last week, leaving a swath of a major city under boil-water advisories and highlighting the pervasiveness of problems caused by America’s aging infrastructure."

Consumer [34]
Disasters [35]
Environmental Health [13]
Infrastructure [36]
Pollution [18]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [21]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [37]
Source: CNN [38], 06/04/2024
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"Congress Weighs Delaying Farm Bill Over SNAP and Climate Disputes" [39]

"A battle that ties food aid for needy families with crop subsidies for American farmers may stall efforts to renew a sweeping agricultural policy law, forcing Congress to consider delaying action on the $1.5 trillion proposal until after this fall’s elections."

Agriculture [40]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Politics [15]
Food [41]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [17]
People & Population [42]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Washington Post [43], 06/04/2024
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"Regan To Square Off With House Oversight Republicans" [44]

"EPA Administrator Michael Regan this week will face off with House Republicans troubled by his agency’s regulations designed to tackle climate change."

Climate Change [11]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [15]
Pollution [18]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: E&E News [45], 06/04/2024
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Children In Afghanistan Are Affected By Ongoing Flash Floods, UNICEF Says [46]

"Tens of thousands of children in Afghanistan remain affected by ongoing flash floods, especially in the north and west, the U.N. children’s agency said Monday."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [35]
Environmental Health [13]
People & Population [42]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [21]
Asia [47]
Source: AP [48], 06/04/2024
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"Deadly Floods in Brazil Were Worsened by Climate Change, Study Finds" [49]

"Human-caused warming has doubled the chances that southern Brazil will experience extreme, multiday downpours like the ones that recently caused disastrous flooding there, a team of scientists said on Monday. The deluges have killed at least 172 people and displaced more than half a million residents from their homes."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [35]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [21]
South America [50]
Source: NYTimes [51], 06/04/2024
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"Electric Cars Are Suddenly Becoming Affordable" [52]

"More efficient manufacturing, falling battery costs and intense competition are lowering sticker prices for battery-powered models to within striking distance of gasoline cars."

Climate Change [11]
Consumer [34]
Economy & Business [25]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Infrastructure [36]
Pollution [18]
Technology [53]
Transportation [54]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: NYTimes [55], 06/04/2024
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"Trump Suggests To Oil Donors He Will Fast-Track Their Merger Deals" [56]

"Former president Donald Trump suggested to oil executive donors this month that he could ease the Federal Trade Commission’s scrutiny of their industry’s mergers and acquisitions if he returns to the White House, according to five people familiar with the matter."

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [25]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Pollution [18]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Washington Post [57], 06/03/2024
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AP Analysis Finds 2023 Set Record For US Heat Deaths [58]

"David Hom suffered from diabetes and felt nauseated before he went out to hang his laundry in 108-degree weather, another day in Arizona’s record-smashing, unrelenting July heat wave. His family found the 73-year-old lying on the ground, his lower body burned. Hom died at the hospital, his core body temperature at 107 degrees."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [35]
Environmental Health [13]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
International [59]
Source: AP [60], 06/03/2024
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"Mexico Elects Climate Scientist As First Female President" [61]

^{"Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected Mexico’s first ever female president in a historic result. Dr Sheinbaum, 61, a climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, is a member of the leftist Morena party and the handpicked successor to populist Andres Manuel López Obrador."}

Climate Change [11]
Environmental Politics [15]
Science [62]
Public [21]
Mexico [31]
Source: Telegraph [63], 06/03/2024
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New Law to Give Florida Homebuyers More Transparency on Flood History [64]

"For the first time, Florida home sellers will have to disclose certain aspects of a property’s flood history, under legislation Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law this week."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [35]
Economy & Business [25]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [37]
Source: Inside Climate News [65], 06/03/2024
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Scientists Testing mRNA Vaccines To Protect Cows And People Against Bird Flu [66]

"The bird flu outbreak in U.S. dairy cows is prompting development of new, next-generation mRNA vaccines — akin to COVID-19 shots — that are being tested in both animals and people."

Environmental Health [13]
Health [67]
Technology [53]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
International [59]
Source: AP [68], 06/03/2024
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