EJToday: Top Headlines

"How ‘Carbon Cowboys’ Are Cashing In On Protected Amazon Forest" [9]

"A six-month investigation reveals that many carbon credit ventures reap profits from public lands they have no right to and fail to share revenue with those protecting the forest."

Climate Change [10]
Forests [11]
Public [12]
South America [13]
Source: Washington Post [14], 07/26/2024
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US Targets Emissions of N2O With Eye Toward US-China Climate Agreement [15]

"Reducing nitrous oxide emissions from U.S. chemical plants could reduce greenhouse gas emissions at little cost. Similar plants in China offer a “far bigger prize.”"

Air [16]
Climate Change [10]
Pollution [17]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [18]
Asia [19]
Source: Inside Climate News [20], 07/26/2024
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"Harris Offered A ‘Blueprint’ For Environmental Justice. Can She Grow It?" [21]

"The vice president could double down on President Joe Biden’s focus on communities burdened by pollution if she is elected president."

Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [23]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [26], 07/26/2024
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"Surge In Electricity Demand Boosts Coal Use — IEA" [27]

"Coal remains the largest source of power globally despite its decline in the U.S."

Air [16]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Pollution [17]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [29]
Source: E&E News [30], 07/26/2024
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"How Pennsylvania’s Oil Industry Quietly Dumped Waste Across The State" [31]

"Spreading fracking wastewater on roads is banned. Oil and gas companies do it anyway."

Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Health [22]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Pollution [17]
Transportation [32]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [18]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [33]
Source: Grist [34], 07/26/2024
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Recycled Bottle Tops And Tables From Shuttlecocks - Greenest Olympics?" [35]

"The organising committee of Paris 2024 has vowed to make it the greenest Games in Olympic history, with half the carbon footprint of London 2012 and Rio 2016."

Environmental Politics [24]
Journalism & Media [36]
Public [12]
International [29]
Source: BBC Sport [37], 07/26/2024
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"Red States Ask Supreme Court To Halt Biden Climate Rule For Power Plants" [38]

"Republican-led states on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to block the Biden administration’s effort to cut planet-warming emissions from the power sector."

Air [16]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Pollution [17]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The Hill [39], 07/26/2024
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"Not a B Movie: Sharks Are Ingesting Cocaine In The Ocean, Scientists Find" [40]

"Scientists in Brazil have come up with the first evidence that sharks are being exposed to cocaine."

Biodiversity [41]
Chemicals [42]
Fish & Fisheries [43]
Pollution [17]
Water & Oceans [44]
Wildlife [45]
Public [12]
South America [13]
Source: NPR [46], 07/26/2024
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"Wildfires Across Western U.S. And Canada Force Thousands To Evacuate" [47]

"Wildfires are blazing across western U.S. and Canada, prompting thousands to evacuate, shutting down highways and fouling the air quality over several states."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [48]
Forests [11]
Pollution [17]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [18]
Canada [49]
Source: NBC News [50], 07/25/2024
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"Meet Kamala Harris’ Go-To Guy On Climate" [51]

"Vice President Kamala Harris’ longtime climate adviser is a 37-year-old Colorado native who has a Ph.D. in marine science, a penchant for electric buses and a miniature poodle named Newton who’s a member of the KHive."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [24]
People & Population [52]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [53], 07/25/2024
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"PFAS Widely Added To US Pesticides Despite EPA Denial, Study Finds" [54]

"Toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” are widely added to pesticides, and are increasingly used in the products in recent years, new research finds, a practice that creates a health threat by spreading the dangerous compounds directly into the US’s food and water supply."

Agriculture [55]
Chemicals [42]
Consumer [56]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [23]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Pollution [17]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Guardian [57], 07/25/2024
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EPA Takes Next Step Toward Banning Vinyl Chloride [58]

"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday proposed designating one of the toxic substances spilled by a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, as a high-priority chemical under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the next step to a full ban."

Chemicals [42]
Environmental Studies [59]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Pollution [17]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The Hill [60], 07/25/2024
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California Isn’t Enforcing Its Strongest-in-the-Nation Oil Well Cleanup Law [61]

"State regulators could have asked oil companies California Resources Corp. and Aera Energy for an estimated $2.4 billion to guarantee wells are plugged but decided they didn’t have the authority to do so."

Energy & Fuel [28]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Pollution [17]
Public [12]
California [62]
Source: ProPublica [63], 07/25/2024
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"Revealed: Wealthy Western Countries Lead In Global Oil And Gas Expansion" [64]

"A surge in new oil and gas exploration in 2024 threatens to unleash nearly 12bn tonnes of planet-heating emissions, with the world’s wealthiest countries – such as the US and the UK – leading a stampede of fossil fuel expansion in spite of their climate commitments, new data shared exclusively with the Guardian reveals."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Pollution [17]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [29]
Source: Guardian [65], 07/25/2024
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"What Project 2025 Would Do To Climate Policy In The US" [66]

"As delegates arrived at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee earlier this week to officially nominate former president Donald Trump as their 2024 candidate, a right-wing policy think tank held an all-day event nearby. The Heritage Foundation, a key sponsor of the convention and a group that has been influencing Republican presidential policy since the 1980s, gathered its supporters to tout Project 2025, a 900-plus-page policy blueprint that seeks to fundamentally restructure the federal government."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [24]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Grist [67], 07/25/2024
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