EJToday: Top Headlines

"Interior Sec. Deb Haaland Talks With Arizona Tribes at the Grand Canyon" [9]

"Interior Secretary Deb Haaland paid unannounced visits to the Grand Canyon and several northern Arizona tribes over the weekend, ending with what the agency said was the first-ever visit of a sitting Interior Secretary to Supai in the Havasupai Tribe's lands on the Canyon's floor."

Environmental Justice [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [13]
People & Population [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Arizona Republlic [17], 05/25/2023
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"Weird, Rare, and Everywhere" [18]

"In the bogs of Hecate Island, British Columbia, a writer and novice naturalist joins researchers for a glimpse of a multiyear biodiversity mission—and gets acquainted with some odd organisms."

Biodiversity [19]
Public [15]
Canada [20]
Source: Hakai [21], 05/25/2023
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Coastal Guam Residents Evacuate As Approaching Typhoon Mawar Threatens [22]

"Typhoon Mawar’s outer bands were whipping Guam Wednesday ahead of a potential landfall that could devastate the US territory with deadly winds, treacherous storm surge and heavy rainfall."

Climate Change [23]
Disasters [24]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [15]
Australia & Oceania [26]
Source: CNN [27], 05/24/2023
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"US, EU Lawmakers Push To Depose UAE's Jaber From Climate Talks" [28]

"Over 100 members of the U.S. Congress and European Parliament called on Tuesday for Sultan al-Jaber to be removed as the designated head of the upcoming COP28 climate talks, saying the oil exec's appointment threatened the integrity of negotiations."

Climate Change [23]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [11]
Public [15]
International [30]
Source: Reuters [31], 05/24/2023
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"Climate Protests Over Private Jets Disrupt Geneva Airport Flights" [32]

"Around 100 climate protesters demanding a ban on private jets disrupted flights at Geneva Airport on Tuesday and blocked entry to an aircraft exhibition at Europe's flagship business jet event."

Activism [33]
Climate Change [23]
Environmental Politics [11]
Transportation [34]
Public [15]
International [30]
Source: Reuters [35], 05/24/2023
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"EPA Under Pressure To Revive Noise Pollution Program" [36]

"More than 40 years have passed since EPA’s noise regulation program was silenced by a Reagan-era rollback. It’s time to start again, in the view of an advocacy group that accuses the agency of turning its back on a major peril."

Environmental Health [37]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [38], 05/24/2023
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Plans for I-55 Expansion in Chicago Raise Concerns Over Community Health [39]

"Environmental advocates and community groups already exposed to high levels of air pollution fear that additional lanes will exacerbate health risks in Southwest Side neighborhoods."

Air [40]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Health [37]
Environmental Justice [10]
Infrastructure [41]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [42]
Transportation [34]
Public [15]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [43]
Source: Chicago Sun-Times [44], 05/24/2023
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"EPA Grants Expose Cybersecurity, Trade Secrets to Foreign Threat" [45]

"The EPA’s internal watchdog is growing increasingly worried about hostile nations stealing sensitive information from groups that get agency funding, according to an official with the Inspector General’s office."

Environmental Justice [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [46], 05/24/2023
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"Colorado River Water Sharing Agreement Likely Dodges Legal Fight" [47]

"A messy Colorado River legal fight is much less likely in the near term now that the seven river basin states have reached consensus on how to conserve water amid a historic 23-year drought, legal observers say."

Agriculture [48]
Environmental Politics [11]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [49], 05/24/2023
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CEO Of Top Carbon Credit Certifier To Resign After Claims Offsets Worthless [50]

"The head of the world’s leading carbon credit certifier has announced he will step down as CEO next month." "David Antonioli to step down from Verra, which was accused of approving millions of worthless offsets used by major companies".

Climate Change [23]
Economy & Business [51]
Public [15]
International [30]
Source: Guardian [52], 05/24/2023
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"Maine Plans Removal Of PFAS From Sewage Sludge Used As Fertilizer" [53]

"Utility officials in Maine and elsewhere around the country are developing first-of-their-kind plans to eliminate toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” from sewage sludge spread as fertilizer on farmland."

Agriculture [48]
Chemicals [54]
Consumer [55]
Environmental Health [37]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [42]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [56]
Source: Guardian [57], 05/24/2023
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"America’s Big Shift To Green Energy Has A Woolly Mammoth Problem" [58]

"America’s renewable energy drive needs more than a million miles of new transmission lines but emerging resistance includes opponents worried about building them in one of the country’s richest areas of ice-age fossils."

Climate Change [23]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [41]
Natural Resources [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Guardian [59], 05/24/2023
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7 States Reach Colorado River Deal, Bringing Big Water Cuts For 3 Years [60]

"The seven states that depend on the Colorado River announced on Monday that they have reached an agreement on cutting water use from the river over the next three years to prevent reservoirs from falling to critically low levels."

Agriculture [48]
Climate Change [23]
Disasters [24]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [13]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: LA Times [61], 05/23/2023
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Colorado Frackers Doubled Freshwater Use During Megadrought [62]

"In the middle of the longest-running drought in more than a thousand years, Colorado energy companies diverted rising volumes of the state’s freshwater resources for fracking, a new analysis shows."

Climate Change [23]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [63]
Source: Inside Climate News [64], 05/23/2023
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"Global Heating Will Push Billions Outside ‘Human Climate Niche’" [65]

"Global heating will drive billions of people out of the “climate niche” in which humanity has flourished for millennia, a study has estimated, exposing them to unprecedented temperatures and extreme weather."

Agriculture [48]
Climate Change [23]
Disasters [24]
Environmental Health [37]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [15]
International [30]
Source: Guardian [66], 05/23/2023
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