EJToday: Top Headlines

"Scientists Examine Dangerous Global Warming ‘Accelerators’" [9]

"Recent climate projections may be underestimating the pace of global warming in an atmosphere damaged by greenhouse gas emissions, because the interaction of powerful climate feedback loops that can accelerate warming are not well-represented in key climate models, an international team of scientists concluded in a study published today in the journal One Earth. "

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Science [12]
Public [13]
International [14]
Source: Inside Climate News [15], 02/20/2023
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Climate Change Is Making Tampons (and Lots of Other Stuff) More Expensive [16]

"Cotton farmers in Texas suffered record losses amid heat and drought last year, new data shows. It’s an example of how global warming is a “secret driver of inflation.”"

Agriculture [17]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [18]
Economy & Business [19]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NYTimes [21], 02/20/2023
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Group Is Spreading Misinformation To Stop Solar Projects In Rural America [22]

"Roger Houser's ranching business was getting squeezed. The calves he raises in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley were selling for about the same price they had a few years earlier, while costs for essentials like fuel and fertilizer kept going up. But Houser found another use for his 500 acres."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [19]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Politics [24]
Infrastructure [25]
Journalism & Media [26]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Floodlight/NPR [28], 02/20/2023
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"Water Utilities Brace for Imminent EPA Proposal on PFAS in Water" [29]

"Drinking water systems are preparing for the possibility that the EPA will try to codify its 2022 health advisories suggesting no amount of PFAS substances are safe, water attorneys say."

Chemicals [30]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Politics [24]
Infrastructure [25]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Pollution [32]
Technology [33]
Water & Oceans [34]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [35], 02/20/2023
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"Paleotsunami Detectives Hunt for Ancient Disasters" [36]

"Gigantic tsunamis have been decimating coastlines since time immemorial. We ignore these prehistoric warnings at our own peril."

Disasters [11]
Water & Oceans [34]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Hakai [37], 02/20/2023
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"A Dance Of Hope By Children Who Scavenge Coal" [38]

"Before sunset, in the 110-square-mile mining region of Jharia in eastern India, an ensemble of girls dances near an opencast coal mine. Come sunrise, they'll be back at the mines for another reason: survival."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Justice [39]
People & Population [40]
Public [13]
Asia [41]
Source: NPR [42], 02/20/2023
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"Two Evangelical Leaders on ‘Radical Faith’" [43]

"With a focus on issues normally considered progressive, the Revs. Jim Wallis and Kyle Meyaard-Schaap hope to expand the evangelical political imagination."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Justice [39]
Environmental Politics [24]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [44]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NYTimes [45], 02/20/2023
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"Governments Spent Record $1 Trillion Last Year Subsidizing Fossil Fuels" [46]

"Even as global governments raise their ambitions to cut fossil fuels in the future, they spent a record $1 trillion last year subsidizing energy sources that are the main driver of climate change."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [19]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Government [47]
Public [13]
International [14]
Source: Bloomberg Green [48], 02/17/2023
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Feds Send Help After Ohio Derailment, but Residents’ Frustrations Persist [49]

"A visit to East Palestine from the head of the E.P.A. and a White House pledge to lend more support were met with skepticism in the community."

Air [50]
Chemicals [30]
Consumer [18]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Politics [24]
People & Population [40]
Pollution [32]
Transportation [51]
Water & Oceans [34]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NYTimes [52], 02/17/2023
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"Two Dozen Republican-Led States Sue EPA Over Water Protection Rule" [53]

"A group of 24 Republican-led states is suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to try to knock down a rule governing which waters get federal protections."

Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Politics [24]
Fish & Fisheries [54]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Natural Resources [55]
Pollution [32]
Water & Oceans [34]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: The Hill [56], 02/17/2023
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"Great Lakes Ice Cover Plummets To Record Mid-February Low" [57]

"In the midst of an unusually warm winter across much of the northern United States and southern Canada, the Great Lakes now have the least ice cover on record for the middle of February, which is typically when the ice begins to reach its maximum extent for the season."

Climate Change [10]
Water & Oceans [34]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [20]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [58]
Canada [59]
Source: Washington Post [60], 02/17/2023
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Analysis: "The 2023 Farm Bill Should Be A Climate Bill, Democrats Say" [61]

"Don’t look now, but the divided Congress could pass a major climate change bill."

Agriculture [17]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [18]
Environmental Politics [24]
Food [62]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Natural Resources [55]
Water & Oceans [34]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Washington Post [63], 02/17/2023
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"Shell Greenwashing Challenge Highlights Risk of ESG Claims" [64]

"Greenwashing challenges in courts and at the SEC continue to pour in from advocates and investors targeting what they claim are false representations of corporate commitments to environmentalism and climate-friendly practices."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Politics [24]
Journalism & Media [26]
Public [13]
International [14]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [65], 02/17/2023
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EPA To Restore Pesticide Protections For Farmworkers Rolled Back Under Trump [66]

"The Biden administration is proposing to restore regulations aiming to protect farmworkers from pesticides that had been rolled back under the Trump administration."

Agriculture [17]
Chemicals [30]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Justice [39]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: The Hill [67], 02/17/2023
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"Lake Powell Drops to a New Record Low as Feds Scramble to Prop it Up" [68]

"The wet winter, cutbacks in releases from Glen Canyon Dam and proposals from states to reduce demand aren’t enough to stem the reservoir’s decline, leading some activists to advise phasing it out."

Climate Change [10]
Water & Oceans [34]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: KUNC [69], 02/17/2023
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