EJToday: Top Headlines

"Report: Oregon Has $5.3B Invested In Fossil Fuel Companies" [9]

"The Oregon State Treasury has at least $5.3 billion invested in fossil fuel companies, a coalition of environmental groups said in a report Wednesday that blamed the state for adding to global warming and urged divestment."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Public [13]
Northwest (OR WA) [14]
Source: AP [15], 04/21/2022
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"Energy Shift Creates Opening For ‘World’s Largest Batteries’" [16]

"Sprawled like a gigantic swimming pool atop a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan is an asphalt-and-clay pond holding enough water to produce electricity for 1.6 million households."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Technology [17]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [13]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [19]
Source: AP [20], 04/21/2022
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"Why Are Nature-Based Solutions on Climate Being Overlooked?" [21]

"Nature-based initiatives, such as planting mangroves and revitalizing wetlands, have proven effective in making communities more resilient to climate change. But international funding has shortchanged such solutions in favor of more costly and less efficient engineering projects."
Climate Change [10]
Natural Resources [22]
Public [13]
International [23]
Source: YaleE360 [24], 04/21/2022
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"Can Portland Be a Climate Leader Without Reducing Driving?" [25]

"Portland has tried harder than most American cities to coax people out of their cars. ... But despite Portland’s efforts, the number of cars and trucks on its roads has kept rising as the city and its suburbs have grown — along with tailpipe pollution that is warming the planet."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Planning & Growth [26]
Transportation [27]
Public [13]
Northwest (OR WA) [14]
Source: NYTimes [28], 04/21/2022
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"Housing Crisis Propels High Death Toll in South Africa Floods" [29]

"The catastrophe underscored an overlooked reality in the fight against extreme weather: Protecting people is as much about tackling social issues as environmental ones."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [30]
Environmental Justice [31]
Public [13]
International [23]
Source: NYTimes [32], 04/21/2022
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"How Climate Change Is Reshaping The World" [33]

"At The Washington Post, we’re dedicated to covering the impacts of climate change and a warming world — both in the United States and around the world."

Climate Change [10]
Public [13]
International [23]
Source: Washington Post [34], 04/21/2022
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"Biden Restores Climate to Landmark Environmental Law, Reversing Trump" [35]

"The Biden administration announced Tuesday that it is restoring parts of a bedrock environmental law, once again requiring that climate impacts be considered and local communities have input before federal agencies approve highways, pipelines and other major projects."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [36]
Environmental Justice [31]
Environmental Politics [37]
Environmental Studies [38]
Government [39]
Infrastructure [40]
Laws & Regulations [41]
Natural Resources [22]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [42]
Source: NYTimes [43], 04/20/2022
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"Biden Launches $6Bn Effort To Save America’s Distressed Nuclear Plants" [44]

"The Biden administration is launching a $6 billion effort to rescue nuclear power plants at risk of closing, citing the need to continue nuclear energy as a carbon-free source of power that helps to combat climate change."

Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [37]
Government [39]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [45]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [42]
Source: AP [46], 04/20/2022
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Deep Sea Gold Rush Raises Questions About Protection Authority [47]

"The startup’s pitch was simple and cinematic: The mining company would send large robots to explore the bottom of the ocean and harvest minerals millions of years old that could be used to make electric car batteries."

Laws & Regulations [41]
Natural Resources [22]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [13]
International [23]
Source: LA Times [48], 04/20/2022
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"Supreme Court Denies Penobscot Indian Nation Appeal" [49]

"The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined an appeal by the Penobscot Indian Nation in its fight with Maine over ownership and regulation of the tribe’s namesake river."

Environmental Justice [31]
Laws & Regulations [41]
Natural Resources [22]
People & Population [50]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [42]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [51]
Source: AP [52], 04/20/2022
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"New CDC Team: A ‘Weather Service’ To Forecast What’s Next In Pandemic" [53]

"A new team of federal health scientists officially embarked Tuesday on a mission to provide what has often been absent from the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic: better, faster information about what is likely to happen next in this public health emergency and in future outbreaks."

Disasters [30]
Environmental Health [36]
Environmental Studies [38]
Government [39]
Health [54]
Science [55]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [42]
Source: Washington Post [56], 04/20/2022
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"Environmentalists Target Mountains of Fertilizer Waste" [57]

"The U.S. houses hundreds of millions of tons of phosphogypsum in open-air stacks, but regulation is inconsistent."

Agriculture [58]
Chemicals [59]
Disasters [30]
Environmental Health [36]
Laws & Regulations [41]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [45]
Pollution [60]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [42]
Source: Undark [61], 04/20/2022
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Zombie Kentucky Strip Mines Produce Safety, Environmental Violations [62]

"As the coal industry has collapsed in Kentucky, companies have racked up a rising number of violations at surface mines, and state regulators have failed to bring a record number of them into compliance, internal documents show."

Energy & Fuel [12]
Laws & Regulations [41]
Natural Resources [22]
Pollution [60]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [13]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [63]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [64]
Source: Inside Climate News [65], 04/20/2022
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"Climate-Change Risks Get the Attention of Real Estate Investors" [66]

"They are thinking more seriously about flooding, but a lack of established standards for assessing development projects is challenging their efforts."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Planning & Growth [26]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [42]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [64]
Source: NYTimes [67], 04/20/2022
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"California Leads Effort To Let Rivers Roam, Lower Flood Risk" [68]

"Between vast almond orchards and dairy pastures in the heart of California’s farm country sits a property being redesigned to look like it did 150 years ago, before levees restricted the flow of rivers that weave across the landscape."

Agriculture [58]
Biodiversity [69]
Natural Resources [22]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [13]
California [70]
Source: AP [71], 04/20/2022
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