EJToday: Top Headlines

"California’s Disappearing Salmon" [9]

"The drought, along with man-made impediments, has placed the state’s wild Chinook population at grave risk."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [11]
Disasters [12]
Fish & Fisheries [13]
Infrastructure [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
California [17]
Source: Washington Post [18], 09/14/2021
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"Biden To Survey Wildfire Damage, Make Case For Spending Plan" [19]

"President Joe Biden will promote his administration’s use of the Defense Production Act to aid in wildfire preparedness during a western swing in which he’ll survey wildfire damage in Idaho and California."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [12]
Environmental Politics [20]
Forests [21]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: AP [23], 09/13/2021
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Manchin and Sanders Clash Over $3.5T Reconciliation Package [24]

"Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., reiterated Sunday that he opposed the Democrats' $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package as the party pushes to pass it and a bipartisan infrastructure bill amid packed September negotiations."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [20]
Infrastructure [14]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: USA TODAY [29], 09/13/2021
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Federal Government Sells Flood-Prone Homes To Often Unsuspecting Buyers [30]

"The first thing Larry McCanney fell in love with was the tree in the front yard. It cast shade on the porch of a house that, if he were honest, needed some work. But McCanney is handy, the price was right and the location was perfect, just a couple of miles from his childhood home in Burlington, N.J."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [12]
Economy & Business [31]
Environmental Justice [27]
Government [32]
Infrastructure [14]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: NPR [33], 09/13/2021
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"Record Number of Environmental Activists Murdered" [34]

"A record number of activists working to protect the environment and land rights were murdered last year, according to a report by a campaign group."

Activism [35]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [20]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Military [36]
Public [16]
International [37]
Source: BBC News [38], 09/13/2021
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"Tropical Storm Nicholas to Bring Heavy Rain to Texas and Louisiana" [39]

"Tropical Storm Nicholas was expected to dump more than a foot of rain on parts of coastal Texas starting Monday, with warnings of a dangerous storm surge extending east to Louisiana, the National Hurricane Center said."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [12]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [22]
Mexico [40]
Source: NYTimes [41], 09/13/2021
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"Big Oil’s ‘Wokewashing’ Is The New Climate Science Denialism" [42]

"Academic researchers say the fossil fuel industry has a new tool to delay efforts to curb emissions – a social justice strategy".

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [31]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [20]
Journalism & Media [43]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Guardian [44], 09/13/2021
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"Ruth Etzel Speaks Out Ahead of EPA Whistleblower Hearing" [45]

"The US Environmental Protection Agency is failing to protect children by ignoring poisons in the environment and focusing on corporate interests, according to a top children’s health official who will testify this week that the agency tried to silence her because of her insistence on stronger preventions against lead poisoning."

Chemicals [46]
Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [20]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Science [47]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Guardian [48], 09/13/2021
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"Iran and I.A.E.A. Reach Last-Minute Deal on Nuclear Monitoring" [49]

"The temporary agreement should keep Tehran from censure for noncompliance by the nuclear agency, a move that could have derailed already suspended nuclear talks."

Nuclear Power & Radiation [50]
Public [16]
International [37]
Source: NYTimes [51], 09/13/2021
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"Conservation Body Calls For Global Moratorium On Deep-Sea Mining" [52]

"Environment officials and campaigners have called for a global moratorium on deep-sea mining and on issuing new exploration contracts unless marine ecosystems can be effectively protected."

Biodiversity [10]
Fish & Fisheries [13]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Natural Resources [53]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
International [37]
Source: Reuters [54], 09/13/2021
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"Mangrove Restoration Frustration" [55]

"These coastal ecosystems are carbon sinks and coastline protectors, and we know how to restore them. Why have we been doing it the wrong way?"

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [11]
Disasters [12]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
International [37]
Source: Hakai [56], 09/13/2021
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House Panel Bans Drilling in ANWR With Reconciliation Measure [57]

"The House Natural Resources Committee late on Thursday passed legislation that will go into a wider budget reconciliation package that includes restoring protections for a pristine Arctic wildlife refuge from oil and gas drilling."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Politics [20]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Natural Resources [53]
Wildlife [58]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [22]
Alaska and Hawaii [59]
Source: Reuters [60], 09/10/2021
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"EPA To Protect Alaska’s Bristol Bay, Blocking Major Gold Mine" [61]

"The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that it would restore protections for Alaska’s Bristol Bay, blocking the construction of a massive and controversial gold mine near the world’s largest sockeye salmon run."

Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Politics [20]
Environmental Studies [62]
Fish & Fisheries [13]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Natural Resources [53]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [22]
Alaska and Hawaii [59]
Source: Washington Post [63], 09/10/2021
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"Democrats Unveil Details of Sweeping Climate Change Spending Plan" [64]

"In Congress, details are emerging of the climate and clean energy policies in a sweeping $3.5 trillion budget package that Democrats are drafting and hope to send to Mr. Biden’s desk by year’s end."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: NYTimes [65], 09/10/2021
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Democrats Want a ‘Climate Corps.’ They Just Can’t Agree How to Create It [66]

"Democrats aim to pour tens of billions of dollars into a New Deal-style program that would hire young people to work on projects to protect communities and the environment from disasters that are growing more destructive due to climate change."

Climate Change [11]
Environmental Politics [20]
Forests [21]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Natural Resources [53]
People & Population [67]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: NYTimes [68], 09/10/2021
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