EJToday: Top Headlines

"UN Says Ozone Layer Slowly Healing, Hole To Mend By 2066" [9]

"Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says."

Air [10]
Chemicals [11]
Natural Resources [12]
Pollution [13]
Public [14]
International [15]
Source: AP [16], 01/10/2023
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Grijalva Blasts House Rules Package For Making Public Land Transfers Easier [17]

"The top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee blasted a provision in the proposed House rules package that would make it easier to transfer public lands, calling it an indication the new GOP majority intends to pursue a broadly pro-industry agenda."

Environmental Politics [18]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: The Hill [21], 01/10/2023
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"EPA, Pipeline Operator Reach Deal To Clean Up Kansas Spill" [22]

"The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it has reached an agreement with a pipeline operator to clean up a spill that dumped 14,000 bathtubs’ worth of crude oil into a rural Kansas creek."

Disasters [23]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [14]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [26]
Source: AP [27], 01/10/2023
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Low Salt Marsh Habitats Release More Carbon in Response to Warming: Study [28]

"Salt marshes, excellent reservoirs of carbon, are living ecosystems with vegetation and microscopic organisms that live, breathe, poop and die in the marsh mud."

Biodiversity [29]
Climate Change [30]
Natural Resources [12]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [14]
International [15]
Source: Inside Climate News [31], 01/10/2023
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"India Expects Utilities' Annual Coal Demand To Surge About 8%" [32]

"India expects its power plants to burn about 8% more coal in the fiscal year ending March 2024, according to a senior government official and a power ministry presentation, after the country missed its 2022 renewable energy goal by more than 30%."

Climate Change [30]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Public [14]
Asia [33]
Source: Reuters [34], 01/10/2023
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"The Last 8 Years Were the Hottest on Record" [35]

"The world remained firmly in warming’s grip last year, with extreme summer temperatures in Europe, China and elsewhere contributing to 2022 being the fifth-hottest year on record, European climate researchers said on Tuesday."

Climate Change [30]
Science [36]
Public [14]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [37]
International [15]
Source: NYTimes [38], 01/10/2023
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"U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rose 1.3% In 2022 - Rhodium" [39]

"Greenhouse gas emissions increased slightly from the previous year in 2022 by 1.3%, keeping the U.S. just 15.5% below 2005 levels and off track to meet its global pledge to slash emissions 50-52% by 2030, according to estimates published on Tuesday by research group Rhodium."

Climate Change [30]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Reuters [40], 01/10/2023
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"Global Pollinator Losses Causing 500,000 Early Deaths A Year – Study" [41]

"The global loss of pollinators is already causing about 500,000 early deaths a year by reducing the supply of healthy foods, a study has estimated."

Agriculture [42]
Biodiversity [29]
Chemicals [11]
Environmental Health [43]
Food [44]
Public [14]
International [15]
Source: Guardian [45], 01/10/2023
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Louisiana Coastal Plan Update Promises Billions In Hurricane-Damage Savings [46]

"A draft update of the state’s $50 billion coastal master plan predicts that 61 new projects to build or protect land, a dozen new levees, and new efforts to elevate, flood-proof or relocate flood-prone homes will reduce annual hurricane storm surge damages by at least $11 billion per year by 2073."

Biodiversity [29]
Climate Change [30]
Environmental Studies [47]
Fish & Fisheries [48]
Natural Resources [12]
Planning & Growth [49]
Water & Oceans [25]
Wildlife [50]
Public [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [51]
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [52], 01/10/2023
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On Flooded Island Of Homeless People, Climate Change Gets Real [53]

"The raft to Bannon Island does not inspire confidence. But Dyrone Woods climbed aboard the piece of crumbling Styrofoam secured to the remains of a wood pallet anyway."

Climate Change [30]
Disasters [23]
Environmental Justice [54]
People & Population [55]
Public [14]
California [56]
Source: LA Times [57], 01/10/2023
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"Brazil Authorities Seek To Punish Pro-Bolsonaro Rioters" [58]

"Brazilian authorities were picking up the pieces and investigating Monday after thousands of ex-President Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters stormed Congress, the Supreme Court and presidential palace then trashed the nation’s highest seats of power."

Environmental Politics [18]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Military [59]
Public [14]
South America [60]
Source: AP [61], 01/09/2023
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"Biden Administration Moves to Tighten Limits on Deadly Air Pollution" [62]

"A new rule would, for the first time in a decade, reduce emissions of soot that disproportionately harm communities of color."

Air [10]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Justice [54]
Environmental Politics [18]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Pollution [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NYTimes [63], 01/09/2023
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Buyers Of Electric Cars Can Get A $7,500 Tax Credit, But It Won't Be Easy [64]

"Uncle Sam wants you to buy an electric vehicle. And he's willing to throw $7,500 your way to make it happen ... if you and the model you want both qualify."

Climate Change [30]
Consumer [65]
Economy & Business [66]
Environmental Politics [18]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Transportation [67]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NPR [68], 01/09/2023
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"Biden Signs Water Bills Benefitting 3 Tribes in Arizona" [69]

"A Native American tribe that has one of the largest and most secure rights to Colorado River water now has approval to lease some of it in Arizona, a state that’s been hardest hit by cuts to its water supply and is on a perpetual search for more."

Climate Change [30]
Environmental Justice [54]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: AP [70], 01/09/2023
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"Great Salt Lake On Track To Disappear In Five Years, Scientists Warn" [71]

"Without dramatic cuts to water consumption, Utah’s Great Salt Lake is on track to disappear within five years, a dire new report warns, imperiling ecosystems and exposing millions of people to toxic dust from the drying lake bed."

Air [10]
Climate Change [30]
Environmental Health [43]
Natural Resources [12]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [14]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [37]
Source: Washington Post [72], 01/09/2023
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