EJToday: Top Headlines

"Private Landowners Are the Missing Link for Prescribed Burns" [9]

"Community organizations teach individuals to manage their land with fire in states like Georgia, where 93 percent of the land is privately owned".

Forests [10]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [13]
Source: Sierra [14], 02/21/2024
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"Trump-ERA EPA Chemicals Chief To Lead Pesticides Group" [15]

"Alexandra Dunn, who led the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention for two years, has been named CropLife America’s new president and CEO."

Agriculture [16]
Chemicals [17]
Environmental Politics [18]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Pollution [20]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: E&E News [21], 02/21/2024
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"Does LNG Really Fight Climate Change? 5 Common LNG claims, Examined" [22]

"American liquefied natural gas exports surged from basically nothing just eight years ago to a formidable force reshaping domestic and global politics. Now, thanks to the Biden administration’s recent pause on approvals of new LNG projects, it’s become the hottest topic in U.S. energy news. It’s also one of the most confusing."

Climate Change [23]
Economy & Business [24]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Politics [18]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
International [26]
Source: Canary Media [27], 02/21/2024
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"How US Protectionism Is Holding Back The Country’s Offshore Wind Plans" [28]

"The Biden admin has an ambitious target for new offshore wind farms — but a 100-year-old law is slowing down construction and ratcheting up installation costs."

Climate Change [23]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Infrastructure [29]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Transportation [30]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: Hakai [32], 02/21/2024
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Lax Calif. Pesticide Regulation Violates Civil Rights Laws, Coalition Charges [33]

"A broad coalition of pesticide-reform groups representing California farmworkers and their families called on the state attorney general to investigate systematic civil rights violations last week at a press briefing in Watsonville, a strawberry-growing stronghold about 90 miles south of San Francisco."

Activism [34]
Agriculture [16]
Chemicals [17]
Environmental Health [35]
Environmental Justice [36]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Public [11]
California [37]
Source: Inside Climate News [38], 02/21/2024
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As Climate Disasters Claim Children, Bangladeshi Mothers Seek Bigger Families [39]

"Climate change is exacerbating child mortality in flood-prone areas of Bangladesh, prompting mothers to have larger families as a response to the fear of losing children to disasters."

Climate Change [23]
Disasters [40]
People & Population [41]
Public [11]
Asia [42]
Source: Mongabay [43], 02/21/2024
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‘You Want Them To Have A Fighting Chance’: The World Of UK Toading [44]

"A night out with the Somerset volunteers helping amphibians cross the road to their mating grounds as populations decline".

Activism [34]
Biodiversity [45]
Natural Resources [46]
Transportation [30]
Wildlife [47]
Public [11]
Europe [48]
Source: Guardian [49], 02/21/2024
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"Biden Admin Advances Two-Pronged Clampdown On Toxic Air Pollution" [50]

"The Biden administration is advancing two major rules to limit toxic air pollution from refineries, coal-fired power plants and other industrial operations."

Air [51]
Chemicals [17]
Disasters [40]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Health [35]
Environmental Justice [36]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Pollution [20]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: E&E News [52], 02/20/2024
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"California Braces For Flooding Again As Another Wet Winter Storm Hits" [53]

"The latest in a series of wet winter storms gained strength in California early Monday, with forecasters warning of possible flooding, hail, strong winds and even brief tornadoes as the system moves south over the next few days."

Climate Change [23]
Disasters [40]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [11]
California [37]
Source: AP [54], 02/20/2024
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"Five Ways El Niño Is Wreaking Havoc in South America" [55]

"An El Niño weather system forecast to be among the strongest in recent history has been contributing to an array of disasters, from fires to floods, around the world."

Climate Change [23]
Disasters [40]
Public [11]
South America [56]
Source: Washington Post [57], 02/20/2024
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"The Uncharted World of Emerging Pathogens" [58]

"In their quest to detect early outbreaks, virus hunters are sampling environmental DNA in water, dirt, and air."

Biodiversity [45]
Environmental Health [35]
Environmental Studies [59]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: Undark [60], 02/20/2024
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Ross Gelbspan, Author Who Probed Roots Of Climate Change Denial, Dies At 84 [61]

"Ross Gelbspan, a journalist and author who followed the money trail of climate change denial, exposing how the energy industry and lobbyists pushed narratives to counter overwhelming evidence that use of fossil fuels was driving global warming, died Jan. 27 at his home in Boston. He was 84."

Climate Change [23]
Environmental Politics [18]
Journalism & Media [62]
Science [63]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: Washington Post [64], 02/20/2024
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"Saving Africa’s Most Endangered Big Cat" [65]

"Conservationists in Namibia have found the fate of people and cheetahs are closely intertwined — and so are solutions to help both."

Agriculture [16]
Biodiversity [45]
Wildlife [47]
Public [11]
Africa [66]
Source: The Revelator [67], 02/20/2024
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"Colorado Is Now Home To America's Newest National Park" [68]

"Amache National Historic Site in southeastern Colorado is officially America's newest national park, the National Park Service announced Thursday. Amache, located one mile outside of Granada, was one of 10 incarceration sites used to detain thousands of Japanese-Americans during World War II."

Environmental Justice [36]
Natural Resources [46]
People & Population [41]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [69]
Source: Denver Post [70], 02/20/2024
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"Judge Revokes Florida Wetlands Permitting Authority" [71]

"The Trump administration failed to account for risks to endangered species when it allowed Florida to take over a federal permitting program for wetlands, a federal judge ruled Thursday."

Biodiversity [45]
Environmental Politics [18]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [46]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [13]
Source: E&E News [72], 02/20/2024
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