EJToday: Top Headlines

"What's to Be Done About the Wild Horse Herds of the American West?" [9]

"They're tearing up rangeland and riparian areas—and also our ideas about wildness".

Agriculture [10]
Biodiversity [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Wildlife [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [18]
Source: Sierra [19], 08/16/2023
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Researchers Identify A New Pack Of Endangered Gray Wolves In California [20]

"A new pack of gray wolves has shown up in California’s Sierra Nevada, several hundred miles away from any other known population of the endangered species, wildlife officials announced Friday."

Biodiversity [11]
Wildlife [15]
Public [16]
California [21]
Source: AP [22], 08/16/2023
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Young Activists Win First-Of-Its-Kind Climate Change Trial In Montana [23]

"Young environmental activists scored what may be a groundbreaking legal victory Monday when a Montana judge said state agencies were violating their constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment by allowing fossil fuel development."

Climate Change [24]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Justice [26]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [27]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [18]
Source: AP [28], 08/15/2023
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Mishmash Of How US Heat Deaths Are Counted Complicates Safety Efforts [29]

"Postal worker Eugene Gates Jr. was delivering mail in the suffocating Dallas heat this summer when he collapsed in a homeowner’s yard and was taken to a hospital, where he died."

Climate Change [24]
Disasters [30]
Environmental Health [31]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: AP [32], 08/15/2023
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"Uranium Hunters in US West Face Partial Ban, Pollution Fears" [33]

"Five weeks before President Joe Biden announced a historic new ban on new uranium mining around the Grand Canyon, Sarana Riggs approached the barbed-wire fence surrounding an inactive mine in an Arizona national forest, a Geiger counter in her hand."

Chemicals [34]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Justice [26]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [35]
Pollution [36]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [37]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [38], 08/15/2023
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"Mosquito Season Has Gotten A Month Longer In Some Places" [39]

"As the climate warms, mosquito-swatting season is getting longer in many parts of the country."

Climate Change [24]
Environmental Health [31]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: YaleE360 [40], 08/15/2023
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"The Clean Energy Future Is Arriving Faster Than You Think" [41]

"Across the country, a profound shift is taking place that is nearly invisible to most Americans. The nation that burned coal, oil and gas for more than a century to become the richest economy on the planet, as well as historically the most polluting, is rapidly shifting away from fossil fuels."

Climate Change [24]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [42], 08/15/2023
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"DOE Rule Would Permit Power Lines Quickly" [43]

"The Biden administration proposed a rule Thursday to streamline the federal permitting process for major transmission lines, a move that could help transform the grid and bring renewable energy online faster."

Climate Change [24]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [44], 08/15/2023
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"US Appeals Court Rejects Challenge To Mountain Valley Pipeline" [45]

"A U.S. appeals court on Friday rejected a challenge to federal approvals for the Mountain Valley Pipeline, in a decision that likely ends legal fights over the construction of the $6.6 billion natural gas project led by Equitrans Midstream."

Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [46]
Source: Reuters [47], 08/15/2023
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Survival of Wild Rice Threatened by Climate Change, Increased Rainfall [48]

"Low water levels are critical for manoomin, a sacred crop for the Ojibwe people of the Great Lakes region. But climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels is bringing more rain and flooding to Minnesota and the Upper Midwest, making harvests of wild rice less reliable."

Agriculture [10]
Climate Change [24]
Food [49]
Natural Resources [14]
People & Population [27]
Water & Oceans [50]
Public [16]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [51]
Source: Sahan Journal [52], 08/15/2023
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"Texas’ Brazos River, Captive and Contaminated" [53]

"Dow-Freeport, the largest chemical plant complex in the Western Hemisphere, dominates—and pollutes—the Lower Brazos Watershed."

Chemicals [34]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Justice [26]
Pollution [36]
Water & Oceans [50]
Public [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [37]
Source: Texas Observer [54], 08/15/2023
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Off Alaska Coast, Research Crew Peers Down To Map Deep And Remote Ocean [55]

"For the team aboard the Okeanos Explorer off the coast of Alaska, exploring the mounds and craters of the sea floor along the Aleutian Islands is a chance to surface new knowledge about life in some of the world’s deepest and most remote waters."

Biodiversity [11]
Fish & Fisheries [56]
Natural Resources [14]
Science [57]
Water & Oceans [50]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [58]
Source: AP [59], 08/15/2023
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"After Maui Wildfires Kill 96, Search For The Missing Continues" [60]

"The death toll from the Maui wildfires reached 96 on Sunday as relatives of the missing frantically searched for signs their loved ones may still be alive, while survivors grappled with the scale of the disaster and sought solace at church services."

Climate Change [24]
Disasters [30]
Environmental Studies [61]
Forests [62]
People & Population [27]
Public [16]
Alaska and Hawaii [63]
Source: Reuters [64], 08/14/2023
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"Raid of Small Kansas Newspaper Raises Free Press Concerns" [65]

"A small town in Kansas has become a battleground over the First Amendment, after the local police force and county sheriff’s deputies raided the office of The Marion County Record." "The search of Marion County Record’s office led to the seizure of computers, servers and cellphones of reporters and editors."

Journalism & Media [66]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [67]
Source: NYTimes [68], 08/14/2023
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"Louisiana Created Alleged Conflict Of Interest In ‘Cancer Alley’ Case" [69]

"Facing a pivotal federal investigation into Louisiana’s relationship with petro-chemical companies, the state’s attorney general hired lawyers who were simultaneously representing one of the main corporations at the center of the investigation, documents reveal."

Chemicals [34]
Economy & Business [70]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Justice [26]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [36]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [71]
Source: Guardian [72], 08/14/2023
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