EJToday: Top Headlines

"‘Eco-Warrior’ And Earth First! Co-Founder Dave Foreman Dies" [9]

"Dave Foreman, a self-proclaimed eco-warrior who was a prominent member of the radical environmentalism movement and a co-founder of Earth First!, has died. He was 74."

Activism [10]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: AP [13], 09/26/2022
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"Embattled World Bank Leader ‘Slow-Walking’ Climate Initiatives" [14]

"World Bank chief David Malpass tried desperately Thursday to convince global leaders that he knows climate change is caused by burning oil, gas and coal. But, by then, the bank itself was under scrutiny for propping up fossil fuel production."

Climate Change [15]
Economy & Business [16]
Environmental Politics [17]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
International [18]
Source: E&E News [19], 09/23/2022
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"California Should Expect A ‘Fourth Dry Year’ As Drought Persists" [20]

"California’s reservoirs will enter fall in a slightly better position than last year, but the Golden State should prepare for more dryness, extreme weather events and water quality hazards in 2023, officials say.
Climate Change [15]
Disasters [21]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [11]
California [23]
Source: LA Times [24], 09/23/2022
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"White House Launches ‘Generational’ $7 Billion Hydrogen Plan" [25]

"The Energy Department has opened up applications for $7 billion to establish up to 10 regional hydrogen hubs, part of a broader road map unveiled Thursday that officials described as essential to lowering emissions in industrial sectors such as energy, transportation, steel, and cement."

Climate Change [15]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [27], 09/23/2022
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"Wildfire Smoke Is Erasing Progress on Clean Air" [28]

"Smoke from wildfires has worsened over the past decade, potentially reversing decades of improvements in Western air quality made under the Clean Air Act, according to research published Thursday from Stanford University."

Air [29]
Climate Change [15]
Disasters [21]
Environmental Health [30]
Forests [31]
Pollution [32]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: NYTimes [33], 09/23/2022
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"Fiona Will Lash Parts Of Canada As Region’s Strongest Storm On Record" [34]

"Canada’s Atlantic provinces are bracing for the strongest storm they have experienced on record as Hurricane Fiona barrels through the North Atlantic, set to hit the area Friday night into Saturday."

Climate Change [15]
Disasters [21]
Public [11]
Canada [35]
Source: Washington Post [36], 09/23/2022
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"FERC Chair’s Renomination in Limbo, Raising Fears About Deadlock" [37]

"Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Richard Glick hasn’t yet secured Sen. Joe Manchin’s support to advance his nomination for another five-year term in Congress’ waning weeks, which risks pushing Glick’s confirmation into a post-election lame duck session."

Climate Change [15]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Politics [17]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [38], 09/23/2022
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"UK Government Lifts Fracking Ban Despite Opposition" [39]

"The U.K. government confirmed Thursday that it’s lifting a ban on fracking in England, arguing that the move will help boost the country’s energy security amid Russia’s war in Ukraine."

Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Health [30]
Environmental Politics [17]
Laws & Regulations [40]
Public [11]
Europe [41]
Source: AP [42], 09/23/2022
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"Climate-Fueled Wildfires Worsen Danger for Struggling Fish" [43]

"Biologist Bryan Bakevich unscrewed the top of a plastic bucket and removed a Rio Grande cutthroat trout that squirmed from his grasp and plopped onto the grassy bank of Middle Ponil Creek."

Biodiversity [44]
Climate Change [15]
Disasters [21]
Fish & Fisheries [45]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [46]
Source: AP [47], 09/23/2022
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"Drowning Island Nations: ‘This Is How A Pacific Atoll Dies’" [48]

"While world leaders from wealthy countries acknowledge the “existential threat” of climate change, Tuvalu Prime Minister Kausea Natano is racing to save his tiny island nation from drowning by raising it 13 to 16 feet (4 to 5 meters) above sea level through land reclamation."

Climate Change [15]
Disasters [21]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [11]
Australia & Oceania [49]
Source: AP [50], 09/23/2022
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"Minnesota Ojibwe Harvest Sacred, Climate-Imperiled Wild Rice" [51]

"Seated low in her canoe sliding through a rice bed on this vast lake, Kendra Haugen used one wooden stick to bend the stalks and another to knock the rice off, so gently the stalks sprung right back up."

Agriculture [52]
Biodiversity [44]
Climate Change [15]
Food [53]
Natural Resources [54]
People & Population [55]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [56]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [11]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [57]
Source: AP [58], 09/23/2022
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Senate Ratifies Pact to Curb Broad Category of Potent Greenhouse Gases [59]

"The Senate voted on Wednesday to approve an international climate treaty for the first time in 30 years, agreeing in a rare bipartisan deal to phase out of the use of planet-warming industrial chemicals commonly found in refrigerators and air-conditioners."

Climate Change [15]
Environmental Politics [17]
Laws & Regulations [40]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: NYTimes [60], 09/22/2022
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"Manchin Releases Permitting Reform Package" [61]

"Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chair Joe Manchin released his long-promised permitting reform plan this evening."

Climate Change [15]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Politics [17]
Environmental Studies [62]
Infrastructure [63]
Laws & Regulations [40]
Pollution [32]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: E&E News [64], 09/22/2022
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"Biden Meets With U.K. Leader Under Cloud Of Climate Skepticism" [65]

"President Joe Biden celebrated his climate victories at the United Nations on Wednesday. Then he sat down with British Prime Minister Liz Truss, who is staffing the highest ranks of her new government with officials who reject climate science.

The meeting of the U.N. General Assembly in New York offered Biden an international stage to tell world leaders that he had delivered on his boldest climate pledges. He called them a “global game changer.”
Climate Change [15]
Environmental Politics [17]
Science [66]
Public [11]
International [18]
Source: E&E News [67], 09/22/2022
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"Revealed: The ‘Shocking’ Levels Of Toxic Lead In Chicago Tap Water" [68]

"One in 20 tap water tests performed for thousands of Chicago residents found lead, a neurotoxin, at or above US government limits, according to a Guardian analysis of a City of Chicago data trove."

Chemicals [69]
Consumer [70]
Environmental Health [30]
Environmental Justice [71]
Infrastructure [63]
Laws & Regulations [40]
Pollution [32]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [11]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [57]
Source: Guardian [72], 09/22/2022
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