EJToday: Top Headlines

"A Billion New Air Conditioners Will Save Lives But Cook the Planet" [9]

"Demand for air conditioners is surging in markets where both incomes and temperatures are rising, populous places like India, China, Indonesia and the Philippines."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [11]
Disasters [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Infrastructure [14]
Technology [15]
Public [16]
International [17]
Source: Bloomberg [18], 05/18/2023
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"Weather Extremes: What Happens To People After A Disaster?" [19]

"These readings explore what happens when the TV cameras leave and rebuilding is all that’s left."

"Natural disasters are increasingly linked to climate change, and our awareness of them follows a now-familiar pattern. In the words of Inside Climate News Publisher David Sassoon, “A disaster strikes. The news reaches every home for a few days, perhaps a week. A debate erupts over whether climate change is to blame. Victims are profiled. There’s a tally of lives lost and property destroyed, and then the disaster is forgotten.”
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [12]
People & Population [20]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [22], 05/18/2023
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"Biden Administration Approves Key Permit for West Virginia Gas Pipeline" [23]

"The Biden administration has granted a crucial permit for the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a project championed by Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, despite opposition from climate experts and environmental groups."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Politics [25]
Forests [26]
Infrastructure [14]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Natural Resources [28]
Transportation [29]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [21]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [30]
Source: NYTimes [31], 05/17/2023
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"Plastic Pollution Could Be Slashed By 80% By 2040, UN Says" [32]

"Global plastic pollution could be slashed by 80% by 2040, according to a report from the UN Environment Programme (Unep). The changes needed are major, but are also practical and affordable, the agency said."

Chemicals [33]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Politics [25]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Natural Resources [28]
Pollution [34]
Waste [35]
Water & Oceans [36]
Public [16]
International [17]
Source: Guardian [37], 05/17/2023
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"Biden Vetoes Bipartisan Resolution Resuming Solar Tariffs" [38]

"President Biden on Tuesday vetoed a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution that would have undone his two-year moratorium on solar tariffs."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [39]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Politics [25]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: The Hill [40], 05/17/2023
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"WSU Researchers Win Historic FDA Approval For Gene-Edited Pork" [41]

"At a barbecue on campus last week, flames licked a set of sausage links as scientist Blake Foraker worked on the perfect grill marks. ... With permission from the Food and Drug Administration, WSU researchers made them from pigs whose DNA has been changed."

Agriculture [42]
Biodiversity [43]
Consumer [11]
Food [44]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Technology [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: OPB [45], 05/17/2023
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"Cop28 Host UAE’s Approach Is ‘Dangerous’, Says UN’S Ex-Climate Chief" [46]

"The United Arab Emirates’ approach to the Cop28 climate summit it will preside over in November is “very dangerous” and a “direct threat to the survival of vulnerable nations”, according to the UN’s former climate chief."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Politics [25]
Public [16]
International [17]
Source: Guardian [47], 05/17/2023
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"Goodbye, Fish And Chips? New England Haddock Imperiled By Overfishing" [48]

"A staple seafood species caught by East Coast fishers for centuries is experiencing overfishing, and regulators have cut catch quotas by more than 80% to prevent the fish’s population from collapse. Haddock are one of the most popular Atlantic fish, and a favorite for fish and chips and other New England seafood dishes."

Biodiversity [43]
Consumer [11]
Fish & Fisheries [49]
Food [44]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Water & Oceans [36]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [21]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [50]
Source: AP [51], 05/17/2023
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"Can the World Make an Electric Car Battery Without China?" [52]

"It is one of the defining competitions of our age: The countries that can make batteries for electric cars will reap decades of economic and geopolitical advantages. The only winner so far is China."

Chemicals [33]
Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [39]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Natural Resources [28]
Public [16]
International [17]
Source: NYTimes [53], 05/17/2023
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"US Approves Emergency Use Of Bird Flu Vaccine To Save California Condors" [54]

"U.S. officials on Tuesday announced the emergency use of a bird flu vaccine to protect the California condor, a critically endangered and magnificent animal that has already bounced back once from the brink of extinction."

Biodiversity [43]
Environmental Health [13]
Wildlife [55]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Reuters [56], 05/17/2023
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Communities Of Color Disproportionately Exposed To PFAS In Drinking Water [57]

"Residents of communities with bigger Black and Hispanic populations are more likely to be exposed to harmful levels of “forever chemicals” in their water supplies, a new study has found."

Chemicals [33]
Consumer [11]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [58]
Pollution [34]
Water & Oceans [36]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: The Hill [59], 05/17/2023
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"Burning Man Becomes Latest Adversary in Geothermal Feud" [60]

"Festival organizers are trying to block plans to build a clean energy plant in the Nevada desert, highlighting the struggle to combat climate change and the cost of clean power."

"One of the darkest towns in America lies roughly 100 miles north of Reno, where the lights are few and rarely lit until one week each summer when pyrotechnics and LEDs set the sky and mountains aglow.
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Politics [25]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Natural Resources [28]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [21]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [61]
Source: NYTimes [62], 05/17/2023
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"Biden Nominates National Cancer Institute Director To Lead NIH" [63]

"President Biden on Monday nominated cancer surgeon Monica M. Bertagnolli to be head of the National Institutes of Health, seeking to fill the leadership role atop the $46 billion health agency that has sat empty for more than a year."

Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [25]
Government [64]
Science [65]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Washington Post [66], 05/16/2023
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"Wind Is Main Source of UK Electricity for First Time" [67]

"Wind turbines have generated more electricity than gas for the first time in the UK.

In the first three months of this year a third of the country's electricity came from wind farms, research from Imperial College London has shown.

National Grid has also confirmed that April saw a record period of solar energy generation.

By 2035 the UK aims for all of its electricity to have net zero emissions."

Esme Stallard reports for BBC News May 12, 2023. [68]

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Public [16]
Europe [69]
Source: BBC News [68], 05/16/2023
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"EPA Looks To Toss ‘Deceptive’ Plastics Recycling Symbol" [70]

"EPA is urging the Federal Trade Commission to ditch the iconic chasing arrows recycling symbol for plastics, a move the environmental agency says will help prevent more plastic material from entering landfills and incinerators."

Chemicals [33]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Waste [35]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: E&E News [71], 05/16/2023
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