EJToday: Top Headlines

"Pouring It On: Climate Change Made 2020 Hurricanes Rainier" [9]

"Climate change made the record-smashing deadly 2020 Atlantic hurricane season noticeably wetter, a new study says. And it will likely make this season rainier, too, scientists said."

Climate Change [10]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: AP [14], 04/13/2022
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"California Utility To Pay $55 Million For Massive Wildfires" [15]

"Pacific Gas & Electric, the nation’s largest utility, has agreed to pay more than $55 million to avoid criminal prosecution for two major wildfires sparked by its aging Northern California power lines and submit to five years of oversight in an attempt to prevent more deadly blazes."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [16]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Justice [18]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [20]
Public [12]
California [21]
Source: AP [22], 04/13/2022
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"Global Warming Drove a Deadly Burst of Indian Ocean Tropical Storms" [23]

"Global warming supercharged one of the most destructive tropical storm seasons on record in the South Indian Ocean, an international science team said on Monday."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [16]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [12]
Africa [24]
Source: Inside Climate News [25], 04/13/2022
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"A ‘Silent Victim’: How Nature Becomes a Casualty of War" [26]

"The Black Sea Biosphere Reserve, on the southern coast of Ukraine, is a haven for migrating birds. More than 120,000 birds spend the winter flitting about its shores, and a multicolored spectrum of rare species — the white-tailed eagle, red-breasted merganser and black-winged stilt, to name just a few — nest among its protected waters and wetlands."

Biodiversity [27]
Military [28]
Natural Resources [20]
Public [12]
Europe [29]
Source: NYTimes [30], 04/13/2022
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Back From The Dead? Elusive Ivory-Bill Woodpecker Not Extinct: Researchers [31]

"In terms of elusiveness, it is the Bigfoot or Loch Ness monster of the bird world, so rare and undetectable that the US government declared it extinct last year. But the ivory-bill woodpecker is, in fact, still alive and pecking in the forests of Louisiana, a team of researchers has claimed."

Biodiversity [27]
Wildlife [32]
Public [12]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [33]
Source: Guardian [34], 04/13/2022
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"An Ocean Of Noise: How Sonic Pollution Is Hurting Marine Life" [35]

"Today’s oceans are a tumult of engine roar, artificial sonar and seismic blasts that make it impossible for marine creatures to hunt or communicate. We could make it stop, so why don’t we?"
Pollution [36]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [12]
International [37]
Source: Guardian [38], 04/13/2022
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In Iowa Trip, Biden Will Announce That E15 Gas To Be Sold This Summer [39]

"President Biden will announce today that his administration will temporarily allow E15 gasoline — gasoline that uses a 15 percent ethanol blend that is typically banned from sale from June to September — to be sold this summer."

Agriculture [40]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Transportation [41]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NPR [42], 04/12/2022
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"Majorities in US Back Climate Change Proposals: Gallup" [43]

"The majority of Americans are in favor of six recent climate change proposals from the Biden administration, according to the annual Gallup environment poll released Monday."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [44]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: The Hill [45], 04/12/2022
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"White House Launches $1B Program To Boost Conservation Goal" [46]

"The Biden administration has launched a $1 billion program to advance its goal of conserving 30% of the nation’s lands and waters by 2030." "The program will allow states, tribes and NGOs to access numerous federal conservation and restoration grants all in one place."

Natural Resources [20]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: HuffPost [47], 04/12/2022
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"Rural Arizonans Might Gain Protection of Their Groundwater This Year [48]

"Residents in the Sulphur Springs Valley in southeastern Arizona are tired of waiting for the state legislature to protect groundwater in rural Arizona, where water security is increasingly at risk from over-pumping and a longstanding drought."

Agriculture [40]
Climate Change [10]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [12]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [49]
Source: Inside Climate News [50], 04/12/2022
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"Brightmark, Georgia County Cancel $680 Million Plastic-To-Fuel Project" [51]

"Brightmark Energy and a county in the U.S. state of Georgia scrapped plans to build “the world’s largest” facility to turn plastic waste into fuel, according to a termination agreement published on Monday, a blow to a technology the petrochemical industry has promoted heavily."

Chemicals [52]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Health [53]
Pollution [36]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Reuters [54], 04/12/2022
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"Farms, Fish On Dry California-Oregon Border See Scant Water" [55]

"Farms that rely on irrigation from a depleted, federally managed lake on the California-Oregon border, along with a Native American tribe fighting to protect fragile salmon, will both receive extremely limited amounts of water this summer as a historic drought and record-low reservoir levels drag on in the U.S. West."

Agriculture [40]
Climate Change [10]
Fish & Fisheries [56]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [12]
California [21]
Northwest (OR WA) [57]
Source: AP [58], 04/12/2022
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"Company Proposes Largest Offshore Wind Farm On West Coast" [59]

"A company is proposing to build what could be the West Coast’s biggest floating offshore wind farm, suggesting the expansion of a technology that has yet to find footing in the U.S."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Water & Oceans [11]
Public [12]
Northwest (OR WA) [57]
Source: E&E News [60], 04/12/2022
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"Ukraine Conflict Hurts Russian Science, As West Pulls Funding" [61]

"Dozens of international scientists have arrived each year since 2000 at Russia's remote Northeast Science Station on the Kolyma River in Siberia to study climate change in the Arctic environment. Not this year, though."

Climate Change [10]
Military [28]
Science [62]
Public [12]
International [37]
Source: Reuters [63], 04/12/2022
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"Energy Company To Pay Up To $35 Million After Turbines Killed Eagles" [64]

"An American wind energy company has admitted to killing at least 150 bald and golden eagles, most of which were fatally struck by wind turbine blades, federal prosecutors said."

Energy & Fuel [17]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [20]
Wildlife [32]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Washington Post [65], 04/12/2022
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