EJToday: Top Headlines

"Biden Signs Water Bills Benefitting 3 Tribes in Arizona" [9]

"A Native American tribe that has one of the largest and most secure rights to Colorado River water now has approval to lease some of it in Arizona, a state that’s been hardest hit by cuts to its water supply and is on a perpetual search for more."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Justice [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: AP [16], 01/09/2023
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"Great Salt Lake On Track To Disappear In Five Years, Scientists Warn" [17]

"Without dramatic cuts to water consumption, Utah’s Great Salt Lake is on track to disappear within five years, a dire new report warns, imperiling ecosystems and exposing millions of people to toxic dust from the drying lake bed."

Air [18]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [19]
Natural Resources [20]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [21]
Source: Washington Post [22], 01/09/2023
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"PFAS Bans, Restrictions Go Into Effect in States in 2023" [23]

"Laws and regulations restricting “forever chemicals” in more than a half dozen states are entering effect in 2023, including the start of a timeline for a first-in-the-nation ban on PFAS in all products in Maine."

Chemicals [24]
Environmental Health [19]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [25], 01/09/2023
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"Biden Moves to End Doughnut Lures and Other Bear Hunting Tactics in Alaska" [26]

"The National Park Service is moving to prohibit hunters on some public lands in Alaska from baiting black bears with doughnuts and using spotlights to shoot hibernating bears and cubs in their dens, techniques allowed by the Trump administration but considered inhumane by conservationists."

Biodiversity [27]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Wildlife [28]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Alaska and Hawaii [29]
Source: NYTimes [30], 01/09/2023
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"Republicans Target Oil Reserve Releases With Initial Energy Bills" [31]

"House Republicans are honing in on releases from the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve in the first set of bills that they’re expected to take up once they can start legislating."

Energy & Fuel [32]
Environmental Politics [33]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: The Hill [34], 01/09/2023
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"US Safety Agency to Consider Ban on Gas Stoves Amid Health Fears" [35]

"The US Consumer Product Safety Commission will move to regulate gas stoves as new research links them to childhood asthma."

Air [18]
Consumer [36]
Energy & Fuel [32]
Environmental Health [19]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [37]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Bloomberg Green [38], 01/09/2023
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"Drilling Down on Fossil Fuels and Climate Change" [39]

"The United States has pledged to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels, but Russia’s war in Ukraine set off a bonanza for liquefied natural gas, or LNG. Today, we look at how energy companies and the Biden administration are backsliding on promises to move away from oil and gas."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [32]
Environmental Politics [33]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Reveal [40], 01/09/2023
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Half of Earth’s Glaciers Could Melt Even If Key Warming Goal Is Met: Study [41]

"A sweeping study of all the world’s glaciers outside of the Greenland and the Antarctic ice sheets has found that nearly half of them will melt by century’s end, even if the world meets its most ambitious global warming goal."

Climate Change [10]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
International [42]
Source: Washington Post [43], 01/06/2023
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"Survey: 3.3 Million US Adults Displaced By Natural Disasters" [44]

"More than 1.3% of the adult population in the U.S. was displaced by natural disasters in the past year, with hurricanes responsible for more than half of the forced relocations, according to first-of-its-kind survey results from the U.S. Census Bureau."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [45]
Natural Resources [20]
People & Population [46]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: AP [47], 01/06/2023
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"Biden EPA Backs Off Plan to Crack Down on Smog From Permian Oil Drillers" [48]

"The Biden administration is deferring a plan to crack down on smog in the drilling hotbed of the Permian Basin, handing a win to oil producers along with their allies in Texas and New Mexico."

Air [18]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Politics [33]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [37]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Bloomberg [49], 01/06/2023
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"Study: Toxic PFAS Chemical Plume Detected in Green Bay" [50]

"A large plume of toxic chemicals produced by a plant that manufactures firefighting foam has seeped through groundwater to Lake Michigan’s Green Bay, scientists said Tuesday."

Chemicals [24]
Environmental Health [19]
Fish & Fisheries [51]
Pollution [37]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [52]
Source: AP [53], 01/06/2023
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"EU Ban On Deforestation-Linked Goods Sets Benchmark, Say US Lawmakers" [54]

"A groundbreaking EU deal to ban the import of goods linked to deforestation has set a global benchmark and will hasten the passage of a similar law in the US, American lawmakers have said."

Agriculture [55]
Biodiversity [27]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [36]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Europe [56]
Source: Guardian [57], 01/06/2023
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"EPA Targets Plastics Company in PFAS Probe" [58]

"EPA and environmental groups are targeting a company for allegedly releasing “forever chemicals” into tens of millions of plastic containers that later contaminated pesticides, which the agency said poses “unreasonable” risks to workers and the environment.
Chemicals [24]
Consumer [36]
Environmental Health [19]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [59], 01/06/2023
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"Report: US’s Largest Estuary, Chesapeake Bay, Earns D-Plus" [60]

"An environmental group gave the Chesapeake Bay watershed a D-plus grade in an evaluation released on Thursday — the same grade earned in its last report two years ago."

Agriculture [55]
Fish & Fisheries [51]
Pollution [37]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [61]
Source: AP [62], 01/06/2023
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"How Climate Change Is Shaping California’s Winter Storms" [63]

"So far, the downpours are largely in line with past storms, an official said. But their quick pace is testing the limits of the state’s infrastructure."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [45]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
California [64]
Source: NYTimes [65], 01/06/2023
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