EJToday: Top Headlines

"Jimmy Carter’s Conservation Legacy" [9]

"The 39th U.S. president led the fight to preserve vast swaths of Alaskan wilderness. It forever changed the state and the National Park Service."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Forests [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [16]
Policy [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [20], 01/02/2025
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Toxic Benzene Plagued Channelview, Tex. Regulators Never Told Residents. [21]

"The highest levels exceed even Texas’ benzene guideline — the weakest in the nation — but aren’t being recorded by a state monitor. That means the community’s cancer risk could be higher than previously thought."

Air [22]
Chemicals [23]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Justice [24]
Journalism & Media [25]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [26]
Public [18]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [27]
Source: Public Health Watch [28], 01/02/2025
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Florida Debates Where To Build The Nation’s Largest Trash Incinerator [29]

"Residents argue the project will disproportionately impact majority-Black and -Hispanic communities in the Miami-Dade area."

Activism [30]
Air [22]
Chemicals [23]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [24]
Environmental Politics [31]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [26]
Waste [32]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [33]
Source: KFF Health News [34], 01/02/2025
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Oil And Gas Firms In Colorado Falsified Environmental Impact Reports [35]

"State’s energy and carbon management commission said fraudulent pollution data was reported for at least 344 wells"

Chemicals [23]
Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Pollution [26]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Guardian [36], 01/02/2025
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"Chemtrail Conspiracy Theories: Why RFK Jr Is Watching The Skies" [37]

"Belief in a supposed US government plot linked to aircraft condensation trails has been boosted by confusion over proposals to geoengineer a response to the climate crisis"

Environmental Politics [31]
Journalism & Media [25]
Science [38]
Transportation [39]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Guardian [40], 01/02/2025
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"Agricultural Poisons Tell a Tale of Two Californias" [41]

"The Golden Rule doesn’t apply in the Golden State when it comes to protecting Latino and Indigenous farmworker communities from toxic pesticides."

Agriculture [42]
Chemicals [23]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [24]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [26]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
California [43]
Source: Inside Climate News [44], 12/23/2024
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More Than 3,100 Students Died At Indian Boarding Schools [45]

"The Washington Post has found more than three times as many deaths as the U.S. government documented in its investigation of Indian boarding schools."

Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [24]
Laws & Regulations [15]
People & Population [46]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [47]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Washington Post [48], 12/23/2024
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Activists Sue NOAA For Images Of Dead Orcas Entangled By Fishing Boats [49]

"Activists sued the federal government Thursday to release images of dead orca whales, sea lions and other marine mammals entangled by commercial fishing boats off the U.S. West Coast."

Activism [30]
Biodiversity [10]
Fish & Fisheries [50]
Journalism & Media [25]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: AP [51], 12/23/2024
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Group Says New Jersey Toxic Waste Dumping Caused $1B In Harm, Sues [52]

"Years of toxic waste dumping in a Jersey Shore community where childhood cancer rates rose caused at least $1 billion in damage to natural resources, according to an environmental group trying to overturn a settlement between New Jersey and the corporate successor to the firm that did the polluting."

Chemicals [23]
Economy & Business [53]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [24]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [26]
Waste [32]
Water & Oceans [54]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [55]
Source: AP [56], 12/23/2024
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Senator Urges EPA to Release Report on Formaldehyde Health Risks [57]

"Citing a recent ProPublica investigation, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., urged the Environmental Protection Agency in a letter this week to issue a final report on the health risks of formaldehyde that is “science-based” and “as strong as possible,” adding that “the agency has an obligation to protect the public from the chemical.”"

Chemicals [23]
Consumer [58]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [24]
Environmental Politics [31]
Journalism & Media [25]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [26]
Science [38]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: ProPublica [59], 12/23/2024
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Maryland Sues GORE-TEX Company For Polluting Water With PFAS Chemicals [60]

"Maryland is suing Cecil County-based manufacturing giant W.L. Gore & Associates for knowingly polluting the air and surrounding water with toxic Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)."

Chemicals [23]
Consumer [58]
Environmental Health [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [26]
Water & Oceans [54]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [61]
Source: CBS News [62], 12/23/2024
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WH Scientists Call For National Effort To Curb Groundwater Depletion [63]

"Even as groundwater levels have rapidly declined in farming regions from California’s Central Valley to the High Plains, the federal government has mostly taken a hands-off approach to the chronic depletion of the nation’s aquifers. But in a new report for the White House, scientists say the country is facing serious and unprecedented groundwater challenges that call for the federal government to play a larger role."

Agriculture [42]
Climate Change [11]
Consumer [58]
Disasters [64]
Environmental Studies [65]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [16]
Water & Oceans [54]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: LA Times [66], 12/23/2024
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"Chart: Wind And Solar Overtook Coal On The US Grid In 2024" [67]

"In a first for the country, solar and wind generated more electricity than coal over most of 2024. The two renewable energy sources provided a record 17 percent of U.S. electricity from January to November, while coal contributed 15 percent, according to data from think tank Ember."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Technology [68]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Canary Media [69], 12/23/2024
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Gas Leaks Must Be Fixed By Utilities In New Proposed PHMSA Rule [70]

"Melissa Ostroff finds gas leaks for a living, so it was surprising to hear someone say they smelled gas in her own home."

Climate Change [11]
Consumer [58]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Infrastructure [71]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [26]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: NPR [72], 12/23/2024
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"Trump Vows To Rename Denali As Mount Mckinley" [73]

"U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday he will rename Denali, Alaska natives' name for North America's tallest mountain, after William McKinley, the 25th U.S. president who was assassinated in 1901."

Environmental Justice [24]
Environmental Politics [31]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [16]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [47]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Alaska and Hawaii [74]
Source: Reuters [75], 12/23/2024
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