EJToday: Top Headlines

"Republican States Sue EPA, California Over EV Truck Mandate" [9]

"A coalition of Republican state attorneys general on Tuesday announced two lawsuits against the Biden administration and the state of California challenging emissions rules for trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [14]
Transportation [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
California [18]
Source: The Hill [19], 05/15/2024
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"Zombie Coal Plants Could Threaten The US Energy Transition" [20]

"Maryland’s Brandon Shores can’t close down — even though its owners want it to. The coal plant is a poster child for how poor grid planning stalls climate progress."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Canary Media [22], 05/15/2024
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Whistleblower Raps Mistakes In EPA Use Of Sensor Plane At Ohio Derailment [23]

"The U.S. government has a specialized plane loaded with advanced sensors that officials brag is always ready to deploy within an hour of any kind of chemical disaster. But the plane didn’t fly over eastern Ohio until four days after the disastrous Norfolk Southern derailment there last year."

Air [24]
Chemicals [25]
Disasters [26]
Environmental Health [21]
Pollution [14]
Science [27]
Technology [28]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [29]
Source: AP [30], 05/15/2024
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Radioactive Waste Around The Bay Area Triggers New Testing At Parks [31]

"Beyond a chain-link fence topped with spiraled barbed wire, swaying coastal grasses conceal a cache of buried radioactive waste and toxic pesticides from a bygone chemical plant."

Chemicals [25]
Disasters [26]
Environmental Health [21]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [32]
Pollution [14]
Waste [33]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
California [18]
Source: LA Times [34], 05/15/2024
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"Tree Rings Show That Last Northern Summer Was The Warmest Since Year 1" [35]

"The broiling summer of 2023 was the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere in more than 2,000 years, a new study found."

Climate Change [10]
Science [27]
Public [16]
International [36]
Source: AP [37], 05/15/2024
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"As Insurers Around the US Bleed Cash From Climate Shocks, Homeowners Lose" [38]

"The owner of this home in Iowa, a state once considered low-risk, was dropped by his insurance company last year. ... As climate change produces more extreme weather, insurers are losing money, even in states with low hurricane and wildfire danger."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [26]
Economy & Business [39]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [40], 05/15/2024
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"FERC Shakes Up Power Industry With Landmark Grid Rule" [41]

"Federal energy regulators on Monday directed U.S. electricity grid operators to plan new transmission infrastructure that can deliver more renewable energy and defend against extreme weather."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Infrastructure [42]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [43], 05/14/2024
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"Biden Signs Bipartisan Bill Banning Imports Of Russian Uranium" [44]

"Joe Biden has signed into law a bipartisan bill that bans the import of enriched uranium from Russia, in the latest effort by Washington to apply further pressure on Vladimir Putin over his invasion of Ukraine."

Environmental Politics [12]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [32]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [36]
Source: Guardian [45], 05/14/2024
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"Cloud Brightening Study in California Is Halted by Local Officials" [46]

"Officials in Alameda, Calif., have told scientists to stop testing a device that might one day be used to artificially cool the planet by making clouds brighter, reflecting planet-warming sunlight back into space."

Air [24]
Chemicals [25]
Climate Change [10]
Pollution [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [47], 05/14/2024
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"Edelman and Shell Renew Their Global PR Deal" [48]

"The global PR giant Edelman has won the bidding war for Shell’s worldwide public relations account — the latest extension of the two companies’ decades-long relationship."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [49]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [36]
Source: DeSmog [50], 05/14/2024
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"Identity Crisis: Climate Destroying Wonders That Gave US Parks Their Names" [51]

"Glacier National Park's ice fortress is crumbling. The giant trees of Sequoia National Park are ablaze. And even the tenacious cacti of Saguaro National Park are struggling to endure a decades-long drought."

Climate Change [10]
Natural Resources [52]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: AFP [53], 05/14/2024
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"Air Pollution Monitoring In Louisiana To Face New Rules Under Bill" [54]

"An industry-backed bill to regulate how data from community air monitors is used was given final legislative approval Monday over objections from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and activists seeking to reduce pollution."

Activism [55]
Chemicals [25]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Justice [56]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [14]
Science [27]
Public [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [57]
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [58], 05/14/2024
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"Bid To End Deadly Cooking Methods Which Stoke Global Warming" [59]

"Fifty countries are meeting in France on Tuesday to discuss the lack of access to clean cooking methods worldwide which causes millions of deaths every year and fuels global warming."

Air [24]
Consumer [60]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [21]
People & Population [61]
Pollution [14]
Technology [28]
Public [16]
International [36]
Source: AFP [62], 05/14/2024
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Occidental Petroleum Net-Zero Strategy A ‘License To Pollute,’ Critics Say [63]

"More so than any other fossil fuel company, Occidental Petroleum — known as Oxy — has built its climate strategy around innovations that capture carbon before it can be emitted or pull it directly out of the air." "The company’s climate strategy could result in more emissions than it prevents."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [49]
Pollution [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [36]
Source: Grist [64], 05/14/2024
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Tiny Pieces Of Plastic Pose One Of The Biggest Threats To Chicago River [65]

"Wendella engineer Miguel Chavez climbed down a ladder and over a small dock to pull up a trap floating in the Chicago River near the Michigan Avenue Bridge. The size of a standard garbage can, the trap is designed to collect trash and can hold up to 44 pounds."

Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [66]
Public [16]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [29]
Source: Chicago Tribune [67], 05/14/2024
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