EJToday: Top Headlines

"Biden Administration Proposes Water Quality Standard For Tribes" [9]

"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday proposed baseline water quality standards for tribal waters, which the agency said would protect more than 500,000 people who live on reservations."

Consumer [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [14]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The Hill [19], 05/04/2023
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Senators Hopeful They Can Keep Rail Safety Bill On Track After E Palestine [20]

"Three months after the devastating East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment, senators are optimistic they can pass a bipartisan rail safety bill to prevent similar disasters."

Chemicals [21]
Disasters [22]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [23]
Infrastructure [24]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [15]
Transportation [25]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The Hill [26], 05/04/2023
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"Inside Big Beef’s Climate Messaging Machine: Confuse, Defend And Downplay" [27]

"The US beef industry is creating an army of influencers and citizen activists to help amplify a message that will be key to its future success: that you shouldn’t be too worried about the growing attention around the environmental impacts of its production."

Agriculture [28]
Climate Change [29]
Consumer [10]
Environmental Politics [23]
Food [30]
Journalism & Media [31]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Guardian [32], 05/04/2023
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"U.S. Climate Envoy Kerry Says China Has Invited Him For Talks" [33]

"U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said on Wednesday China has invited him to visit “in the near term” for talks on averting a global climate change crisis even as diplomatic relations between the world’s two biggest greenhouse gas emitters remain tense."

Climate Change [29]
Environmental Politics [23]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Asia [34]
Source: Reuters [35], 05/04/2023
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"Hawaii Lawmakers Fail To Pass Annual Park Fee For Tourists" [36]

"Hawaii lawmakers failed to pass a bill that would have made tourists help pay for the protection of the state’s forests and wildlife even though the idea has widespread public and political support."

Consumer [10]
Economy & Business [37]
Environmental Politics [23]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [38]
Public [17]
Alaska and Hawaii [39]
Source: AP [40], 05/04/2023
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"UN Warns Heat Records Could Be Broken As Chance Of El Niño Rises" [41]

"The chance of an El Niño weather phenomenon developing in the coming months has risen, the United Nations has said, warning that it could fuel higher global temperatures and possibly new heat records."

Agriculture [28]
Climate Change [29]
Fish & Fisheries [42]
Natural Resources [38]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
International [43]
Source: AFP [44], 05/04/2023
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"The Latest To Be Evacuated From California's Floods? Bunnies" [45]

"California's record-setting winter is providing a much-needed boost for wildlife, including blooming wildflowers and the fish and ducks that depend on thriving rivers and streams. Still, for other animals, the rising waters are perilous. Just ask the bunnies."

Biodiversity [46]
Climate Change [29]
Disasters [22]
Water & Oceans [16]
Wildlife [47]
Public [17]
California [48]
Source: NPR [49], 05/04/2023
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"Famine Still Stalks Somalia" [50]

"New patches of young, bright green growth dot the sandy terrain of Dollow but for the 150,000 Somalis who have left home to seek help in this southern town, the small recent rains are not enough. East Africa's worst drought in 40 years has forced millions of Somalis to leave their homes."

Agriculture [28]
Climate Change [29]
Disasters [22]
Food [30]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
Africa [51]
Source: Reuters [52], 05/03/2023
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"Biden’s Push To Disclose Climate Risks Hits Wall Of Industry Resistance" [53]

"Big business is bucking Biden’s efforts to use SEC rules and the purchasing power of the U.S. government to reveal and reduce climate emissions".

Climate Change [29]
Consumer [10]
Economy & Business [37]
Environmental Politics [23]
Journalism & Media [31]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Washington Post [54], 05/03/2023
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"How Dust Storms Happen, And Why They’re So Dangerous" [55]

"Dust storms can contribute to massive highway pileups and turn day to night in an instant".

Climate Change [29]
Disasters [22]
Environmental Health [11]
Transportation [25]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Washington Post [56], 05/03/2023
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"Outrage Over Fresh Chemical Leak At Shell Plastics Plant" [57]

"When Shell Chemical Appalachia announced the start of a massive plastics manufacturing facility last November in western Pennsylvania, [it] ... touted the company’s “strong and innovative safety focus.” But now, just six months later, the plant has been the site of multiple malfunctions, including the leakage of benzene, a known carcinogen, along with other pollutants last month."

Chemicals [21]
Energy & Fuel [58]
Environmental Health [11]
Pollution [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [59]
Source: The New Lede [60], 05/03/2023
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Enviros Want FTC Green Guides to Shun ‘Chemical’ Recycling of Plastic Waste [61]

"The plastics industry says heating and treating plastic waste with chemicals enables it to make new plastics. But environmentalists say that process, emitting large amounts of climate and air pollution, isn’t recycling and isn’t green."

Air [62]
Chemicals [21]
Energy & Fuel [58]
Environmental Health [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [15]
Waste [63]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Inside Climate News [64], 05/03/2023
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"Climate-Hit Wetlands Lay Bare Britain's Biodiversity Struggle" [65]

"As seagulls circled above and tourists watched in confusion, Duncan Holmes steered his boat through thousands of dead fish bobbing at the surface of the River Thurne in east England."

Biodiversity [46]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [23]
Fish & Fisheries [42]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [38]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
Europe [66]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [67], 05/03/2023
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"The FCC Is Supposed to Protect the Environment. It Doesn’t." [68]

"The agency is mandated to safeguard the environment from damage caused by communication infrastructure. But when companies want to add new cell phone towers, build on protected land or launch satellites, the agency typically does little or nothing."

Biodiversity [46]
Economy & Business [37]
Environmental Politics [23]
Infrastructure [24]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [38]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: ProPublica [69], 05/03/2023
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"Google Promised to Defund Climate Lies, but the Ads Keep Coming" [70]

"In October 2021, Google promised to stop placing ads alongside content that denied the existence and causes of climate change, so that purveyors of the false claims could no longer make money on its platforms, including YouTube."

Climate Change [29]
Environmental Politics [23]
Journalism & Media [31]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [71], 05/03/2023
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