EJToday: Top Headlines

"Why Is Climate Denial Still Thriving Online?" [9]

"An extreme global heat wave has been blamed on climate change, yet online misinformation has evolved to counter the facts — despite platforms like TikTok banning climate denial."

Climate Change [10]
Journalism & Media [11]
Science [12]
Public [13]
International [14]
Source: DW [15], 07/12/2023
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Cities Make Made Plans For Extreme Heat. Are They Enough In A Warming World? [16]

"Natural disasters can be dramatic — barreling hurricanes, building-toppling tornadoes — but heat is more deadly. Chicago learned that the hard way in 1995. That July, a weeklong heat wave that hit 106 degrees Fahrenheit (41 degrees Celsius) killed more than 700 people."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [17]
Environmental Health [18]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: AP [20], 07/12/2023
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"Flash Floods Rage In Vermont, New York; 50 Rescued By Swift Boat" [21]

"Torrential downpours unleashed flash floods on the U.S. Northeast on Monday that washed out roadways, overwhelmed rivers, prompted 50 swift boat rescues and killed a woman who was swept away in front of her fiancé, officials said."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [17]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [13]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [23]
Source: Reuters [24], 07/11/2023
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"Heat Stress Deaths Show Europe Isn’t Ready For Climate Change" [25]

"More than 60,000 people died as a result of record-breaking temperatures in Europe last summer, a study has found, raising concerns about multiple countries’ lack of preparation for extreme heat fueled by climate change."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [17]
Environmental Health [18]
Public [13]
Europe [26]
Source: Bloomberg [27], 07/11/2023
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"U.S. Carbon Emissions Fall For First Time In Biden Era" [28]

"Global carbon dioxide emissions were roughly flat through the first five months of the year, with rising greenhouse gas production from China and India offsetting deep declines in emissions from the United States and Europe."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Pollution [30]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [14]
Source: E&E News [31], 07/11/2023
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"EPA: Cleaning Product Chemical Poses Cancer Threats" [32]

"EPA has found that a dangerous chemical prevalent in drinking water poses more risks than previously determined, including outsize cancer threats."

Chemicals [33]
Consumer [34]
Economy & Business [35]
Environmental Health [18]
Laws & Regulations [36]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [37], 07/11/2023
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U.S. Banned Use of Brain-Harming Pesticide on Food -- But Slowed a Global Ban [38]

"Chlorpyrifos is so harmful that America banned its use on food. But a top EPA official made it clear that the U.S. was not ready to support similar protections for the rest of the world under a treaty that restricts pollutants that travel the globe."

Agriculture [39]
Chemicals [33]
Consumer [34]
Environmental Health [18]
Laws & Regulations [36]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [14]
Source: ProPublica [40], 07/11/2023
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Alabama Black Belt Case Tests Whether Sanitation Is a Civil Right [41]

"The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice recently announced that Alabama had agreed to remediate a sewage crisis in majority-Black Lowndes County."

Consumer [34]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Justice [42]
Laws & Regulations [36]
Pollution [30]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [43]
Source: Birmingham News [44], 07/11/2023
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"Tracing Mining’s Threat to U.S. Waters" [45]

"Environmental concerns are raised anew about potential contamination from Canadian open-pit mines flowing through the waterways into Montana’s lakes, harming fish."

Environmental Health [18]
Laws & Regulations [36]
Natural Resources [46]
Pollution [30]
Waste [47]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [19]
Canada [48]
Source: NYTimes [49], 07/11/2023
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A Racist Past And Hotter Future Testing Western Water Like Never Before [50]

"As droughts strain water supplies across Western states, some cities and farmers have struggled with mandatory cutbacks. Determining who gets cut is decided by the foundational pecking order of Western water: the older your claim to water, created as the country expanded westward, the better protected it is."

Agriculture [39]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Justice [42]
Laws & Regulations [36]
Natural Resources [46]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: NPR [51], 07/11/2023
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"Biden Admin Announces $650 Million To Plug Orphaned Gas And Oil Wells" [52]

"The Interior Department announced Monday more than $650 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to plug abandoned oil and gas wells."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Health [18]
Infrastructure [53]
Pollution [30]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: The Hill [54], 07/11/2023
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Oregon Town Buys Surrounding Forests to Confront Climate-Driven Wildfires [55]

"A logger, forester and former mayor joined forces to help Butte Falls manage its forests to protect the town and build an economy supported by tourism rather than logging."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [17]
Forests [56]
Natural Resources [46]
People & Population [57]
Planning & Growth [58]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Inside Climate News [59], 07/11/2023
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"U.S. Truckmakers Reach Deal To Phase Out Polluting Diesel Big Rigs" [60]

"Some of the largest manufacturers of heavy trucks and engines in the country have agreed to accept a California plan to ban sales of new diesel big rigs by 2036 under a deal aimed in part at thwarting potential litigation and maintaining a single national standard for truck pollution rules."

Air [61]
Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [35]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Politics [62]
Laws & Regulations [36]
Pollution [30]
Transportation [63]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Washington Post [64], 07/10/2023
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"Protect This Place: The Montana River Threatened By a Shuttered Pulp Mill" [65]

"Industrial waste from a mill is leaching into the groundwater and polluting the Clark Fork River. A major flood could cause an even bigger catastrophe."

Environmental Health [18]
Fish & Fisheries [66]
Laws & Regulations [36]
Pollution [30]
Water & Oceans [22]
Public [13]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [67]
Source: The Revelator [68], 07/10/2023
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"It’s Toxic Slime Time on Florida’s Lake Okeechobee" [69]

"Huge green blooms are threatening wildlife, pets, people and cities. And algae season is only getting started."

Agriculture [39]
Environmental Health [18]
Infrastructure [53]
Natural Resources [46]
Pollution [30]
Water & Oceans [22]
Wildlife [70]
Public [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [43]
Source: NYTimes [71], 07/10/2023
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