EJToday: Top Headlines

"Global Energy-Related CO2 Emissions Hit Record High In 2023 - IEA" [9]

"Global energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) hit a record high last year, driven partly by increased fossil fuel use in countries where droughts hampered hydropower production, International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Friday."

Chemicals [10]
Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Pollution [13]
Transportation [14]
Public [15]
International [16]
Source: Reuters [17], 03/04/2024
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"Winter Is Warming Almost Everywhere. See How It’s Changed In Your Town." [18]

"As another winter nears its close, we bid farewell to the season of merriment, good cheer and inane arguments about global warming."

Climate Change [11]
People & Population [19]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Washington Post [21], 03/04/2024
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"Solar Geoengineering Proposal Withdrawn At UN Summit" [22]

"A proposal to expand research on solar geoengineering was withdrawn from consideration at the United Nations Environment Assembly on Thursday after nations failed to reach agreement over how to approach the knotty issue of reflecting sunlight away from the Earth."

Climate Change [11]
Technology [23]
Public [15]
International [16]
Source: E&E News [24], 03/04/2024
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FERC: "Biden Names 3 Nominees To Independent Energy Regulator" [25]

"President Biden announced three new nominations to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Thursday, which, if confirmed, would make the independent commission majority Biden appointees."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [26]
Infrastructure [27]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Natural Resources [29]
Pollution [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: The Hill [30], 03/04/2024
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"Court Rulings Give States New Power to Protect Groundwater" [31]

"In the space of a few weeks, judges in Idaho, Nevada and Montana have altered the landscape for conserving dwindling aquifers."

Agriculture [32]
Environmental Politics [26]
Infrastructure [27]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Natural Resources [29]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NYTimes [34], 03/04/2024
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Appeals Court Ruling Could Allow Mine On Oak Flat, Land Sacred To Apaches [35]

"An Apache group that has fought to protect land it considers sacred from a copper mining project in central Arizona suffered a significant blow Friday when a divided federal court panel voted 6-5 to uphold a lower court’s denial of a preliminary injunction to halt the transfer of land for the project."

Activism [36]
Environmental Justice [37]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Natural Resources [29]
People & Population [19]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [38]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [20]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [39]
Source: AP [40], 03/04/2024
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Three Iditarod Champions Vie As Race Kicks Off With Ceremonial Start [41]

"The 2024 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race kicked off with brisk, gusting winds and sunny skies at the race’s ceremonial start in Anchorage on Saturday, amid hundreds of barking sled dogs and thousands of cheering race fans."

Natural Resources [29]
Transportation [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [20]
Alaska and Hawaii [42]
Source: Alaska Public Media [43], 03/04/2024
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"E.P.A. to Exempt Existing Gas Plants From Tough New Rules, for Now" [44]

"Facing intense opposition from major industries and some Democrats, the Biden administration on Thursday said it would delay the most contentious element of its plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions from power plants."

Air [45]
Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [26]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Pollution [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: NYTimes [46], 03/01/2024
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"Watchdog Slams EPA Response To Pet Collar Woes" [47]

"EPA should figure out the risks of pesticide-laced pet collars linked to thousands of injuries, according to an Office of Inspector General report released Thursday."

Biodiversity [48]
Chemicals [10]
Consumer [49]
Environmental Health [50]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: E&E News [51], 03/01/2024
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Blizzard Warning As Storm Packing Up To 10 Feet Of Snow Moves Into Sierra [52]

"Much of the Sierra Nevada was under a blizzard warning Thursday as a storm that forecasters say is shaping up to be the strongest of the season began to blow into the region."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [53]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [20]
California [54]
Source: AP [55], 03/01/2024
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Study Says 2023’s Crazy Atlantic Ocean Heat Foretells Much Hotter World [56]

"Off the charts “crazy” heat in the North Atlantic ocean and record-smashing Antarctic sea ice lows last year are far more severe than what Earth’s supposed to get with current warming levels. They are more like what happens at twice this amount of warming, a new study said."

Climate Change [11]
Science [57]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [15]
International [16]
Source: AP [58], 03/01/2024
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Parties Near Settlement Over Tribal Rights To Colorado River Water [59]

"A Native American tribe with one of the largest outstanding claims to water in the Colorado River basin is closing in on a settlement with more than a dozen parties, putting it on a path to piping water to tens of thousands of tribal members in Arizona who still live without it."

Agriculture [32]
Environmental Justice [37]
Environmental Politics [26]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Natural Resources [29]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: AP [60], 03/01/2024
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"Clothes Washers, Dryers Get Biden Energy Efficiency Upgrade" [61]

"The Biden administration announced final rules on Thursday that impose updated energy efficiency requirements for residential clothes washers and dryers, the latest in a series of appliance standards required by a legal settlement."

Climate Change [11]
Consumer [49]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [62], 03/01/2024
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"Colorado Landowners Sue Oil Company Over Clean-Up Of ‘Orphaned’ Well" [63]

"Group claims oil firms transferred depleted wells to another company which then conspired to avoid clean-up through fraud".

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [50]
Infrastructure [27]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Pollution [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Guardian [64], 03/01/2024
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Invisible Chemical Is Poisoning Thousands Of Unsuspecting Warehouse Workers [65]

"Medical supply warehouses can be a significant source of cancer-causing ethylene oxide emissions. Only one state is doing anything about it."

Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [50]
Environmental Justice [37]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Pollution [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Grist [66], 03/01/2024
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