EJToday: Top Headlines

"WSU Researchers Win Historic FDA Approval For Gene-Edited Pork" [9]

"At a barbecue on campus last week, flames licked a set of sausage links as scientist Blake Foraker worked on the perfect grill marks. ... With permission from the Food and Drug Administration, WSU researchers made them from pigs whose DNA has been changed."

Agriculture [10]
Biodiversity [11]
Consumer [12]
Food [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Technology [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: OPB [18], 05/17/2023
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"Cop28 Host UAE’s Approach Is ‘Dangerous’, Says UN’S Ex-Climate Chief" [19]

"The United Arab Emirates’ approach to the Cop28 climate summit it will preside over in November is “very dangerous” and a “direct threat to the survival of vulnerable nations”, according to the UN’s former climate chief."

Climate Change [20]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Politics [22]
Public [16]
International [23]
Source: Guardian [24], 05/17/2023
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"Goodbye, Fish And Chips? New England Haddock Imperiled By Overfishing" [25]

"A staple seafood species caught by East Coast fishers for centuries is experiencing overfishing, and regulators have cut catch quotas by more than 80% to prevent the fish’s population from collapse. Haddock are one of the most popular Atlantic fish, and a favorite for fish and chips and other New England seafood dishes."

Biodiversity [11]
Consumer [12]
Fish & Fisheries [26]
Food [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [28]
Source: AP [29], 05/17/2023
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"Can the World Make an Electric Car Battery Without China?" [30]

"It is one of the defining competitions of our age: The countries that can make batteries for electric cars will reap decades of economic and geopolitical advantages. The only winner so far is China."

Chemicals [31]
Climate Change [20]
Economy & Business [32]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Natural Resources [33]
Public [16]
International [23]
Source: NYTimes [34], 05/17/2023
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"US Approves Emergency Use Of Bird Flu Vaccine To Save California Condors" [35]

"U.S. officials on Tuesday announced the emergency use of a bird flu vaccine to protect the California condor, a critically endangered and magnificent animal that has already bounced back once from the brink of extinction."

Biodiversity [11]
Environmental Health [36]
Wildlife [37]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Reuters [38], 05/17/2023
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Communities Of Color Disproportionately Exposed To PFAS In Drinking Water [39]

"Residents of communities with bigger Black and Hispanic populations are more likely to be exposed to harmful levels of “forever chemicals” in their water supplies, a new study has found."

Chemicals [31]
Consumer [12]
Environmental Health [36]
Environmental Justice [40]
Pollution [41]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: The Hill [42], 05/17/2023
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"Burning Man Becomes Latest Adversary in Geothermal Feud" [43]

"Festival organizers are trying to block plans to build a clean energy plant in the Nevada desert, highlighting the struggle to combat climate change and the cost of clean power."

"One of the darkest towns in America lies roughly 100 miles north of Reno, where the lights are few and rarely lit until one week each summer when pyrotechnics and LEDs set the sky and mountains aglow.
Climate Change [20]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Politics [22]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [33]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [44]
Source: NYTimes [45], 05/17/2023
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"Biden Nominates National Cancer Institute Director To Lead NIH" [46]

"President Biden on Monday nominated cancer surgeon Monica M. Bertagnolli to be head of the National Institutes of Health, seeking to fill the leadership role atop the $46 billion health agency that has sat empty for more than a year."

Environmental Health [36]
Environmental Politics [22]
Government [47]
Science [48]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Washington Post [49], 05/16/2023
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"Wind Is Main Source of UK Electricity for First Time" [50]

"Wind turbines have generated more electricity than gas for the first time in the UK.

In the first three months of this year a third of the country's electricity came from wind farms, research from Imperial College London has shown.

National Grid has also confirmed that April saw a record period of solar energy generation.

By 2035 the UK aims for all of its electricity to have net zero emissions."

Esme Stallard reports for BBC News May 12, 2023. [51]

Climate Change [20]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Public [16]
Europe [52]
Source: BBC News [51], 05/16/2023
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"EPA Looks To Toss ‘Deceptive’ Plastics Recycling Symbol" [53]

"EPA is urging the Federal Trade Commission to ditch the iconic chasing arrows recycling symbol for plastics, a move the environmental agency says will help prevent more plastic material from entering landfills and incinerators."

Chemicals [31]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Waste [54]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [55], 05/16/2023
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Ads Claiming Products Are Carbon Neutral By Using Offsetting Face UK Ban [56]

"Adverts that claim products are carbon neutral using offsets are to be banned by the UK’s advertising watchdog unless companies can prove they really work, the Guardian can reveal, as Gucci becomes the latest company to struggle with a high-profile environmental commitment based on offsetting."

Climate Change [20]
Consumer [12]
Environmental Politics [22]
Journalism & Media [57]
Public [16]
Europe [52]
Source: Guardian [58], 05/16/2023
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"Intensive Farming Is Biggest Cause Of Bird Decline In Europe, Study Says" [59]

"The use of pesticides and fertilisers in intensive agriculture is the biggest cause of the dwindling number of birds in the UK and the rest of Europe, scientists have said."

Agriculture [10]
Biodiversity [11]
Chemicals [31]
Wildlife [37]
Public [16]
Europe [52]
Source: Guardian [60], 05/16/2023
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"Exxon Targets Standing in Largest-Ever Citizen Lawsuit Penalty" [61]

"Exxon Mobil Corp. and environmental groups will square off once again in circuit court on Tuesday in a 13-year-old lawsuit over pollution from the energy giant’s Baytown, Texas, refinery."

Chemicals [31]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Justice [40]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [62]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [63], 05/16/2023
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Maker Of Graphite For Batteries Plans $800 Million Factory in SW Georgia [64]

"A company that’s trying to become a major American-based supplier of graphite for electric batteries announced Monday it will invest $800 million to build a factory in southwest Georgia, hiring 400 workers."

Climate Change [20]
Economy & Business [32]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [65]
Source: AP [66], 05/16/2023
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Transportation ‘Revolution’? How The Infrastructure Law Fuels Freeways [67]

"The Biden administration is supporting a nearly $10 billion highway expansion in Houston that ignited a yearlong debate about its climate effects and the demolition of almost 1,000 homes."

Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Justice [40]
Environmental Politics [22]
Infrastructure [68]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Transportation [69]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [62]
Source: E&E News [70], 05/16/2023
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