EJToday: Top Headlines

"Facing Disastrous Floods, They Turned to Mangrove Trees for Protection" [9]

"In the Sundarbans, an ecological treasure straddling India and Bangladesh that is now on the front lines of climate change, local women are leading an effort to mitigate the dangers of rising waters."

Activism [10]
Climate Change [11]
Forests [12]
Natural Resources [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
Asia [16]
Source: NYTimes [17], 04/12/2022
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"EPA Launches Civil Rights Inquiry Into Louisiana Agencies" [18]

"EPA will probe alleged racial discrimination by two Louisiana agencies in a predominantly Black area, a senior official confirmed this week."

Chemicals [19]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [21]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Pollution [23]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: E&E News [25], 04/11/2022
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"How Texas' Energy Woes Are Derailing Life In This Houston Neighborhood" [26]

"Residents of Houston’s diverse Southwest Crossing are getting an unwelcome new neighbor: a propane storage facility."

Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [21]
Public [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [28]
Source: HuffPost [29], 04/11/2022
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"2 Bald Eagles In Vermont Found Infected With Avian Influenza" [30]

"Two bald eagles in the state were found to be infected with avian influenza, the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife says."

Agriculture [31]
Biodiversity [32]
Environmental Health [20]
Wildlife [33]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Associated Press [34], 04/11/2022
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Biomass Power Plant In Rural N.C. Ignites Environmental Justice Concerns [35]

"The plant has applied for a new operating permit. But residents and environmental advocates say pollution from the plant would increase the burden of an already environmentally stressed community."

"A North Carolina power plant that generates electricity from poultry waste and wood chips has touched off a controversy over an operating permit that, if granted, would imperil public health and wellbeing, residents and environmental advocates in the surrounding community say.
Agriculture [31]
Air [36]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [21]
Pollution [23]
Public [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [37]
Source: Inside Climate News [38], 04/11/2022
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Behind Trudeau Government’s OK of Bay du Nord Offshore Oil Development [39]

"Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault greenlit Newfoundland’s first deepwater oil and gas development project. Questions remain about how that decision was made".

Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Politics [40]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Public [15]
Canada [41]
Source: The Narwhal [42], 04/11/2022
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Big Oil Companies Are Using Wartime Profits To Enrich Investors: Report [43]

"The nation’s biggest oil and gas companies have significantly increased stock buybacks and dividends since Russia invaded Ukraine in late February, raising questions about whether the firms are using wartime profits to enrich investors instead of curbing Americans’ pain at the pump, three liberal advocacy groups write in a new report shared exclusively with The Climate 202."

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [44]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Politics [40]
Military [45]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Washington Post [46], 04/11/2022
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"A ‘New Era of Air Pollution’ in the Tropics Could Have a Huge Toll" [47]

"Urban air pollution in the tropics is rapidly increasing and will lead to hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths if stronger regulations are not put in place, according to a new study."

Air [36]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Pollution [23]
Public [15]
International [48]
Source: NYTimes [49], 04/11/2022
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"Dutch Watchdog Rules KLM’s ‘Carbon Zero’ Ad Is Misleading" [50]

"The Dutch advertising watchdog ruled that a KLM promotion telling customers they could fly carbon-emission free is misleading."

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [44]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Politics [40]
Journalism & Media [51]
Transportation [52]
Public [15]
Europe [53]
Source: Bloomberg Green [54], 04/11/2022
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"Iraqis Clean Up River As First Green Projects Take Root" [55]

"Garbage clogs the banks of Iraq's Tigris River in Baghdad but an army of young volunteers is cleaning it, a rare environmental project in the war-battered country."

Activism [10]
People & Population [56]
Pollution [23]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
Middle East [57]
Source: AFP [58], 04/11/2022
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"Why ‘Eco-Conscious’ Fashion Brands Can Continue To Increase Emissions" [59]

"Fashion accounts for 10% of the world’s carbon emissions and is the second-most polluting industry in the world. But in an increasingly climate-conscious society, it is increasingly trying to present itself as sustainable to appeal to customers."

Biodiversity [32]
Climate Change [11]
Journalism & Media [51]
Wildlife [33]
Public [15]
International [48]
Source: Guardian [60], 04/11/2022
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"NOAA: Potent Heat-Trapping Methane Increases At Record Pace" [61]

"Global atmospheric levels of the potent but short-lived greenhouse gas methane increased a record amount last year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday, worrying scientists because of the large role methane has in climate change."

Air [36]
Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Pollution [23]
Public [15]
International [48]
Source: AP [62], 04/08/2022
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"Forecasters Predict Above-Average 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season" [63]

"An above-average Atlantic hurricane season is once again likely in 2022, the Colorado State University (CSU) hurricane forecasting team says in its latest seasonal forecast, issued April 7. In fact, last year’s hyperactive 2021 season is one of the top analogues."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [64]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: YaleE360 [65], 04/08/2022
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"Bringing Back Fire: How Burning Can Help Restore Eastern Lands" [66]

"For millennia, North American ecosystems benefited from fire, mostly set by Indigenous people. Now, a movement is growing, particularly in the eastern U.S., to reintroduce controlled burns to forests and grasslands and restore the role of fire in creating biodiverse landscapes."

Forests [12]
Natural Resources [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: YaleE360 [67], 04/08/2022
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"Pollution Shields for Faulty Plants Need Better Fix, Groups Say" [68]

"The Biden administration proposed last week to scrap an exemption for accidental pollution releases, a step environmentalists insist is only one of many needed to close multiple emission shields for industry."

Chemicals [19]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Health [20]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Pollution [23]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [69], 04/08/2022
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