EJToday: Top Headlines

Oil Companies Contaminated a Family Farm. Regulators Let Them Walk Away. [9]

"The oil and gas industry has reaped profits without ensuring there will be money to plug and clean up their wells. In Oklahoma, that work could cost more than $7 billion if it falls to the state."

Disasters [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [17]
Source: ProPublica/Capital & Main [18], 05/07/2024
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"Smothered by Seaweed: Sargassum Wreaks Havoc on Caribbean Ecosystems" [19]

"Its growth driven to epic levels by climate change and fertilizer runoff, sargassum puts dozens of species — and people — at risk."

Biodiversity [20]
Climate Change [21]
Disasters [10]
Natural Resources [22]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [15]
Central America & the Caribbean [24]
Source: The Revelator [25], 05/07/2024
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"Chinese Fishing Fleets In Indian Ocean Accused Of Abuses" [26]

"A recent investigation has revealed evidence that China's distant-water fishing fleet, the world's biggest in scale, commits environmental and labor abuses in the southwest Indian Ocean off the coast of East Africa."

Environmental Justice [27]
Fish & Fisheries [28]
People & Population [29]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [15]
International [30]
Source: DW [31], 05/07/2024
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"Kentucky Republicans Split Over Renewed Law to Prop Up Costly Coal Plants" [32]

"Last month, one of the nation’s top Republican donors became a flashpoint in a debate over the outsized power coal has in the state of Kentucky."

Climate Change [21]
Economy & Business [33]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [34]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [22]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [35]
Source: Sierra [36], 05/07/2024
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"EPA Finally Takes On Abandoned Coal Ash Ponds — But It Might Be Too Late" [37]

"The new rule builds on a landmark 2015 rule prohibiting coal ash from being permanently stored in places where it comes into contact with groundwater. This was meant to reform the widespread practice of creating so-called coal ash ponds where the toxin is stored in a wet slurry. While at that time the EPA only applied the rule to coal plants in active use, the new rule will require the cleanup of hundreds of “legacy” coal ash ponds."

Chemicals [38]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [14]
Waste [39]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Grist [40], 05/07/2024
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"The World’s Garment Workers Are On The Front Lines Of Climate Impacts" [41]

"Fast fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Its global workforce is paying the price."

Climate Change [21]
Consumer [42]
Economy & Business [33]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [34]
People & Population [29]
Public [15]
International [30]
Asia [43]
Source: Grist [44], 05/07/2024
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U.S. Oil and Gas Production Is Booming. So Are Donations to GOP Allies [45]

"August Pfluger, an Air Force veteran and member of the U.S. House representing a small district in West Texas, isn’t exactly a household name on the national political scene, with little press coverage in the last two months outside a recent Fox News appearance. But he is the country’s top recipient of campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry".

Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [34]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [17]
Source: Capital & Main [46], 05/07/2024
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"Quinault Nation's Move To Higher Ground" [47]

"Tribal community plans a village that’s ‘as resilient as possible’"

Climate Change [21]
Disasters [10]
Infrastructure [48]
Natural Resources [22]
People & Population [29]
Planning & Growth [49]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Northwest (OR WA) [50]
Source: ICT [51], 05/07/2024
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"Tiny Central Coast Newsroom Lookout Santa Cruz Wins Pulitzer Prize" [52]

"As legacy publications celebrated their Pulitzer Prize wins Monday, bottles of champagne were also uncorked at Lookout Santa Cruz, a fledgling 10-person newsroom based on the second floor of a former bank on Santa Cruz’s quiet, tree-lined Pacific Avenue."

Climate Change [21]
Disasters [10]
Journalism & Media [53]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
California [54]
Source: LA Times [55], 05/07/2024
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"EPA Proposes Ban on Pesticide Widely Used on Fruits and Vegetables" [56]

"The ban on acephate comes a week after a ProPublica investigation highlighted the EPA’s controversial finding that the bug killer doesn’t harm the developing brains of children."

Agriculture [57]
Chemicals [38]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: ProPublica [58], 05/06/2024
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"5 Takeaways From Competing Democratic, GOP Farm Bill Plans" [59]

"House Republicans and Democrats have released two dueling visions for the farm bill, the massive $1.5 trillion omnibus that underpins the U.S. food system."

Agriculture [57]
Climate Change [21]
Consumer [42]
Food [60]
Forests [61]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [22]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: The Hill [62], 05/06/2024
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Arizona Boosts Protections From Extreme Heat After 100s Died Last Summer [63]

"Arizona’s new heat officer said Friday that he is working with local governments and nonprofit groups to open more cooling centers and ensure homes have working air conditioners this summer in a more unified effort to prevent another ghastly toll of heat-related deaths, which topped 900 statewide last year."

Climate Change [21]
Disasters [10]
Environmental Health [12]
People & Population [29]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [17]
Source: AP [64], 05/06/2024
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"Climate Change-Driven Insurance Crisis Threatens New US States" [65]

"After major providers quit California, Florida, and Louisiana, insurers are starting to pull back in other U.S. states, leaving homeowners struggling to find affordable cover for the risk of being hit by floods, wildfires or hurricanes."

Climate Change [21]
Disasters [10]
Economy & Business [33]
Infrastructure [48]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [66], 05/06/2024
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Historic Pact Gives Colorado River Tribes Control Over Use of Their Water [67]

"The deal will help the tribe raise money for infrastructure and services for its members while the water could ease the drought in the Southwest."

Agriculture [57]
Climate Change [21]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [27]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [22]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Inside Climate News [68], 05/06/2024
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CA Battle to Prioritize Public Health over Oil Company Profits Heats Up [69]

"On a dreary afternoon in January, a geyser of oily water shot over the fence of an oil and gas company in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Wilmington, splattering the street, cars and a local coffee shop with petroleum just a block away from Ashley Hernandez’s house."

Air [70]
Chemicals [38]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [27]
Pollution [14]
Public [15]
California [54]
Source: Inside Climate News [71], 05/06/2024
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