EJToday: Top Headlines

"'Dangerous' Tunisian Droughts Threaten Food Security" [9]

"Three years of drought have dried up Tunisian reservoirs, threatening harvests that are critical to the North African country's battered economy and pushing the government to raise tap water prices for homes and businesses."

Agriculture [10]
Climate Change [11]
Disasters [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
Africa [15]
Source: Reuters [16], 01/12/2023
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"Where the Bison Could Roam" [17]

"Bison once numbered in the tens of millions in the United States. Now, a nonprofit is working to restore the shortgrass prairie, where the American icons and their ecosystem can thrive again."

Biodiversity [18]
Natural Resources [19]
Wildlife [20]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: NYTimes [22], 01/12/2023
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California Death Toll Reaches 17 As Floods And Extreme Wind Wreak Havoc [23]

"The latest in a series of intense winter storms continued to lash Northern California on Tuesday, bringing thunderstorms, heavy rain, wind and hail to the waterlogged region as the death toll from the extreme weather climbs."

Agriculture [10]
Climate Change [11]
Consumer [24]
Disasters [12]
Infrastructure [25]
Transportation [26]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
California [27]
Source: LA Times [28], 01/11/2023
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"Governments Urged To Confront Effects Of Climate Crisis On Migrants" [29]

"Governments must get to grips with the links between the climate crisis and the plight of migrants around the world, experts have said, as increasingly extreme weather is a mounting danger to already vulnerable displaced people, and is potentially pushing more people to flee their homes."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [12]
People & Population [30]
Public [14]
International [31]
Source: Guardian [32], 01/11/2023
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"N.Y. Weighs East Coast’s First Statewide Building Gas Ban" [33]

"New York’s Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul called yesterday for the nation’s most aggressive ban on fossil fuels in new buildings, setting the stage for a possible showdown with the gas industry and state lawmakers."

Climate Change [11]
Consumer [24]
Energy & Fuel [34]
Laws & Regulations [35]
Public [14]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [36]
Source: E&E News [37], 01/11/2023
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Reversing Trump, White House Moves To Weigh Climate In Infrastructure [38]

"Federal regulators have been instructed to consider planet-warming pollution before approving large projects like pipelines and airports."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [34]
Environmental Politics [39]
Environmental Studies [40]
Infrastructure [25]
Laws & Regulations [35]
Transportation [26]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: HuffPost [41], 01/11/2023
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"U.S. Sets Up Office To Oversee Abandoned Oil Well Cleanup" [42]

"U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland on Tuesday issued an order to establish an office to ensure efficient use of the Biden administration's $4.7 billion investment in the cleanup of abandoned oil and gas wells."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [34]
Government [43]
Infrastructure [25]
Pollution [44]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Reuters [45], 01/11/2023
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"Climate Deniers Try to 'Fact Check' Real Reporting" [46]

"A prominent group of deniers with a history of dark money benefactors is now trying to claim media is biased, thanks to new funding."

Climate Change [11]
Environmental Politics [39]
Journalism & Media [47]
Science [48]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Earther [49], 01/11/2023
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"Critic Of Fossil Fuels To Lead Key Offshore Oil Agency For Biden" [50]

"The Biden administration is using a new opening at a powerful offshore energy agency to elevate a critic of fossil fuels who previously was blocked from a top Interior Department job because of opposition from oil industry allies in the Senate."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [34]
Environmental Politics [39]
Government [43]
Infrastructure [25]
Laws & Regulations [35]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Washington Post [51], 01/11/2023
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"EPA Urges Groups to Apply for Record Environmental Equity Grants" [52]

"The EPA invited environmental justice advocates, communities, and other groups on Tuesday to apply for $100 million in environmental justice grants, a record amount provided under last year’s climate law."

Environmental Justice [53]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [54], 01/11/2023
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"Extreme Weather Caused 18 Disasters In US Last Year, Costing $165Bn" [55]

"The US endured a particularly painful year as communities wrestled with the growing impacts of the climate crisis, with 18 major disasters wreaking havoc across the country as planet-heating emissions continued to climb."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [12]
Economy & Business [56]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Guardian [57], 01/11/2023
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The New Soldiers in Propane’s Fight Against Climate Action: TV Stars [58]

"For D.I.Y. enthusiasts, Matt Blashaw is a familiar face, judging bathroom remodels or planning surprise home makeovers on popular cable television shows. Mr. Blashaw also has an unusually strong opinion about how Americans should heat their homes: by burning propane, or liquid petroleum gas."

Climate Change [11]
Consumer [24]
Economy & Business [56]
Energy & Fuel [34]
Environmental Politics [39]
Journalism & Media [47]
Laws & Regulations [35]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: NYTimes [59], 01/11/2023
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"UN Says Ozone Layer Slowly Healing, Hole To Mend By 2066" [60]

"Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says."

Air [61]
Chemicals [62]
Natural Resources [19]
Pollution [44]
Public [14]
International [31]
Source: AP [63], 01/10/2023
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Grijalva Blasts House Rules Package For Making Public Land Transfers Easier [64]

"The top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee blasted a provision in the proposed House rules package that would make it easier to transfer public lands, calling it an indication the new GOP majority intends to pursue a broadly pro-industry agenda."

Environmental Politics [39]
Laws & Regulations [35]
Natural Resources [19]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: The Hill [65], 01/10/2023
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"EPA, Pipeline Operator Reach Deal To Clean Up Kansas Spill" [66]

"The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it has reached an agreement with a pipeline operator to clean up a spill that dumped 14,000 bathtubs’ worth of crude oil into a rural Kansas creek."

Disasters [12]
Energy & Fuel [34]
Pollution [44]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [67]
Source: AP [68], 01/10/2023
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