EJToday: Top Headlines

"States Are Tackling Climate, Using Federal Cash as Congress Lags" [9]

"State legislatures around the country have shown a burst of reception for bills that lower carbon emissions, and they’re turning to funding from last year’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure law."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [15], 06/02/2022
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"UN Chief Worries Ukraine War Overshadowing Climate Fight" [16]

"U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday warned that the Ukraine war is diverting attention away from climate change, while at the same time showcasing the world’s “suicidal” dependence on fossil fuels."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Military [17]
Public [13]
International [18]
Source: AP [19], 06/02/2022
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"Pressure Growing To Remove PFAS From Fast Food Wrappers" [20]

"Brenda Hampton first came across the toxic industrial compound PFAS after finding it was part of the cocktail of contaminants that tainted the drinking water in her North Alabama community."

Chemicals [21]
Consumer [22]
Environmental Health [23]
Food [24]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: AP [25], 06/02/2022
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"Indian Heatwaves Threaten Maternal And Baby Health" [26]

"Soaring temperatures can lead to more preterm and stillbirths. But experts say awareness of the risk of heat during pregnancy is low, with more research needed into impacts on the world's most vulnerable women."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [23]
Public [13]
Asia [27]
Source: DW [28], 06/02/2022
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"Coalition Scrapped Recovery Plans For 176 Threatened Species And Habitats" [29]

"Recovery plans designed to prevent the extinction of almost 180 threatened species and habitats, including the Tasmanian devil, were scrapped by the Coalition in one of Sussan Ley’s final acts as environment minister."

Biodiversity [30]
Environmental Politics [31]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [32]
Wildlife [33]
Public [13]
Australia & Oceania [34]
Source: Guardian [35], 06/02/2022
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"US Agrees To Update Critical Habitat For Florida Manatees" [36]

"U.S. wildlife officials have agreed to revise the critical habitat designation for Florida manatees, which have been dying in record numbers because water pollution is killing a main food source."

Biodiversity [30]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [31]
Food [24]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Water & Oceans [37]
Wildlife [33]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [38]
Source: AP [39], 06/02/2022
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"Biden Wants To Rebuild The EPA. He Doesn’t Have The Money To Do It." [40]

"After years of neglect, President Biden promised to reinvigorate the EPA as part of his push to tackle climate change and ease the pollution burden placed on poor and minority communities. But the agency’s budgetary woes are preventing the nation’s top pollution regulator from doing its job, in ways large and small."

Chemicals [21]
Economy & Business [41]
Environmental Health [23]
Government [42]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Washington Post [43], 06/01/2022
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"Miracle Fuel Hydrogen Can Actually Make Climate Change Worse" [44]

"A world desperate for a climate-friendly fuel is pinning its hopes on hydrogen, seeing it as a way to power factories, buildings, ships and planes without pumping carbon dioxide into the sky. But now scientists are warning that hydrogen leaked into the atmosphere can contribute to climate change much like carbon."

Air [45]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Public [13]
International [18]
Source: Bloomberg Green [46], 06/01/2022
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"Did Joe Manchin Block Climate Action To Benefit His Financial Interests?" [47]

"Recent revelations that Democratic West Virginian senator quietly made millions from his coal business could come back to haunt him as he eyes a run for re-election".

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [41]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [31]
Government [42]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Guardian [48], 06/01/2022
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"Experts: Everything Points To Another Busy Hurricane Season" [49]

"Nearly every natural force and a bunch of human-caused ones — more than just climate change — have turned the last several Atlantic hurricane seasons into deadly and expensive whoppers. The season that starts Wednesday looks like another note in a record-breaking refrain because all those ingredients for disaster are still going strong, experts warn."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [50]
Water & Oceans [37]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: AP [51], 06/01/2022
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"EPA Staff: No Need To Tighten Soot Limits" [52]

"EPA air quality specialists are again discounting the need for tighter daily limits on soot exposure — a rebuff to the majority findings of an agency advisory committee in the high-profile regulatory review."

Air [45]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [23]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [53]
Science [54]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: E&E News [55], 06/01/2022
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"Trump EPA Head Pushed Agents To Speed, Run Sirens" [56]

"Former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt prodded his security agents to drive recklessly and turn on emergency lights and sirens to maneuver around traffic in the nation’s capital."

Environmental Politics [31]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: E&E News [57], 06/01/2022
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"The Paradox of Salmon Hatcheries" [58]

"The golden dream of hatcheries was to make more fish. The reality is much more complicated."

Fish & Fisheries [59]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Canada [60]
Source: Hakai [61], 06/01/2022
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Year of the Tiger: Illegal Trade Thrives Amid Efforts To Save Wild Tigers [62]

"As the world celebrates the Year of the Tiger in 2022, humans continue to threaten the cat’s long-term survival in the wild: killing, buying and selling tigers and their prey, and encroaching into their last shreds of habitat. That’s why they are Earth’s most endangered big cat."

Biodiversity [30]
Wildlife [33]
Public [13]
International [18]
Source: Mongabay [63], 06/01/2022
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Pentagon Reports High Levels Of PFAS In Drinking Water Near Bases [64]

"The Defense Department is reporting high levels of toxic perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water near several of its bases, according to new data released by the department."

Chemicals [21]
Consumer [22]
Environmental Health [23]
Military [17]
Pollution [53]
Water & Oceans [37]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: The Hill [65], 06/01/2022
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