EJToday: Top Headlines

"Countries Still Far Apart On COP29 Finance Goal" [9]

"With less than three months until this year's COP29 UN climate negotiations, countries remain far from agreement on the summit's biggest task: to agree a new funding target to help developing countries cope with climate change."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
International [14]
Source: Reuters [15], 09/03/2024
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"Brazil's Amazon Rainforest Fires In August Reach 14-Year High" [16]

"The number of fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region for the month of August surged to the highest level since 2010, government data showed on Sunday, after a record drought that has been plaguing the biome."

Agriculture [17]
Biodiversity [18]
Climate Change [10]
Forests [19]
Natural Resources [20]
Pollution [21]
Public [13]
South America [22]
Source: Reuters [23], 09/03/2024
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"The Rural Americans Too Poor for Federal Flood Protections" [24]

"On the day he would become homeless, Wesley Bryant was awoken by his wife, Alexis. “Get up,” she told him. “There’s a flood outside.”"

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [25]
Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [11]
People & Population [28]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [30]
Source: Daily Yonder/Climate Central [31], 09/03/2024
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Indigenous Cultural Fire Practitioner Sees Beyond Park Fire Destruction [32]

"California’s latest historic wildfire serves as a stark reminder of the regenerative promise of Indigenous cultural burning, practitioners say."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [25]
Forests [19]
Natural Resources [20]
People & Population [28]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [30]
California [33]
Source: Inside Climate News [34], 09/03/2024
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Navajo Nation Strengthens Law On Transportation Of Uranium Across Its Land [35]

"The Navajo Nation has approved emergency legislation meant to strengthen a tribal law that regulates the transportation of radioactive material across the largest Native American reservation in the U.S."

Chemicals [36]
Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [20]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [37]
Pollution [21]
Waste [38]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [30]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [39]
Source: AP [40], 09/03/2024
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Climate Change Can Cause Bridges to ‘Fall Apart Like Tinkertoys,’ Experts Say [41]

"Extreme heat and flooding are accelerating the deterioration of bridges, engineers say, posting a quiet but growing threat."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [25]
Infrastructure [42]
Transportation [43]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [30]
Source: NYTimes [44], 09/03/2024
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"Too Hot For Trout: Why Some Fly Fishers Are Rethinking Their Approach [45]

"In the early season, when the rivers are still running high and cool from snowmelt, KynsLee Scott loves trout fishing. As a fishing guide and conservationist, her life revolves around it, she says, standing in the shade of tall pines on the banks of the Blackfoot River."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [26]
Fish & Fisheries [46]
Natural Resources [20]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [30]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [47]
Source: NPR [48], 09/03/2024
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"Former Nevada Official Gets Life Sentence For Murder Of Reporter" [49]

"A Las Vegas, Nevada, jury on Wednesday found a former elected county official guilty of killing an investigative reporter who wrote critical articles about him, sentencing him to life in prison with eligibility for parole after 20 years."

Journalism & Media [50]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [30]
Source: Reuters [51], 08/30/2024
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"Haaland Revokes Trump Orders, Protects 28M Alaska Acres" [52]

"Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has revoked a Trump-era decision that would have opened millions of acres of federal land in Alaska to energy development and mining."

Energy & Fuel [53]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [20]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [30]
Alaska and Hawaii [54]
Source: E&E News [55], 08/30/2024
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EPA Rejects Plastics Industry’s Misleading Math About Recycled Content [56]

"The plastics industry uses a controversial accounting method to inflate the recycled content it advertises in products. A new EPA policy won’t allow it for any products it endorses as a “Safer Choice.”"

Chemicals [36]
Consumer [57]
Energy & Fuel [53]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [21]
Waste [38]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [30]
Source: ProPublica [58], 08/30/2024
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"Seabed Mining Leader Vows To Investigate Predecessor" [59]

"One of Leticia Reis de Carvalho’s top priorities when she steps up in four months to lead an international agency overseeing deep-sea mining for electric vehicle battery metals: investigating her predecessor."

Energy & Fuel [53]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [20]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [13]
International [14]
Source: E&E News [60], 08/30/2024
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Kennedy Says Trump Will ‘Make Americans Healthy.’ The Record Disagrees. [61]

"As president, Donald J. Trump slashed protections for clean air and water and weakened school nutrition standards."

Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Justice [27]
Environmental Politics [11]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [30]
Source: NYTimes [62], 08/30/2024
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"Climate-Friendly Meat? Regulators Tighten Scrutiny of Label Buzzwords." [63]

"The new guidelines from the Agriculture Department encourage third-party assessments of environment-related claims, which have come under fire."

Agriculture [17]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [57]
Environmental Health [26]
Environmental Politics [11]
Journalism & Media [50]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [30]
Source: NYTimes [64], 08/30/2024
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As US Appetite for Electricity Grew in Early 2024, So Did Solar Power [65]

"The United States increased its electricity generation from utility-scale solar power by nearly one-third in the first half of this year compared to the same period last year."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [53]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [30]
Source: Inside Climate News [66], 08/30/2024
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"Biden Administration Releases Plan To Expand US West Solar Development" [67]

"The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is considering making 31 million acres of public lands across the western U.S. available for potential solar energy development, according to a proposal published on Thursday."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [53]
Infrastructure [42]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [30]
Source: The Hill [68], 08/30/2024
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