EJToday: Top Headlines

"This Songbird’s Genes May Show How Climate Change Has Sped Up Evolution" [9]

"Even bird enthusiasts will admit the southwestern willow flycatcher isn’t very flashy. But in studying the DNA of this brownish-olive songbird, scientists say they have found something remarkable: evidence that the endangered bird is adapting at the genetic level to climate change."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [11]
Natural Resources [12]
Wildlife [13]
Public [14]
International [15]
Source: Washington Post [16], 08/24/2023
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"Atop an Underwater Hot Spring, an ‘Octopus Garden’ Thrives" [17]

"The heat, a new study suggests, makes for an ideal breeding ground for these eight-legged animals."

Biodiversity [10]
Natural Resources [12]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [14]
International [15]
Source: NYTimes [19], 08/24/2023
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Biden Revives Rules to Prevent Another Deepwater Horizon Disaster [20]

"The Department of Interior announced on Tuesday that it had reinstated Obama-era safety rules for offshore drilling that were created in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe that killed 11 people and fouled the Gulf of Mexico."

Disasters [21]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Natural Resources [12]
Pollution [24]
Water & Oceans [18]
Wildlife [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: NYTimes [26], 08/23/2023
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"Japan To Release Fukushima Water Into Ocean From Aug. 24" [27]

"Japan said on Tuesday it will start releasing into the sea more than 1 million metric tons of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant on Aug. 24, going ahead with a plan heavily criticised by China."

Fish & Fisheries [28]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [29]
Pollution [24]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [14]
Asia [30]
Source: Reuters [31], 08/23/2023
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"Greece Discovers 18 Charred Bodies As Southern Europe Wildfires Spread" [32]

"Eighteen charred bodies were found in a remote village in northeastern Greece on Tuesday where wildfires have been raging for days, the fire brigade said, as a heatwave that has seen red alerts issued across southern Europe turned deadly."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [21]
Environmental Health [33]
Forests [34]
Public [14]
Europe [35]
Source: Reuters [36], 08/23/2023
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PHMSA Raises Safety Concerns Over Mountain Valley Pipeline in Formal Notice [37]

"Federal regulators have sent a proposed safety order to the developers of the contentious and highly politicized Mountain Valley Pipeline citing concerns over potential pipe corrosion and land movement in the steep mountain terrain the pipeline will cross in West Virginia and Virginia."

Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Politics [38]
Infrastructure [39]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [24]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [25]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [40]
Source: Inside Climate News [41], 08/23/2023
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Storm Harold Triggers Floods, Outages And Tornado Warnings As It Hits Texas [42]

"Tropical Storm Harold is plowing through Texas, triggering flash flooding and tornado warnings as the gusty storm pushes toward Mexico."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [21]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [25]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [43]
Source: CNN [44], 08/23/2023
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Some States Reject Federal Money To Find, Replace Dangerous Lead Pipes [45]

"As the Biden administration makes billions of dollars available to remove millions of dangerous lead pipes that can contaminate drinking water and damage brain development in children, some states are turning down funds."

Environmental Health [33]
Environmental Politics [38]
Infrastructure [39]
Pollution [24]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: AP [46], 08/23/2023
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"Biden Administration Approves 4th Commercial-Scale Offshore Wind Project" [47]

"The Biden administration on Tuesday approved a wind energy project off Rhode Island, the fourth major commercial-scale offshore wind energy project approved by the Biden Interior Department."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Infrastructure [39]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [25]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [48]
Source: The Hill [49], 08/23/2023
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How A Mix Of Natural And Human-Caused Factors Cooked Up Storm Hilary Mess [50]

"A natural El Nino, human-caused climate change, a stubborn heat dome over the nation’s midsection and other factors cooked up Tropical Storm Hilary’s record-breaking slosh into California and Nevada, scientists figure."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [21]
Science [51]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: AP [52], 08/23/2023
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"PragerU Says It's Approved In Texas Schools. It's Not." [53]

"The conservative group's big announcement that its climate denial videos were approved in Texas public schools appears to be a lie, the Texas State Board of Education tells HEATED."

Climate Change [11]
Environmental Politics [38]
Journalism & Media [54]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Science [51]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [25]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [43]
Source: HEATED [55], 08/23/2023
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"The Next Pandemic Could Strike Crops, Not People" [56]

"Genetic uniformity is central to modern farming. It leaves us vulnerable to plant disease breakouts."

Technology [57]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [25]
Source: Grist [58], 08/23/2023
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"After Hilary, A Big Clean-Up And Lots Of Water But Lives Spared" [59]

"Tropical Storm Hilary drenched the American Southwest before fading Monday to a mere rainstorm, leaving communities from the Pacific Coast to inland Nevada with a substantial cleanup effort but no reported deaths in the United States."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [21]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [25]
California [60]
Source: Washington Post [61], 08/22/2023
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"The Latest on Hilary, Emily, Franklin, Gert, and a Texas-Mexico Threat" [62]

"[I]t’s not often that a tropical storm from the Eastern Pacific moves through Southern California on the same weekend that three tropical storms erupt in the Atlantic. That’s where things stood on Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [21]
Forests [34]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [25]
International [15]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [63], 08/22/2023
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"Ecuador Votes To Ban Oil Drilling In Part Of Amazon, Mining Outside Quito" [64]

"Ecuadorean referendums to ban oil drilling in a part of the Amazon and mining in a forest outside Quito easily passed, drawing cheers on Monday from Indigenous leaders and environmentalists despite warnings from oil and mining groups about billions of dollars in lost income."

Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Politics [38]
Forests [34]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Natural Resources [12]
Water & Oceans [18]
Wildlife [13]
Public [14]
South America [65]
Source: Reuters [66], 08/22/2023
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