EJToday: Top Headlines

"Subways, Buses and Bike Lanes Scored Billions in Local Ballot Wins" [9]

"Voters overwhelmingly supported local measures to improve mass transit from Arizona to Tennessee."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Transportation [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Bloomberg Green [18], 11/22/2024
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Phillips 66 Faces Federal Charges Of Wastewater Dumping At Calif. Refinery [19]

"The U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles has filed felony criminal charges against Phillips 66, accusing the company’s Carson refinery of illicitly dumping oil and grease into the county sewer system."

Chemicals [20]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [21]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [22]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
California [24]
Source: LA Times [25], 11/22/2024
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"Long Delayed Biden Rule Could Shake Up Offshore Oil Well Cleanups" [26]

"The Biden administration promised to release a new standard for ocean drilling that could help clean up a growing number of old oil and gas wells, but the first-of-a-kind rule has yet to arrive with just two months before President-elect Donald Trump reenters the White House."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [22]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [27], 11/22/2024
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Biden DOI Trying To Save The Colorado River Before Trump Takes Over [28]

"The Biden administration is swimming against the current to get seven Western states to agree to divvy up the Colorado River’s water in a way that would protect the river basin and the West’s largest single water source – and do it before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, according to a source familiar with the negotiations."

Agriculture [29]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: CNN [30], 11/22/2024
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$375M Indigenous-Led Conservation Deal Signed In Northwest Territories [31]

"The agreement uses a Wall Street-inspired approach to conservation finance, with 380,000 square kilometres of land and water in its scope"

Activism [32]
Biodiversity [33]
Environmental Justice [34]
Fish & Fisheries [35]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [36]
Public [16]
Canada [37]
Source: The Narwhal [38], 11/22/2024
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"How Trump’s War On The Media Is Expected To Ramp Up In His Second Term" [39]

"Donald Trump’s second term promises to deliver historic threats to US press freedom – directly from the Oval Office."

Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [40]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: The Conversation [41], 11/21/2024
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"China’s Soaring Emissions Are Upending Climate Politics" [42]

"For many years, wealthy places like the United States and Europe have had the biggest historical responsibility for global warming and have been tasked with taking the lead in stopping it. China’s astonishing rise is upending that dynamic."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Pollution [22]
Public [16]
International [43]
Asia [44]
Source: NYTimes [45], 11/21/2024
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"A Call For EPA Action On Climate Risks To Hazardous Waste Facilities" [46]

"The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should be doing more to help address potential climate change-related risks to hundreds of hazardous waste facilities across the country, according to a recent government watchdog report."

Chemicals [20]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [47]
Environmental Health [21]
Pollution [22]
Waste [48]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: The New Lede [49], 11/21/2024
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"More Than 50 Countries Sign UN Sustainable Tourism Declaration" [50]

"More than 50 governments have signed a U.N. declaration to make tourism around the globe more climate friendly, the United Nations said on Wednesday, in what it hailed as a major achievement of the climate summit in Azerbaijan."

Biodiversity [33]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [51]
Natural Resources [36]
People & Population [52]
Transportation [15]
Public [16]
International [43]
Source: Reuters [53], 11/21/2024
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Giraffes Are Up Next On The Endangered Species List: US Wildlife Officials [54]

"Giraffe populations are declining at such an alarming rate — from habitat loss, poaching, urbanization and climate change-fueled drought — that US wildlife officials announced a proposal on Wednesday to help protect several of the species."

Biodiversity [33]
Environmental Studies [55]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [36]
Wildlife [56]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Africa [57]
Source: CNN [58], 11/21/2024
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"Climate Finance Outcome at COP29 Still in Doubt" [59]

"Countries are wrangling over who gets money, who will pay and whether debt relief will be part of the package."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [60]
Environmental Justice [34]
Environmental Politics [12]
Public [16]
International [43]
Source: Inside Climate News [61], 11/21/2024
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Human-Caused Warming Intensified All 11 Atlantic Hurricanes In 2024 [62]

"Human-caused climate change boosted the wind speeds of recent Atlantic hurricanes, making them more damaging and costly, according to a pair of scientific reports released today."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [47]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [43]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [63], 11/21/2024
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"Huge Gas Plant Eyed To Power Mystery $5B Louisiana Data Center" [64]

"Entergy proposes a new $3.2 billion natural gas plant to run a ‘game changing’ data center in northeast Louisiana; critics question the move"

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [60]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [13]
Pollution [22]
Technology [65]
Public [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [66]
Source: Floodlight [67], 11/21/2024
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Five Firms In Alliance ‘Made 1,000 Times More Plastic Than They Cleaned Up’ [68]

"Oil and chemical companies who created a high-profile alliance to end plastic pollution have produced 1,000 times more new plastic in five years than the waste they diverted from the environment, according to new data obtained by Greenpeace."

Chemicals [20]
Economy & Business [60]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Journalism & Media [40]
Pollution [22]
Waste [48]
Public [16]
International [43]
Source: Guardian [69], 11/21/2024
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"Protect This Place: Ladakh, the Planet’s ‘Third Pole’" [70]

"Home to glaciers, snow leopards, and rich human cultures, Ladakh suffers from a lack of political representation, which has inspired recent protests."

Biodiversity [33]
Natural Resources [36]
People & Population [52]
Wildlife [56]
Public [16]
Asia [44]
Source: The Revelator [71], 11/21/2024
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