EJToday: Top Headlines

"A Web Of Front People Conceals Environmental Offenders In The Amazon" [9]

"A paper trail left by a notorious land grabber reveals how he used relatives and an employee as fronts to evade environmental fines and lawsuits, shedding light on this widespread practice in the Brazilian Amazon."

Agriculture [10]
Biodiversity [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
South America [18]
Source: Mongabay [19], 04/23/2024
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"The EPA Is Cracking Down On PFAS — But Not In Fertilizer" [20]

"Farmers spread treated human waste on their crops. It's full of forever chemicals."

Agriculture [10]
Chemicals [21]
Environmental Health [22]
Food [23]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Waste [24]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Grist [27], 04/23/2024
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Calif. Communities Fight The Last Toxic Battery Recycling Plant In The West [28]

"Lead battery recycling is a crucial but dirty business. As a plant outside Los Angeles seeks to renew its operating permit, the community pushes back."

Air [29]
Chemicals [21]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [12]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [26]
California [31]
Source: Grist [32], 04/23/2024
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Huge Green Energy Transmission Project Will Cut Through SW Indigenous Lands [33]

"After a federal court rejected their lawsuit, tribes are turning to the U.N. for help."

Activism [34]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Justice [12]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [26]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [35]
International [36]
Source: Grist [37], 04/23/2024
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"How European Trash Illegally Ends Up In Southeast Asia" [38]

"The illegal waste trade from Europe to Southeast Asia has emerged as a highly profitable, low-risk criminal enterprise with a major impact on the environment, economy, and human health."

Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Waste [24]
Public [17]
Asia [39]
Australia & Oceania [40]
Europe [41]
Source: DW [42], 04/23/2024
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"The Deepwater Horizon’s Very Unhappy Anniversary" [43]

"A recent scientific expedition to the Gulf of Mexico seafloor shows just how little things have improved near the broken well."

Biodiversity [11]
Disasters [44]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [12]
Natural Resources [15]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [26]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [45]
Source: Hakai [46], 04/23/2024
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"How Scientists Are Learning To Eavesdrop On The Sounds Of Soil" [47]

"The sound of an earthworm is a distinctive rasping and scrunching. Ants sound like the soothing patter of rain. A passing, tunnelling vole makes a noise like a squeaky dog’s toy repeatedly being chewed."

Biodiversity [11]
Environmental Studies [48]
Natural Resources [15]
Science [49]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [26]
International [36]
Source: Guardian [50], 04/23/2024
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"E.P.A. Will Make Polluters Pay to Clean Up Two ‘Forever Chemicals’" [51]

"The Biden administration is designating two “forever chemicals,” man-made compounds that are linked to serious health risks, as hazardous substances under the Superfund law, shifting responsibility for their cleanup to polluters from taxpayers."

Chemicals [21]
Environmental Health [22]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Waste [24]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: NYTimes [52], 04/22/2024
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Biden Shields Millions of Acres in Alaska From Drilling and Mining [53]

"The administration has blocked a proposed industrial road needed to mine copper in the middle of the state, and has banned oil drilling on 13 million acres in the North Slope."

Climate Change [54]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [26]
Alaska and Hawaii [55]
Source: NYTimes [56], 04/22/2024
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"Scientists Fault Federal Response to Bird Flu Outbreaks on Dairy Farms" [57]

"Officials have shared little information, saying the outbreak was limited. But asymptomatic cows in North Carolina have changed the assessment."

Agriculture [10]
Consumer [58]
Environmental Health [22]
Food [23]
Journalism & Media [59]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: NYTimes [60], 04/22/2024
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"Pennsylvania’s First Proposed Chemical Recycling Plant Cancelled" [61]

"Plans to build what would have been one of the largest chemical recycling plants in the country in Pennsylvania were canceled this week."

Air [29]
Chemicals [21]
Climate Change [54]
Consumer [58]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [16]
Waste [24]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [26]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [62]
Source: EHN [63], 04/22/2024
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Earth Day: A Senator More Than 50 Years Ago Got People Fighting For Planet [64]

"Millions of people around the world will pause on Monday, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day. It’s an annual event founded by people who hoped to stir activism to clean up and preserve a planet that is now home to some 8 billion humans and assorted trillions of other organisms."

Activism [34]
Biodiversity [11]
Chemicals [21]
Climate Change [54]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Journalism & Media [59]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [26]
International [36]
Source: AP [65], 04/22/2024
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"3 Offshore Wind Projects Nixed In New York" [66]

"New York canceled power contracts for three offshore wind projects Friday, citing a turbine maker’s plans to scrap its biggest machines." "It’s a major blow to New York’s climate plan and to President Joe Biden’s energy ambitions."

Climate Change [54]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [17]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [67]
Source: E&E News [68], 04/22/2024
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RFK Jr.’s Onetime Allies In Green Advocacy Call For Him To Drop Out [69]

"Environmental groups are condemning Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential bid and his environmental policy in new efforts on Friday, portraying him as a candidate who will increase the chances former President Donald Trump is reelected."

Environmental Politics [13]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: CNN [70], 04/22/2024
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Heat Caused Record-High Rates Of ER Visits In Parts Of US Last Year: CDC [71]

"Last summer was the hottest ever recorded in the United States, and heat-related health emergencies also reached record-high levels in some parts of the country."

Climate Change [54]
Disasters [44]
Environmental Health [22]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [26]
International [36]
Source: CNN [72], 04/22/2024
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