EJToday: Top Headlines

"Dems Look To Federal Lands For Red-State Abortion Access" [9]

"Democratic lawmakers are pressing President Joe Biden to use federal lands to ensure access to abortion services after the Supreme Court overturned long-standing abortion precedent."

Environmental Politics [10]
Forests [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [16], 06/28/2022
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"New Tools May Predict Wildfire Season Severity, Rainfall Months Ahead" [17]

"Researchers are developing ways to predict how much land will burn out West and where ocean heat waves will occur up to a year in advance".

Agriculture [18]
Climate Change [19]
Science [20]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Washington Post [22], 06/28/2022
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Enviros Hope New Law Will Clean Up Wastewater Nutrient Pollution in Md. [23]

"The Chesapeake Bay Program reported on Wednesday that Maryland’s wastewater treatment facilities, operating in violation of discharge permits, contributed significant increases in nitrogen and phosphorus pollution last year in the bay."

Agriculture [18]
Environmental Health [24]
Fish & Fisheries [25]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [14]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [26]
Source: Inside Climate News [27], 06/28/2022
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"Court: Land Swap For Ariz. Mine Doesn’t Violate Tribal Rights" [28]

"A federal appeals court ruled that a federal land swap giving a Native American tribal holy site in Arizona to a private mining company so it could be the site of a copper mine would not violate the tribe’s religious freedoms."

Economy & Business [29]
Environmental Justice [30]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [13]
Public [14]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [31]
Source: E&E News [32], 06/28/2022
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"Cement Carbon Dioxide Emissions Quietly Double In 20 Years" [33]

"Heat trapping carbon dioxide emissions from making cement, a less talked about but major source of carbon pollution, have doubled in the last 20 years, new global data shows."

Chemicals [34]
Climate Change [19]
Infrastructure [35]
Pollution [36]
Public [14]
International [37]
Source: AP [38], 06/28/2022
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"Lynching Locations Proposed As New National Park Sites" [39]

"In the spring of 1917 a crowd of 3,000 people gathered to watch in Memphis as a lynch mob burned and decapitated Ell Persons, a Black man who was awaiting trial after he was beaten into confessing to raping and killing a 16-year-old white girl. Under a bill introduced by Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), the site near the Wolf River and others near the city in Tennessee would be studied as possible additions to the National Park Service."

Natural Resources [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [40], 06/28/2022
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"Ukraine War’s Latest Victim? The Fight Against Climate Change." [41]

"As leaders of the Group of 7 gather in Germany, the scramble to replace Russian fossil fuels is raising concerns that hard-won climate targets will be missed."

Climate Change [19]
Energy & Fuel [42]
Military [43]
Public [14]
International [37]
Source: NYTimes [44], 06/27/2022
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"Heat Waves Around the World Push People and Nations ‘To the Edge’" [45]

"Millions of Americans are once again in the grips of dangerous heat. Hot air blanketed Europe last weekend, causing parts of France and Spain to feel the way it usually does in July or August. High temperatures scorched northern and central China even as heavy rains caused flooding in the country’s south. Some places in India began experiencing extraordinary heat in March, though the start of the monsoon rains has brought some relief."

Climate Change [19]
Disasters [46]
Environmental Health [24]
Public [14]
International [37]
Source: NYTimes [47], 06/27/2022
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"Energy, Environment Spending Debate To Sharpen This Week" [48]

"Energy and environment spending fights will dominate the week as the House Appropriations Committee wraps up work on its fiscal 2023 bills."

Environmental Politics [10]
Infrastructure [35]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [49], 06/27/2022
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"DOE Keeps Hiring Oil Industry Public Relations Firm" [50]

"The Department of Energy retained a global public relations firm with longstanding fossil fuel ties, continuing a practice that ramped up during the Trump administration."

Climate Change [19]
Energy & Fuel [42]
Environmental Politics [10]
Journalism & Media [51]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [52], 06/27/2022
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"These Clergy Are Bridging the Gap Between Religion and Climate" [53]

"In an effort launched last year, a Rabbi and a Protestant minister offer clergy suggestions for how to engage their congregations in helping to solve the climate crisis."

Climate Change [19]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [54]
Public [14]
International [37]
Source: Inside Climate News [55], 06/27/2022
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"Forest Service Finds Mining Would Pose Risk To Minnesota Watershed" [56]

"A federal study released Thursday determined that hardrock mining in a Minnesota wilderness area would risk contaminating the region."

Environmental Studies [57]
Forests [11]
Natural Resources [13]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: The Hill [58], 06/27/2022
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"‘Biblical’ Insect Swarms Spur Oregon Push To Fight Pests" [59]

"Driving down a windy canyon road in northern Oregon rangeland, Jordan Maley and April Aamodt are on the look out for Mormon crickets, giant insects that can ravage crops."

Agriculture [18]
Climate Change [19]
Disasters [46]
Wildlife [60]
Public [14]
Northwest (OR WA) [61]
Source: AP [62], 06/27/2022
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"New Colombian President Pledges To Protect Rainforest" [63]

"Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first elected leftist president, will take office in August with ambitious proposals to halt the record-high rates of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. Petro has promised to limit agribusiness expansion into the forest, and create reserves where Indigenous communities and others are allowed to harvest rubber, acai and other non-timber forest products."

Biodiversity [64]
Climate Change [19]
Environmental Justice [30]
Forests [11]
Public [14]
South America [65]
Source: AP [66], 06/27/2022
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"Drought And Bark Beetles Are Killing The Oldest Trees On Earth" [67]

"Forest pathologist Martin MacKenzie strode forward on a narrow path through California’s mythic bristlecone pine forest in the White Mountains near the Nevada border, methodically scanning gnarled limbs for the invaders that threaten the lives of some of the world’s oldest trees."

Climate Change [19]
Forests [11]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [14]
California [68]
Source: LA Times [69], 06/27/2022
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