EJToday: Top Headlines

2024 Hurricane Season Forecast: Highest Number Of Hurricanes Ever Predicted [9]

"Buckle up and hunker down: An "extremely active" hurricane season is likely, top forecasters from Colorado State University announced Thursday. In fact, the forecast includes the highest number of hurricanes ever predicted in an April forecast by Colorado State since the team began issuing predictions in 1995."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: USA TODAY [15], 04/05/2024
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"Mercury Exposure Widespread Among Yanomami Tribe In Amazon, Report Finds" [16]

"Many Yanomami, the Amazon’s largest Indigenous tribe in relative isolation, have been contaminated with mercury coming from widespread illegal gold mining, according to a report released on Thursday by Brazil’s top public health institute."

Chemicals [17]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Justice [19]
Forests [20]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Natural Resources [22]
People & Population [23]
Public [13]
South America [24]
Source: AP [25], 04/05/2024
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Lawsuit Challenges $1 Billion Federal Funding To Sustain Diablo Canyon Nuke [26]

"An environmental group has sued the U.S. Energy Department over its decision to award over $1 billion to help keep California’s last nuclear power plant running beyond a planned closure that was set for 2025. The move opens another battlefront in the fight over the future of Diablo Canyon’s twin reactors."

Energy & Fuel [27]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [28]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
California [29]
Source: AP [30], 04/05/2024
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"FEMA Stuns Florida With Pricey Hurricane Penalty" [31]

"The Federal Emergency Management Agency revoked the discount it gave to 125,000 property owners in Lee County who have FEMA flood insurance after warning local officials about unsafe rebuilding efforts in the wake of Hurricane Ian in 2022."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Infrastructure [32]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [33]
Source: E&E News [34], 04/05/2024
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"This California City Is Trading An Old Gas Plant For A Giant Grid Battery" [35]

"For a decade, twin smokestacks loomed against the bright blue skies of Menifee, in Southern California’s Inland Empire. But the old gas combustion plant came down, and on the flat industrial site it left behind an army of batteries is now being assembled."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
California [29]
Source: Canary Media [36], 04/05/2024
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"Birds, Bees And Even Plants Might Act Weird During The Solar Eclipse" [37]

"A total eclipse isn’t just a spectacle in the sky. When the moon consumes the sun on April 8, day will plunge into twilight, the temperature will drop — and nature will take notice."

Biodiversity [38]
Natural Resources [22]
Wildlife [39]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Washington Post [40], 04/05/2024
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US Saw Staggering Growth In Solar And Wind Power Over The Last Decade [41]

"Nearly a quarter of the nation's grid now runs on renewables, bringing the country closer to its climate goals."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Grist [42], 04/04/2024
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"Just 57 Companies Linked To 80% Of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Since 2016" [43]

"A mere 57 oil, gas, coal and cement producers are directly linked to 80% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions since the 2016 Paris climate agreement, a study has shown."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [44]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [45]
Public [13]
International [46]
Source: Guardian [47], 04/04/2024
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Will Bitcoin, Data Centers, and Cannabis Risk US Climate Goals? [48]

"US energy use has been flat. But new industries are forcing a boost in utility forecasts for demand, potentially harming efforts to cut emissions."

Agriculture [49]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [50]
Economy & Business [44]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Technology [51]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Floodlight [52], 04/04/2024
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"A Guide To Electric Car Misinformation (Part 2)" [53]

"Financially-motivated EV misinformation comes from both sides of the aisle (the lane?). Industries that see EVs as a threat exaggerate their harms in a bid to get you to hate EVs. And industries that profit from EVs greenwash their benefits in a bid to get you to love EVs."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [50]
Economy & Business [44]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Politics [54]
Environmental Studies [55]
Infrastructure [32]
Journalism & Media [56]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
International [46]
Source: HEATED [57], 04/04/2024
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"Despite Official Vote, the Evidence of the Anthropocene Is Clear" [58]

"When a governing body of the International Union of Geological Sciences voted down a proposal to name a new epoch in Earth’s history, it ignored conclusive evidence that for the first time, a single species — humans — has fundamentally altered the planet."

Agriculture [49]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Studies [55]
Natural Resources [22]
People & Population [23]
Science [59]
Public [13]
International [46]
Source: YaleE360 [60], 04/04/2024
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"Why Is the BLM Still Clearcutting Piñon-Juniper Landscapes?" [61]

"During the last century, federal agencies have undertaken a campaign to destroy huge tracts of piñon pines and juniper trees in the arid reaches of the American West."

Agriculture [49]
Biodiversity [38]
Environmental Politics [54]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Natural Resources [22]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Sierra [62], 04/04/2024
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"Light at the End of the Tunnel" [63]

"Millions of killer culverts lurk beneath North American roadways, strangling populations of migratory fish. Now with a nationwide project, the United States is trying to fix them."

Fish & Fisheries [64]
Infrastructure [32]
Natural Resources [22]
Transportation [65]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Hakai [66], 04/04/2024
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Midwest Maple Syrup Producers Face Record Warm Winter As Climate Changes [67]

"Human-caused climate change is having varied and unpredictable effects on maple harvests in Wisconsin, Iowa, and elsewhere, experts say."

Agriculture [49]
Climate Change [10]
Food [68]
Forests [20]
Natural Resources [22]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Canada [69]
Source: Wisconsin Watch/Cedar Rapids Gazette [70], 04/04/2024
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California Is Top U.S. Emitter Of A Planet-Warming Termite Pesticide [71]

"Despite its aggressive reputation for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, California releases more of a climate-warming pesticide than all other states combined, most of it from homes fumigated for termites, according to a study published Wednesday."

Chemicals [17]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [50]
Environmental Health [18]
Pollution [45]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
California [29]
Source: LA Times [72], 04/04/2024
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