EJToday: Top Headlines

"Indian Traditions Entwine With Trees in Green Drive To Revive Land" [9]

"Communities in India's Rajasthan state are planting trees to celebrate local customs and events such as weddings and funerals amid growing efforts to restore degraded land".

Climate Change [10]
Natural Resources [11]
People & Population [12]
Public [13]
Asia [14]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [15], 06/06/2022
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"Undoing Trump, EPA To Empower States And Tribes To Oppose Pipelines" [16]

"The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Thursday it would seek to return authority to states to oppose gas pipelines, coal terminals and other projects that pose a threat to lakes, rivers and streams — reversing a major Trump administration rule."

Energy & Fuel [17]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Pollution [19]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Washington Post [22], 06/03/2022
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"A Summer Of Blackouts? Wheezing Power Grid Leaves States At Risk." [23]

"The nation’s power grid is under stress like never before, with regulators warning that the kind of rolling outages that are now familiar to California and Texas could be far more widespread as hot summer weather arrives."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Washington Post [24], 06/03/2022
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"Why Won’t the EPA Fine New Mexico’s Greenhouse Gas Leakers?" [25]

"The state asked for federal help to find oil-field emissions; the EPA found dozens of emissions and Clean Air Act violations—but in three years it has issued only two fines."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Pollution [19]
Public [13]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [26]
Source: Capital & Main [27], 06/03/2022
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"Biden Finds Limited Options For Lowering Gasoline Prices" [28]

"The twin threats of inflation and high gasoline prices continued to drag on the Biden administration this week, and analysts were beginning to predict that it will take strong economic medicine to deal with the malaise."

Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Politics [29]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: E&E News [30], 06/03/2022
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"SEC Climate Rule Sparks Backlash From Business Groups" [31]

"The Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposal to require publicly listed companies to disclose their climate-related risks has unleashed pushback from critics who say the agency is overstepping its bounds."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [32]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: E&E News [33], 06/03/2022
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"EPA Proposes Updating Gasoline Regs, Slashing Emissions" [34]

"A series of overdue regulatory updates to a key part of the nation’s fuel distribution network would slash overall emissions of benzene and other pollutants from those sources by more than one-third, according to a newly released EPA proposal."

Air [35]
Chemicals [36]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Pollution [19]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: E&E News [37], 06/03/2022
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"FDA Agrees To Reassess BPA Risks" [38]

"After more than a decade of pressure from environmental health advocates, the Food and Drug Administration is set to reconsider the health effects of a common and controversial industrial chemical often used in plastics."

Chemicals [36]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: E&E News [39], 06/03/2022
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"Judge Greenlights More NEPA Reviews On Western Oil Leases" [40]

"The Biden administration has agreed to reconsider the cumulative climate effects of oil and gas leases on nearly 4 million acres in a settlement approved this week by a federal judge."

Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Studies [41]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: E&E News [42], 06/03/2022
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"Zebra Mussel Invasion Threatens Irrigated Agriculture in the Northwest" [43]

"After causing expensive problems for farmers across the country, invasive zebra and quagga mussels are inching closer to the Columbia River Basin, where they could create serious agricultural impacts."

"John Rylaarsdam’s farm, near the towns of Quincy and George in Eastern Washington, receives about seven inches of rainfall each year. But he says it takes 25 to 30 inches of water to produce the alfalfa and timothy he grows. To fill the gap in supply, Rylaarsdam and other farmers rely on artificial irrigation to water their crops.
Agriculture [44]
Biodiversity [45]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [13]
Northwest (OR WA) [46]
Source: Civil Eats [47], 06/03/2022
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"Bear Hibernation: More Than A Winter’s Nap" [48]

"Scientists are watching to see how bears will tweak their habits as the climate warms."

"Every spring, as days in the north stretch longer and melting snow trickles into streams, drowsy animals ranging from grizzlies to ground squirrels start to rally from hibernation. It’s tempting to say that that they are “waking up,” but hibernation is more complicated and mysterious than a simple long sleep: Any animal that can spend months underground without eating or drinking and still emerge ready to face the world has clearly mastered an amazing trick of biology.
Biodiversity [45]
Climate Change [10]
Wildlife [49]
Public [13]
International [50]
Source: Ars Technica [51], 06/03/2022
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"Deutsche Bank Subsidiary CEO Resigns After Greenwashing Raid" [52]

"DWS, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank, said its chief executive is resigning on Wednesday, following a raid at its offices by the authorities into alleged greenwashing."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [32]
Journalism & Media [53]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Public [13]
International [50]
Source: Euronews [54], 06/02/2022
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"Biden Administration to Cut Costs for Wind and Solar Energy Projects" [55]

"The Biden administration said on Wednesday it would cut in half the amount it charges companies to build wind and solar projects on federal lands, a move designed to encourage development of renewable energy."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [32]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Infrastructure [56]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: NYTimes [57], 06/02/2022
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"Here’s How The Government Wants To Disaster-Proof Your Home" [58]

"On this first day of the Atlantic hurricane season, federal officials are launching a new initiative to modernize building codes so that communities can be more resilient to hurricanes, flooding, wildfires, and other extreme weather events that are intensifying due to climate change."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [59]
Infrastructure [56]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: AP [60], 06/02/2022
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"Too Many Pinks in the Pacific" [61]

"Evidence is mounting that pink salmon, pumped by the billions into the North Pacific from fish hatcheries, are upending marine ecosystems."

Fish & Fisheries [62]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [21]
Canada [63]
Source: Hakai [64], 06/02/2022
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