EJToday: Top Headlines

"US Gulf Coast Residents Flee, Oil Production Shut As Francine Intensifies" [9]

"Tropical Storm Francine was on track on Tuesday to become a hurricane overnight, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said, prompting Louisiana residents to flee inland and oil and gas companies to shut in Gulf of Mexico production."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [17]
Mexico [18]
Source: Reuters [19], 09/11/2024
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"The Huge US Toxic Fire Shrouded In Secrecy: ‘I Taste Oil In My Mouth’" [20]

"Louisianans say a major accident at a sprawling Marathon refinery caused health issues. The company insists there were ‘no offsite impacts’"

Chemicals [21]
Disasters [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [23]
Environmental Politics [24]
Pollution [25]
Public [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [16]
Source: Guardian [26], 09/11/2024
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Colombia Deadliest Country For Environmentalists In 2023, Rights Group Says [27]

"Colombia, host nation for this year's United Nations COP16 biodiversity conference, was the deadliest country for environmentalists and land rights defenders in 2023, with a record 79 killed, according to UK advocacy group Global Witness."

Activism [28]
Environmental Justice [23]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Military [30]
Public [14]
International [31]
South America [32]
Source: Reuters [33], 09/11/2024
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Pa. Fracking Company With 2,000 Environmental Violations Gets EJ Funds [34]

"A Pennsylvania-based fracking company is the subject of controversy after one of its projects was listed as an environmental justice initiative under a federal government program by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)."

Chemicals [21]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [22]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Pollution [25]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [35]
Source: EHN [36], 09/11/2024
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"Top Lawmaker Wants COP Host Country To Free Prisoners" [37]

"Senate Foreign Relations Chair Ben Cardin of Maryland is calling on Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev and his government to release multiple political prisoners before COP29 gets underway this November in the city of Baku."

Activism [28]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Justice [23]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [29]
People & Population [38]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [31]
Source: E&E News [39], 09/11/2024
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"Thirsty Data Centres Spring Up In Water-Poor Mexican Town" [40]

"A two-year long drought in the semi-desert municipality of Colón, in the central Mexican state of Querétaro, has left many struggling with dead crops and water rationing. But at the same time, the local government in Querétaro is giving incentives to companies to build data centres that generally use large amounts of water to cool their servers."

Economy & Business [41]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [23]
Infrastructure [42]
Natural Resources [43]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
Mexico [18]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [44], 09/11/2024
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Most US Voters Want Plastics Industry Held Responsible For Recycling Claims [45]

"Concern about the fossil fuel and plastics industries’ alleged deception about recycling is growing, with new polling showing a majority of American voters, including 54% of Republicans, support legal efforts to hold the sectors accountable."

Chemicals [21]
Consumer [46]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Politics [24]
Journalism & Media [47]
Laws & Regulations [29]
People & Population [38]
Pollution [25]
Waste [48]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Guardian [49], 09/11/2024
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Brazilian President Flies Into Amazon Amid Alarm Over Droughts And Wildfires [50]

"Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has flown into the Amazon amid growing alarm over the droughts and wildfires sweeping the rainforest region and others parts of Brazil."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Politics [24]
Forests [51]
Pollution [25]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
South America [32]
Source: Guardian [52], 09/11/2024
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Amid Quakes, New Mexico Cancels Dozens of Planned Wastewater Injection Sites [53]

"Study uncovers thousands of undocumented quakes, underscoring the link between injection sites and seismic activity."

Disasters [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Infrastructure [42]
Natural Resources [43]
Public [14]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [17]
Source: Capital & Main [54], 09/11/2024
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"Those Keurig Coffee Pods? They’re Not So Recyclable, the S.E.C. Says." [55]

"The agency said Keurig, in its financial filings, had claimed its pods could be “effectively recycled” but didn’t note that two big recycling companies wouldn’t accept them."

Consumer [46]
Pollution [25]
Waste [48]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NYTimes [56], 09/11/2024
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Francine Strengthens In Gulf, Is Expected To Hit Louisiana As A Hurricane [57]

"Tropical Storm Francine formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday and was expected to drench the Texas coast with rain before coming ashore in Louisiana as a hurricane on Wednesday night."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [16]
Mexico [18]
Source: AP [58], 09/10/2024
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‘Sustainable’ Logging Clear-Cutting Canada’s Climate-Fighting Forests [59]

"Nonprofit environment watchdogs put their stamps of approval on countless wood products that get touted as responsibly produced. But Reuters found that the timber firms these groups certify are harvesting large swaths of Canada’s older forests, which are critical to containing global warming."

Climate Change [10]
Forests [51]
Natural Resources [43]
Public [14]
Canada [60]
Source: Reuters [61], 09/10/2024
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"TVA Helped Electrify The South — But Now Its Plans Are Sparking Backlash" [62]

"The Tennessee Valley Authority is coming under fire from energy experts and environmentalists for building gas plants instead of renewables."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [24]
Infrastructure [42]
Pollution [25]
Technology [63]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [16]
Source: Washington Post [64], 09/10/2024
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Tribe Reels From Illness And Cancer. What Role Did The US Government Play? [65]

"The family placed flowers by a pair of weathered cowboy boots, as people quietly gathered for the memorial of the soft-spoken tribal chairman who mentored teens in the boxing ring and teased his grandkids on tractor rides. Left unsaid, and what troubled Marvin Cota’s family deep down, was that his story ended like so many others on the remote Duck Valley Indian Reservation. He was healthy for decades. They found the cancer too late."

Agriculture [66]
Chemicals [21]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [23]
People & Population [38]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [67]
Source: AP [68], 09/10/2024
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"Why New York’s Animal Wet Markets Unnerve Some Scientists" [69]

"Urban wet markets are fertile grounds for viral transmission, experts say. Outbreaks of bird flu have already occurred."

Agriculture [66]
Biodiversity [70]
Consumer [46]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [22]
Food [71]
Laws & Regulations [29]
People & Population [38]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [72]
Source: NYTimes [73], 09/10/2024
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