EJToday: Top Headlines

"EPA Restores Industrial Air Pollution Rule Axed By Trump" [9]

"The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday strengthened a rule limiting toxic air pollution from factories, refineries and other industrial facilities, reversing one of former president Donald Trump’s major environmental rollbacks."

Air [10]
Chemicals [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Washington Post [17], 09/05/2024
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"The World Is Pumping Out 57 Million Tons Of Plastic Pollution A Year" [18]

"The world creates 57 million tons of plastic pollution every year and spreads it from the deepest oceans to the highest mountaintop to the inside of people’s bodies, according to a new study that also said more than two-thirds of it comes from the Global South."

Chemicals [11]
Consumer [19]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [14]
Waste [20]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [15]
International [22]
Source: AP [23], 09/05/2024
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"Biden Administration Approves Natural Gas Exports After Pause Is Halted" [24]

"The Biden administration on Tuesday granted a gas export terminal the authority to ship fuel abroad after a court blocked its efforts to delay such permissions."

Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Politics [26]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [22]
Mexico [27]
Source: The Hill [28], 09/05/2024
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"As Tornado Alley Shifts East, Bracing for Impact in Unexpected Places" [29]

"As the remnants of Hurricane Ida barreled north in September 2021, Chris Erdner heard a startling warning on TV: Residents in her area needed to seek shelter immediately. Erdner’s quiet suburban neighborhood in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, was directly in the path of a tornado."

Climate Change [30]
Disasters [31]
People & Population [32]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Inside Climate News [33], 09/05/2024
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S. Carolina Models ‘Managed Retreat’ From Coasts Threatened by Climate Change [34]

"The state has identified hundreds of thousands of homes that will need to be abandoned. But at one flagship buyout, only one in 10 eligible homeowners signed up."

Climate Change [30]
Disasters [31]
Infrastructure [35]
People & Population [32]
Planning & Growth [36]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [37]
Source: Inside Climate News [38], 09/05/2024
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West Braces For Extreme Heat; Phoenix Passes 100 Days Over 100 Degrees [39]

"The West Coast of the United States is bracing for extreme heat with temperatures in desert towns expected to soar as high as 120 Fahrenheit (49 Celsius) and Phoenix likely to extend its streak of 100 days over 100 degrees, forecasters said on Tuesday.

The southwestern U.S. can expect multiple days of supercharged heat beginning on Tuesday, with the homeless, elderly, children, and people with health issues at the highest risk for heat illness, the U.S. National Weather Service said.
Climate Change [30]
Environmental Health [12]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Reuters [40], 09/05/2024
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Photographer Captures Life In America’s Last Remaining Old-Growth Forests [41]

"“As humans, our everyday lives are sustained by the behaviors and interactions of forest organisms,” photographer David Herasimtschuk writes of old growth forests. “Yet, because these processes and relationships occur in places and at scales rarely observed, our connection with forest biodiversity and the role it plays in nurturing our well-being often goes completely unnoticed.”

Forests [42]
Journalism & Media [43]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Northwest (OR WA) [44]
Source: NPR [45], 09/05/2024
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"Algal Blooms Ravaged New York’s Finger Lakes During Final Week of August" [46]

"No other region in the state had a comparable level of outbreaks. The Hochul administration is spending millions to help farmers limit nutrient runoff."

Agriculture [47]
Biodiversity [48]
Fish & Fisheries [49]
Natural Resources [50]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [15]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [51]
Source: Inside Climate News [52], 09/05/2024
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"More EPA Buildings Face Bacteria Outbreak" [53]

"Bacteria linked to severe lung infections recently found in EPA’s Chicago office has also cropped up in three more EPA buildings, internal emails show."

Environmental Health [12]
Government [54]
Infrastructure [35]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [55], 09/05/2024
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Haaland Announces Restoration Of Once-Endangered Apache Trout In Arizona [56]

"U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Wednesday that the Apache trout — Arizona’s state fish — has been removed from the federal list of endangered and threatened wildlife following more than five decades of recovery efforts."

Biodiversity [48]
Fish & Fisheries [49]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [50]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [57]
Source: AP [58], 09/05/2024
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"Biden’s Top Climate Negotiator to Visit China This Week" [59]

"John Podesta, President Biden’s top climate diplomat, is traveling to Beijing on Tuesday where he is expected to press Chinese leaders to make more ambitious plans to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving climate change."

Climate Change [30]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Politics [26]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Asia [60]
Source: NYTimes [61], 09/04/2024
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"Focus: Canada's Insurance Sector Faces Climate Catastrophe Claim Deluge" [62]

"Hotter summers in Canada that have sparked wildfires in tourist areas, intense hailstorms and thunderstorms with severe flooding in major cities, all likely linked to climate change, are leading to personnel shortages and potentially claims adjustment delays, according to insurance sector insiders."

Climate Change [30]
Disasters [31]
Forests [42]
Public [15]
Canada [63]
Source: Reuters [64], 09/04/2024
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Congress Members Want U.S. To Do More To Stop Record Tijuana Pollution [65]

"San Diego Congress members are calling on the U.S. State Department to press Mexico to address unprecedented levels of sewage pollution spilling over from Tijuana, causing unbearable rotten-egg odors for residents in the region."

Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [26]
Infrastructure [35]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
California [66]
Mexico [27]
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune [67], 09/04/2024
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"Dark Money Group Aiding Cornel West Has Ties To Utility Operative" [68]

"A lawyer tied to secret funding of spoiler candidates in Florida is more evidence West’s biggest backers are people who want Trump to win".

Climate Change [30]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Politics [26]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Floodlight [69], 09/04/2024
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Florida State Parks Whistleblower Fired After Exposing Ron DeSantis’ Plans [70]

"Florida’s department of environmental protection has fired a whistleblower who exposed and sank governor Ron DeSantis’s secretive plan to pave over environmentally sensitive state parks and build lucrative hotels, golf courses and pickleball courts."

Environmental Politics [26]
Journalism & Media [43]
Natural Resources [50]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [37]
Source: Guardian [71], 09/04/2024
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