EJToday: Top Headlines

In Visit, EPA Head Vows To Address Environmental Injustices In Watts [9]

"During a visit to the Jordan Downs public housing complex in Watts on Saturday morning, EPA Administrator Michael Regan said the agency is working with state and federal partners to address elevated lead levels in the community’s drinking water and pollution from scrap metal recycler S&W Atlas Iron & Metal Co."

Chemicals [10]
Environmental Justice [11]
Pollution [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
California [15]
Source: LA Times [16], 10/09/2024
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"Deforestation ‘Roaring Back’ Despite 140-Country Vow To End Destruction" [17]

"The destruction of global forests increased in 2023, and is higher than when 140 countries promised three years ago to halt deforestation by the end of the decade, an analysis shows."

Agriculture [18]
Climate Change [19]
Environmental Politics [20]
Forests [21]
Natural Resources [22]
Public [14]
International [23]
Source: Guardian [24], 10/09/2024
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"Oregon County Sues Major Gas Provider For Allegedly Sowing Climate Doubt" [25]

"Oregon’s most populous county has sued the state’s biggest gas provider for allegedly sowing climate doubt, marking the first time a utility has faced charges of climate deception."

Climate Change [19]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Politics [20]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Science [28]
Public [14]
Northwest (OR WA) [29]
Source: Guardian [30], 10/09/2024
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"Fossil Fuels Fund Academia. Now What?" [31]

"Despite decades of donations and research footed by the industry, we’re just now beginning to understand how much fossil fuel money has shaped academia."

Climate Change [19]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Politics [20]
Environmental Studies [32]
Science [28]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [33]
Source: Drilled [34], 10/09/2024
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"Ferocious Mother 128 ‘Grazer’ Wins Back-To-Back Fat Bear Week Titles" [35]

"128 “Grazer” made Fat Bear Week history Tuesday night by becoming the first competitor to win the tournament while caring for a cub. Her victory over 32 “Chunk” also felt deeply personal for legions of her online fans; earlier this summer, Grazer’s enormous rival attacked the second of her offspring, who later died of the injuries."

Biodiversity [36]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Studies [32]
Fish & Fisheries [37]
Food [38]
Natural Resources [22]
Water & Oceans [13]
Wildlife [39]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [33]
Alaska and Hawaii [40]
Source: Washington Post [41], 10/09/2024
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"Hurricane Warnings In Florida As Residents Scramble Before Milton Arrives" [42]

"Over 9 million people in Florida are under a hurricane warning as Hurricane Milton approaches, posing a dangerous, life-threatening threat. The warning encompasses some of Florida's most populated cities, including Tampa, Orlando, and St. Petersburg, as well as coastal communities from Cedar Key to Cape Coral."

Climate Change [19]
Disasters [43]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [33]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [44]
Source: AccuWeather [45], 10/08/2024
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EPA Requires Removal Of Most Lead-Contaminated Water Pipes Within 10 Years [46]

"About a decade after the Flint water crisis, the Biden administration is requiring the removal of most of the nation’s lead-contaminated water pipes within 10 years."

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [47]
Environmental Health [48]
Environmental Justice [11]
Infrastructure [49]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Pollution [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [33]
Source: The Hill [50], 10/08/2024
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"Back-to-Back Hurricanes Set to Strain FEMA as Its Funds Run Low" [51]

"The cash-strapped US Federal Emergency Management Agency is set to be tested by back-to-back major disasters as Hurricane Milton barrels toward Florida’s Gulf Coast less than two weeks after Helene devastated the Southeast."

Climate Change [19]
Disasters [43]
Economy & Business [52]
Government [53]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [33]
Source: Bloomberg Green [54], 10/08/2024
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"In Competitive Purple Districts, GOP House Members Paint Themselves Green" [55]

"Climate activists are calling out incumbents' poor environmental records in a coordinated drive to flip the House to Democratic control."

Climate Change [19]
Environmental Politics [20]
Journalism & Media [56]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [33]
Source: Inside Climate News [57], 10/08/2024
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"EPA Not Protecting Public From Neonic Exposure, Analysis Suggests" [58]

"Rodent studies given to US regulators by insecticide makers close to 20 years ago revealed the chemicals could be harmful to the animals’ brain development – data worrisome for humans exposed to the popular pesticides but not properly accounted for by regulators, according to a new research report published this week."

Agriculture [18]
Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [48]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Pollution [12]
Science [28]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [33]
Source: The New Lede [59], 10/08/2024
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"UN Biodiversity Summit In Colombia Aims To Turn Words Into Action" [60]

"Two years after a landmark UN-brokered deal to protect nature from a massive wave of destruction, delegates will gather at a new COP in Colombia in late October to assess their progress."

Biodiversity [36]
Climate Change [19]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Natural Resources [22]
Wildlife [39]
Public [14]
International [23]
Source: AFP [61], 10/08/2024
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Appeals Court Hears Arguments in Case Claiming Cancer Alley Racism [62]

"Black residents of Louisiana’s St. James Parish asked a federal appeals court on Monday to overturn a lower court ruling and give them the opportunity to argue at trial that local land-use policies are racist and have concentrated polluting industrial plants in their neighborhoods."

Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [48]
Environmental Justice [11]
Laws & Regulations [27]
People & Population [63]
Planning & Growth [64]
Pollution [12]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [33]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [44]
Source: Inside Climate News [65], 10/08/2024
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The World’s Rivers Faced The Driest Year In Three Decades In 2023: WMO [66]

"The U.N. weather agency is reporting that 2023 was the driest year in more than three decades for the world’s rivers, as the record-hot year underpinned a drying up of water flows and contributed to prolonged droughts in some places."

Climate Change [19]
Disasters [43]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [14]
International [23]
Source: AP [67], 10/08/2024
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Solar Growing Fast In Africa, Where 600 Million Still Lack Electricity [68]

"Companies that bring solar power to some of the poorest homes in Central and West Africa are said to be among the fastest growing on a continent whose governments have long struggled to address some of the world’s worst infrastructure and the complications of climate change."

Climate Change [19]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Public [14]
Africa [69]
Source: AP [70], 10/08/2024
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"Exported Gas Produces Far Worse Emissions Than Coal, Major Study Finds" [71]

"Exported gas emits far more greenhouse gas emissions than coal, despite fossil-fuel industry claims it is a cleaner alternative, according to a major new research paper that challenges the controversial yet rapid expansion of gas exports from the US to Europe and Asia."

Climate Change [19]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Pollution [12]
Transportation [72]
Public [14]
International [23]
Source: Guardian [73], 10/08/2024
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