EJToday: Top Headlines

Huge Green Energy Transmission Project Will Cut Through SW Indigenous Lands [9]

"After a federal court rejected their lawsuit, tribes are turning to the U.N. for help."

Activism [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [16]
International [17]
Source: Grist [18], 04/23/2024
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"How European Trash Illegally Ends Up In Southeast Asia" [19]

"The illegal waste trade from Europe to Southeast Asia has emerged as a highly profitable, low-risk criminal enterprise with a major impact on the environment, economy, and human health."

Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [20]
Waste [21]
Public [14]
Asia [22]
Australia & Oceania [23]
Europe [24]
Source: DW [25], 04/23/2024
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"The Deepwater Horizon’s Very Unhappy Anniversary" [26]

"A recent scientific expedition to the Gulf of Mexico seafloor shows just how little things have improved near the broken well."

Biodiversity [27]
Disasters [28]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Justice [12]
Natural Resources [30]
Pollution [20]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [32]
Source: Hakai [33], 04/23/2024
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"How Scientists Are Learning To Eavesdrop On The Sounds Of Soil" [34]

"The sound of an earthworm is a distinctive rasping and scrunching. Ants sound like the soothing patter of rain. A passing, tunnelling vole makes a noise like a squeaky dog’s toy repeatedly being chewed."

Biodiversity [27]
Environmental Studies [35]
Natural Resources [30]
Science [36]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [17]
Source: Guardian [37], 04/23/2024
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"E.P.A. Will Make Polluters Pay to Clean Up Two ‘Forever Chemicals’" [38]

"The Biden administration is designating two “forever chemicals,” man-made compounds that are linked to serious health risks, as hazardous substances under the Superfund law, shifting responsibility for their cleanup to polluters from taxpayers."

Chemicals [39]
Environmental Health [29]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [20]
Waste [21]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NYTimes [40], 04/22/2024
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Biden Shields Millions of Acres in Alaska From Drilling and Mining [41]

"The administration has blocked a proposed industrial road needed to mine copper in the middle of the state, and has banned oil drilling on 13 million acres in the North Slope."

Climate Change [42]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [43]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [30]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Alaska and Hawaii [44]
Source: NYTimes [45], 04/22/2024
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"Scientists Fault Federal Response to Bird Flu Outbreaks on Dairy Farms" [46]

"Officials have shared little information, saying the outbreak was limited. But asymptomatic cows in North Carolina have changed the assessment."

Agriculture [47]
Consumer [48]
Environmental Health [29]
Food [49]
Journalism & Media [50]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NYTimes [51], 04/22/2024
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"Pennsylvania’s First Proposed Chemical Recycling Plant Cancelled" [52]

"Plans to build what would have been one of the largest chemical recycling plants in the country in Pennsylvania were canceled this week."

Air [53]
Chemicals [39]
Climate Change [42]
Consumer [48]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Politics [43]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [20]
Waste [21]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [54]
Source: EHN [55], 04/22/2024
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Earth Day: A Senator More Than 50 Years Ago Got People Fighting For Planet [56]

"Millions of people around the world will pause on Monday, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day. It’s an annual event founded by people who hoped to stir activism to clean up and preserve a planet that is now home to some 8 billion humans and assorted trillions of other organisms."

Activism [10]
Biodiversity [27]
Chemicals [39]
Climate Change [42]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [43]
Journalism & Media [50]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [17]
Source: AP [57], 04/22/2024
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"3 Offshore Wind Projects Nixed In New York" [58]

"New York canceled power contracts for three offshore wind projects Friday, citing a turbine maker’s plans to scrap its biggest machines." "It’s a major blow to New York’s climate plan and to President Joe Biden’s energy ambitions."

Climate Change [42]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [59]
Source: E&E News [60], 04/22/2024
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RFK Jr.’s Onetime Allies In Green Advocacy Call For Him To Drop Out [61]

"Environmental groups are condemning Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential bid and his environmental policy in new efforts on Friday, portraying him as a candidate who will increase the chances former President Donald Trump is reelected."

Environmental Politics [43]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: CNN [62], 04/22/2024
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Heat Caused Record-High Rates Of ER Visits In Parts Of US Last Year: CDC [63]

"Last summer was the hottest ever recorded in the United States, and heat-related health emergencies also reached record-high levels in some parts of the country."

Climate Change [42]
Disasters [28]
Environmental Health [29]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [17]
Source: CNN [64], 04/22/2024
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Biden Marks Earth Day By Announcing $7 Billion In Solar Power Grants [65]

"President Joe Biden is marking Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal grants for residential solar projects serving 900,000-plus households in low- and middle-income communities. He also plans to expand his New Deal-style American Climate Corps green jobs training program."

Climate Change [42]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [43]
Natural Resources [30]
People & Population [66]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: AP [67], 04/22/2024
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"San Francisco Mayor Announces The City Will Receive Pandas From China" [68]

"San Francisco is the latest U.S. city preparing to receive a pair of pandas from China, in a continuation of Beijing’s famed “panda diplomacy.”"

Biodiversity [27]
Environmental Politics [43]
Government [69]
Natural Resources [30]
Wildlife [70]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [17]
Asia [22]
Source: AP [71], 04/22/2024
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"The U.S. Just Changed How It Manages A Tenth Of Its Land" [72]

"For decades, the federal government has prioritized oil and gas drilling, hardrock mining and livestock grazing on public lands across the country. That could soon change under a far-reaching Interior Department rule that puts conservation, recreation and renewable energy development on equal footing with resource extraction."

Agriculture [47]
Biodiversity [27]
Climate Change [42]
Economy & Business [73]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [43]
Forests [74]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [30]
Wildlife [70]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Washington Post [75], 04/19/2024
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