EJToday: Top Headlines

"UN Biodiversity Summit In Colombia Aims To Turn Words Into Action" [9]

"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 [10]
Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Natural Resources [13]
Wildlife [14]
Public [15]
International [16]
Source: AFP [17], 10/08/2024
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Appeals Court Hears Arguments in Case Claiming Cancer Alley Racism [18]

"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 [19]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [21]
Laws & Regulations [22]
People & Population [23]
Planning & Growth [24]
Pollution [25]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [26]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [27]
Source: Inside Climate News [28], 10/08/2024
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The World’s Rivers Faced The Driest Year In Three Decades In 2023: WMO [29]

"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 [11]
Disasters [30]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [15]
International [16]
Source: AP [32], 10/08/2024
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Solar Growing Fast In Africa, Where 600 Million Still Lack Electricity [33]

"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 [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Public [15]
Africa [34]
Source: AP [35], 10/08/2024
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"Exported Gas Produces Far Worse Emissions Than Coal, Major Study Finds" [36]

"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 [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Pollution [25]
Transportation [37]
Public [15]
International [16]
Source: Guardian [38], 10/08/2024
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"Florida Braces For Hurricane Milton On The Heels Of Helene" [39]

"Florida prepared on Sunday for its largest evacuation since 2017 as Hurricane Milton intensified in the Gulf of Mexico on its path toward the U.S. state's western coast, coming on the heels of the devastating Hurricane Helene."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [30]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [26]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [27]
Source: Reuters [40], 10/07/2024
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"Oil Moguls Emerge as Key Cash Source for Trump as Race Nears End" [41]

"Oil executives have emerged as an increasingly important source of funding for Donald Trump, as industry titans open their wallets to bolster the Republican nominee’s campaign for a second term in the White House."

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [42]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [43]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Bloomberg [44], 10/07/2024
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"Supreme Court Confronts NEPA, Water Permits, Agency Power" [45]

"The Supreme Court has its sights set on another bedrock environmental law, following recent efforts to take on Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act protections."

Climate Change [11]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [43]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Pollution [25]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: E&E News [46], 10/07/2024
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"Supreme Court To Review Nuclear Waste Fight" [47]

"The justices will consider whether a lower court improperly tossed approvals for a temporary storage facility in Texas."

Environmental Health [20]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [48]
Waste [49]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: E&E News [50], 10/07/2024
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"Tribes Celebrate The End Of The Largest Dam Removal Project In US History" [51]

"The largest dam removal project in U.S. history was completed Wednesday, marking a major victory for tribes in the region who fought for decades to free hundreds of miles of the Klamath River near the California-Oregon border."

Activism [52]
Environmental Justice [21]
Fish & Fisheries [53]
Infrastructure [54]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Natural Resources [13]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [26]
Northwest (OR WA) [55]
Source: AP [56], 10/07/2024
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EPA Drinking Water Limits For PFAS Are Under Threat – And That’s Nothing New [57]

"Though utilities’ mission is to provide clean water, their trade groups for decades have often fiercely opposed initiatives to improve quality"

Chemicals [19]
Consumer [58]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [43]
Government [59]
Infrastructure [54]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Pollution [25]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Guardian [60], 10/07/2024
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"Helene Response Hampered By Misinformation, Conspiracy Theories" [61]

"False claims are adding to the chaos and confusion in many storm-battered communities. Social media platforms such as X have allowed the falsehoods to spread."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [30]
Environmental Politics [43]
Journalism & Media [62]
People & Population [23]
Water & Oceans [31]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Washington Post [63], 10/07/2024
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"Mexico’s New President Promises To Resume Fight Against Climate Change" [64]

"In her first days as Mexico’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum made a point of distancing herself from the fossil fuel reliance promoted by her predecessor and mentor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and vowed to resume an energy transition that he halted."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [43]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Public [15]
Mexico [65]
Source: AP [66], 10/07/2024
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Photos Of Vast E-Waste Dumping Ground — And Those Who Make A Living Off It [67]

"When he was just 18 years old, Emmanuel Akatire traveled about 500 miles from his home in Zorko, Ghana, to Accra, the nation’s capital, to find the only work he could — sifting through vast piles of discarded electronics to find valuable scrap metal. A week’s worth of painstaking, often dangerous work, earns him the equivalent of about 60 U.S. dollars."

Chemicals [19]
Consumer [58]
Environmental Health [20]
People & Population [23]
Pollution [25]
Technology [68]
Waste [49]
Public [15]
International [16]
Africa [34]
Source: NPR [69], 10/07/2024
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"Migrating Seabirds Are Bringing Forever Chemicals Into the Arctic" [70]

"New research shows how toxic chemicals hitch a ride with seabirds flying from southern latitudes to the Arctic."

Biodiversity [10]
Chemicals [19]
Natural Resources [13]
Pollution [25]
Science [71]
Water & Oceans [31]
Wildlife [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [26]
International [16]
Source: Hakai [72], 10/07/2024
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