EJToday: Top Headlines

Feds Propose Killing 500,000 'Invasive' Owls To Save Calif. Native Owls [9]

"A group of 75 animal rights organizations, including several in California, signed a joint letter sent to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Monday urging her to nix a proposal by the U.S. Department of Fish & Wildlife to shoot nearly half a million “invasive” owls over the next 30 years."

Biodiversity [10]
Forests [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [13]
Wildlife [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
California [17]
Northwest (OR WA) [18]
Source: SFGate [19], 03/28/2024
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Paused Ohio "Chemical Recycling" Plant Puts Spotlight On Appalachia [20]

"On a bright, cold day in February, Akim Lattermore stood in front of her house gesturing toward the site of a proposed facility that would convert old tires, electronic waste and plastic into fuel."

Chemicals [21]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [23]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [25]
Waste [26]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [27]
Source: EHN [28], 03/27/2024
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"Supreme Court Refuses Antiquities Act Fight" [29]

"The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a pair of cases that could have diminished the president’s power to establish new national monuments — but critics of that authority say there are still multiple avenues to rein in the White House’s ability to conserve public lands."

Forests [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [30], 03/27/2024
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"NOAA Gets Dire Warning About Solar Geoengineering" [31]

"The agency is being asked to strengthen a toothless rule that requires only a heads-up before experiments to modify the weather."

Climate Change [32]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [25]
Technology [33]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [34], 03/27/2024
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"Berkeley Plans To Repeal First US Gas Ban" [35]

"The city of Berkeley, California, has agreed to repeal the nation’s first-ever gas ban, raising questions about the fate of similar restrictions on fossil fuels across the West."

Climate Change [32]
Energy & Fuel [36]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
California [17]
Source: E&E News [37], 03/27/2024
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Accidents Involving Toxic Vinyl Chloride Are Commonplace, New Report Finds [38]

"A year after a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, the study found vinyl chloride accidents have happened on average “once every five days since 2010.” An industry group says the chemical is safe and “makes modern life possible.”"

Chemicals [21]
Disasters [39]
Environmental Health [22]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [25]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Inside Climate News [40], 03/27/2024
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"The Surprising Reasons Why Big Oil May Not Want A Second Trump Term" [41]

"Some oil and gas industry executives fear Donald Trump’s protectionist policies could spark a global trade war".

Economy & Business [42]
Energy & Fuel [36]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Washington Post [43], 03/27/2024
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"New Book Details How ‘Barons’ Took Over American Agriculture" [44]

"“Barons,” published Tuesday by Austin Frerick, a native Iowan and Yale University food policy fellow, argues that a runaway process of monopoly has gutted rural America while bleeding the taste from American food."

Agriculture [45]
Biodiversity [10]
Consumer [46]
Economy & Business [42]
Food [47]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: The Hill [48], 03/27/2024
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To Protect Coal, West Va. Governor Vetoes Bill Expanding Renewable Energy [49]

"West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) on Tuesday vetoed a measure that would raise the allowable size for a solar plant operated by state utilities, citing concerns about its effects on the coal industry."

Energy & Fuel [36]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [25]
Public [15]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [50]
Source: The Hill [51], 03/27/2024
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"New Warning System Could Save Lives During Wildfires" [52]

"The system got its biggest test yet in February 2024 as a million-acre blaze ripped through the Texas Panhandle."

Climate Change [32]
Disasters [39]
Forests [11]
Government [53]
Technology [33]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [54], 03/27/2024
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"They Save Baby Seals From Fishing Line and Plastics. Millions Watch" [55]

"Ocean Conservation Namibia is disentangling a record number of seals, while broadcasting the perils of marine debris in a largely feel good way."

Activism [56]
Biodiversity [10]
Journalism & Media [57]
Natural Resources [13]
Pollution [25]
Waste [26]
Water & Oceans [58]
Wildlife [14]
Public [15]
Africa [59]
Source: NYTimes [60], 03/27/2024
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"Study: No Top Oil Companies Aligned With Paris Climate Goals" [61]

"None of the 25 biggest oil and gas companies is on track to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, according to research released Friday by the climate finance think tank Climate Tracker."

Climate Change [32]
Energy & Fuel [36]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [15]
International [62]
Source: The Hill [63], 03/26/2024
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"Reading The Ruins Of Amazon Fires, Scientists See Crisis Ahead" [64]

"The Amazon is battling record early-year fires, fuelling fears of a worse climate crisis to come as blazes kill vegetation that is key to absorbing planet-warming carbon dioxide. Fanned by drought, high winds and human felling, the forest is suffering unprecedented fires this early in the year, satellite images show, with the dry season still to reach critical parts of the Amazon."

Agriculture [45]
Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [32]
Disasters [39]
Forests [11]
Natural Resources [13]
Public [15]
International [62]
South America [65]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [66], 03/26/2024
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Chevron Will Pay Record $13M Fines for Oil Spills in California [67]

"Chevron has agreed to pay a record-setting $13 million to two California agencies in the wake of investigations by The Desert Sun and ProPublica of dozens of oil spills, and of lax enforcement by the state's oil and gas division. But the announcement late Wednesday masks ongoing issues."

Disasters [39]
Energy & Fuel [36]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [25]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
California [17]
Source: Palm Springs Desert Sun [68], 03/26/2024
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"Developing Nations' Booming Cement Demand May Drive Up CO2 Emissions" [69]

"Innovation and policy changes are urgently required to tackle climate-warming emissions from the cement sector, with an infrastructure boom in developing countries set to drive up production for decades, a research group said on Thursday."

Climate Change [32]
Environmental Justice [23]
Infrastructure [70]
Planning & Growth [71]
Pollution [25]
Public [15]
International [62]
Source: Reuters [72], 03/26/2024
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