EJToday: Top Headlines

"‘No Means No’: Conservation Spat May Still Sink Farm Bill" [9]

"After more than a year of hearings, listening sessions and heavy lobbying by policy groups, the five-year bill that funds agriculture and nutrition programs doesn’t look much closer to becoming law than it did when the discussions began."

Agriculture [10]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [17], 02/28/2024
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"Why Is Britain Quitting The Energy Charter Treaty?" [18]

"Britain announced this week that it would withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) over its failure to align with its net zero plans. Since the late 1990s, the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) has allowed firms and investors to sue governments whose plans to cut emissions from fossil fuels could hurt corporate profits."

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [19]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [15]
International [21]
Europe [22]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [23], 02/28/2024
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Antarctica ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Threatens Sea Level As Study Funds Melt [24]

"In a worst case scenario, rising global temperatures and marine heatwaves could melt enough of the Thwaites Glacier and other Antarctic ice to raise sea levels 10 feet by the early 2100s."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [25]
Natural Resources [14]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [15]
International [21]
Antarctica & Arctic [27]
Source: Inside Climate News [28], 02/28/2024
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"Montana Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Major Copper Mine" [29]

"Stalled work on a major copper mine proposed in central Montana can proceed after the state’s Supreme Court ruled Monday that officials had adequately reviewed the project’s environmental effects."

Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [30]
Source: AP [31], 02/28/2024
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Cities Warn of Funding Struggle as EPA Preps PFAS Drinking Water Rule [32]

"Cash-strapped city water systems are struggling to envision how they’ll pay to filter “forever chemicals” out of drinking water in light of an EPA rule that could be finalized as soon as March."

Chemicals [33]
Economy & Business [19]
Environmental Health [34]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [35]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [36]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [37], 02/28/2024
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"US Judge Halts Government Effort To Monitor Crypto Mining Energy Use" [38]

"The US government has suspended its effort to survey cryptocurrency mining operations over their ballooning energy use following a lawsuit from an industry that has been accused by environmental groups of fueling the climate crisis."

Economy & Business [19]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [39]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [36]
Technology [40]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Guardian [41], 02/28/2024
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Wildfires Are Killing California's Ancient Giants. Can Seedlings Save Them? [42]

"On a late autumn day, a team of forestry workers spreads out among the burned trunks of giant sequoia trees. The 1,000-year-old trees in the grove are dead but still standing, killed in an extreme wildfire that raced through Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks."

Biodiversity [43]
Climate Change [11]
Disasters [25]
Forests [44]
Natural Resources [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
California [45]
Source: NPR [46], 02/28/2024
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"Conservatives Gear Up For EPA Revamp In 2025" [47]

"Dramatic shifts to EPA’s priorities and structure are central to plans for a GOP-led White House drawn up by Trump-era officials and right-leaning influencers."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Health [34]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [36]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [48], 02/27/2024
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Shell Launches A ‘Climate Tech’ Startup Advertising Jobs In Oil And Gas [49]

"A sleek new startup promising to ‘advance the energy transition’ launched earlier this month promising to “[connect] thousands of innovators across the globe to tackle difficult energy and climate challenges”. "Onward touts a vision of a ‘clean energy future’, but experts say ventures like this are part of fossil fuel firms’ greenwashing plan".

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [39]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Guardian/Drilled [50], 02/27/2024
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TX Railroad Commission Approves Toxic Waste Ponds Next to Baptist Camp [51]

"Texas regulators recently authorized a company to operate ponds to store and recycle millions of gallons of oilfield wastewater laced with toxic chemicals next to a Baptist summer camp in the Permian Basin."

Chemicals [33]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Health [34]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [52]
Pollution [36]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [53]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [54]
Source: Inside Climate News [55], 02/27/2024
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Ore. Homeowners Face Soaring Premiums, Few Insurance Options Over Fires [56]

"Nancy Matela co-owns a vacation home in a wildfire zone northwest of Bend that has a new, annual property insurance premium of $9,000. It’s more than nine times what the company Safeco charged her a year ago."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [25]
Economy & Business [19]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Northwest (OR WA) [57]
Source: States Newsroom [58], 02/27/2024
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"EPA Orders LA County Landfill To Curb Hazardous Waste Leakage Immediately" [59]

"Federal environment officials have ordered a Los Angeles County landfill to take urgent action to protect public health, citing noxious odors and hazardous waste issues in the surrounding community."

Air [60]
Chemicals [33]
Environmental Health [34]
Environmental Justice [61]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [36]
Waste [62]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
California [45]
Source: The Hill [63], 02/27/2024
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Tractor Protests Threaten To Drive EU’s Green Farming Policies Into Ditch [64]

"It was the puddles of green sludge left by the tires of massive tractors in western Belgium’s industrial farmlands that drew the attention of biological engineer Ineke Maes. The slime was destructive algae, the result of the excess of chemicals used by farmers to boost their crops, but at a high cost to nature."

Agriculture [10]
Chemicals [33]
Climate Change [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [36]
Public [15]
Europe [22]
Source: AP [65], 02/27/2024
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Ohio Awards Bids To Frack Oil And Gas Under State Parks, Wildlife Areas [66]

"An Ohio commission awarded bids to frack oil and gas under state parks Monday, despite statewide backlash and an ongoing investigation into possibly fraudulent support."

Biodiversity [43]
Chemicals [33]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Politics [12]
Forests [44]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Pollution [36]
Water & Oceans [26]
Public [15]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [67]
Source: AP [68], 02/27/2024
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Florida Lawmakers Want To Eliminate Local Heat Protection Rules For Workers [69]

"A measure that will ban local governments from passing heat-protection ordinances inspired strong emotions from the public Thursday, but lawmakers approved the bill backed by big business interests."

Agriculture [10]
Climate Change [11]
Disasters [25]
Environmental Health [34]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [52]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [70]
Source: Florida Phoenix [71], 02/27/2024
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