EJToday: Top Headlines

"Marathon Refinery Fire Illustrates How Industry Goes Quiet During a Crisis" [9]

"Recent industrial disaster at Louisiana’s Marathon refinery shows how difficult it is to get information during dangerous events."

Chemicals [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: DeSmog [18], 09/06/2023
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"‘Alarming’ Scale Of Marine Sand Dredging Laid Bare By New Data Platform" [19]

"One million lorries of sand a day are being extracted from the world’s oceans, posing a “significant” threat to marine life and coastal communities facing rising sea levels and storms, according to the first-ever global data platform to monitor the industry."

Natural Resources [20]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [16]
International [22]
Source: Guardian [23], 09/06/2023
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"Why The United States Undercounts Climate-Driven Deaths" [24]

"The system of death surveillance wasn’t designed for a climate-changed world."

Climate Change [25]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Grist [26], 09/06/2023
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"Negotiators Finally Have A Draft Of The Global Plastics Treaty" [27]

"In March 2022, 175 countries agreed to write a global treaty to address the plastic pollution crisis. Now, a year and a half later, they finally have a rough draft."

Chemicals [10]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [29]
Public [16]
International [22]
Source: Grist [30], 09/06/2023
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West Texas Residents Forge Their Own Solution To Undrinkable Water [31]

"The water in these four unincorporated communities near Lubbock has been undrinkable for years, residents say. They hope to win $3 million in state grants to improve their systems."

Activism [32]
Consumer [33]
Environmental Health [12]
Infrastructure [34]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [35]
Source: Texas Tribune [36], 09/06/2023
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"Climate-Linked Ills Threaten Humanity" [37]

"The floods came, and then the sickness.

Muhammad Yaqoob stood on his concrete porch and watched the black, angry water swirl around the acacia trees and rush toward his village last September, the deluge making a sound that was like nothing he had ever heard. “It was like thousands of snakes sighing all at once,” he recalled.
Climate Change [25]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [16]
International [22]
Source: Washington Post [38], 09/06/2023
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Indian Trans Woman No Longer Begging After Donated Electric Rickshaw [39]

"When Preethi moved to Bengaluru in southern India 10 years ago after being kicked out of her family home for being transgender, she hoped for a better future."

Climate Change [25]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Justice [13]
People & Population [40]
Transportation [41]
Public [16]
Asia [42]
Source: AP [43], 09/06/2023
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"Home Insurers Cut Natural Disasters From Policies As Climate Risks Grow" [44]

"Some of the largest U.S. insurance companies say extreme weather has led them to end certain coverages, exclude natural disaster protections and raise premiums".

Climate Change [25]
Disasters [11]
Economy & Business [45]
Environmental Politics [46]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Washington Post [47], 09/05/2023
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Shuttered EPA Probe Could’ve Brought 'Meaningful Reform' In Cancer Alley [48]

"As industrial plants have overtaken historic Black communities and burdened neighborhoods with toxic air pollution, environmental advocates and residents of Louisiana’s chemical corridor have spent decades calling for change."

Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [46]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [29]
Public [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [49]
Source: WWNO [50], 09/05/2023
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"Biden Surveys Storm Damage In Florida, Without DeSantis" [51]

"President Joe Biden traveled to Florida on Saturday to survey the destruction from Hurricane Idalia and comfort victims of the storm, but he did not meet with Governor Ron DeSantis, a potential presidential rival, who opted not to come."

Climate Change [25]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Politics [46]
Journalism & Media [14]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [49]
Source: Reuters [52], 09/05/2023
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Green Groups Are Divided Over Proposal to Boost the Nation’s Hydropower [53]

"The new bill would shorten the permitting process for some projects, with a focus on converting old dams that don’t currently produce electricity into ones that do."

"America’s hydropower industry is hoping to reestablish some of its former glory by making itself central to the nation’s transition to clean energy—and it’s turning to Congress for help.
Climate Change [25]
Environmental Justice [13]
Fish & Fisheries [54]
Infrastructure [34]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [20]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Inside Climate News [55], 09/05/2023
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"Rags Not Riches: Ghana Drowns In Western Castoffs" [56]

"Traders in the world's largest secondhand clothes market want reparations for chronic pollution caused by fast fashion".

Consumer [33]
Environmental Politics [46]
Pollution [29]
Waste [57]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [16]
International [22]
Africa [58]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [59], 09/05/2023
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"The Never-Ending Nightmare of Ukraine’s Dam Disaster" [60]

"Environmentally, economically and in terms of pure human suffering, the destruction of the Kakhovka dam unleashed untold damage. Months later, many communities are still reeling."

Disasters [11]
Infrastructure [34]
Military [61]
Natural Resources [20]
People & Population [40]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [16]
Europe [62]
Source: NYTimes [63], 09/05/2023
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Big Farms and Flawless Fries Are Gulping Water in the Land of 10,000 Lakes [64]

"When Minnesota farmers cranked up their wells in a drought, they blew through state limits. Thirsty crops included corn, soybeans and perfect, fry-friendly potatoes."

Agriculture [65]
Climate Change [25]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [66]
Source: NYTimes [67], 09/05/2023
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"Carbon Credit Market Confidence Ebbs As Big Names Retreat" [68]

"Voluntary carbon markets have shrunk for the first time in at least seven years, as companies including food giant Nestle and fashion house Gucci reduced buying and studies found several forest protection projects did not deliver promised emissions savings."

Climate Change [25]
Economy & Business [45]
Energy & Fuel [28]
Environmental Politics [46]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [16]
International [22]
Source: Reuters [69], 09/05/2023
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