EJToday: Top Headlines

Enviros Sue To Force Feds To Finalize Ship Speed Rules That Protect Whales [9]

"A coalition of environmental groups has sued the federal government to try to force the finalization of ship speed rules that the groups say are critically important to save a vanishing species of whale."

Biodiversity [10]
Fish & Fisheries [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Transportation [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Wildlife [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: AP [18], 02/16/2024
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"Hope on the Halfshell" - Oyster Restoration Protects the Chesapeake Bay [19]

"The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) has released a new report outlining how restoring the Bay’s native oyster populations could bolster climate resilience and community vitality."

Biodiversity [10]
Fish & Fisheries [11]
Natural Resources [20]
Pollution [21]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [22]
Source: WBOC [23], 02/16/2024
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"Indigenous Languages Are Founts of Environmental Knowledge" [24]

"Peoples who live close to nature have a rich lore of plants, animals, and landscapes embedded in their mother tongues".

Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Studies [25]
Journalism & Media [26]
Natural Resources [20]
People & Population [27]
Public [16]
International [28]
Source: Knowable [29], 02/16/2024
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"A Collapse of the Amazon Could Be Coming ‘Faster Than We Thought’" [30]

"Up to half of the Amazon rainforest could transform into grasslands or weakened ecosystems in the coming decades, a new study found, as climate change, deforestation and severe droughts like the one the region is currently experiencing damage huge areas beyond their ability to recover."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [31]
Disasters [32]
Forests [33]
Natural Resources [20]
Water & Oceans [14]
Wildlife [15]
Public [16]
South America [34]
Source: NYTimes [35], 02/15/2024
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"Farmers, Tribes Reach ‘Historic’ Klamath River Deal" [36]

"The Interior Department on Wednesday announced an armistice in the battle over the Klamath River, unveiling an agreement between farmers reliant on the waterway for irrigation and tribal nations seeking to restore the region’s fisheries."

Agriculture [37]
Environmental Politics [38]
Fish & Fisheries [11]
Infrastructure [39]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [20]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [16]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [40]
Northwest (OR WA) [41]
Source: E&E News [42], 02/15/2024
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Giant Baytown Refinery Complex Wants To Expand Amid Community Backlash [43]

"Exxon’s Baytown complex in the Houston-area has the third largest oil refinery in the U.S. and is requesting permit renewal for its olefins plant despite repeated violations to the Clean Air Act."

Air [44]
Chemicals [45]
Energy & Fuel [46]
Environmental Health [47]
Environmental Justice [48]
Environmental Politics [38]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [21]
Public [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [49]
Source: EHN [50], 02/15/2024
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"Anxiety Builds As Deadline For Biden Rules Nears" [51]

"The administration is facing a deadline this spring to finalize rules to ensure that they’re shielded from procedural rollbacks in the event that Republicans take hold of Congress and the White House next year."

Environmental Politics [38]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: E&E News [52], 02/15/2024
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"The East Coast Is Sinking" [53]

"New satellite-based research reveals how land along the coast is slumping into the ocean, compounding the danger from global sea level rise. A major culprit: overpumping of groundwater."

Natural Resources [20]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [54], 02/15/2024
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"Google To Share Oil And Gas Methane Leaks Spotted From Space" [55]

"Google and environmental group Environmental Defense Fund on Wednesday unveiled a partnership to expose sources of climate-warming emissions from oil and gas operations that will be detected from space by a new satellite."

Activism [56]
Air [44]
Chemicals [45]
Climate Change [31]
Energy & Fuel [46]
Pollution [21]
Technology [57]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [28]
Source: Reuters [58], 02/15/2024
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"In $100 Million Colorado River Deal, Water and Power Collide" [59]

"The new owners of the water right intend to make no changes to its flow, leasing it to the hydropower plant currently using it and then sending it downstream to communities, farmers and fish in western Colorado."

Agriculture [37]
Energy & Fuel [46]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [40]
Source: Inside Climate News [60], 02/15/2024
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As Carbon-Intensive Farms Grow, Vilsack Urges Climate Action [61]

"The new Census of Agriculture shows carbon-intensive farms and large, factory-scale animal operations are only getting bigger."

Agriculture [37]
Climate Change [31]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Inside Climate News [62], 02/15/2024
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"Global Warming Could Drive Locust Outbreaks into New Regions, Study Warns" [63]

"A study published today in Science Advances suggests that, if global warming isn’t curbed, west India and west central Asia could become locust hotspots in the decades ahead, raising new challenges for control efforts, and further threatening food security and livelihoods in already vulnerable regions."

Agriculture [37]
Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [31]
Disasters [32]
Natural Resources [20]
Wildlife [15]
Public [16]
International [28]
Source: Inside Climate News [64], 02/15/2024
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"The Plastics Industry Would Like A Word With Your Kids" [65]

"Wearing a lab coat, Eve Vitale asked a chemistry class at Warren Mott High School if anyone had heard anything bad about plastics. Hands shot up. It doesn’t degrade, said one student. It hurts the environment, said another. But “that’s not really the plastic’s fault,” said Vitale, chief executive of the Society of Plastics Engineers Foundation, a group of industry professionals. “That’s the fault of humanity.”"

Chemicals [45]
Consumer [66]
Economy & Business [67]
Environmental Politics [38]
Journalism & Media [26]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: Washington Post [68], 02/15/2024
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"Trinidad And Tobago Cleans Up Beaches Following 12-Kilometer Oil Spill" [69]

"First responders and volunteers from Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday sought to contain an oil spill detected last week in the Caribbean country's waters and clean areas of Tobago island's coast already affected by the incident."

Energy & Fuel [46]
Natural Resources [20]
Pollution [21]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [16]
Central America & the Caribbean [70]
Source: Reuters [71], 02/14/2024
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"Wildfire Smoke Will Worsen, New Study Shows, and Protections Are Few" [72]

"More than 125 million Americans will be exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollution by the middle of the century, largely because of increased smoke from wildfires, according to estimates released on Monday."

Air [44]
Climate Change [31]
Disasters [32]
Environmental Health [47]
Pollution [21]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [73], 02/14/2024
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