EJToday: Top Headlines

"Big Oil Backtracks On Renewables Push As Climate Agenda Falters" [9]

"Major European energy companies doubled down on oil and gas in 2024 to focus on near-term profits, slowing down - and at times reversing - climate commitments in a shift that they are likely to stick with in 2025."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Pollution [12]
Public [13]
International [14]
Europe [15]
Source: Reuters [16], 01/02/2025
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"Jimmy Carter’s Conservation Legacy" [17]

"The 39th U.S. president led the fight to preserve vast swaths of Alaskan wilderness. It forever changed the state and the National Park Service."

Biodiversity [18]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [19]
Forests [20]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Natural Resources [22]
Policy [23]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: E&E News [25], 01/02/2025
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Toxic Benzene Plagued Channelview, Tex. Regulators Never Told Residents. [26]

"The highest levels exceed even Texas’ benzene guideline — the weakest in the nation — but aren’t being recorded by a state monitor. That means the community’s cancer risk could be higher than previously thought."

Air [27]
Chemicals [28]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Justice [29]
Journalism & Media [30]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [12]
Public [13]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [31]
Source: Public Health Watch [32], 01/02/2025
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Florida Debates Where To Build The Nation’s Largest Trash Incinerator [33]

"Residents argue the project will disproportionately impact majority-Black and -Hispanic communities in the Miami-Dade area."

Activism [34]
Air [27]
Chemicals [28]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [29]
Environmental Politics [35]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [12]
Waste [36]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [37]
Source: KFF Health News [38], 01/02/2025
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Oil And Gas Firms In Colorado Falsified Environmental Impact Reports [39]

"State’s energy and carbon management commission said fraudulent pollution data was reported for at least 344 wells"

Chemicals [28]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [19]
Pollution [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Guardian [40], 01/02/2025
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"Chemtrail Conspiracy Theories: Why RFK Jr Is Watching The Skies" [41]

"Belief in a supposed US government plot linked to aircraft condensation trails has been boosted by confusion over proposals to geoengineer a response to the climate crisis"

Environmental Politics [35]
Journalism & Media [30]
Science [42]
Transportation [43]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Guardian [44], 01/02/2025
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"Agricultural Poisons Tell a Tale of Two Californias" [45]

"The Golden Rule doesn’t apply in the Golden State when it comes to protecting Latino and Indigenous farmworker communities from toxic pesticides."

Agriculture [46]
Chemicals [28]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [29]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
California [47]
Source: Inside Climate News [48], 12/23/2024
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More Than 3,100 Students Died At Indian Boarding Schools [49]

"The Washington Post has found more than three times as many deaths as the U.S. government documented in its investigation of Indian boarding schools."

Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [29]
Laws & Regulations [21]
People & Population [50]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [51]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Washington Post [52], 12/23/2024
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Activists Sue NOAA For Images Of Dead Orcas Entangled By Fishing Boats [53]

"Activists sued the federal government Thursday to release images of dead orca whales, sea lions and other marine mammals entangled by commercial fishing boats off the U.S. West Coast."

Activism [34]
Biodiversity [18]
Fish & Fisheries [54]
Journalism & Media [30]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: AP [55], 12/23/2024
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Group Says New Jersey Toxic Waste Dumping Caused $1B In Harm, Sues [56]

"Years of toxic waste dumping in a Jersey Shore community where childhood cancer rates rose caused at least $1 billion in damage to natural resources, according to an environmental group trying to overturn a settlement between New Jersey and the corporate successor to the firm that did the polluting."

Chemicals [28]
Economy & Business [57]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [29]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [12]
Waste [36]
Water & Oceans [58]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [59]
Source: AP [60], 12/23/2024
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Senator Urges EPA to Release Report on Formaldehyde Health Risks [61]

"Citing a recent ProPublica investigation, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., urged the Environmental Protection Agency in a letter this week to issue a final report on the health risks of formaldehyde that is “science-based” and “as strong as possible,” adding that “the agency has an obligation to protect the public from the chemical.”"

Chemicals [28]
Consumer [62]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [29]
Environmental Politics [35]
Journalism & Media [30]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [12]
Science [42]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: ProPublica [63], 12/23/2024
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Maryland Sues GORE-TEX Company For Polluting Water With PFAS Chemicals [64]

"Maryland is suing Cecil County-based manufacturing giant W.L. Gore & Associates for knowingly polluting the air and surrounding water with toxic Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)."

Chemicals [28]
Consumer [62]
Environmental Health [19]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [12]
Water & Oceans [58]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [65]
Source: CBS News [66], 12/23/2024
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WH Scientists Call For National Effort To Curb Groundwater Depletion [67]

"Even as groundwater levels have rapidly declined in farming regions from California’s Central Valley to the High Plains, the federal government has mostly taken a hands-off approach to the chronic depletion of the nation’s aquifers. But in a new report for the White House, scientists say the country is facing serious and unprecedented groundwater challenges that call for the federal government to play a larger role."

Agriculture [46]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [62]
Disasters [68]
Environmental Studies [69]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Natural Resources [22]
Water & Oceans [58]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: LA Times [70], 12/23/2024
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"Chart: Wind And Solar Overtook Coal On The US Grid In 2024" [71]

"In a first for the country, solar and wind generated more electricity than coal over most of 2024. The two renewable energy sources provided a record 17 percent of U.S. electricity from January to November, while coal contributed 15 percent, according to data from think tank Ember."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Technology [72]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: Canary Media [73], 12/23/2024
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Gas Leaks Must Be Fixed By Utilities In New Proposed PHMSA Rule [74]

"Melissa Ostroff finds gas leaks for a living, so it was surprising to hear someone say they smelled gas in her own home."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [62]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [19]
Infrastructure [75]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [24]
Source: NPR [76], 12/23/2024
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