EJToday: Top Headlines

"‘A Scam All Around’: Navajo Nation Groups Oppose Hydropower Projects" [9]

"Navajo Nation environmentalists are opposing a “self-described jet setter” and French millionaire’s plans for a massive hydropower project they claim will adversely affect the land, water, wildlife, plants and cultural resources of the largest land area held by Indigenous American peoples in the US."

Consumer [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [15]
People & Population [16]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [20]
Source: Guardian [21], 12/12/2023
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"Deep in the Wilderness, the World’s Largest Beaver Dam Endures" [22]

"The largest beaver dam on Earth was discovered via satellite imagery in 2007, and since then only one person has trekked into the Canadian wild to see it. It’s a half-mile long and has created a 17-acre lake in the northern forest — a testament to the beaver’s resilience."

Biodiversity [23]
Fish & Fisheries [24]
Infrastructure [25]
Natural Resources [15]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
Canada [26]
Source: YaleE360 [27], 12/12/2023
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"Big Divisions Loom Over Fossil Fuels As COP28 Talks Head Into Final Phase" [28]

"The president of the COP28 climate summit on Sunday urged negotiators to work harder to find consensus on a proposed first-of-its-kind deal to phase out the world's use of fossil fuels, as the two-week conference entered its final stage."

Climate Change [29]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [18]
International [30]
Source: Reuters [31], 12/11/2023
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"Azerbaijan Is Expected to Host the U.N. Climate Summit in 2024" [32]

"The next United Nations climate change summit appears set to take place in Azerbaijan, a spokesman for the country said Saturday, resolving a bitter, monthslong political standoff over which nation should host the talks in 2024."

Climate Change [29]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [13]
Public [18]
International [30]
Source: NYTimes [33], 12/11/2023
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"L.A. County Aims To Collect Billions More Gallons Of Local Water By 2045" [34]

"Over the next two decades, Los Angeles County will collect billions more gallons in water from local sources, especially storm and reclaimed water, shifting from its reliance on other region’s water supplies as the effects of climate change make such efforts less reliable and more expensive."

Climate Change [29]
Environmental Politics [13]
Infrastructure [25]
Natural Resources [15]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
California [35]
Source: LA Times [36], 12/11/2023
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"CDC Issues Health Alert For Deadly Tick-Borne Disease" [37]

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday warned clinicians and the public about an outbreak of a rare but deadly tick-borne disease that hospitalized five patients in Southern California, killing three of them, after they traveled to or lived in a Mexican border city in recent months."

Environmental Health [38]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [20]
Source: Washington Post [39], 12/11/2023
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NPS Teaming Up With Tribes To Tell 'More Complete Story' Of U.S. History [40]

"Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Wednesday that the National Park Service is launching an initiative with Native American tribes to tell “a more complete story of American history” at the country’s 428 national park sites."

Environmental Justice [12]
Journalism & Media [41]
Natural Resources [15]
People & Population [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: HuffPost [42], 12/11/2023
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Wildfires, Drought Caused $11.2 Billion Losses To Private West Coast Forests [43]

"A new study from Oregon State University estimates that wildfire and drought caused $11.2 billion in economic losses to privately owned timberland in California, Oregon and Washington over the past two decades."

Climate Change [29]
Forests [44]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
California [35]
Northwest (OR WA) [45]
Source: Tribune News Service [46], 12/11/2023
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"EPA to Louisiana: Strengthen Baton Rouge Air Emission Rules, Or We Will" [47]

"Louisiana must strengthen rules over the release of ozone-creating nitrogen oxide air emissions by industries in the Baton Rouge area during startups, shutdowns and malfunctions, or the federal Environmental Protection Agency will write and enforce its own rules, the agency announced this week."

Air [48]
Chemicals [49]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [50]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [51]
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [52], 12/11/2023
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"Wyoming Looks To Extract High Price From Feds For Teton Land" [53]

"The National Park Service will get another chance to buy a 640-acre parcel of state-owned land inside the border of Grand Teton National Park after the Wyoming State Board of Land Commissioners voted Thursday to delay a proposed auction."

Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [15]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [54]
Source: E&E News [55], 12/11/2023
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Trump Slams Kerry In Wild Town Hall, Insisting Climate Change Not A Problem [56]

"Former President Donald Trump didn’t shy away from echoing his adamant denial of climate change during a town hall Tuesday in Iowa hosted by Sean Hannity."

Climate Change [29]
Environmental Politics [13]
Science [57]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: HuffPost [58], 12/11/2023
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"Looking For Honey? This African Bird Will Heed Your Call And Take You There" [59]

"A wild African bird that will famously lead people to trees filled with honeycomb seems to somehow learn the distinct whistles and calls of the human foragers who live near them."

Biodiversity [23]
Public [18]
Africa [60]
Source: NPR [61], 12/11/2023
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"Election-Year Rules Could Span Coal Dust To California Owls" [62]

"The Biden administration aims to complete an ambitious set of energy and environment-related rules as it navigates the tumult of a presidential election year."

Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [63], 12/08/2023
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Pregnant Women Near Farms Had Higher Weedkiller Levels During Spraying Season [64]

"Pregnant women living near farm fields show “significantly” increased concentrations of glyphosate weedkiller in their urine during periods when farmers are spraying their fields with the herbicide, according to a new scientific paper published on Wednesday."

Agriculture [65]
Chemicals [49]
Environmental Health [38]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [50]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Guardian [66], 12/08/2023
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Turning Blades Send First Commercial Offshore Wind Power Onto US Grid [67]

"Despite some recent financial setbacks, U.S. offshore windpower has hit a milestone. An 800-foot tall turbine is now sending electricity onto the grid from a commercial-scale offshore wind farm on pace to be the country’s first."

Climate Change [29]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: AP [68], 12/08/2023
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