EJToday: Top Headlines

"What the Historic Climate Bill Means for Farmers and the Food System" [9]

"The Inflation Reduction Act includes billions for sustainable agriculture and a last-minute provision to provide debt relief to farmers."

Agriculture [10]
Climate Change [11]
Food [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Civil Eats [16], 08/10/2022
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Conceding to Manchin, Bill Exempts Most Oil Industry From Methane Fees [17]

"The U.S. Senate climate bill’s fee on oil and gas industry methane emissions will cover less than half the sector’s releases of the powerful greenhouse gas, thanks to concessions made to win over party holdout Joe Manchin, according to a review of the legislation and interviews with lawmakers that negotiated it."

Climate Change [11]
Economy & Business [18]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Environmental Politics [20]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [21]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Reuters [22], 08/10/2022
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EPA OKs Plan To Truck Contamination From One Black Community To Another [23]

"Contaminated soil from a Superfund site in Navassa [N.C.] will be shipped to one of three landfills outside Brunswick County, likely moving toxic pollution from one non-white or low-income community to another."

Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Justice [25]
Pollution [21]
Waste [26]
Public [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [27]
Source: States Newsroom [28], 08/10/2022
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"Climate Bill Targets Transmission to Unjam Clean Energy Backlog" [29]

"Senate Democrats’ climate bill includes $3 billion in loans and grants for electric transmission projects—money that, in addition to tax incentives for electricity generators, would break down a significant barrier to a large-scale clean energy rollout, advocates said."

Climate Change [11]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Infrastructure [30]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [31], 08/10/2022
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Newly Identified Langya Virus Tracked After China Reports Dozens Of Cases [32]

"Virus, which causes symptoms including fever, fatigue, cough, loss of appetite and muscle aches, is believed to have spread from animals to humans".

Biodiversity [33]
Environmental Health [24]
Wildlife [34]
Public [14]
International [35]
Source: Guardian [36], 08/10/2022
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"A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making" [37]

"Time and again, mining company Homestake and government agencies promised to clean up waste from decades of uranium processing. It didn’t happen. Now they’re trying a new tactic: buying out homeowners to avoid finishing the job."

Natural Resources [38]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [39]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: ProPublica [40], 08/10/2022
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"Biden Surveys Flood Damage In Kentucky, Pledges More US Help" [41]

"President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Monday witnessed the damage from deadly and devastating storms that have resulted in the worst flooding in Kentucky’s history, as they visited the state to meet with families and first responders."

Climate Change [11]
Disasters [42]
Environmental Politics [20]
Water & Oceans [43]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [27]
Source: AP [44], 08/09/2022
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"Electric Cars Too Costly for Many, Even With Aid in Climate Bill" [45]

"Policymakers in Washington are promoting electric vehicles as a solution to climate change. But an uncomfortable truth remains: Battery-powered cars are much too expensive for a vast majority of Americans."

Climate Change [11]
Consumer [46]
Energy & Fuel [19]
Transportation [47]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NYTimes [48], 08/09/2022
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"Study Connects Climate Hazards To 58% Of Infectious Diseases" [49]

"Climate hazards such as flooding, heat waves and drought have worsened more than half of the hundreds of known infectious diseases in people, including malaria, hantavirus, cholera and anthrax, a study says."

Climate Change [11]
Environmental Health [24]
Science [50]
Public [14]
International [35]
Source: AP [51], 08/09/2022
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"How Young Californians Cope To Beat Climate Anxiety and Doom" [52]

"When he was 6 years old, Sim Bilal began to have nightmares of floods pouring through his South Los Angeles home."

Activism [53]
Climate Change [11]
Disasters [42]
Environmental Health [24]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
California [54]
Source: LA Times [55], 08/09/2022
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"COVID Sewage Surveillance Labs Join the Hunt for Monkeypox" [56]

"The same wastewater surveillance techniques that have emerged as a critical tool in early detection of COVID-19 outbreaks are being adapted for use in monitoring the startling spread of monkeypox across the San Francisco Bay Area and some other U.S. communities."

Environmental Health [24]
Health [57]
Waste [26]
Water & Oceans [43]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NPR [58], 08/09/2022
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"EPA Seeks To Add DINP Plasticizer To Toxics Release Inventory" [59]

"Twenty years after first suggesting it, federal regulators on Monday proposed adding a group of plastic additives common in toys, flooring and fabric coatings to its list of toxic chemicals, concluding that it can "reasonably be anticipated to cause cancer and serious or irreversible chronic health effects in humans.""

Chemicals [60]
Consumer [46]
Environmental Health [24]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: EHN [61], 08/09/2022
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Congress Set To Pass Huge Bipartisan Wildlife Conservation Bill [62]

"Recovering America’s Wildlife Act would funnel millions of dollars into saving overlooked species."

Biodiversity [33]
Environmental Politics [20]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Wildlife [34]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Vox [63], 08/09/2022
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"Billions in Feds’ Spending on Megafire Risks Seen as Misdirected" [64]

"Congress is spending billions to save communities from Western megafires by thinning large swaths of forests even as scientists say climate change-driven drought and heat are too extreme for it to work. The money would be better spent thinning woods closest to homes and shoring up houses against embers raining down from firestorms, according to academics, former agency officials, and others who study wildfires."

Climate Change [11]
Consumer [46]
Disasters [42]
Forests [65]
Infrastructure [30]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [66], 08/09/2022
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"In Dry California, Salty Water Creeps Into Key Waterways" [67]

"Charlie Hamilton hasn’t irrigated his vineyards with water from the Sacramento River since early May, even though it flows just yards from his crop."

Agriculture [10]
Climate Change [11]
Water & Oceans [43]
Public [14]
California [54]
Source: AP [68], 08/09/2022
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