EJToday: Top Headlines

"Nuclear Milestone: Feds Greenlight Vogtle To Fuel Up" [9]

"Federal regulators cleared the way yesterday for Southern Co.’s nuclear business to load radioactive fuel rods into one of its newly constructed reactors at Plant Vogtle, officially moving the long-troubled project closer to producing electricity in Georgia."

Laws & Regulations [10]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: E&E News [14], 08/05/2022
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"Drought Emergency in Mexico Rekindles Demand for Water Law Reform" [15]

"The nation added a right to water to its constitution a decade ago, but has never created the policies that would ensure it’s met, leaving twice as many people thirsty today."

Climate Change [16]
Consumer [17]
Disasters [18]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [12]
Mexico [20]
Source: Inside Climate News [21], 08/05/2022
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"U.S. Cities Push The Homeless To Live In Tent Camps" [22]

"Cities tackling a surge of street homelessness are offering official camps while penalizing people sleeping in public elsewhere".

Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Justice [24]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [25], 08/05/2022
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"Communities Near 23 Sterilization Plants Have Increased Cancer Risk: EPA" [26]

"Communities near 23 sterilization facilities across the U.S. have increased risks of cancer due to the facilities’ emissions of a toxic chemical, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said this week."

Chemicals [27]
Environmental Health [23]
Pollution [28]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: The Hill [29], 08/05/2022
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Judge Rejects Federal Plans For Fossil Fuel Mining In Powder River Basin [30]

"A federal judge on Wednesday night threw out two resource management plans developed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), finding they failed to account for the risk of fossil fuel leasing on public lands in Montana and Wyoming."

Energy & Fuel [31]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: The Hill [32], 08/05/2022
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"Appalachian Voices Sues State Over Release Of Carbon Market Document" [33]

"Nonprofit Appalachian Voices is suing Virginia to force the release of a document that allegedly contains an opinion from the attorney general’s office that Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin cannot pull the state out of a regional carbon market."

Journalism & Media [34]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Public [12]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [35]
Source: Virginia Mercury [36], 08/05/2022
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"How the New Climate Bill Would Reduce Emissions" [37]

"A major climate and energy package announced last week in a deal by Senate Democrats would put the United States much closer to its goal of cutting global warming pollution in half by 2030, several new independent analyses have concluded."

Climate Change [16]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [11]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NYTimes [38], 08/04/2022
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"EPA Announces Flights To Look For Methane In Permian Basin" [39]

"The Environmental Protection Agency says it will conduct helicopter overflights to look for methane “super emitters” in the nation’s largest oil and gas producing region."

Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [40]
Source: AP [41], 08/04/2022
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"Ukraine: Situation at Europe's Largest Nuclear Plant 'Out Of Control'" [42]

"Experts say that Ukraine's occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant — Europe's biggest — is "extremely vulnerable" to meltdown after the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said all safety measures had been "violated" by Russian forces."

Disasters [18]
Military [43]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [11]
Public [12]
Europe [44]
Source: DW [45], 08/04/2022
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"A Race To Save Fish As Rio Grande Dries, Even In Albuquerque" [46]

"On a recent, scorching afternoon in Albuquerque, off-road vehicles cruised up and down a stretch of dry riverbed where normally the Rio Grande flows. The drivers weren’t thrill-seekers, but biologists hoping to save as many endangered fish as they could before the sun turned shrinking pools of water into dust."

Biodiversity [47]
Climate Change [16]
Disasters [18]
Fish & Fisheries [48]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [12]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [40]
Source: AP [49], 08/04/2022
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"Wind-Whipped Fire Leaves Northern California Hamlet In Ashes" [50]

"A week ago, the scenic Northern California hamlet of Klamath River was home to about 200 people and had a community center, post office and a corner grocery store. Now, after a wildfire raged through the forested region near the Oregon state line, four people are dead and the store is among the few buildings not reduced to ashes."

Climate Change [16]
Disasters [18]
Forests [51]
People & Population [52]
Public [12]
California [53]
Source: AP [54], 08/04/2022
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"A Record Amount Of Seaweed Is Choking Shores In The Caribbean" [55]

"Near-record amounts of seaweed are smothering Caribbean coasts from Puerto Rico to Barbados, killing fish and other wildlife, choking tourism and releasing stinky, noxious gases."

Climate Change [16]
Fish & Fisheries [48]
Pollution [28]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [12]
Central America & the Caribbean [56]
Source: AP [57], 08/04/2022
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Long a Climate Straggler, Australia Advances Major Bill to Cut Emissions [58]

"After years of being denounced as a laggard on climate change, Australia shifted course on Thursday, with the Lower House of Parliament passing a bill that commits the government to reducing carbon emissions by at least 43 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, and reaching net zero by 2050."

Climate Change [16]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Public [12]
Australia & Oceania [59]
Source: NYTimes [60], 08/04/2022
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"Drought, Sluggish Mississippi River Make Small Dead Zone" [61]

"Drought made the Mississippi River sluggish and led to a smaller than average dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico — an area where there’s too little oxygen to support marine life, the scientist who’s been measuring it for decades said Wednesday."

Climate Change [16]
Pollution [28]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: AP [62], 08/04/2022
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"UN Warns Two Largest US Water Reservoirs At ‘Dangerously Low Levels’" [63]

"The United Nations warned on Tuesday that the two biggest water reservoirs in the United States have dwindled to “dangerously low levels” due to the impacts of climate change."

Agriculture [64]
Climate Change [16]
Disasters [18]
Energy & Fuel [31]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: The Hill [65], 08/04/2022
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