EJToday: Top Headlines

"Why Are Pesticide Companies Fighting State Laws to Address PFAS?" [9]

"In Maine, Maryland, and beyond, the industry is using a well-worn playbook to slow legislators’ attempts to get forever chemicals out of food and water."

Agriculture [10]
Biodiversity [11]
Chemicals [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Civil Eats [19], 12/19/2024
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"Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation" [20]

"Jubilee Justice grows rice regeneratively while reclaiming the past."

Agriculture [10]
Biodiversity [11]
Environmental Justice [21]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [22]
Source: Civil Eats [23], 12/19/2024
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"Trump Tariff Plan Threatens To Drive Up Gas Prices" [24]

"Trump said late last month that on his first day in office, he would place 25 percent tariffs on all Canadian and Mexican goods. The two countries are the leading sources of U.S. oil imports — and if he implements the tariffs, analysts say the action could result in higher gasoline prices."

Consumer [25]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Politics [27]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Transportation [28]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Canada [29]
Mexico [30]
Source: The Hill [31], 12/18/2024
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Denmark Refuses To Extradite Whaling Activist Paul Watson, Frees Him [32]

"Paul Watson, the anti-whaling campaigner, has spoken of delight that he will be reunited with his young children for Christmas after Denmark rejected Japan’s extradition request and released him from prison in Greenland."

Activism [33]
Biodiversity [11]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Water & Oceans [16]
Wildlife [34]
Public [17]
International [35]
Source: Guardian [36], 12/18/2024
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Who’s Funding ‘Newspaper’ Mailed to Potential Jurors in Greenpeace Trial? [37]

"A dark money trail linked to pipeline company Energy Transfer could be behind a mysterious mailer targeting North Dakota residents in the lead-up to its trial with Greenpeace."

Energy & Fuel [26]
Journalism & Media [38]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [39]
Source: DeSmog [40], 12/18/2024
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"Biden Moves To Stall Gas Export Projects That Trump Promises To Boost" [41]

"The Biden administration on Tuesday released a long-awaited analysis of the dangers that liquefied natural gas exports pose to the environment and the economy, raising a potential hurdle to a central part of President-elect Donald Trump’s energy agenda."

Climate Change [42]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Politics [27]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Transportation [28]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Washington Post [43], 12/18/2024
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California’s PG&E Could Get $15B In Federal Loans To Modernize Its Grid [44]

"Pacific Gas & Electric Co. could receive up to $15 billion in federal loans to help the utility modernize its power grid and expand clean energy infrastructure across central and northern California, officials announced Tuesday."

Climate Change [42]
Economy & Business [45]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Infrastructure [46]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
California [47]
Source: AP [48], 12/18/2024
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Some In Seafood Industry See Trump As Friend, But Tariffs Could Raise Prices [49]

"The incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump is likely to bring big changes for one of the oldest sectors of the U.S. economy — seafood — and some in the industry believe the returning president will be more responsive to its needs."

Consumer [25]
Economy & Business [45]
Environmental Politics [27]
Fish & Fisheries [50]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: AP [51], 12/18/2024
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"Beholding the Arctic’s Wonders — And Its Melting Future" [52]

"Thousands of years ago, the Arctic was ice-free. What can its past teach us about its future?"

Climate Change [42]
Natural Resources [53]
Science [54]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
International [35]
Antarctica & Arctic [55]
Source: Atmos [56], 12/18/2024
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Toxic PFAS Taint Rural California Drinking Water, Far From Known Sources [57]

"PFAS chemicals have unexpectedly turned up in well water in rural farmland, far from any industrial areas, airports, or military bases."

Agriculture [10]
Chemicals [12]
Consumer [25]
Environmental Health [13]
Natural Resources [53]
Pollution [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
California [47]
Source: KFF Health News [58], 12/18/2024
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"Trump Sues Des Moines Register, Pollster For ‘Election Interference’" [59]

"President-elect Donald Trump sued the Des Moines Register and its pollster for “brazen election interference” in publishing a survey the weekend before the election that showed Democrat Kamala Harris with a surprising lead of three percentage points in the state."

Economy & Business [45]
Environmental Politics [27]
Journalism & Media [38]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: AP [60], 12/18/2024
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"Associated Press Photographers Capture Climate Change In 2024" [61]

"All year, Associated Press photographers around the globe have captured moments, from the brutality unleashed during extreme weather events to human resilience in the face of hardship, that tell the story of a changing Earth."

Climate Change [42]
Journalism & Media [38]
Public [17]
International [35]
Source: AP [62], 12/18/2024
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Anxious Scientists Brace For Trump’s Climate Denialism: ‘Target On Our Backs’ [63]

"As the world’s largest gathering of Earth and space scientists swarmed a Washington venue last week, the packed halls have been permeated by an air of anxiety and even dread over a new Donald Trump presidency that might worsen what has been a bruising few years for science."

Climate Change [42]
Environmental Politics [27]
Environmental Studies [64]
Natural Resources [53]
Science [54]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Guardian [65], 12/17/2024
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Emboldened by ABC Settlement, Trump Threatens More Lawsuits Against Media [66]

"President-elect Donald Trump had not been terribly successful in suing media organizations until this weekend when ABC News agreed to settle a closely-watched defamation case he brought against the network to the tune of $16 million. Now, Trump is expanding his threats of legal action against the news media as he prepares to move back into the White House, stating he wants to “straighten out the press.”"

Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [27]
Government [67]
Journalism & Media [38]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Science [54]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: CNN [68], 12/17/2024
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UN Talks Fail To Agree On Dealing With Rising Risk Of Global Drought [69]

"Despite two weeks of U.N.-sponsored talks in Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh, the participating 197 nations failed to agree early Saturday on a plan to deal with global droughts, made longer and more severe by a warming climate."

Agriculture [10]
Biodiversity [11]
Climate Change [42]
Disasters [70]
Natural Resources [53]
People & Population [71]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
International [35]
Africa [72]
Source: AP [73], 12/17/2024
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