EJToday: Top Headlines

Extreme Weather Cost $2 Trillion Globally Over Past Decade, Report Finds [9]

"Violent weather cost the world $2 trillion over the past decade, a report has found, as diplomats descend on the Cop29 climate summit for a tense fight over finance."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
International [16]
Source: Guardian [17], 11/14/2024
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Biden Admin Backs King Cove Road Through Izembek Wildlife Refuge [18]

"The Biden administration on Wednesday endorsed a land exchange that would allow a controversial gravel road to be built through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Southwest Alaska."

Biodiversity [19]
Environmental Politics [20]
Health [21]
Infrastructure [22]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Natural Resources [24]
Transportation [25]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [26]
Alaska and Hawaii [27]
Source: Anchorage Daily News [28], 11/14/2024
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"How Will Offshore Wind Fare Under A Second Trump Term?" [29]

"Trump said he’ll end offshore wind “on day one.” Experts say he can’t do that, but his administration could cause plenty of trouble for the nascent industry."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Politics [20]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Technology [31]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Canary Media [32], 11/14/2024
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"Teen Infected In Canada’s First Bird Flu Case Is In Critical Condition" [33]

"A Canadian teenager infected with bird flu — that country’s first case involving a locally acquired infection — is in critical condition and experiencing difficulty breathing, health officials said Tuesday."

Agriculture [34]
Biodiversity [19]
Environmental Health [13]
Wildlife [35]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [26]
Canada [36]
Source: Washington Post [37], 11/14/2024
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"Dutch Appeals Court Overturns Landmark Climate Ruling Against Shell" [38]

"A Dutch appeals court on Tuesday overturned a landmark ruling that ordered energy company Shell to cut its carbon emissions by net 45% by 2030 compared to 2019 levels, while saying that "protection against dangerous climate change is a human right."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Public [15]
International [16]
Europe [39]
Source: AP [40], 11/14/2024
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Meat, Oil And Pesticide Lobbyists Turned Out In Record Numbers At Cop16 [41]

"In total 1,261 business and industry delegates registered for Cop16 in Cali, Colombia, which ended in disarray and without significant progress on a number of key issues including nature funding, monitoring biodiversity loss and work on reducing environmentally harmful business subsidies."

Agriculture [34]
Biodiversity [19]
Chemicals [42]
Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Politics [20]
Forests [43]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Natural Resources [24]
Wildlife [35]
Public [15]
International [16]
Source: Guardian [44], 11/14/2024
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"PFAS May Be Contaminating Drinking Water For Up To 27% Americans – Study" [45]

"PFAS may be contaminating drinking water for up to 70% of about 140 million people in the US who draw water from the nation’s aquifers via private or public wells, a new federal government study estimates. The findings show a potential impact on about 95m people, or 27% of the nation’s population."

Chemicals [42]
Environmental Health [13]
Pollution [46]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Guardian [47], 11/14/2024
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Extreme Weather Ramping Up Toxic Nitrate Pollution In Groundwater: Study [48]

"Climate-driven extreme weather conditions, such as droughts and intense precipitation, may be accelerating the pace at which toxic nitrates are polluting groundwater, a recent study has found."

Agriculture [34]
Chemicals [42]
Environmental Health [13]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [46]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: The Hill [49], 11/14/2024
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New Jersey Will Issue Drought Warning After Dry October As Wildfires Rage [50]

"With wildfires burning after its driest September and October ever, New Jersey will issue a drought warning, a step that could eventually lead to mandatory water restrictions if significant rain doesn’t fall soon."

Agriculture [34]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Forests [43]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Natural Resources [24]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [51]
Source: AP [52], 11/14/2024
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Dust Storm Reduces Visibility, Causes Pileup On Central Calif. Highway [53]

"A powerful dust storm known as a haboob caused a vehicle pile-up on a central California highway, sending several people to hospitals with minor injuries, authorities said."

Air [54]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Pollution [46]
Transportation [25]
Public [15]
California [55]
Source: AP [56], 11/14/2024
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Scientists Report Another Bump Upward In Annual Carbon Emissions [57]

"Even as Earth sets new heat records, humanity this year is pumping 330 million tons (300 million metric tons) more carbon dioxide into the air by burning fossil fuels than it did last year."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Pollution [46]
Science [58]
Public [15]
International [16]
Source: AP [59], 11/13/2024
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"Oil Industry Asks Trump to Repeal Major Climate Policies" [60]

"America’s oil industry released its wish list for the incoming Trump administration on Tuesday, a five-point plan that would eliminate many of the Biden administration’s most far-reaching efforts to reduce climate pollution and limit the warming that is driving ever more destructive and deadly extreme weather."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Politics [20]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [46]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: Inside Climate News [61], 11/13/2024
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"Lee Zeldin Knows How to Defend Trump. Will He Defend the Environment?" [62]

"When he ran for governor of New York two years ago, fellow Republicans privately exhorted former Representative Lee Zeldin to distance himself from Donald J. Trump and his debunked conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. He leaned in instead, most likely dooming any chance of his winning in a Democratic-leaning state."

Environmental Politics [20]
Pollution [46]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: NYTimes [63], 11/13/2024
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Despite Promise, Biden BLM Keeps OKing Plans To Cut Down Old Forests [64]

"In 2022, President Joe Biden announced a new effort to protect old forests, which are key to the fight against climate change. But it hasn’t made much of a difference."

Environmental Politics [20]
Forests [43]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Natural Resources [24]
Wildlife [35]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [26]
Source: ProPublica/OPB [65], 11/13/2024
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"Cop29 Host Azerbaijan Hits Out At West In Defence Of Oil And Gas" [66]

"The president of Azerbaijan, host of this year’s UN climate summit, lashed out at Western critics of his country’s oil and gas industry on Tuesday."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Politics [20]
Journalism & Media [67]
Public [15]
International [16]
Source: Reuters [68], 11/13/2024
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