EJToday: Top Headlines

"DOJ Sues Norfolk Southern Over Toxic Train Derailment In Ohio" [9]

"The Justice Department filed a major civil suit Friday against Norfolk Southern Railway after one of its trains carrying toxic chemicals derailed near the Ohio town of East Palestine on Feb. 3 and burst into flames."

Chemicals [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Transportation [17]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Washington Post [20], 04/03/2023
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"Oil Prices Soar On Producer Output Cuts; World Shares Higher" [21]

"Oil prices soared nearly 6% on Monday after Saudi Arabia and other major oil producers said they will cut production by 1.15 million barrels per day from May until the end of the year. Shares in Asia were mixed."

Climate Change [22]
Consumer [23]
Economy & Business [24]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Public [18]
International [26]
Source: AP [27], 04/03/2023
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"New Oilfield In The North Sea Would Blow The Uk’S Carbon Budget" [28]

"A single new oil and gas field in the North Sea would be enough to exceed the UK’s carbon budgets from its operations alone, analysis has shown, as the government considers fossil fuel expansion despite the legally binding commitment to net zero."

Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Public [18]
Europe [29]
Source: Guardian [30], 04/03/2023
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Meeting Closes Without Resolving Whether Deep-Sea Mining Can Start In July [31]

"As meetings to oversee deep-sea mining on the high seas draw to a close, it remains unclear whether regulators will allow it to commence in the near future."

Biodiversity [32]
Climate Change [22]
Environmental Politics [14]
Fish & Fisheries [33]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [34]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [35]
Public [18]
International [26]
Source: Mongabay [36], 04/03/2023
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"Harvard Professor’s Fossil Fuel Links Under Scrutiny Over Climate Grant" [37]

"An eminent Harvard environmental law professor’s links to the fossil fuel industry are under scrutiny from colleagues and students after she was awarded a prestigious research grant to investigate corporate climate pledges."

Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Politics [14]
Science [38]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Guardian [39], 04/03/2023
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"Unheralded Environmentalist: Jimmy Carter’s Green Legacy" [40]

"With the former president now in hospice care, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird looks back on Jimmy Carter’s environmental record in the White House — from his sweeping protection of Alaska’s wild lands to his efforts to push the nation toward renewable energy."

Biodiversity [32]
Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [34]
People & Population [41]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: YaleE360 [42], 04/03/2023
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"Meatball From Long-Extinct Mammoth Created By Food Firm" [43]

"A mammoth meatball has been created by a cultivated meat company, resurrecting the flesh of the long-extinct animals."

Biodiversity [32]
Food [44]
Technology [45]
Public [18]
International [26]
Source: Guardian [46], 04/03/2023
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"House GOP Approves Broad Bill To ‘Unleash’ American Energy" [47]

"House Republicans on Thursday approved a sprawling energy package that seeks to undo virtually all of President Joe Biden’s agenda to address climate change."

Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: AP [48], 03/31/2023
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"BLM Proposes Seismic Shift In Lands Management" [49]

"The Bureau of Land Management unveiled a sweeping draft rule Thursday that would represent a fundamental shift in how the agency manages millions of acres of public lands that are under increasing threat from climate change, drought and wildfires."

Agriculture [50]
Biodiversity [32]
Climate Change [22]
Fish & Fisheries [33]
Forests [51]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [34]
Wildlife [52]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: E&E News [53], 03/31/2023
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Biden To Announce Federal Funding For Mississippi Tornado Recovery Friday [54]

"U.S. President Joe Biden will announce on Friday that the federal government will cover for 30 days the full cost of Mississippi's emergency measures in response to last week's storm that killed 26 people, a White House official said."

Disasters [11]
Environmental Politics [14]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Source: Reuters [55], 03/31/2023
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"EPA Proposes to Add First-Ever Navajo Site to Superfund List" [56]

"The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to add the Lukachukai Mountains Mining District to the Superfund National Priorities List, according to EPA Thursday. The site, located entirely on the Navajo Nation, holds over a hundred waste piles stemming from uranium mining, the agency said."

Climate Change [22]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [57]
People & Population [41]
Pollution [16]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [58]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [59], 03/31/2023
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"Long-Awaited Rules for Carbon Offset Market Disappoint Experts" [60]

"A widely touted effort to clean up the embattled carbon-offsets market has been met with disappointment among experts."

Climate Change [22]
Economy & Business [24]
Environmental Politics [14]
Forests [51]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [34]
Public [18]
International [26]
Source: Bloomberg Green [61], 03/31/2023
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"‘Gone Wrong’: Doubts On Carbon-Credit Program In Peru Forest" [62]

"The Cordillera Azul National Park on the eastern flank of the Peruvian Andes takes in a sweep of Amazon rainforest, mountains and waterfalls in a territory about the size of Connecticut, so precious that tens of millions of dollars in carbon credits have been sold in a program that supporters said would protect its trees."

Biodiversity [32]
Climate Change [22]
Economy & Business [24]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [63]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Natural Resources [34]
Public [18]
South America [64]
Source: AP [65], 03/31/2023
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"Why Kentucky Is Dead Last for Wind and Solar Production" [66]

"Coal industry influence and climate change denial paved the state’s race to the clean energy bottom. As one lawmaker put it: “God created coal for people.”"

Climate Change [22]
Economy & Business [24]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [18]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [67]
Source: Inside Climate News [68], 03/31/2023
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"Court Brings Mountain Valley Pipeline Closer To Completion" [69]

"The Mountain Valley pipeline inched toward completion after a three-judge panel Wednesday unanimously denied environmentalists’ challenge to a Virginia water permit for the planned natural gas project."

Energy & Fuel [25]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Public [18]
National (U.S.) [19]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [70]
Source: E&E News [71], 03/31/2023
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