EJToday: Top Headlines

"With Dams Removed, Salmon Will Have the Run of a Western River" [9]

"The nation’s largest dam removal project is nearly complete after a lengthy campaign by Native tribes to restore the river at the California-Oregon border."

Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Justice [11]
Fish & Fisheries [12]
Food [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
California [19]
Northwest (OR WA) [20]
Source: NYTimes [21], 08/28/2024
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Newsom Axes Funding To Enforce California Oil Well Protection Law [22]

"Gavin Newsom’s late session proposal to extend deadlines — by more than four years in one case — for oil companies to comply with a new law fizzled and died late this week."

Air [23]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Health [25]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [26]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [27]
Public [17]
California [19]
Source: CalMatters [28], 08/28/2024
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"Unauthorized Drones Are Making Wildfires More Destructive" [29]

"An alarming trend, and confusing regulations, hamper firefighting efforts across the country"

Climate Change [30]
Disasters [31]
Forests [32]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Technology [33]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Sierra [34], 08/28/2024
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"The Big Lie In The Montana Senate Race" [35]

"Montana GOP Senate hopeful Tim Sheehy has spent the last several months defending himself against accusations that he poses a threat to America’s federal public lands — a mess that the multimillionaire businessman and former Navy SEAL created when, shortly after launching his campaign, he explicitly called for federal lands to be “turned over to state agencies, or even counties.”

Environmental Politics [26]
Forests [32]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [36]
Source: HuffPost [37], 08/28/2024
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RFK Jr Faces Call For Probe Into Claim He Chainsawed Whale’s Head Off [38]

"An environmental group is calling for a federal investigation into the former presidential candidate for an episode in which he allegedly severed the head of a washed-up whale with a chainsaw – and drove home with it strapped to his car’s roof."

Biodiversity [10]
Environmental Politics [26]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Guardian [39], 08/28/2024
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"Record Number Of Americans Killed By Heat In 2023: Research" [40]

"Extreme heat killed more Americans in 2023 than any other year over nearly a quarter century of records, according to research published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association."

Climate Change [30]
Disasters [31]
Environmental Health [25]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The Hill [41], 08/27/2024
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Rare, Deadly Mosquito Virus Has Massachusetts Towns Urging Vigilance [42]

"A rare but deadly disease spread by mosquitoes has one town in Massachusetts closing its parks and fields each evening. Four other towns are urging people to avoid going outdoors at night."

Climate Change [30]
Environmental Health [25]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [43]
Source: AP [44], 08/27/2024
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"National Parks Nonprofit Receiving Largest Grant In Its History" [45]

"An Indiana-based philanthropic endowment will give $100 million to the official nonprofit of the National Park Service (NPS), the largest gift the organization has ever received."

Biodiversity [10]
Natural Resources [15]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The Hill [46], 08/27/2024
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"At Least 30 Dead, Many Missing After Dam Bursts In Eastern Sudan" [47]

"Surging waters have burst through a dam, wiped out at least 20 villages and left at least 30 people dead but probably many more in eastern Sudan, the United Nations said on Monday, devastating a region already reeling from months of civil war."

Disasters [31]
Infrastructure [48]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
Africa [49]
Source: Reuters [50], 08/27/2024
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"Tanzania's Maasai Protest Eviction In The Name Of Conservation" [51]

"For a week, the green hills around Tanzania's famous Ngorongoro crater have been chequered with the blood red shuka cloths of tens of thousands of Maasai herdsman protesting their eviction from their land - all in the name of conservation."

Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [26]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [15]
People & Population [52]
Public [17]
Africa [49]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [53], 08/27/2024
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DeSantis’ Plan To Develop State Parks Set Back As Golf Course Backer Quits [54]

"Facing widespread opposition across the political spectrum, Gov. Ron DeSantis ' plan to develop state parks with business ventures — such as golf courses, pickleball courts and large hotels — has hit a snag after a key supporter pulled the plug."

Biodiversity [10]
Economy & Business [55]
Environmental Politics [26]
Natural Resources [15]
Public [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [56]
Source: AP [57], 08/27/2024
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Corps To Reexamine Permit For Hyundai’s $7.6 Billion Georgia EV Plant [58]

"A federal agency plans to reassess its environmental permit for Hyundai’s $7.6 billion electric vehicle plant in Georgia after a conservation group complained that regulators failed to properly examine the sprawling factory’s potential impacts on the area’s water supply."

Climate Change [30]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [56]
Source: AP [59], 08/27/2024
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"Troubled Waters" [60]

"In an iconic corner of the Grand Canyon, a uranium mine may threaten a tribe’s sole water source"

Environmental Justice [11]
Natural Resources [15]
People & Population [52]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [61]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [62]
Source: Science [63], 08/27/2024
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"As The World Heats Up, So Does The Debate Around Artificial Turf" [64]

"Artificial turf carpets athletic fields, playgrounds, and residential lawns across the US, offering a low-maintenance alternative to natural grass that always looks lush and doesn’t require heavy watering. But while this popular synthetic material is marketed as eco-friendly, it has also long attracted controversy – for decades, environmental and health advocates have expressed concern about the chemical byproducts of the turf’s plastic fibers."

Chemicals [65]
Climate Change [30]
Environmental Health [25]
Pollution [27]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: The New Lede [66], 08/27/2024
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"Meet The ManhattAnt, The Ant That's Taken New York's Streets By Storm" [67]

"Frank Sinatra famously sang that if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. And that’s just what worries some scientists who have been studying a particular species of ant."

Biodiversity [10]
Natural Resources [15]
Wildlife [68]
Public [17]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [43]
Source: NPR [69], 08/27/2024
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