EJToday: Top Headlines

California Isn’t Enforcing Its Strongest-in-the-Nation Oil Well Cleanup Law [9]

"State regulators could have asked oil companies California Resources Corp. and Aera Energy for an estimated $2.4 billion to guarantee wells are plugged but decided they didn’t have the authority to do so."

Energy & Fuel [10]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Pollution [12]
Public [13]
California [14]
Source: ProPublica [15], 07/25/2024
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"Revealed: Wealthy Western Countries Lead In Global Oil And Gas Expansion" [16]

"A surge in new oil and gas exploration in 2024 threatens to unleash nearly 12bn tonnes of planet-heating emissions, with the world’s wealthiest countries – such as the US and the UK – leading a stampede of fossil fuel expansion in spite of their climate commitments, new data shared exclusively with the Guardian reveals."

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Pollution [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [19]
Source: Guardian [20], 07/25/2024
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"What Project 2025 Would Do To Climate Policy In The US" [21]

"As delegates arrived at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee earlier this week to officially nominate former president Donald Trump as their 2024 candidate, a right-wing policy think tank held an all-day event nearby. The Heritage Foundation, a key sponsor of the convention and a group that has been influencing Republican presidential policy since the 1980s, gathered its supporters to tout Project 2025, a 900-plus-page policy blueprint that seeks to fundamentally restructure the federal government."

Climate Change [17]
Environmental Politics [22]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Grist [23], 07/25/2024
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"How Israel’s War On Gaza Unraveled A Landmark Mideast Climate Deal" [24]

"Project Prosperity, a water-for-energy deal between Israel and Jordan, promised major climate adaption in a drought-stricken region. Then October 7 happened."

Energy & Fuel [10]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [13]
Middle East [26]
Source: Grist [27], 07/25/2024
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Enviros Challenge New Rules on Toxic Air Plastic and Chemical Pollution [28]

"Environmental groups are teeing up a legal challenge to new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules on pollution from chemical and plastics plants, citing concerns the EPA relied too heavily on lowball industry estimates as it sized up the risks to people’s health posed by ethylene oxide (EtO), chloroprene, and other toxic air pollution."

Chemicals [29]
Environmental Health [30]
Environmental Justice [31]
Pollution [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: DeSmog [32], 07/25/2024
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Looking From Space, Researchers Find Pollution Spiking Near E-Commerce Hubs [33]

"Research showed truck-related releases of nitrogen dioxide, which can cause asthma, concentrated around some 150,000 warehouses nationwide."

Air [34]
Climate Change [17]
Environmental Health [30]
Infrastructure [35]
Pollution [12]
Transportation [36]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [37], 07/25/2024
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"When Kamala Harris Sued Obama Over Fracking" [38]

"A 2016 lawsuit illustrates why some activists believe Harris will be more aggressive on climate than Biden."

Climate Change [17]
Environmental Health [30]
Environmental Politics [22]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Pollution [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [18]
California [14]
Source: HEATED [39], 07/24/2024
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"Between Attacks on Electric Cars, Trump Says They’re ‘Incredible’" [40]

"The former president’s comments on E.V.s have shifted since he has grown more friendly with Elon Musk, the billionaire head of Tesla."

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Politics [22]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Pollution [12]
Transportation [36]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [41], 07/24/2024
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"World Recorded Hottest Day On July 21, Monitor Says" [42]

"Sunday, July 21 was the hottest day ever recorded, according to preliminary data from the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service, which has tracked such global weather patterns since 1940."

Climate Change [17]
Environmental Health [30]
Public [13]
International [19]
Source: Reuters [43], 07/24/2024
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‘Dark Oxygen’ In Pacific Depths Could Force Rethink About Origins Of Life [44]

"In the total darkness of the depths of the Pacific Ocean, scientists have discovered oxygen being produced not by living organisms but by strange potato-shaped metallic lumps that give off almost as much electricity as AA batteries."

Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Politics [22]
Natural Resources [45]
Science [46]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [13]
International [19]
Source: AFP [47], 07/24/2024
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"Woman Dies On Utah Hike After Running Out Of Water In Extreme Heat" [48]

"A 56-year-old woman died while hiking near a state park in south-western Utah over the weekend after running out of water on a sweltering day, officials said."

Climate Change [17]
Disasters [49]
Environmental Health [30]
Natural Resources [45]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: AP [50], 07/24/2024
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"Like Carbon Dioxide, This Louisiana Task Force’s Work Is Deep Underground" [51]

"A special legislative task force assigned with exploring the impacts of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) in Louisiana still hasn’t submitted a report of its findings — five months after it was due. And its chairman and the lawmaker who created the group won’t say why."

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Journalism & Media [52]
Public [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [53]
Source: Floodlight [54], 07/24/2024
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"House Approves Bipartisan Water Projects Bill" [55]

"The House passed a sweeping water infrastructure bill Monday that could help curb flooding, slow coastal erosion and restore struggling ecosystems, in a rare show of bipartisanship as election season heats up."

Environmental Politics [22]
Environmental Studies [56]
Infrastructure [35]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Natural Resources [45]
Transportation [36]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [57], 07/24/2024
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Pollution Threatens Mediterranean Sea's Health [58]

"More than 87% of the Mediterranean Sea, which extends from the Atlantic Ocean to Africa, Europe and Asia, is polluted with microplastics and other pollutants including toxic metals and industrial chemicals, according to a July 2024 report by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)."

Environmental Health [30]
Pollution [12]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [13]
International [19]
Source: CNN [59], 07/24/2024
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"Florida Grasshopper Sparrow: Scientists Hail Resurgence Of Endangered Bird" [60]

"Sparrows were taken into captivity after numbers dwindled – and this week experts released 1,000th bird back into wild".

Biodiversity [61]
Wildlife [62]
Public [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [53]
Source: Guardian [63], 07/24/2024
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