EJToday: Top Headlines

"Why Heat Wave Warnings Are Falling Short In The U.S." [9]

"In July 1995, weather reports in Chicago started warning residents about an incoming heat wave. It was going to be hot — around 100 degrees — but nothing that was unheard of for a Chicago summer. That heat wave turned out to be one of the deadliest in recorded U.S. history."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Journalism & Media [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NPR [16], 09/14/2022
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"Switching To Renewable Energy Could Save Trillions - Study" [17]

"Switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy could save the world as much as $12tn (£10.2tn) by 2050, an Oxford University study says."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [18]
Public [14]
International [19]
Source: BBC News [20], 09/14/2022
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"Alfalfa Farmers Asked To Give Up Crop Amid Megadrought In US South-West" [21]

"Agriculture – mainly alfalfa – consumes 80% of the Colorado River’s dwindling water supply, prompting calls for conservation efforts".

Agriculture [22]
Climate Change [10]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Guardian [24], 09/14/2022
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"Energy Crisis: Why We Benefit From Darker Cities" [25]

"German cities are turning off some lights at night, which not only saves money and electricity but benefits human health, the climate and biodiversity."

Biodiversity [26]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Wildlife [28]
Public [14]
International [19]
Source: DW [29], 09/14/2022
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"For Climate Voters, The Future Is Female" [30]

"The Supreme Court’s explosive decision on abortion rights may trigger a secondary boom of climate voters in the midterm election by driving more women to the polls."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [31]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [32], 09/14/2022
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The Mysterious, Vexing, and Utterly Engrossing Search for the Origin of Eels [33]

"To save endangered eels, researchers have been working for decades to figure out where they reproduce."

Biodiversity [26]
Fish & Fisheries [34]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [14]
International [19]
Source: Hakai [35], 09/14/2022
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Brazil Faces Two Contrasting Legacies For Amazon In October’s Elections [36]

"Polls indicate that Brazil’s presidential election in October will go to a runoff between incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in a duel likely to decide the fate of the Amazon Rainforest."

Agriculture [22]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [31]
Forests [37]
Laws & Regulations [38]
Public [14]
South America [39]
Source: Mongabay [40], 09/13/2022
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"White House Alarm Rises Over Europe As Putin Threatens Energy Supply" [41]

"White House officials are growing increasingly alarmed about Europe’s energy crisis and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threats to force a bleak winter on the continent." "Biden aides have redoubled efforts to increase natural gas exports across the Atlantic but see few obvious solutions".

Energy & Fuel [27]
Military [42]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Europe [43]
Source: Washington Post [44], 09/13/2022
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"US Takes Aim At Some Trump Offshore Safety Rule Rollbacks" [45]

"The U.S. Department of the Interior said Monday that it wants to reverse some Trump administration rollbacks of offshore safety rules to prevent blowouts like the BP catastrophe that killed 11 people and fouled the Gulf of Mexico in 2010."

Disasters [11]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Laws & Regulations [38]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: AP [46], 09/13/2022
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"FEMA Removes Data Showing Drop In Flood Insurance Policies" [47]

"The Federal Emergency Management Agency has removed publicly available records from its website that showed hundreds of thousands of people had dropped their federal flood insurance policies in recent months."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [48]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Justice [49]
Environmental Politics [31]
Journalism & Media [13]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [50], 09/13/2022
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Tidal Marsh Or 'Fake Habitat'? Calif. Environmental Project Draws Critics [51]

"Southwest of Sacramento, California, the branching arms of waterways reach into a patchwork of farm fields and pastures. Canals and wetlands fringed with reeds meet a sunbaked expanse of dry meadows."

Biodiversity [26]
Climate Change [10]
Fish & Fisheries [34]
Natural Resources [52]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [14]
California [53]
Source: LA Times [54], 09/13/2022
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Human Rights Group: Egypt Stifles Environmental Work Ahead of COP [55]

"Egyptian campaigners told Human Rights Watch they faced harassment by authorities, as the country prepares to host Cop27 climate talks in November".

Activism [56]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Justice [49]
Environmental Politics [31]
Journalism & Media [13]
Laws & Regulations [38]
Public [14]
International [19]
Middle East [57]
Source: AP [58], 09/13/2022
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"At 75, the Father of Environmental Justice Meets the Moment" [59]

"The White House has pledged $60 billion to a cause Robert Bullard has championed since the late seventies. He wants guarantees that the money will end up in the right hands."

Economy & Business [18]
Environmental Justice [49]
Laws & Regulations [38]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NYTimes [60], 09/13/2022
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"Biden To Boost Biotech To Tackle Cancer, Climate Change" [61]

"President Joe Biden today will sign an executive order to bolster the bioengineering industry, creating an initiative that will support both his Cancer Moonshot initiative to reduce mortality and the administration’s goal to tackle climate change."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [12]
Technology [62]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [63], 09/13/2022
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"To Clean Up The Potomac, Engineers Are Digging A 2-Mile Tunnel Under It" [64]

"A crucial race against the clock to dig a tunnel under the Potomac River depends on a powerhouse player: a 15-foot-wide, 380-ton machine named “Hazel.”

Pollution [65]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [66]
Source: Washington Post [67], 09/13/2022
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