EJToday: Top Headlines

Bats Are In Trouble. That’s Bad For Anyone Who Likes Mezcal, Rice Or Avocado [9]

"If you’ve ever enjoyed coffee, tomatoes, corn, bananas, mangoes, walnuts, chocolate, tequila or mezcal, you may just owe bats a thank-you."

Agriculture [10]
Biodiversity [11]
Consumer [12]
Food [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Wildlife [15]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [18]
Mexico [19]
Source: Guardian [20], 03/22/2024
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"Dunes Aren’t Just Big Piles Of Sand. Here’s Why Earth Needs Them." [21]

"The famed coastal dunes that inspired the shifting sand landscape of the desert planet Arrakis in Frank Herbert’s science fiction novel “Dune” are also under siege — from climate change and human development."

Biodiversity [11]
Climate Change [22]
Environmental Studies [23]
Natural Resources [14]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Northwest (OR WA) [25]
International [18]
Source: Washington Post [26], 03/22/2024
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"Biden Administration Announces Rules Aimed at Expanding Electric Vehicles" [27]

"The Biden administration on Wednesday issued one of the most significant climate regulations in the nation’s history, a rule designed to ensure that the majority of new passenger cars and light trucks sold in the United States are all-electric or hybrids by 2032."

Air [28]
Climate Change [22]
Consumer [12]
Economy & Business [29]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Politics [32]
Laws & Regulations [33]
Pollution [34]
Technology [35]
Transportation [36]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [37], 03/21/2024
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"Lead In Water A Threat To Two-Thirds Of Young Children In Chicago" [38]

"Two out of three very young children in Chicago were exposed to at least trace amounts of lead in their home tap water, a study found, highlighting the need for City Hall to speed up replacements of brain-damaging lead pipes."

Consumer [12]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Justice [39]
Infrastructure [40]
Laws & Regulations [33]
Pollution [34]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [41]
Source: Chicago Sun-Times [42], 03/21/2024
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Petrochemicals Are Killing Us, a New Report Warns in Top Medical Journal [43]

"Use of petroleum-based chemicals skyrocketed during the postwar era, most of them entering the market with little concern for safety. Now, mounting evidence links petrochemicals to the rapidly rising prevalence of a slew of chronic and deadly conditions, a review published in the New England Journal of Medicine warned earlier this month."

Chemicals [44]
Consumer [12]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Health [31]
Environmental Justice [39]
Laws & Regulations [33]
Pollution [34]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [18]
Source: Inside Climate News [45], 03/21/2024
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"World 'Losing The Battle' Against Electronic Waste, UN Finds" [46]

"The world is losing the battle against electronic waste, a U.N. expert said on Wednesday, after a report found 62 million metric tons of mobile phones and devices were dumped on the planet in just one year - and this is expected to increase by a third by 2030."

Consumer [12]
Economy & Business [29]
Pollution [34]
Technology [35]
Waste [47]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
International [18]
Source: Reuters [48], 03/21/2024
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As Threats To Air Quality Rise, Communities Deploy Low-Cost Air Monitors [49]

"When the monitors detect unhealthy conditions, people can protect themselves by closing doors and windows and avoiding unmasked time outdoors."

Activism [50]
Air [28]
Environmental Justice [39]
People & Population [51]
Pollution [34]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
California [52]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [53], 03/21/2024
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33,000 Hours Of Harmful Seabed Trawling Revealed In Protected UK Waters [54]

"Industrial vessels suspected of using a harmful fishing method known as bottom trawling spent more than 33,000 hours in British marine protected areas last year, a new analysis of satellite data shows."

Biodiversity [11]
Fish & Fisheries [55]
Natural Resources [14]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [16]
Europe [56]
Source: Guardian [57], 03/21/2024
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"Caribou Declines Causing Angst For Hunters Are Part Of Wider Trend" [58]

"Alaska subsistence hunters struggling with caribou declines and lost hunting opportunities got a message at a gathering in Anchorage last week: They are not alone." "There are signs that climate change is depressing caribou numbers, and ongoing and proposed development could make recovery more difficult, experts say".

Biodiversity [11]
Climate Change [22]
Consumer [12]
Food [13]
Natural Resources [14]
People & Population [51]
Wildlife [15]
Public [16]
Alaska and Hawaii [59]
International [18]
Antarctica & Arctic [60]
Source: Alaska Beacon [61], 03/21/2024
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Merger Puts California's Idle Well Regulations To The Test [62]

"The deal would place 40 percent of California’s idle wells in the hands of one operator. Campaigners warn this poses an “immense” risk to the state — which new rules could help to mitigate, depending on how regulators act."

Chemicals [44]
Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Infrastructure [40]
Pollution [34]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
California [52]
Source: DeSmog [63], 03/21/2024
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"How A Trump Presidency Could Threaten Biden’s Signature Climate Achievement" [64]

"Democrats’ sweeping Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has fueled significant progress in the fight against climate change since its passage in 2022. But if former President Trump wins back the presidency in November, he’s likely to undermine those gains — or help a Republican Congress do away with the law entirely."

Climate Change [22]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Politics [32]
Laws & Regulations [33]
Pollution [34]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: The Hill [65], 03/21/2024
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Calif. Tribe That Lost 90% Of Land During Gold Rush To Get Redwood Site [66]

"California’s Yurok Tribe, which had 90% of its territory taken from it during the Gold Rush of the mid-1800s, will be getting a slice of its land back to serve as a new gateway to Redwood National and State Parks visited by 1 million people a year."

Environmental Justice [39]
Laws & Regulations [33]
Natural Resources [14]
People & Population [51]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
California [52]
Source: AP [67], 03/21/2024
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"Only 10 Countries Had Healthy Air Quality In 2023: Report" [68]

"The average person can go up to two months without food, three days without water, but only a few minutes without air. Breathable air is essential to life. Yet a new analysis found that in 2023, only 10 countries and 9 per cent of global cities had air quality that met World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for harmful fine-particle, or PM2.5, pollution."

Air [28]
Environmental Health [31]
Pollution [34]
Public [16]
International [18]
Source: Bloomberg [69], 03/20/2024
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"‘Red Alert’: Last Year Was Hottest On Record By Clear Margin, Says UN Report" [70]

"The world has never been closer to breaching the 1.5C (2.7F) global heating limit, even if only temporarily, the United Nations’ weather agency has warned."

Climate Change [22]
Environmental Health [31]
Public [16]
International [18]
Source: Guardian [71], 03/20/2024
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"Outside Groups Pledge Over $1 Billion to Aid Biden’s Re-election Effort" [72]

"The League of Conservation Voters, among the biggest spenders on progressive causes, said it would put $120 million behind President Biden and Democrats as his Republican rival faces cash woes."

Environmental Politics [32]
Public [16]
National (U.S.) [17]
Source: NYTimes [73], 03/20/2024
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