EJToday: Top Headlines

In Mexico City, Women Water Harvesters Help Make Up For Drought [9]

"Driven by prolonged drought and inconsistent public water delivery, many Mexico City residents are turning to rainwater. Pioneering company Isla Urbana, which does both nonprofit and for-profit work, has installed more than 40,000 rain catchment systems across Mexico since the company was founded 15 years ago. And Mexico City’s government has invested in the installation of 70,000 systems since 2019, still a drop in the bucket for the sprawling metropolis of around 9 million."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Infrastructure [12]
People & Population [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
Mexico [16]
Source: AP [17], 08/05/2024
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Historic Prisoner Swap Sees American Journalists, Others Freed From Russia [18]

"The U.S. on Thursday confirmed a historic prisoner swap with Russia that included the release of American journalists Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva, former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, and permanent resident Vladimir Kara-Murza."

Journalism & Media [19]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [21]
International [22]
Source: VOA [23], 08/02/2024
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"Harris Courts Swing Voters With Fracking Reversal" [24]

"Vice President Harris has reversed her position on fracking, signaling a move to the center on the issue. The rightward shift comes as she tries to court swing voters in states like Pennsylvania."

Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Politics [26]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: The Hill [27], 08/02/2024
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US Forest Service Failing To Protect Old Growth Trees From Logging: Critics [28]

"Biden’s efforts to save mature trees are not getting enough Forest Service support, according to some conservationists"

Environmental Politics [26]
Forests [29]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [30]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Guardian [31], 08/02/2024
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"Michigan Notches A Victory In Effort To Rein In Polluting Farm Waste" [32]

"In a rare rebuke to the industrial farm sector, the Michigan Supreme Court this week ruled that state environmental regulators have full authority to require livestock and poultry operations to improve their handling of billions of pounds of manure that contributes to contamination of waterways."

Agriculture [33]
Chemicals [34]
Environmental Health [35]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [30]
Pollution [36]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [37]
Source: The New Lede [38], 08/02/2024
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"Senate Unanimously Passes Biannual Water Projects Bill" [39]

"The Senate on Thursday unanimously reauthorized the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), the biennial legislation authorizing U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects."

Environmental Politics [26]
Infrastructure [12]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Transportation [40]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: The Hill [41], 08/02/2024
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"Court Stymies EPA Enforcement Push At ‘Cancer Alley’ Plant" [42]

"A federal appellate court has effectively blocked EPA from swift enforcement of stricter regulations on a Louisiana synthetic rubber manufacturer that has featured prominently in the Biden administration’s campaign to target pollution in the area often dubbed “Cancer Alley.”

Chemicals [34]
Environmental Health [35]
Environmental Justice [43]
Laws & Regulations [20]
People & Population [13]
Pollution [36]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [21]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [44]
Source: E&E News [45], 08/02/2024
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North Carolina Environmental Regulators at War Over Water Rules for PFAS [46]

"The North Carolina Chamber of Commerce has privately leaned on the state’s powerful Environmental Management Commission to delay critical PFAS rules, emails obtained under state public records law show, including providing members with the résumé of a scientist who has downplayed the toxicity of the compounds."

Chemicals [34]
Environmental Health [35]
Environmental Justice [43]
Environmental Politics [26]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [36]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [44]
Source: Inside Climate News [47], 08/02/2024
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"Andean Glacier Retreat Unprecedented In Human Civilization, Study Finds" [48]

"Recent glacier retreat across the Andes is unprecedented in the history of human civilization, according to a new study published in the Science journal on Thursday."

Climate Change [10]
Natural Resources [30]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
South America [49]
Source: Reuters [50], 08/02/2024
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Sea Lions Stranding On Calif. Coast With Signs Of Poisoning By Harmful Algae [51]

"Sea lions are stranding themselves on a long stretch of the California coast and showing signs that they may have been poisoned by a bloom of harmful algae, experts said Thursday."

Biodiversity [52]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Natural Resources [30]
Pollution [36]
Water & Oceans [14]
Wildlife [53]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [21]
California [54]
Source: AP [55], 08/02/2024
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"Environmental Journalism Loses A Hero" [56]

"Peter Dykstra – newsman, provocateur, friend and former publisher of EHN – passed away Wednesday."

Journalism & Media [19]
People & Population [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: EHN [57], 08/02/2024
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"Harris Grabs Green New Deal Network Endorsement That Eluded Biden" [58]

"The coalition of progressive youth and environmental justice groups are confident they can help give the presumptive Democratic nominee a needed edge with the base, even as the Trump team seeks to paint her as a radical."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Justice [43]
Environmental Politics [26]
People & Population [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: Inside Climate News [59], 08/01/2024
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"Extreme ‘Heat Dome’ Hitting Olympics ‘Impossible’ Without Global Heating" [60]

"The “heat dome” causing scorching temperatures across western Europe and north Africa, and boiling athletes and spectators at the Olympic Games in Paris, would have been impossible without human-caused global heating, a rapid analysis has found."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [35]
Public [15]
International [22]
Europe [61]
Source: Guardian [62], 08/01/2024
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"One In 11 People Went Hungry Last Year. Climate Change Is A Big Reason Why." [63]

"Hunger and food insecurity are no longer merely benchmarks of public health. They are symptoms of a warming world."

Agriculture [33]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Food [64]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
International [22]
Source: Grist [65], 08/01/2024
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"Manchin-Barrasso Energy Permitting Bill Advances To Full Senate" [66]

"Bipartisan legislation aimed at speeding up approvals for new energy projects advanced to the full Senate Wednesday. The legislation, put forward by Sens. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), sailed through committee in a 15-4 vote."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [25]
Environmental Politics [26]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [21]
Source: The Hill [67], 08/01/2024
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