EJToday: Top Headlines

"Committee Adds More Riders To House Interior-EPA Bill" [9]

"The legislation includes cuts to EPA and the Interior Department."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Environmental Politics [15]
Infrastructure [16]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Natural Resources [18]
Pollution [19]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: E&E News [23], 07/11/2024
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"White House Requires Infrastructure To Be Raised Above Flood Levels" [24]

"The long-awaited rule will affect all federally funded reconstruction projects."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [25]
Infrastructure [16]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Planning & Growth [26]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: E&E News [27], 07/11/2024
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"CSU Increases Hurricane Prediction For 2024 Atlantic Season After Beryl" [28]

"Colorado State University researchers are predicting that the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season will be more active than previously expected, according to a July forecast released Tuesday."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [25]
Science [29]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [30], 07/11/2024
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Texas Leaders Worry That Bitcoin Mines Threaten to Crash State Power Grid [31]

"Residents in the small town of Granbury are raising alarms over noise from a local Bitcoin mine, while state lawmakers warn that the energy-hungry facilities risk “crashing” the electrical grid."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Infrastructure [16]
Pollution [19]
Technology [32]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [33]
Source: Inside Climate News [34], 07/11/2024
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"Over Half Of Clayoquot Sound’s Iconic Forests Are Now Protected" [35]

"The forests of Clayoquot Sound became world famous as the battlegrounds of the decades-long “war in the woods” — and now, a vast swath of the rich old-growth trees are permanently protected."

Forests [36]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Natural Resources [18]
Public [21]
Canada [37]
Source: The Narwhal [38], 07/11/2024
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"Record Heat Engulfs Both U.S. Coasts" [39]

"A record-breaking heat wave across the Western U.S. that’s been checking all the key boxes — intensity, duration, and geographic spread — may just be the opening scene of the worst kind of summer blockbuster, one that’s spreading nationwide."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [25]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [17]
People & Population [40]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
International [41]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [42], 07/10/2024
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"Beryl Updates: At Least Nine Dead; Power Outages Could Persist For Days" [43]

"Hurricane Beryl, which brought fierce winds and heavy rains to a large portion of southeastern Texas, has killed at least nine people, according to state and local authorities."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [25]
Environmental Health [13]
People & Population [40]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Texas Tribune [44], 07/10/2024
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"Abandoned Mines Cover The West" [45]

"Their legacy is destruction and pollution of lands and waters."

"In 1953, the Anaconda Minerals Company leased nearly 8,000 acres of land in central New Mexico from the Pueblo of Laguna to mine uranium for nuclear weapons. The company gouged and blasted away at the earth, constructing the three massive holes known as the Jackpile-Paguate Mine.
Environmental Health [13]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Natural Resources [18]
Pollution [19]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: High Country News [46], 07/10/2024
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"Home Insurance Rates in America Are Wildly Distorted. Here's Why." [47]

"Climate change is driving rates higher, but not always in areas with the greatest risk."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [48]
Disasters [25]
Economy & Business [11]
Environmental Health [13]
Laws & Regulations [17]
People & Population [40]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: NYTimes [49], 07/10/2024
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"Farmworkers In The US Cultivate Their Own Heat Safety Standards" [50]

"The Fair Food Program works to boost farmworker safety by appealing directly to major brands and consumers".

Agriculture [51]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [25]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Justice [14]
Food [52]
People & Population [40]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [53], 07/10/2024
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"Biden Signs Bill Bolstering Nuclear Power" [54]

"President Biden signed a bipartisan bill Tuesday aimed at bolstering the nation’s nuclear power in what supporters describe as a historic win for the sector. The nuclear package is expected to speed up the timeline for licensing new nuclear reactors and cut fees that companies have to pay to do so."

Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [55]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: The Hill [56], 07/10/2024
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Behind Tribal Spearfishing Is A Long, Violent History Of Denied Treaty Rights [57]

"On a twilight so calm the red and white pines are reflected in the waters of northern Wisconsin’s Chippewa Flowage, John Baker plans to go spearfishing — a traditional Ojibwe method of harvesting walleye. But before he sets out, he detours his boat to land on a sandy shore, hops out and crosses the tree line, crunching through dead leaves. “This is my sanctuary,” he says, recalling childhood visits in his dad’s rowboat."

Environmental Justice [14]
Fish & Fisheries [58]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Natural Resources [18]
People & Population [40]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [59]
Source: AP [60], 07/10/2024
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"The Pacific Northwest Is Littered With ‘Deadbeat Dams’" [61]

"Aging structures dubbed 'deadbeat dams' choke off habitat and threaten human life in some instances. Native nations are at the forefront of the effort to address these lingering dams".

Disasters [25]
Environmental Justice [14]
Fish & Fisheries [58]
Infrastructure [16]
Natural Resources [18]
Water & Oceans [20]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Northwest (OR WA) [62]
Source: ICT [63], 07/10/2024
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"Taking A Train During A Heat Wave? Watch Out For ‘Sun Kinks’" [64]

"As tracks heat up, they expand and buckle. That's forcing rail operators to adapt as the climate warms."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [25]
Infrastructure [16]
Transportation [65]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Grist [66], 07/10/2024
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"To Protect Giant Sequoias, They Lit a Fire" [67]

"After thousands of sequoias were destroyed by extreme wildfires, tribes are conducting cultural burns."

Biodiversity [68]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [25]
Forests [36]
Natural Resources [18]
People & Population [40]
Public [21]
National (U.S.) [22]
California [69]
Source: NYTimes [70], 07/10/2024
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