EJToday: Top Headlines

"Here's Why Arizona Says It Can Keep Growing Despite Historic Megadrought" [9]

"Drive traffic-clogged Interstate 10 through Phoenix's West Valley suburbs and you'd hardly know the Southwest is as dry as it's been in 1,200 years. Water gulping data centers, large warehouses and distribution centers have sprouted in the barren desert. Housing development after housing development is slated for construction."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [13]
People & Population [14]
Planning & Growth [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [18]
Source: NPR [19], 03/01/2023
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"Maryland PSC Appointee With Ties To Fossil Fuels Withdraws" [20]

"Gov. Wes Moore’s nominee to the Maryland Public Service Commission withdrew from consideration on Tuesday, after environmentalists criticized the appointment of someone who was an official in the fossil fuel industry."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [21]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [13]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Public [17]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [24]
Source: AP [25], 03/01/2023
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"US Sues Chemical Company Over Cancer Risk To Minority Area" [26]

"Federal officials sued a Louisiana chemical maker on Tuesday, alleging that it presents an unacceptable cancer risk to the nearby majority-Black community and demanding cuts in toxic emissions."

Chemicals [27]
Environmental Health [28]
Environmental Justice [29]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Pollution [30]
Public [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [31]
Source: AP [32], 03/01/2023
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"Is LNG By Rail Safe?" [33]

"The train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, is renewing concerns about the safety of moving natural gas by rail and whether existing federal rules governing the industry should be changed."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [34]
Environmental Health [28]
Environmental Politics [12]
Infrastructure [13]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Transportation [35]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [36]
Source: E&E News [37], 03/01/2023
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"DOE Touts Grid Expansion Plans As Operators Raise Concerns" [38]

"DOE’s draft “National Transmission Needs Study,” released Friday, is the department’s initial view of where and how interstate power networks need to expand by the 2030s to carry three to four times the flow of wind and solar power on the grid today."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Infrastructure [13]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [36]
Source: E&E News [39], 03/01/2023
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"Solar For All? U.S. Cities Take Green Power To Low-Income Homes" [40]

"To hear Emil King tell it, the benefits of the 8,000-odd solar panels shimmering before him on an industrial lot in Washington D.C. go far beyond helping the U.S. capital city fight climate change."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [21]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Justice [29]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [36]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [24]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [41], 03/01/2023
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Sapsucker Housing Crisis: Endangered Woodpecker ‘Condos’ Being Clear Cut [42]

"Almost two decades after the Williamson’s sapsucker was listed as endangered under Canada’s Species at Risk Act, the B.C. government continues to sanction logging in the bird’s old-growth forest critical habitat".

Biodiversity [43]
Environmental Politics [12]
Forests [44]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Natural Resources [45]
Wildlife [46]
Public [17]
Canada [47]
Source: The Narwhal [48], 03/01/2023
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Eduardo Mendúa, Ecuadorian Who Fought Drilling on Indigenous Land, Murdered [49]

"Eduardo Mendúa, an Indigenous activist who was fighting to protect Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest from oil extraction, has been killed by gunmen, the Indigenous organization CONAIE reports."

Activism [50]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Public [17]
South America [51]
Source: Inside Climate News [52], 02/28/2023
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"House Republicans Accelerate March Toward Big Energy Package" [53]

"House Republicans are taking action on numerous bills that will make for part of their sweeping energy and permitting reform package, which they hope to put on the floor for a vote by the end of March."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [36]
Source: E&E News [54], 02/28/2023
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Biden Adm Global Plastics Plan Dubbed ‘Low Ambition’ and ‘Underwhelming’ [55]

"Critics are describing the Biden administration’s opening position in a United Nations effort to reach a global treaty or agreement to end plastic waste as vague and weak, despite its recognition of a need to end plastic pollution by 2040."

Chemicals [27]
Consumer [21]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [23]
Waste [56]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [36]
International [57]
Source: Inside Climate News [58], 02/28/2023
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"Extreme Heat Is A Health Crisis, Columbia Experts Say" [59]

"The record-breaking heat Earth endured during the summer of 2022 will be repeated without a robust international effort to address climate change, a panel of scientists warned Monday."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [28]
Public [17]
International [57]
Source: AP [60], 02/28/2023
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"US 2022 Power Plant Emissions Fell On Switch From Coal To Gas - EPA" [61]

"U.S. power plant emissions of pollutants that harm human health and warm the planet fell last year as the industry continued a switch from coal to natural gas, the Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [36]
Source: Reuters [62], 02/28/2023
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Kerry To Serve In Climate Envoy Role At Least Through Nov. COP28 Summit [63]

"John Kerry, the U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, said in a new interview with The Boston Globe that he told President Biden that he will serve in his role through at least the United Nations climate summit in November."

Climate Change [10]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [36]
Source: The Hill [64], 02/28/2023
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"Texas Led the U.S. in Wind and Solar Energy Production Last Year" [65]

"Red states top a new list of the country's top wind and solar producers."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [36]
Source: Earther [66], 02/28/2023
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All Fish Tested From Michigan Rivers Contain ‘Forever Chemicals’ - Study [67]

"All fish caught in Michigan rivers and tested for toxic PFAS contained the chemicals – and at levels that present a health risk for anyone eating them, according to a new study."

Chemicals [27]
Fish & Fisheries [68]
Food [69]
Pollution [30]
Public [17]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [70]
Source: Guardian [71], 02/28/2023
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