EJToday: Top Headlines

"Consumer Reports Finds 'Widespread' Presence Of Plastics In Food" [9]

"Consumer Reports has found that plastics retain a "widespread" presence in food despite the health risks, and called on regulators to reassess the safety of plastics that come into contact with food during production."

Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Food [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Reuters [15], 01/05/2024
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"Flowers Are Evolving to Have Less Sex" [16]

"As toxic pesticides and vanishing habitats have driven down the populations of bees and other pollinators, some flowers have evolved to fertilize their own seeds more often, rather than those of other plants."

Agriculture [17]
Biodiversity [18]
Chemicals [10]
Natural Resources [19]
Pollution [20]
Wildlife [21]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
International [22]
Source: NYTimes [23], 01/05/2024
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Two Large Offshore Wind Sites Sending Power To US Grid For The First Time [24]

"For the first time in the United States, turbines are sending electricity to the grid from the sites of two large offshore wind farms."

Climate Change [25]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [28]
Source: AP [29], 01/05/2024
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"GOP Targets Biden’s $400 Billion Clean-Energy Loan Program" [30]

"Congressional Republicans are putting President Joe Biden’s $400 billion green bank in their crosshairs, seeking a repeat of the political victory they scored in 2011 with the scandal over collapsed solar company Solyndra."

Climate Change [25]
Economy & Business [31]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Politics [32]
Infrastructure [33]
Laws & Regulations [34]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [35], 01/05/2024
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"Indigenous Groups Cede Forest Rights For Sketchy Finance" [36]

"Several companies registered in Latin American countries claiming to have U.N. endorsement have persuaded Indigenous communities to hand over the economic rights to their forests for decades to come, a Mongabay investigation has found. The companies share commercial interests across various jurisdictions, and have not been able to demonstrate experience in sustainable finance projects."

Climate Change [25]
Environmental Justice [37]
Forests [38]
Laws & Regulations [34]
Natural Resources [19]
People & Population [39]
Public [13]
International [22]
Central America & the Caribbean [40]
South America [41]
Source: Mongabay [42], 01/05/2024
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Analysis: "‘Forever Chemicals’ Contaminate America’s Freshwater Fish" [43]

"A recent study from The Environmental Working Group found that just one serving of fish can be equivalent to a month of drinking water contaminated with 48 parts per trillion of the common chemical PFOS."

Biodiversity [18]
Chemicals [10]
Consumer [44]
Environmental Health [11]
Fish & Fisheries [45]
Pollution [20]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Washington Post [46], 01/05/2024
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"Seagrass Resurgence Offers Ray Of Hope For Florida’s Hard-Hit Manatees" [47]

"The recovery of seagrass, the manatees’ favorite food, in Mosquito Lagoon means that an emergency hand-feeding program that has kept many of the starving aquatic animals alive over the last two winters can be discontinued, at least temporarily."

Biodiversity [18]
Climate Change [25]
Natural Resources [19]
Water & Oceans [27]
Wildlife [21]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [48]
Source: Guardian [49], 01/05/2024
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Human Activity Is Powering ‘A New Industrial Revolution’ At Sea: Experts [50]

"Researchers using AI and satellite imagery find 75% of industrial fishing is not being publicly tracked, while wind turbines now outnumber oil platforms".

Energy & Fuel [26]
Fish & Fisheries [45]
Infrastructure [33]
Natural Resources [19]
Transportation [51]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [13]
International [22]
Source: Guardian [52], 01/04/2024
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Proposed Youngstown Tires-To-Gas Plant Paused Over Environmental Justice [53]

"Officials in Youngstown, Ohio, have dealt a setback to a company’s plan to build and operate a recycled tire waste-to-energy plant near the center of the city and adjacent to a neighborhood of predominantly Black residents, enacting a one-year moratorium on such industrial processes."

Chemicals [10]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [37]
Laws & Regulations [34]
Pollution [20]
Waste [54]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [55]
Source: Inside Climate News [56], 01/04/2024
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"Secretive Hydrogen Hub Talks Test Energy Agency Community Plans" [57]

"The Biden administration is negotiating with hydrogen industry leaders on legally binding commitments involving tens of thousands of new jobs and lower emissions, a pledge crucial to winning community support and achieving US environmental justice goals."

Energy & Fuel [26]
Environmental Justice [37]
Environmental Politics [32]
Infrastructure [33]
Laws & Regulations [34]
People & Population [39]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [58], 01/04/2024
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"Could 2024 Be A Breakout Year For The Transmission Grid?" [59]

"Study after study has found the country can’t build renewable energy at the pace needed to rapidly decarbonize the power grid without also building a massive amount of new power lines, fast. But over the past half-decade, grid growth has slowed, not accelerated, bogged down by conflicts over siting, permitting and paying for new transmission capacity."

Climate Change [25]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Infrastructure [33]
Laws & Regulations [34]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Canary Media [60], 01/04/2024
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"Great Lakes Ice Cover Reaches Record Low For New Year's Day" [61]

"Ice cover on the Great Lakes reached a record low on New Year's Day, and open water made smooth sailing for the latest departure of an oceangoing vessel ever recorded in the Port of Duluth-Superior."

Climate Change [25]
Transportation [51]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [55]
Source: Wisconsin Public Radio [62], 01/04/2024
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"Sierra Nevada Snowpack At Lowest Level In 10 Years" [63]

"California’s statewide Sierra Nevada snowpack — the source of nearly one-third of the state’s water supply — is at its lowest level in a decade, a major turnaround from last year when huge storms ended a three-year drought and buried ski resorts in massive amounts of snow."

Climate Change [25]
Disasters [64]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [13]
California [65]
Source: San Jose Mercury News [66], 01/04/2024
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The Golden Age Of Public Transit Was Electric — And Its Future Will Be Too [67]

"Ask nearly any Winnipegger and they’ll tell you: the worst time to wait for public transit is a dark and frigid January night."

Climate Change [25]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Infrastructure [33]
Transportation [51]
Public [13]
Canada [68]
Source: The Narwhal [69], 01/04/2024
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Saving Panama Canal Will Take Years and Cost Billions, If Even Possible [70]

"The vestiges of an ancient forest tell the story of just how bad things are at the drought-stricken Panama Canal."

Climate Change [25]
Economy & Business [31]
Infrastructure [33]
Transportation [51]
Water & Oceans [27]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Central America & the Caribbean [40]
Source: Bloomberg [71], 01/04/2024
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