EJToday: Top Headlines

"Inside the Plastic Industry’s Battle to Win Over Hearts and Minds" [9]

"A trove of documents leaked from an influential industry group shows how some of the world’s largest petrochemical and plastics companies have been waging a campaign to push back against a “tide of anti-plastic sentiment” — especially among young people concerned about the environment."

Chemicals [10]
Consumer [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Journalism & Media [14]
Waste [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
International [19]
Source: NYTimes [20], 12/02/2024
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"Microplastics Are Sickening And Killing Wildlife, Disrupting Earth Systems" [21]

"Animals across the spectrum of life are eating, breathing and ingesting plastics that leach toxic chemicals and have been shown to alter the function of organs and even cells in humans. Petroleum products — mostly oil and natural gas — are plastic’s base ingredient."

Biodiversity [22]
Chemicals [10]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Natural Resources [23]
Pollution [24]
Waste [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
International [19]
Source: Mongabay [25], 12/02/2024
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Will Trump Use Kash Patel To Attack His Critics And The First Amendment? [26]

"The nomination of Kash Patel to serve as America’s next FBI director is a warning shot across the bow for journalists — as Donald Trump’s threats to attack the First Amendement intensifies."

Environmental Politics [27]
Government [28]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Independent [30], 12/02/2024
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"Exxon Lobbyist Investigated Over Hack-And-Leak Of Environmentalist Emails" [31]

"The FBI has been investigating a longtime Exxon Mobil consultant over the contractor's alleged role in a hack-and-leak operation that targeted hundreds of the oil company’s biggest critics, according to three people familiar with the matter."

Activism [32]
Chemicals [10]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [27]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Reuters [33], 12/02/2024
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Trump Rejection of Transition Deal Adds Wrinkle to Its Transparency Pledges [34]

"The refusal by President-elect Donald J. Trump’s team to sign a transition agreement with the General Services Administration means that, despite the team’s pledges to abide by several transparency customs of presidential handovers, it isn’t legally bound to follow through on its promises."

Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Politics [27]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [35], 12/02/2024
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"How Will Trump’s Covid Contrarians Handle the Next Pandemic?" [36]

"President-elect Donald J. Trump had already succeeded in rattling the nation’s public health and biomedical establishment by the time he announced on Tuesday that he had picked Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to run the National Institutes of Health. But amid growing fears of a deadly bird flu pandemic, perhaps no one was more rattled than experts in infectious disease."

Environmental Health [37]
Environmental Politics [27]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Science [38]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NYTimes [39], 12/02/2024
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New Agriculture Secretary Will Have to Reckon With Climate Change [40]

"Exactly where Brooke Rollins stands on agricultural policy is unclear, but her positions on fossil fuels and climate change are explicit."

Agriculture [41]
Climate Change [42]
Environmental Politics [27]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Natural Resources [23]
Pollution [24]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Inside Climate News [43], 12/02/2024
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"What Trump’s Tariffs Could Mean For American Energy" [44]

"President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to slap new tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and China could inflate the cost of producing and buying energy in almost all forms, possibly sending gasoline prices surging and the U.S. energy industry into a tailspin."

Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [45], 12/02/2024
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"Trump Pick For US Health Agency Proposed ‘Herd Immunity’ During Covid" [46]

"Choosing Jay Bhattacharya to lead NIH signals return to controversial and scientifically questionable health policies"

Environmental Health [37]
Environmental Politics [27]
Health [47]
Science [38]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Guardian [48], 12/02/2024
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FCC's Carr Says ’60 Minutes’ Complaint “Likely To Arise” in Merger Review [49]

"Brendan Carr, Donald Trump‘s pick to serve as chairman of the FCC, said that the agency would examine a complaint over the way that 60 Minutes edited an interview with Kamala Harris as it reviews the merger of Skydance with Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS."

Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Politics [27]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Deadline [50], 11/26/2024
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"Concern As Climate Talks Stalls On Fossil Fuels Pledge" [51]

"The failure of UN climate negotiations to double down on a global pledge to move away from planet-heating fossil fuels on Sunday was decried by experts as a "worrying" setback to global progress on curbing warming."

Climate Change [42]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Pollution [24]
Public [17]
International [19]
Source: AFP [52], 11/26/2024
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"What Trump’s Treasury Pick Means For Clean Energy Tax Credits" [53]

"President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Treasury Department puts the fate of Biden-era clean energy tax credits up in the air."

Climate Change [42]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [27]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Transportation [54]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [55], 11/26/2024
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California To Offer EV Rebates If Trump Kills $7,500 Tax Credit: Newsom [56]

"California is prepared to offer state tax rebates for electric vehicle purchases if the incoming Trump administration scuttles the federal EV tax credit, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom."

Climate Change [42]
Consumer [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [27]
Transportation [54]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
California [57]
Source: LA Times [58], 11/26/2024
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Drugs, Hormones And Excrement: Polluting Mexican Pig Farms Supply The World [59]

"Mexico is a leading international pork producer, but Yucatán residents say the waste oozing from hundreds of enormous hog farms is destroying the environment"

Agriculture [41]
Pollution [24]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
International [19]
Mexico [60]
Source: Guardian [61], 11/26/2024
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"The Plastics Crisis Is Now A Global Human Health Crisis, Experts Say" [62]

"Plastics can contain thousands of different chemicals, many of them linked to cancer and reproductive harm, and many never tested for safety. Multiple studies are now finding these chemicals, along with microplastics, throughout the human body, raising alarm among scientists about widespread health effects, including reduced fertility and increased obesity."

Chemicals [10]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [37]
Environmental Justice [63]
Pollution [24]
Waste [15]
Water & Oceans [16]
Public [17]
International [19]
Source: Mongabay [64], 11/26/2024
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