EJToday: Top Headlines

"Trump’s Energy Guy Talked a Green Game but Now Sells Big Oil Priorities" [9]

"Doug Burgum, the Republican governor of North Dakota, has emerged as a key adviser on energy issues in Donald J. Trump’s campaign to retake the White House, acting as a liaison between Mr. Trump and the oil billionaires whom the former president has encouraged to fund his presidential bid."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NYTimes [17], 06/13/2024
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The Northeast Has Unexpected Old-Growth Forests That Survived Colonial Axes [18]

"Expanding the remaining patches may hold the key to ecological resilience in the centuries to come".

Forests [19]
Natural Resources [20]
Public [15]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [21]
Source: Sierra [22], 06/13/2024
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Heat Waves Are Making Restaurant Kitchens Unsafe. Workers Are Fighting Back. [23]

"As climate change makes summers hotter, restaurant employees are walking out and unionizing."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Justice [25]
Food [26]
People & Population [27]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Grist [28], 06/13/2024
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Agriculture Drives Rise In Nitrous Oxide Emissions Over Past 40 Years [29]

"Nitrogen fertilisers, manure and other agricultural sources drove almost three-quarters of human-caused nitrous oxide emissions in recent years."

Agriculture [30]
Air [31]
Climate Change [10]
Pollution [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [32]
Source: Carbon Brief [33], 06/13/2024
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"World’s Top Banks ‘Greenwashing Their Role In Destruction Of The Amazon’" [34]

"Five of the world’s biggest banks are “greenwashing” their role in the destruction of the Amazon, according to a report that indicates that their environmental and social guidelines fail to cover more than 70% of the rainforest."

Biodiversity [35]
Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [36]
Environmental Studies [37]
Forests [19]
Journalism & Media [38]
Natural Resources [20]
Public [15]
International [32]
Source: Guardian [39], 06/13/2024
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"Wild Horses Return To Kazakhstan Steppes After Absence Of Two Centuries" [40]

"A group of the world’s last wild horses have returned to their native Kazakhstan after an absence of about 200 years. ... The wild horses, known as Przewalski’s horses, once roamed the vast steppe grasslands of central Asia, where horses are believed to have been first domesticated about 5,500 years ago."

Biodiversity [35]
Natural Resources [20]
Wildlife [41]
Public [15]
International [32]
Asia [42]
Source: Guardian [43], 06/13/2024
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"FERC Gives Green Light To Start Up Mountain Valley Pipeline" [44]

"The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission granted approval on Tuesday to Equitrans Midstream Corp. to start operations at its Mountain Valley Pipeline, the final hurdle for the controversial natural gas project that had draw sharp opposition from environmental activists."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Infrastructure [45]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [46]
Source: Politico [47], 06/12/2024
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Higher Levels Of Dangerous Chemical Than Expected In Southeast Louisiana [48]

"Researchers using high-tech air monitoring equipment rolled through an industrialized stretch of southeast Louisiana in mobile labs and found levels of a carcinogen in concentrations as much as 20 times higher than previously estimated, according to a paper published Tuesday in the journal Environmental Science & Technology."

Air [31]
Chemicals [49]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Justice [25]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [50]
Source: AP [51], 06/12/2024
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"EPA’s Coal Ash Crackdown Comes With A Major Caveat" [52]

"An updated rule targets pollution from ash dumps, but it’s up to companies that own them to propose steps to protect groundwater."

Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Justice [25]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [53]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [46]
Source: E&E News [54], 06/12/2024
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"For Shrinking Mississippi River Towns, Frequent Floods Worsen Fortunes" [55]

"Devastating flooding, driven in part by climate change, is taking an especially damaging toll on communities that once thrived along the banks of America’s most storied river."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [56]
Natural Resources [20]
Planning & Growth [57]
Water & Oceans [53]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: AP [58], 06/12/2024
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"Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Are Soaring Again This Year. Here’s Why." [59]

"May was another exceptionally busy month for severe thunderstorms and tornadoes in the United States, pushing weather disaster costs to their second-highest amount on record to date. Eleven separate billion-dollar weather disasters this year have together caused over $25 billion in damage and 84 deaths."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [56]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Washington Post [60], 06/12/2024
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"PFAS Legal Liability Risks and Burdens Point to More Settlements" [61]

"The number of companies weighing possible PFAS settlements in a nationwide case is likely to grow as a federal court moves into the next phases of litigation."

Chemicals [49]
Environmental Health [24]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [53]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [62], 06/12/2024
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"Climate Change Is Deadly. Exactly How Deadly?" [63]

"Despite the growing danger from climate-driven disasters, there is no single, reliable count of who is dying as a result of extreme weather in the United States. For any given weather disaster, multiple government agencies publish independent — and often widely differing — death counts."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Studies [37]
People & Population [27]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NPR [64], 06/12/2024
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"Watchdog: EPA Not Ready To Alert Public To Lead In Drinking Water" [65]

"More than seven years after Congress mandated that EPA swiftly alert the public to surges in lead contamination in drinking water, EPA’s inspector general has found the agency still isn’t ready to roll out an action plan."

Chemicals [49]
Consumer [66]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Justice [25]
Infrastructure [45]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [53]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: E&E News [67], 06/12/2024
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"How Biden Is Conserving Land And Water As Trump Looms" [68]

"A week after his presidential inauguration, Joe Biden cited the climate and biodiversity crises as reasons to set a sweeping new goal – to conserve at least 30% of America’s vast lands and waters by the end of the decade. Three years on, new protections have spurred meaningful progress towards meeting the target by 2030."

Biodiversity [35]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [20]
Water & Oceans [53]
Wildlife [41]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Guardian [69], 06/12/2024
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