EJToday: Top Headlines

Prisoners In Texas, Florida Face Biggest Risk Of Increasingly Deadly Heat [9]

"Deadly heat is threatening the lives of America’s ageing incarcerated population, who are trapped in increasingly hot and humid conditions as the climate emergency escalates, new research has found."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
People & Population [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Guardian [16], 03/07/2024
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Industry Poisoned A Black Neighborhood In Houston. Is Buyout The Solution? [17]

"Leisa Glenn spent decades living in the Fifth Ward, a historically Black neighborhood in Houston, known for having one of the city’s best views of downtown. Every July 4th, Glenn, 65, and her neighbors would stream out of their houses into the summer heat and crowd onto front porches to watch the fireworks display."

Chemicals [18]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Pollution [19]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [20]
Source: Grist [21], 03/07/2024
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Norway And Sami People End Dispute Over Europe’s Largest Onshore Wind Farm [22]

"Norway on Wednesday reached an agreement with the Sami people, ending a nearly three-year dispute over Europe’s largest onshore wind farm and the Indigenous right to raise reindeer."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Natural Resources [26]
People & Population [13]
Wildlife [27]
Public [14]
Antarctica & Arctic [28]
Europe [29]
Source: AP [30], 03/07/2024
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"New Data Details the Risk of Sea-Level Rise for U.S. Coastal Cities" [31]

"A new study of sinking and rising land along American coasts offers a more specific understanding of potential flooding in 32 coastal cities."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [32]
Natural Resources [26]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NYTimes [34], 03/07/2024
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"Big Meat Is Lying About Sustainability. These Media Outlets Are Helping." [35]

"In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit filed last week, the New York Attorney General accused JBS USA—the American arm of the world’s largest meatpacking company—of “fraudulent and illegal environmental marketing practices” surrounding its claims of sustainability."

Agriculture [36]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [37]
Environmental Politics [24]
Food [38]
Journalism & Media [39]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [40]
Source: HEATED [41], 03/07/2024
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"The Fossil-Fuel-Promoting Agency That Biden Seems Powerless To Stop" [42]

"The federally created body that promotes U.S. exports is continuing to finance fossil fuel projects abroad — even after advisers aligned with President Joe Biden’s climate goals pointed out those investments’ risks."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [43]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [40]
Source: Politico [44], 03/07/2024
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"Storms Recharge California Snowpack, Easing Drought Fears" [45]

"The snowstorms were a ‘tremendous boon’ to the state’s water supply, officials said".

Agriculture [36]
Climate Change [10]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [14]
California [46]
Source: Washington Post [47], 03/07/2024
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"Scientists Say They’re Closer To Reviving Mammoths. What Could Go Wrong?" [48]

"The plan to bring back the woolly mammoth — or at least a version of it — is ambitious but raises hairy questions".

Biodiversity [49]
Natural Resources [26]
Science [50]
Technology [51]
Wildlife [27]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [40]
Source: Washington Post [52], 03/07/2024
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"Many Homes Burned In The Texas Wildfires Weren’t Insured" [53]

"Many Panhandle residents whose dwellings and possessions burned in the region’s ongoing wildfires may never financially recover for one simple reason: Their homes weren’t insured."

Agriculture [36]
Climate Change [10]
Disasters [32]
Economy & Business [43]
Natural Resources [26]
People & Population [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [20]
Source: Texas Tribune [54], 03/06/2024
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"Gas Industry Loses Bid To Block Green Building Codes" [55]

"The natural gas industry lost its initial bid to strip key climate-friendly measures out of national homebuilding guidelines, HuffPost has learned. The rules in the model building code will require new homes to come equipped with the circuitry to hook up induction stoves and electric car chargers, and will be used as a benchmark in almost every state."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Infrastructure [56]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Planning & Growth [57]
Technology [51]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: HuffPost [58], 03/06/2024
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Trillions Of Gallons Leak From Aging Drinking Water Systems In US Cities [59]

"For generations, the water infrastructure beneath this southern Alabama city was corroding, cracking and failing — out of sight and seemingly out of mind — as the population shrank and poverty rose. Until it became impossible to ignore."

Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Infrastructure [56]
Laws & Regulations [25]
People & Population [13]
Pollution [19]
Water & Oceans [33]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: AP [60], 03/06/2024
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Plastic Food Packaging Contains 1000s Of Hormone-Mimicking Chemicals: Study [61]

"Plastic food packaging contains chemicals that disrupt the endocrine system — and that can leach into food, a new study has found."

Chemicals [18]
Consumer [37]
Environmental Health [11]
Food [38]
Pollution [19]
Science [50]
Waste [62]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
International [40]
Source: The Hill [63], 03/06/2024
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Mining Company Can’t Tap Water Needed For Okefenokee Wildlife Refuge: USFWS [64]

"A federal agency is asserting legal rights to waters that feed the Okefenokee Swamp and its vast wildlife refuge, setting up a new battle with a mining company seeking permits to withdraw more than 1.4 million gallons daily for a project that critics say could irreparably harm one of America’s natural treasures."

Biodiversity [49]
Environmental Politics [24]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Natural Resources [26]
Water & Oceans [33]
Wildlife [27]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [65]
Source: AP [66], 03/06/2024
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With A Million Cases Of Dengue So Far This Year, Brazil Declares Emergency [67]

"The generator powering the medical facility had blown and the 29 members of the Brazilian Air Force in charge had to change it before they could see patients again. Medical professionals who'd been trained to care for dengue patients, they expected to attend to up to 600 people with suspected cases per day. In the first 24 hours after the doors opened on Feb. 5, they saw 1,300. The generator couldn't keep up."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Planning & Growth [57]
Public [14]
South America [68]
Source: NPR [69], 03/06/2024
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"EPA Watchdog Warns About Data ‘Vulnerabilities’" [70]

"EPA’s internal watchdog is warning the agency is at risk of cyberattacks because of lax controls for its data."

Government [71]
Infrastructure [56]
Technology [51]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: E&E News [72], 03/06/2024
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